discus

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1656. From Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, dish, disk, and diskos.

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: disk — round plate-like object for throwing
• Arabic: قُرْص (qurṣ) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Basque: disko — round plate-like object for throwing
• Belarusian: дыск (dysk) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Bengali: চাকতি (cakti) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Bengali: ডিস্ক (ḍisko) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Bulgarian: диск (disk) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Catalan: disc — round plate-like object for throwing
• Chinese Mandarin: 鐵餅 /铁饼 (tiěbǐng) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Czech: disk — round plate-like object for throwing
• Danish: diskos — round plate-like object for throwing
• Dutch: discus — round plate-like object for throwing
• Esperanto: disko — round plate-like object for throwing
• Estonian: ketas — round plate-like object for throwing
• Faroese: klingra — round plate-like object for throwing
• Finnish: kiekko — round plate-like object for throwing
• French: disque — round plate-like object for throwing
• Galician: disco — round plate-like object for throwing
• Georgian: დისკი (disḳi) — round plate-like object for throwing
• German: Diskus — round plate-like object for throwing
• German: Wurfscheibe — round plate-like object for throwing
• Greek: δίσκος (dískos) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Ancient Greek: δίσκος (dískos) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Hebrew: דִּיסְקוּס (dískus) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Hindi: चक्र (cakra) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Hindi: चक्का (cakkā) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Hindi: डिस्क (ḍisk) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Hungarian: diszkosz — round plate-like object for throwing
• Icelandic: kringla — round plate-like object for throwing
• Ido: disko — round plate-like object for throwing
• Italian: disco — round plate-like object for throwing
• Japanese: 円盤 (enban) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Korean: 원반 (wonban) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Lao: ຈັກ (chak) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Latin: discus — round plate-like object for throwing
• Latvian: disks — round plate-like object for throwing
• Lithuanian: diskas — round plate-like object for throwing
• Macedonian: диск (disk) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Norwegian Bokmål: diskos — round plate-like object for throwing
• Norwegian Nynorsk: diskos — round plate-like object for throwing
• Persian: دیسک (disk) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Polish: dysk — round plate-like object for throwing
• Portuguese: disco — round plate-like object for throwing
• Romanian: disc — round plate-like object for throwing
• Russian: диск (disk) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Serbo-Croatian: диск — round plate-like object for throwing
• Serbo-Croatian: disk — round plate-like object for throwing
• Slovak: disk — round plate-like object for throwing
• Slovene: disk — round plate-like object for throwing
• Spanish: disco — round plate-like object for throwing
• Swedish: diskus — round plate-like object for throwing
• Thai: จักร (jàk) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Thai: ดิสก์ (dìt) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Turkish: disk — round plate-like object for throwing
• Ukrainian: диск (dysk) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Urdu: ڈسکس (ḍisk) — round plate-like object for throwing
• Vietnamese: dĩa — round plate-like object for throwing
• Volapük: diskud — round plate-like object for throwing
• Bulgarian: мята́не на диск (mjatáne na disk) — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Dutch: discuswerpen — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Finnish: kiekonheitto — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• French: disque — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Galician: lanzamento de disco — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• German: Diskuswerfen — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Greek: δισκοβολία (diskovolía) — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Hebrew: הטלת דיסקוס (hatalát dískus) — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Hungarian: diszkosz — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Icelandic: kringlukast — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Ido: disko — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Norwegian Bokmål: diskoskast — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Norwegian Nynorsk: diskoskast — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Polish: rzut dyskiem — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Portuguese: arremesso de disco — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Russian: мета́ние ди́ска (metánije díska) — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Spanish: disco — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Swedish: diskus — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Turkish: disk atma — athletics sport of throwing the discus
• Volapük: diskudijedam — athletics sport of throwing the discus