volleyball

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• /ˈvɒlibɔ(ː)l/
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From volley + ball. In 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, William G. Morgan created a new game called Mintonette, a name derived from the game of badminton. After an observer, Alfred Halstead, noticed the volleying nature of the game at its first exhibition match in 1896, played at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfield College), the game quickly became known as volleyball (it was originally spelled as two words: "volley ball")

135 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: vlugbal — game
• Albanian: volejboll — game
• Arabic: الكُرَةُ اَلْطَّائِرَة (kurat aṭ-ṭāʔira) — game
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܣܦܹܝܪ ܛܵܘܣܵܐ (ispēyr ṭāwsā) — game
• Armenian: վոլեյբոլ (voleybol) — game
• Azerbaijani: voleybol — game
• Basque: boleibol — game
• Belarusian: валейбо́л (valjejból) — game
• Bengali: ভলিবল (bholibol) — game
• Bulgarian: во́лейбол (vólejbol) — game
• Burmese: ဘော်လီဘော (bhaulibhau:) — game
• Catalan: voleibol — game
• Catalan: vòlei — game
• Chinese Cantonese: 排球 (paai4 kau4) — game
• Chinese Mandarin: 排球 (páiqiú) — game
• Czech: volejbal — game
• Czech: odbíjená — game
• Danish: volleyball — game
• Central Dusun: buul tapap — game
• Dutch: volleybal — game
• Esperanto: flugpilkado — game
• Esperanto: retpilko — game
• Esperanto: volejbalo — game
• Esperanto: flugpilko — game
• Estonian: võrkpall — game
• Finnish: lentopallo — game
• French: volley-ball — game
• Galician: voleibol — game
• Galician: balonvolea — game
• Georgian: ფრენბურთი (prenburti) — game
• German: Volleyball — game
• Greek: πετοσφαίριση (petosfaírisi) — game
• Greek: βόλλεϋ (vólleÿ) — game
• Greek: βόλεϊ (vóleï) — game
• Gujarati: મારદડો (māradḍo) — game
• Hebrew: כַּדוּרעָף (kadur'áf) — game
• Hindi: वॉलीबाल (vŏlībāl) — game
• Hindi: वॉलीबॉल (vŏlībŏl) — game
• Hungarian: röplabda — game
• Icelandic: blak — game
• Indonesian: bola voli — game
• Irish: eitpheil — game
• Italian: pallavolo — game
• Italian: palla a volo — game
• Italian: volley — game
• Japanese: バレーボール (barēbōru) — game
• Japanese: 排球 (haikyū) — game
• Kazakh: волейбол (voleibol) — game
• Khmer: បាល់ទះ (bal teah) — game
• Khmer: កីឡាបាល់ទះ (kəylaa bal teah) — game
• Korean: 배구 (baegu) — game
• Korean: 발리볼 (ballibol) — game
• Northern Kurdish: voleybol — game
• Kyrgyz: волейбол (voleybol) — game
• Lao: ບານສົ່ງ (bān song) — game
• Latin: follis volitatis — game
• Latvian: volejbols — game
• Lithuanian: tinklinis — game
• Macedonian: одбојка (odbojka) — game
• Malay: bola tampar — game
• Māori: poirewa — game
• Marshallese: baļebo̧o̧ļ — game
• Mingrelian: ფურინბურთი (purinburti) — game
• Mongolian: волейбол (volejbol) — game
• Mongolian: гар бөмбөг (gar bömbög) — game
• Muna: foli — game
• Navajo: jooł nabízníkaadí — game
• Navajo: jooł ałnáábízníltsʼííh — game
• Norwegian Bokmål: volleyball — game
• Norwegian Nynorsk: volleyball — game
• Persian: والیبال (vâlibâl) — game
• Polish: siatkówka — game
• Polish: piłka siatkowa — game
• Polish: siatka — game
• Polish: siata — game
• Portuguese: voleibol — game
• Portuguese: vólei — game
• Portuguese: vôlei — game
• Romanian: volei — game
• Russian: волейбо́л (volejból) — game
• Serbo-Croatian: одбојка — game
• Serbo-Croatian: odbojka — game
• Sinhalese: වොලිබෝල් (wolibōl) — game
• Slovak: volejbal — game
• Slovene: odbojka — game
• Spanish: voleibol — game
• Spanish: balonvolea — game
• Spanish: vóleibol — game
• Spanish: vóley — game
• Swahili: voliboli — game
• Swedish: volleyboll — game
• Tagalog: volleyball — game
• Tagalog: balibol — game
• Tajik: волейбол (voleybol) — game
• Thai: วอลเลย์บอล (wɔn-lêe-bɔn) — game
• Turkish: voleybol — game
• Turkmen: woleýbol — game
• Ukrainian: волейбо́л (volejból) — game
• Ukrainian: відби́ванка (vidbývanka) — game
• Urdu: والی بال (vālī bāl) — game
• Uzbek: voleybol — game
• Vietnamese: bóng chuyền — game
• Welsh: pêl-foli — game
• Afrikaans: vlugbal — ball used to play the game
• Chinese Mandarin: 排球 (páiqiú) — ball used to play the game
• Czech: volejbalový míč — ball used to play the game
• Dutch: volleybal — ball used to play the game
• Esperanto: flugpilko — ball used to play the game
• Finnish: lentopallo — ball used to play the game
• French: balle de volley-ball — ball used to play the game
• French: balle de volley — ball used to play the game
• Galician: pelota de voleibol — ball used to play the game
• Galician: balón de voleibol — ball used to play the game
• German: Volleyball — ball used to play the game
• Greek: πετόσφαιρα (petósfaira) — ball used to play the game
• Hungarian: röplabda — ball used to play the game
• Icelandic: blakbolti — ball used to play the game
• Irish: eitpheil — ball used to play the game
• Japanese: バレーボールボール (barēbōrubōru) — ball used to play the game
• Korean: 배구공 (baegugong) — ball used to play the game
• Marshallese: baļebo̧o̧ļ — ball used to play the game
• Navajo: jooł — ball used to play the game
• Polish: piłka siatkowa — ball used to play the game
• Polish: piłka do siatkówki — ball used to play the game
• Portuguese: bola de vôlei/vólei — ball used to play the game
• Russian: волейбо́льный мяч (volejbólʹnyj mjač) — ball used to play the game
• Spanish: balón voleibolista — ball used to play the game
• Spanish: pelota de vóleibol — ball used to play the game
• Spanish: bola de balonvolea — ball used to play the game
• Swahili: voliboli — ball used to play the game
• Swedish: volleyboll — ball used to play the game
• Turkish: voleybol topu — ball used to play the game
• Ukrainian: волейбо́льний м’яч (volejbólʹnyj mʺjač) — ball used to play the game
• Ukrainian: м’яч до відби́ванки (mʺjač do vidbývanky) — ball used to play the game
• Welsh: pêl-foli — ball used to play the game