basketball
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *baskis
Proto-Brythonicder.
Late Latin bascauda
Anglo-Norman bascatbor.
Middle English basket
English basket
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Germanic *balluz
Old English *beall
Middle English bal
English ball
English basketball
From basket + ball.
Inflected forms:
form: basketballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: basketballs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: basketballing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: basketballed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: basketballed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: to play basketball
He pursued basketball as his career.
Children playing basketball at their home in front of the John Amos coal-fired power plant in Poca, W.Va. President Biden’s infrastructure plan includes climate change measures that aim to close coal-fired plants.
gloss: The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To play basketball.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league
gloss: To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: 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.
Derived words: 3x3 basketball
antibasketball
basketball American
basketball court
basketballdom
basketballer
basketballese
basketball player
basketball shoes
basketball shorts
basketbrawl
nonbasketball
street basketball
wheelchair basketball
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: basketboll
lang: Arabic
word: كُرَة اَلسَّلَّة
roman: kurat as-salla
lang: Aragonese
word: balonzesto
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܐܣܦܹܝܪ ܣܵܠܵܐ
roman: ispēyr sālā
lang: Armenian
word: բասկետբոլ
roman: basketbol
lang: Asturian
word: baloncestu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: basketbol
lang: Basque
word: saskibaloi
lang: Belarusian
word: баскетбо́л
roman: baskjetból
lang: Bengali
word: বাস্কেটবল
roman: baskeṭbol
lang: Bulgarian
word: баскетбо́л
roman: basketból
lang: Burmese
word: ဘတ်စကက်ဘော
roman: bhatca.kakbhau:
lang: Catalan
word: bàsquet
lang: Catalan
word: basquetbol
lang: Cebuano
word: basketbol
lang: Cherokee
word: ᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ
roman: talutsa alasgalodi
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 籃球 /篮球
roman: laam⁴ kau⁴
lang: Chinese
word: 籃球 /篮球
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 籃球 /篮球
roman: lánqiú
lang: Chuvash
word: баскетбол
roman: basketbol
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: basketbol
lang: Czech
word: basketbal
lang: Danish
word: basketball
lang: Central Dusun
word: buul bakul
lang: Dutch
word: basketbal
lang: Esperanto
word: korbopilkado
lang: Esperanto
word: korbopilko
lang: Esperanto
word: basketbalo
lang: Estonian
word: korvpall
lang: Estonian
word: koss
lang: Faroese
word: kurvabóltur
lang: Finnish
word: koripallo
lang: Finnish
word: koripalloilu
lang: French
word: basket-ball
lang: French
word: basketball
lang: French
word: ballon-panier
lang: Friulian
word: bale tal zei
lang: Galician
word: baloncesto
lang: Georgian
word: კალათბურთი
roman: ḳalatburti
lang: German
word: Basketball
lang: Greek
word: καλαθοσφαίριση
roman: kalathosfaírisi
lang: Greek
word: μπάσκετ
roman: básket
lang: Gujarati
word: બાસ્કેટ બોલ
roman: bāskeṭ bol
lang: Haitian Creole
word: baskètbòl
lang: Hebrew
word: כַּדּוּרְסַל
roman: kadursál
lang: Hindi
word: बास्केटबॉल
roman: bāskeṭbŏl
lang: Hindi
word: बास्केटबाल
roman: bāskeṭbāl
lang: Hungarian
word: kosárlabda
lang: Icelandic
word: körfubolti m körfuknattleikur
lang: Ido
word: korbobalono
lang: Ido
word: basketbalo
lang: Indonesian
word: bola basket
lang: Interlingua
word: basketball
lang: Interlingua
word: basket
lang: Irish
word: cispheil
lang: Italian
word: pallacanestro
lang: Italian
word: pallacesto
lang: Italian
word: palla al cerchio
lang: Italian
word: palla a spicchi
lang: Italian
word: basket
lang: Japanese
word: バスケットボール
roman: basukettobōru
lang: Japanese
word: バスケ
roman: basuke
lang: Japanese
word: 篭球
roman: rōkyū
lang: Japanese
word: 籠球
roman: rōkyū
lang: Kazakh
word: баскетбол
roman: basketbol
lang: Khmer
word: កីឡាបាល់បោះ
roman: kəylaa bal bɑh
lang: Khmer
word: បាល់បោះ
roman: bal bɑh
lang: Komi-Zyrian
word: кудсяр
roman: kudśar
lang: Korean
word: 농구
roman: nonggu
lang: Korean
word: 롱구
roman: ronggu
lang: Korean
word: 배스킷볼
roman: baeseukitbol
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: basketbol
lang: Kyrgyz
word: баскетбол
roman: basketbol
lang: Lakota
word: tȟabškátapi
lang: Lakota
word: tȟabʼóiȟpeyapi
lang: Lao
word: ບານບ້ວງ
roman: bān būang
lang: Latin
word: canistrilūdium
lang: Latvian
word: basketbols
lang: Ligurian
word: ballabanastra
lang: Lithuanian
word: krepšinis
lang: Samogitian
word: krepšėnis
lang: Lü
word: ᦖᦱᧅᦟᦳᧄᦎᦱᧇ
roman: ṁaaklumṫaab
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Basketball
lang: Macedonian
word: кошарка
roman: košarka
lang: Malay
word: bola keranjang
lang: Malayalam
word: ബാസ്ക്കറ്റ്ബോള്
roman: bāskkaṟṟbōḷŭ
lang: Maltese
word: baskitbol
lang: Māori
word: poitūkohu
lang: Marathi
word: बास्केटबॉल
roman: bāskeṭbŏl
lang: Marshallese
word: pāājkōt
lang: Mongolian
word: сагсан бөмбөг
roman: sagsan bömbög
lang: Navajo
word: jooł nikídílniihí
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: basketball
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: korgball
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: basketball
lang: Occitan
word: basket
lang: Ojibwe
word: chi-bikwaakwad biinjwebinigem
lang: Persian
word: بسکتبال
roman: basketbâl
lang: Polish
word: koszykówka
lang: Polish
word: piłka koszykowa
lang: Polish
word: kosz
lang: Portuguese
word: basquete
lang: Portuguese
word: basquetebol
lang: Portuguese
word: bola ao cesto
lang: Romanian
word: baschetbal
lang: Romanian
word: baschet
lang: Romansh
word: ballabasket
lang: Russian
word: баскетбо́л
roman: basketból
lang: Samoan
word: pasiketipolo
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ball-basgaid
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ко̀ша̄рка
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kòšārka
lang: Sicilian
word: palla a canistru
lang: Sinhalese
word: පැසිපන්දු
roman: pæsipandu
lang: Slovak
word: basketbal
lang: Slovene
word: košárka
lang: Spanish
word: baloncesto
lang: Spanish
word: básquetbol
lang: Spanish
word: básquet
lang: Swahili
word: mpira wa kikapu
lang: Swedish
word: basket
lang: Swedish
word: korgboll
lang: Tagalog
word: basketbol
lang: Tajik
word: баскетбол
roman: basketbol
lang: Tamil
word: கூடைப்பந்து
roman: kūṭaippantu
lang: Tatar
word: баскетбол
roman: basketbol
lang: Telugu
word: బాస్కెట్ బాల్
roman: bāskeṭ bāl
lang: Thai
word: บาสเกตบอล
roman: báas-gét-bɔl
lang: Tibetan
word: དྲ་ཕས་སྤོ་ལོ།
roman: dra phas spo lo
lang: Tibetan
word: སིལ་པོལ
roman: sil pol
lang: Turkish
word: basketbol
lang: Turkish
word: basket
lang: Turkmen
word: basketbol
lang: Ukrainian
word: баскетбо́л
roman: basketból
lang: Ukrainian
word: кошикі́вка
roman: košykívka
lang: Urdu
word: باسکیٹ بال
roman: bāskeṭ bāl
lang: Uzbek
word: basketbol
lang: Venetan
word: bałacanestro
lang: Vietnamese
word: bóng rổ
lang: Volapük
word: bäsetaglöpäd
lang: Welsh
word: pêl-fasged
lang: Yiddish
word: באַסקעטבאָל
roman: basketbol
lang: Yiddish
word: קוישבאָל
roman: koyshbol
lang: Zazaki
word: basketbol