# baseball
## English
### Alternative forms

* base ball (obsolete) [1800s]
* base-ball (dated)

### Etymology

From base +‎ ball.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/
* (US) IPA: /ˈbeɪs.bɔl/, /ˈbeɪs.bɑl/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

baseball (plural baseballs)
* A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
** 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.
** 2016, Mike Westphal, Cloud of Expectation; Book One: The In America Series, Xlibris, →ISBN:“Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams.
* The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
** 2005 April 8, Brian Greene, “One Hundred Years of Uncertainty”, in The New York Times‎:The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others.
* A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

#### Usage notes

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:baseball.

#### Derived terms

* antibaseball
* baseball Annie
* baseball bat
* baseball cap
* baseball card
* baseball diamond
* baseballdom
* baseballer
* baseballese
* baseball field
* baseball game
* baseball glove
* baseball hat
* baseballing
* baseballist
* baseball mitt
* baseball plant
* baseball player
* baseball rule
* baseball stadium
* baseball uniform
* basebrawl
* British baseball
* fantasy baseball
* indoor baseball
* inside baseball
* inside-baseball
* insider baseball
* nonbaseball
* organized baseball
* rotisserie baseball
* scrub baseball
* Welsh baseball

#### Translations
### See also

* rounders
* softball
* wiffleball

### Further reading

* Category:baseball on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* baseball on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* baseball on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
* baseball on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

### Noun

baseball m inan
* baseball

#### Declension
## Finnish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbei̯sboːl/, [ˈbe̞i̯s̠bo̞ːl]
* Rhymes: -eisboːl
* Hyphenation: base‧ball

### Noun

baseball
* baseball

#### Declension

Possessive forms of baseball (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
baseballini
baseballini
accusative
nom.
baseballini
baseballini
gen.
baseballini
genitive
baseballini
baseballieni
partitive
baseballiani
baseballejani
inessive
baseballissani
baseballeissani
elative
baseballistani
baseballeistani
illative
baseballiini
baseballeihini
adessive
baseballillani
baseballeillani
ablative
baseballiltani
baseballeiltani
allative
baseballilleni
baseballeilleni
essive
baseballinani
baseballeinani
translative
baseballikseni
baseballeikseni
abessive
baseballittani
baseballeittani
instructive
comitative
—baseballeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
baseballisi
baseballisi
accusative
nom.
baseballisi
baseballisi
gen.
baseballisi
genitive
baseballisi
baseballiesi
partitive
baseballiasi
baseballejasi
inessive
baseballissasi
baseballeissasi
elative
baseballistasi
baseballeistasi
illative
baseballiisi
baseballeihisi
adessive
baseballillasi
baseballeillasi
ablative
baseballiltasi
baseballeiltasi
allative
baseballillesi
baseballeillesi
essive
baseballinasi
baseballeinasi
translative
baseballiksesi
baseballeiksesi
abessive
baseballittasi
baseballeittasi
instructive
comitative
—baseballeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
baseballimme
baseballimme
accusative
nom.
baseballimme
baseballimme
gen.
baseballimme
genitive
baseballimme
baseballiemme
partitive
baseballiamme
baseballejamme
inessive
baseballissamme
baseballeissamme
elative
baseballistamme
baseballeistamme
illative
baseballiimme
baseballeihimme
adessive
baseballillamme
baseballeillamme
ablative
baseballiltamme
baseballeiltamme
allative
baseballillemme
baseballeillemme
essive
baseballinamme
baseballeinamme
translative
baseballiksemme
baseballeiksemme
abessive
baseballittamme
baseballeittamme
instructive
comitative
—baseballeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
baseballinne
baseballinne
accusative
nom.
baseballinne
baseballinne
gen.
baseballinne
genitive
baseballinne
baseballienne
partitive
baseballianne
baseballejanne
inessive
baseballissanne
baseballeissanne
elative
baseballistanne
baseballeistanne
illative
baseballiinne
baseballeihinne
adessive
baseballillanne
baseballeillanne
ablative
baseballiltanne
baseballeiltanne
allative
baseballillenne
baseballeillenne
essive
baseballinanne
baseballeinanne
translative
baseballiksenne
baseballeiksenne
abessive
baseballittanne
baseballeittanne
instructive
comitative
—baseballeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
baseballinsa
baseballinsa
accusative
nom.
baseballinsa
baseballinsa
gen.
baseballinsa
genitive
baseballinsa
baseballiensa
partitive
baseballiaan baseballiansa
baseballejaan baseballejansa
inessive
baseballissaan baseballissansa
baseballeissaan baseballeissansa
elative
baseballistaan baseballistansa
baseballeistaan baseballeistansa
illative
baseballiinsa
baseballeihinsa
adessive
baseballillaan baseballillansa
baseballeillaan baseballeillansa
ablative
baseballiltaan baseballiltansa
baseballeiltaan baseballeiltansa
allative
baseballilleen baseballillensa
baseballeilleen baseballeillensa
essive
baseballinaan baseballinansa
baseballeinaan baseballeinansa
translative
baseballikseen baseballiksensa
baseballeikseen baseballeiksensa
abessive
baseballittaan baseballittansa
baseballeittaan baseballeittansa
instructive
comitative
—baseballeineen baseballeinensa :

#### Synonyms

* amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)

#### Derived terms

* baseball-pallo

### Further reading

* “baseball”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɛz.bɔl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

baseball m (uncountable)
* post-1990 spelling of base-ball

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbeːzboːl]
* Hyphenation: base‧ball
* Rhymes: -oːl

### Noun

baseball (usually uncountable, plural baseballok)
* (sports) baseball

#### Derived terms

* baseballsapka

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* baseball in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɛ.zbol/
* Rhymes: -ɛzbol

### Noun

baseball m (invariable)
* baseball
    Synonyms: (rare) pallabase, (informal) batti e corri

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From American English baseball.

### Noun

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)
* baseball (ball game)

### References

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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From American English baseball.

### Noun

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)
* baseball (ball game)

### References

* “baseball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* bejsbol

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɛjz.bɔl/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛjzbɔl
* Syllabification: base‧ball

### Noun

baseball m inan
* (sports, uncountable) baseball (ball game)
* (countable) baseball bat
    Synonym: bejsbolówka

#### Derived terms

* baseballowy
* baseballista
* baseballówka

### Further reading

* baseball in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* baseball in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

### Noun

baseball n (uncountable)
* baseball

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

baseball c
* Alternative form of baseboll

#### Declension
### References

* baseball in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* baseball in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)