soccer

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• UK: /ˈsɒk.ə/
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• US: /ˈsɑk.ɚ/
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• rhymes with -ɒkə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: S AA1 K ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Originally British English; as an abbreviation for association football, via abbreviation assoc. + -er (suffix); earlier socker (1885), also socca (1889), with soccer attested 1888. Compare contemporary rugger, from rugby. Similarly constructed coinages from the same period include: brekker (“breakfast”), fresher (“freshman”) and footer (“football”). See Oxford -er.

168 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sokker — game
• Albanian: futboll — game
• Arabic: كُرَةُ الْقَدَم (kuratu l-qadam) — game
• Arabic: كورة (kōra) — game
• Iraqi Arabic: طُوْبَة (ṭōbe) — game
• Arabic: كورة (kūra) — game
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܣܦܹܝܪ ܪܸܓ݂ܠܵܐ (ispēr riḡlā) — game
• Armenian: ֆուտբոլ (futbol) — game
• Asturian: fútbol — game
• Azerbaijani: futbol — game
• Belarusian: футбо́л (futból) — game
• Bengali: ফুটবল (phuṭbol) — game
• Breton: mell-droad — game
• Bulgarian: фу́тбол (fútbol) — game
• Burmese: ဘောလုံး (bhau:lum:) — game
• Catalan: futbol — game
• Chichewa: mpira — game
• Chinese Cantonese: 足球 (zuk1 kau4) — game
• Hakka Chinese: 足球 (chiuk-khiù) — game
• Hakka Chinese: 足球 (chuk-khiù) — game
• Chinese: 跤球 (zh-min-nan) — game
• Chinese Mandarin: 足球 (zúqiú) — game
• Chinese Mandarin: 蹴球 (cùqiú) — game
• Chukchi: ӄапԓёчеттыргын (qapḷjočettyrgyn) — game
• Czech: fotbal — game
• Czech: kopaná — game
• Danish: fodbold — game
• Dinka: adiircök — game
• Dutch: voetbal — game
• Esperanto: futbalo — game
• Estonian: jalgpall — game
• Finnish: jalkapallo — game
• Finnish: jalkkis — game
• Finnish: futis — game
• Finnish: futa — game
• French: football — game
• French: soccer — game
• Saterland Frisian: Foutbal — game
• West-Frisian: fuotbal — game
• Galician: fútbol — game
• Georgian: ფეხბურთი (pexburti) — game
• German: Fußball — game
• German: Fuppes — game
• German: Schuttä — game
• German: Fuessball — game
• German: Tschuutte — game
• Bavarian German: Fuaßboi — game
• Bavarian German: Wuchtl — game
• Greek: ποδόσφαιρο (podósfairo) — game
• Greenlandic: isikkamik arsaanneq — game
• Greenlandic: arsaanneq — game
• Gujarati: ફૂટબોલ (phūṭbol) — game
• Haitian Creole: foutbòl — game
• Hawaiian: kinipōpō peku — game
• Hebrew: כַּדּוּרֶגֶל (kadurégel) — game
• Hindi: फ़ुटबॉल (fuṭbŏl) — game
• Hindi: फ़ुटबाल (fuṭbāl) — game
• Hindi: फुटबॉल (phuṭbŏl) — game
• Hindi: फुटबाल (phuṭbāl) — game
• Hungarian: labdarúgás — game
• Hungarian: futball — game
• Hungarian: foci — game
• Icelandic: fótbolti — game
• Icelandic: knattspyrna — game
• Indonesian: sepakbola — game
• Interlingua: football — game
• Inuktitut: ᐊᔪᒃᑕᖅ (ayoktaq) — game
• Irish: sacar — game
• Irish: peil — game
• Italian: calcio — game
• Japanese: サッカー (sakkā) — game
• Japanese: 蹴球 (shūkyū) — game
• Japanese: フットボール (futtobōru) — game
• Kannada: ಸಾಕರ್ (sākar) — game
• Kannada: ಫುಟ್ಬಾಲ್ (phuṭbāl) — game
• Kazakh: футбол (futbol) — game
• Khmer: កីឡាបាល់ទាត់ (kəylaa bal tŏət) — game
• Korean: 축구 (chukgu) — game
• Korean: 풋볼 (putbol) — game
• Korean: 사커 (sakeo) — game
• Kyrgyz: футбол (futbol) — game
• Lao: ຟຸດບານ (fut bān) — game
• Lao: ບານເຕະ (bān te) — game
• Latin: pediludium — game
• Latvian: futbols — game
• Latvian: kājbumba — game
• Lithuanian: futbolas — game
• Lutuv: pungpalung a chipa — game
• Macedonian: фу́дбал (fúdbal) — game
• Malagasy: baolina kitra — game
• Malay: bola sepak — game
• Malay: sepak bola — game
• Malayalam: ഫുട്ബോൾ (phuṭbōḷ) — game
• Malayalam: സോക്കർ (sōkkaṟ) — game
• Maltese: futbol — game
• Manx: soccer — game
• Manx: soccar — game
• Māori: poi whana — game
• Marathi: फुटबॉल (phuṭbŏl) — game
• Miami: aakalaahšima paaskoontia — game
• Mongolian: хөлбөмбөг (xölbömbög) — game
• Nahuatl: neicxitapayolhuiliztli — game
• Navajo: jooł nabíznítaałí — game
• Norwegian Bokmål: fotball — game
• Pashto: فتبال (fotbál) — game
• Pashto: فوټبال (foṭbãl) — game
• Dari: فُوتْبَال (fūtbāl) — game
• Iranian Persian: فوتْبال (futbâl) — game
• Polish: piłka nożna — game
• Polish: futbol — game
• Polish: gała — game
• Polish: noga — game
• Portuguese: futebol — game
• Punjabi: ਫੁਟਬਾਲ (phuṭbāl) — game
• Punjabi: فٹ بال (fṭ bāl) — game
• Romanian: fotbal — game
• Russian: футбо́л (futból) — game
• Russian: со́ккер (sókker) — game
• Russian: ногомя́ч (nogomjáč) — game
• Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise — game
• Serbo-Croatian: фудбал — game
• Serbo-Croatian: ногомет — game
• Serbo-Croatian: fudbal — game
• Serbo-Croatian: nogomet — game
• Sinhalese: පාපන්දුව (pāpanduwa) — game
• Slovak: futbal — game
• Slovak: fotbal — game
• Slovene: nogomet — game
• Lower Sorbian: kopańca — game
• Lower Sorbian: balokopanje — game
• Upper Sorbian: kopańca — game
• Sotho: bolo — game
• Spanish: fútbol — game
• Spanish: futbol — game
• Spanish: balompié — game
• Spanish: balón-pie — game
• Spanish: pambol — game
• Swahili: soka — game
• Swahili: kandanda — game
• Swedish: fotboll — game
• Tagalog: putbol — game
• Tajik: футбол (futbol) — game
• Tamil: கால்பந்து (kālpantu) — game
• Tatar: футбол (futbol) — game
• Telugu: ఫుట్ బాల్ (phuṭ bāl) — game
• Thai: ฟุตบอล (fút-bɔn) — game
• Tibetan: རྐང་རྩེད་སྤོ་ལོ (rkang rtsed spo lo) — game
• Tok Pisin: soka — game
• Tok Pisin: kikbal — game
• Turkish: futbol — game
• Turkish: ayak topu — game
• Turkmen: futbol — game
• Ukrainian: футбо́л (futból) — game
• Ukrainian: копа́ний м'яч (kopányj mʺjač) — game
• Urdu: فُٹ بال (fuṭ bāl) — game
• Uyghur: پۇتبول (putbol) — game
• Uzbek: futbol — game
• Vietnamese: bóng đá — game
• Vietnamese: bóng tròn — game
• Vietnamese: đá banh — game
• Vietnamese: túc cầu — game
• Walloon: fotbale — game
• Walloon: fotbal — game
• Walloon: fousbale — game
• Welsh: pêl-droed — game
• Yiddish: פֿוסבאָל (fusbol) — game
• Zhuang: cukgiuz — game
• Zulu: ibhola — game