basketball

See also: Basketball and basket-ball

English

A game of basketball.

a basketball

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɑl/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

basketball (countable and uncountable, plural basketballs)

2. (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

   He pursued basketball as his career.

   • 2021 May 12, Emily Cochrane, “In Infrastructure Talks With Biden, Capito Faces Fraught Path to Deal”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 August 2021:

     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.

4. (countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.

Derived terms

• 3x3 basketball
• antibasketball
• basketball American
• basketball court
• basketballdom
• basketballer
• basketballese
• basketball player
• basketball shoes
• basketball shorts
• basketbrawl
• nonbasketball
• street basketball
• 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)
• → Korean: 바스켓볼 (baseuketbol)
• → 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
• → Ulithian: baesketboal
• → 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

the sport

• Albanian: basketboll (sq) m
• Arabic: كُرَة اَلسَّلَّة (ar) f (kurat as-salla)
• Aragonese: balonzesto m
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܣܦܹܝܪ ܣܵܠܵܐ m (ispēyr sālā)

• Armenian: բասկետբոլ (hy) (basketbol)
• Asturian: baloncestu m
• Azerbaijani: basketbol (az)
• Basque: saskibaloi (eu)
• Belarusian: баскетбо́л m (baskjetból)
• Bengali: বাস্কেটবল (bn) (baskeṭbol)
• Bulgarian: баскетбо́л (bg) m (basketból)
• Burmese: ဘတ်စကက်ဘော (my) (bhatca.kakbhau:)
• Catalan: bàsquet (ca) m, basquetbol (ca) m
• Cebuano: basketbol
• Cherokee: ᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (talutsa alasgalodi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 籃球 / 篮球 (laam⁴ kau⁴)

  Hokkien: 籃球 / 篮球 (zh-min-nan) (nâ-kiû)

  Mandarin: 籃球 / 篮球 (zh) (lánqiú)

  Wu: 籃球 / 篮球 (láng-lôk)

• Chuvash: баскетбол (basketbol)
• Crimean Tatar: basketbol
• Czech: basketbal (cs) m
• Danish: basketball (da) c
• Dusun:

  Central Dusun: buul bakul

• Dutch: basketbal (nl) n
• Esperanto: korbopilkado, korbopilko, basketbalo
• Estonian: korvpall (et), koss (colloquial)
• Faroese: kurvabóltur (fo) m
• Finnish: koripallo (fi), koripalloilu
• French: basket-ball (fr) m, basketball (fr) m, ballon-panier (fr) m (Canada, Louisiana, Missouri, New England, rare)
• Friulian: bale tal zei
• Galician: baloncesto (gl) m
• Georgian: კალათბურთი (ka) (ḳalatburti)
• German: Basketball (de) m
• Greek: καλαθοσφαίριση (el) f (kalathosfaírisi), μπάσκετ (el) n (básket)
• Gujarati: બાસ્કેટ બોલ m (bāskeṭ bol)
• Haitian Creole: baskètbòl
• Hebrew: כַּדּוּרְסַל (he) m (kadursál)
• Hindi: बास्केटबॉल (bāskeṭbŏl), बास्केटबाल (bāskeṭbāl)
• Hungarian: kosárlabda (hu)
• Icelandic: körfubolti (is) m körfuknattleikur (is) m
• Ido: korbobalono (io), basketbalo (io)
• Indonesian: bola basket (id)
• Interlingua: basketball, basket
• Irish: cispheil f
• Italian: pallacanestro (it) f, pallacesto f (rare), palla al cerchio f (dated), palla a spicchi f (informal), basket (it) m
• Japanese: バスケットボール (ja) (basukettobōru), バスケ (ja) (basuke), 篭球 (ろうきゅう, rōkyū), 籠球 (ja) (ろうきゅう, rōkyū)
• Kazakh: баскетбол (basketbol)
• Khmer: កីឡាបាល់បោះ (kəylaa bal bɑh), បាល់បោះ (bal bɑh)
• Komi:

  Komi-Zyrian: кудсяр (kudśar)

• Korean: 농구(籠球) (ko) (nonggu), 롱구(籠球) (ko) (ronggu) (North Korea), 바스켓볼 (baseuketbol)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: basketbol (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: баскетбол (ky) (basketbol)
• Lakota: tȟabškátapi, tȟabʼóiȟpeyapi
• Lao: ບານບ້ວງ (lo) (bān būang)
• Latin: canistrilūdium (New Latin)
• Latvian: basketbols m
• Ligurian: ballabanastra f
• Lithuanian: krepšinis (lt) m

  Samogitian: krepšėnis m

• Lü: ᦖᦱᧅᦟᦳᧄᦎᦱᧇ (ṁaaklumṫaab)
• Luxembourgish: Basketball (lb)
• Macedonian: кошарка (mk) f (košarka)
• Malay: bola keranjang
• Malayalam: ബാസ്ക്കറ്റ്ബോള് (bāskkaṟṟbōḷŭ)
• Maltese: baskitbol m
• Māori: poitūkohu
• Marathi: बास्केटबॉल (mr) (bāskeṭbŏl)
• Marshallese: pāājkōt
• Mongolian: сагсан бөмбөг (mn) (sagsan bömbög)
• Navajo: jooł nikídílniihí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: basketball m

  Nynorsk: korgball m, basketball m

• Occitan: basket (oc) m
• Ojibwe: chi-bikwaakwad biinjwebinigem
• Persian: بسکتبال (fa) (basketbâl)
• Polish: koszykówka (pl) f, piłka koszykowa f, kosz (pl) m (colloquial)
• Portuguese: basquete (pt) m, basquetebol (pt) m, bola ao cesto f
• Romanian: baschetbal (ro) n, baschet (ro) n
• Romansh: ballabasket
• Russian: баскетбо́л (ru) m (basketból)
• Samoan: pasiketipolo
• Sanskrit: करण्डककन्दुकक्रीडा f (karaṇḍakakandukakrīḍā)
• Scottish Gaelic: ball-basgaid
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀ша̄рка f

  Latin: kòšārka (sh) f

• Sicilian: palla a canistru f
• Sinhalese: පැසිපන්දු (pæsipandu)
• Slovak: basketbal (sk) m
• Slovene: košárka (sl) f
• Spanish: baloncesto (es) m, básquetbol (es) m, básquet (es) m
• Swahili: mpira wa kikapu (sw)
• Swedish: basket (sv) c, korgboll (sv) c
• Tagalog: basketbol
• Tajik: баскетбол (tg) (basketbol)
• Tamil: கூடைப்பந்து (ta) (kūṭaippantu)
• Tatar: баскетбол (basketbol)
• Telugu: బాస్కెట్ బాల్ (bāskeṭ bāl)
• Thai: บาสเกตบอล (báas-gét-bɔl)
• Tibetan: དྲ་ཕས་སྤོ་ལོ། (dra phas spo lo), སིལ་པོལ (sil pol)
• Turkish: basketbol (tr), basket (tr)
• Turkmen: basketbol (tk)
• Ukrainian: баскетбо́л (uk) m (basketból), кошикі́вка f (košykívka)
• Ulithian: baesketboal
• Urdu: باسکیٹ بال (bāskeṭ bāl)
• Uzbek: basketbol (uz)
• Venetan: bałacanestro m
• Vietnamese: bóng rổ (vi)
• Volapük: bäsetaglöpäd (vo)
• Welsh: pêl-fasged (cy) f
• Yiddish: באַסקעטבאָל m (basketbol), קוישבאָל m (koyshbol)
• Zazaki: basketbol

the ball used in the sport

• Arabic: كُرَة اَلسَّلَّة (ar) f (kurat as-salla)
• Armenian: բասկետբոլի գնդակ (basketboli gndak)
• Azerbaijani: basketbol topu
• Bulgarian: баскетболна топка f (basketbolna topka)
• Cherokee: ᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᎳᏍᎦᎶᏗ (talutsa alasgalodi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 籃球 / 篮球 (laam⁴ kau⁴)

  Hokkien: 籃球 / 篮球 (zh-min-nan) (nâ-kiû)

  Mandarin: 籃球 / 篮球 (zh) (lánqiú)

• Danish: basketball (da) c
• Dutch: basketbal (nl) m
• Finnish: koripallo (fi)
• German: Basketball (de) m
• Gujarati: બાસ્કેટ બોલ m (bāskeṭ bol)
• Hebrew: כַּדּוּר סַל m (kadúr sál)
• Hungarian: kosárlabda (hu)
• Icelandic: körfubolti (is) m
• Japanese: バスケットボール (ja) (basukettobōru)
• Korean: 농구공 (ko) (nonggugong)
• Lakota: tȟápa-tȟáŋka
• Luxembourgish: Basketball (lb)
• Macedonian: кошарка́рска топка f (košarkárska topka)
• Marshallese: bo̧o̧ļ in pāājkōt
• Navajo: jooł
• Polish: piłka do koszykówki f, piłka koszykowa f
• Portuguese: bola de basquete/basquetebol f
• Romanian: minge de baschet f
• Russian: баскетбо́льный мяч m (basketbólʹnyj mjač)
• Sanskrit: करण्डककन्दुक m (karaṇḍakakanduka)
• Scottish Gaelic: ball-basgaid m
• Swedish: basketboll (sv) c
• Turkish: basketbol topu
• Ukrainian: баскетбо́льний м'яч m (basketbólʹnyj mʺjač), м'яч до кошикі́вки m (mʺjač do košykívky)
• Ulithian: baesketboal
• Volapük: bäsetaglöp (vo)
• Welsh: pêl fasged f

Verb

basketball (third-person singular simple present basketballs, present participle basketballing, simple past and past participle basketballed)

1. (informal, intransitive) To play basketball.
   • 1968, Tom Tiede, Coward:

     by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league

2. (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^(key): /baːskətbaːl/, [ˈb̥ɑːsɡ̊əd̥ˌb̥ɒːl]

Noun

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

1. basketball

Synonyms

• (sport): basket
• (ball): basketbold

See also

• basketball on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bas.kɛt.bol/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

  (file)

Noun

basketball m (uncountable)

1. post-1990 spelling of basket-ball

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English basketball.

Noun

basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)

1. 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)

1. basketball (ball game)

   Synonym: korgball

References

• “basketball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.