# basketball
## English
### Etymology

From basket +‎ ball.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/
* (US) IPA: /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl/
** (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɑl/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

basketball (countable and uncountable, plural basketballs)
* (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
    Synonyms: (US slang) hoops, (US slang) b-ball
    to play basketball
* (countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.

#### Derived terms

* 3x3 basketball
* antibasketball
* basketball court
* basketballdom
* basketballer
* basketballese
* basketball player
* basketball shoes
* basketball shorts
* basketbrawl
* nonbasketball
* wheelchair basketball

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: basquetbol
* → Cebuano: basketbol
* → Crimean Tatar: basketbol
* → Czech: basketbal
* → French: basket-ball
* → Danish: basketball
* → Dutch: basketbal
* → German: Basketball
* → Gujarati: બાસ્કેટ બોલ (bāskeṭ bol)
* → Greek: μπάσκετ-μπολ (básket-bol)
* → Japanese: バスケットボール (basukettobōru)
* → Luxembourgish: Basketball
* Norwegian:
** → Norwegian Bokmål: basketball
** → Norwegian Nynorsk: basketball
* → Persian: بسکتبال (basketbâl)
* → Portuguese: basquetebol
* → Russian: баскетбо́л (basketból) (see there for further descendants)
* → Spanish: básquetbol
* → Tagalog: básketból
* → Thai: บาสเกตบอล (báas-gét-bɔl)
* → Turkish: basketbol
* → Yiddish: באַסקעטבאָל (basketbol)
* → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܣܦܹܝܪ ܣܵܠܵܐ (ispēr sālā) (calque)
* → Asturian: baloncestu (calque)
* → Basque: saskibaloi (calque)
* Chinese:
** → Mandarin: 籃球 / 篮球 (lánqiú), 篮球 (lánqiú) (calque)
* → Estonian: korvpall (calque)
* → Faroese: kurvabóltur (calque)
* → Finnish: koripallo (calque)
* → Galician: baloncesto (calque)
* → Hebrew: כַּדּוּרְסַל (calque)
* → Hungarian: kosárlabda (calque)
* → Icelandic: körfubolti (calque)
* → Italian: pallacanestro (calque)
* → Japanese: 籠球 (calque)
* → Korean: 농구(籠球) (nonggu) (calque)
* → Scottish Gaelic: ball-basgaid (calque)
* → Spanish: baloncesto (calque)
* → Swahili: mpira wa kikapu (calque)
* → Turkish: sepet topu (calque)
* → Venetan: bałacanestro (calque)
* → Vietnamese: bóng rổ (calque)
* → Yiddish: קוישבאָל (koyshbol) (calque)

#### Translations
### Verb

basketball (third-person singular simple present basketballs, present participle basketballing, simple past and past participle basketballed)
* (informal, intransitive) To play basketball.
** 1968, Tom Tiede, Coward:by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league
* (informal, transitive) To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball.
** 1994, Jeff Probst, Bachelor Butterflies:He took a sip from a paper coffee-cup , crumpled it up and basketballed it into a small rubbish bin about five feet from him.

### See also

* Appendix:Glossary of basketball

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English basketball.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːskətbaːl/, [ˈb̥ɑːsɡ̊əd̥ˌb̥ɒːl]

### Noun

basketball c (singular definite basketballen, not used in plural form)
* basketball

#### Synonyms

* (sport): basket
* (ball): basketbold

### See also

* basketball on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

basketball m (uncountable)
* post-1990 spelling of basket-ball

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English basketball.

### Noun

basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)
* basketball (ball game)
    Synonym: basket

### References

* “basketball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “basketball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From English basketball.

### Noun

basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)
* basketball (ball game)
    Synonym: korgball

### References

* “basketball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.