volley

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvɒli/
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• General-American: /ˈvɑli/
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• rhymes with -ɒli
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• CMU ARPABET: V AA1 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French volée (“flight”), from Vulgar Latin volta, from Late Latin volatus.

77 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Azerbaijani: yaylım — simultaneous fire
• Belarusian: залп (zalp) — simultaneous fire
• Bulgarian: залп (zalp) — simultaneous fire
• Catalan: salva — simultaneous fire
• Chinese Mandarin: 齊射 /齐射 (qíshè) — simultaneous fire
• Chinese Mandarin: 排槍射擊 /排枪射击 (páiqiāng shèjī) — simultaneous fire
• Czech: salva — simultaneous fire
• Czech: hromadná palba — simultaneous fire
• Dutch: salvo — simultaneous fire
• Finnish: yhteislaukaus — simultaneous fire
• French: volée — simultaneous fire
• French: salve — simultaneous fire
• Galician: salva — simultaneous fire
• Georgian: ზალპი (zalṗi) — simultaneous fire
• German: Salve — simultaneous fire
• Hebrew: מַטָּח (mattáẖ) — simultaneous fire
• Irish: rois — simultaneous fire
• Irish: rúisc — simultaneous fire
• Italian: raffica — simultaneous fire
• Japanese: 斉射 (seisha) — simultaneous fire
• Macedonian: плотун (plotun) — simultaneous fire
• Macedonian: залп (zalp) — simultaneous fire
• Māori: waipū — simultaneous fire
• Māori: waiwaipū — simultaneous fire
• Māori: waipūtanga — simultaneous fire
• Polish: salwa — simultaneous fire
• Portuguese: salva — simultaneous fire
• Portuguese: saraivada — simultaneous fire
• Romanian: salvă — simultaneous fire
• Russian: залп (zalp) — simultaneous fire
• Spanish: salva — simultaneous fire
• Swedish: salva — simultaneous fire
• Ukrainian: залп (zalp) — simultaneous fire
• Czech: salva — burst or emission
• Czech: výbuch — burst or emission
• Finnish: tulva — burst or emission
• Finnish: syöksy — burst or emission
• Georgian: ბათქი (batki) — burst or emission
• Irish: rois — burst or emission
• Māori: waipūtanga — burst or emission
• Polish: wybuch — burst or emission
• Polish: strzał — burst or emission
• Polish: salwa — burst or emission
• Swedish: salva — burst or emission
• Dutch: vlucht — flight of a ball before it bounces
• Finnish: ilmalento — flight of a ball before it bounces
• Galician: volea — flight of a ball before it bounces
• German: Volley — flight of a ball before it bounces
• Hebrew: יַעַף (yá'af) — flight of a ball before it bounces
• Hebrew: ווֹלֵה (volé) — flight of a ball before it bounces
• Macedonian: волеј (volej) — flight of a ball before it bounces
• Polish: wolej — flight of a ball before it bounces
• Portuguese: voleio — flight of a ball before it bounces
• Portuguese: vólei — flight of a ball before it bounces
• Bulgarian: воле́ (volé) — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Catalan: volea — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Czech: volej — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Dutch: in de vlucht genomen bal — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Finnish: lentolyönti — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Galician: volea — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• German: Volley — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• German: Flugball — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Greek: βολέ (volé) — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Italian: volée — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Macedonian: волеј (volej) — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Polish: wolej — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Serbo-Croatian: volej — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Spanish: volea — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Spanish: voleo — shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
• Finnish: ampua yhteislaukaus — to fire a volley of shots
• Polish: strzelać serią — to fire a volley of shots
• Polish: strzelić serią — to fire a volley of shots
• Finnish: lyödä lentolyönti — to hit the ball before it touches the ground
• Finnish: lyödä ilmasta — to hit the ball before it touches the ground
• Polish: uderzać z woleja — to hit the ball before it touches the ground
• Polish: uderzyć z woleja — to hit the ball before it touches the ground
• Spanish: volear — to hit the ball before it touches the ground