tennis

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnɪs/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈtenɪs/
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• rhymes with -ɛnɪs
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• homophone: tenness
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• CMU ARPABET: T EH1 N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: T EH1 N IH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).

114 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Albanian: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Amharic: ተኒስ (tänis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Arabic: تَنِس (tanis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Arabic: تِنِس (tinis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Arabic: كُرَةُ المَضْرِب (kuratu l-maḍrib) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Arabic: تنس (tinis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Arabic: تِنِس (tinis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Armenian: թենիս (tʻenis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Asturian: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Azerbaijani: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Bashkir: теннис — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Belarusian: тэ́ніс (ténis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Bengali: টেনিস (ṭeniś) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Bulgarian: те́нис (ténis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Burmese: တင်းနစ် (tang:nac) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Carpathian Rusyn: те́ніс (ténis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Catalan: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Chinese Cantonese: 網球 /网球 (mong5 kau4) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Chinese Mandarin: 網球 /网球 (wǎngqiú) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Czech: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Danish: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Dutch: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Esperanto: teniso — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Estonian: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Finnish: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• French: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Galician: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Georgian: ჩოგბურთი (čogburti) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• German: Tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Bavarian German: Tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Greek: αντισφαίριση (antisfaírisi) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Greek: τένις (ténis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Gujarati: ટેનિસ (ṭenis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Hausa: tanìs — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Hebrew: טֶנִיס (ténis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Hindi: टेनिस (ṭenis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Hungarian: tenisz — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Icelandic: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Indonesian: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Interlingua: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Irish: leadóg — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Italian: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Japanese: テニス (tenisu) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Japanese: 庭球 (teikyū) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Kannada: ಟೆನ್ನಿಸ್ (ṭennis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Kazakh: теннис — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Khmer: តែន្និស (taennih) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Khmer: តិន្នីស (tenniih) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Korean: 테니스 (teniseu) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Korean: 정구 (jeonggu) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Northern Kurdish: tenîs — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Kyrgyz: теннис — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Lao: ເຕັນນິສ (ten nis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Lao: ເທນນິດ (thēn nit) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Lao: ເທັນນິດ — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Latin: tenisia — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Latvian: teniss — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Lithuanian: tenisas — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Macedonian: те́нис (ténis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Malay: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Malayalam: ടെന്നീസ് (ṭennīsŭ) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Maltese: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Marathi: टेनिस (ṭenis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Mongolian: одон бөмбөг (odon bömbög) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Mongolian: ᠣᠳᠣᠨ ᠪᠥᠮᠪᠥᠭᠡ (odon bömböge) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Navajo: jooł ałchʼįʼ abínídzílghałí — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Nepali: टेनिस (ṭenis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Norwegian Bokmål: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Palauan: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Pashto: تېنس (tenís) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Pashto: ټېنس (ṭenés) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Iranian Persian: تِنیس (tenis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Polish: tenis ziemny — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Polish: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Polish: biały sport — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Portuguese: tênis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Portuguese: ténis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Punjabi: ਖਿੱਦੋ-ਛਿੱਕਾ (khiddo-chikkā) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Punjabi: ਗੇਂਦ-ਛਿੱਕਾ (genda-chikkā) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Romanian: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Russian: те́ннис (tɛ́nnis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Sanskrit: लानम् (lānam) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Scottish Gaelic: teanas — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Serbo-Croatian: те́нис — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Serbo-Croatian: ténis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Sinhalese: ටෙනිස් (ṭenis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Slovak: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Slovene: ténis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Spanish: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Swahili: tenisi — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Swedish: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Tagalog: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Tajik: теннис — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Tamil: வரிப்பந்தாட்டம் (varippantāṭṭam) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Tamil: வலைப்பந்து (valaippantu) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Tatar: теннис — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Telugu: టెన్నిస్ (ṭennis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Thai: เทนนิส (ten-nít) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Tibetan: ཏན་ནེ་སི་སྤོ་ལོ། (tan ne si spo lo) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Tigrinya: ተኒስ (tänis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Turkish: tenis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Turkmen: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Ukrainian: те́ніс (ténis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Urdu: ٹینِس (ṭenis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Uyghur: چويلا توپ (choyla top) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Uyghur: تېننىس (tënnis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Uzbek: tennis — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Vietnamese: quần vợt — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Vietnamese: ten-nít — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Volapük: tänit — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Walloon: tenisse — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
• Yiddish: טעניס (tenis) — sport played by two or four players with strung racquets