volleyball

volleyball

See also: Volleyball and volley-ball

English

Alternative forms

• volley-ball
• bolleyball (humorous)

Etymology

volley +‎ ball

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɒlibɔ(ː)l/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

volleyball (countable and uncountable, plural volleyballs)

1. (uncountable) A game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net.
2. (countable) The inflated ball used in such a game.

Derived terms

• beach volleyball
• indoor volleyball
• kick volleyball
• rebound volleyball
• sitting volleyball
• volleyballene
• volleyballer
• wallyball

 

Descendants

• → Burmese: ဘော်လီဘော (bhaulibhau:)
• → Catalan: voleibol
• → Czech: volejbal
• → French: volley-ball, volleyball
• → Galician: voleibol
• → German: Volleyball
• → Hindi: वॉलीबाल (vŏlībāl), वालीबाल (vālībāl), वॉलीबॉल (vŏlībŏl)
• → Japanese: バレーボール (barēbōru)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: volleyball
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: volleyball
• → Portuguese: voleibol
• → Russian: волейбо́л (volejból) (see there for further descendants)
• → Spanish: voleibol, vóleibol
• → Swahili: voliboli
• → Tagalog: balibol
• → Thai: วอลเลย์บอล (wɔl-lêe-bɔl)
• → Turkish: voleybol

Translations

game

Afrikaans: vlugbal Albanian: volejboll (sq) m Arabic: كُرَة اَلْطَّائِرَة‎‎ f (kurat aṭ-ṭāʾira) Armenian: վոլեյբոլ (hy) (voleybol) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܣܦܹܝܪ ܛܵܘܣܵܐ‎ m (ispēyr ṭāwsā) Azerbaijani: voleybol (az) Basque: boleibol Belarusian: валейбо́л m (valjejból) Bengali: ভলিবল (bhôlibôlô) Bulgarian: волейбо́л (bg) m (volejból) Burmese: ဘော်လီဘော (my) (bhaulibhau:) Catalan: voleibol (ca) m, vòlei (ca) m Central Dusun: buul tapap Chinese: Cantonese: 排球 (paai4 kau4) Mandarin: 排球 (zh) (páiqiú) Czech: volejbal m, odbíjená (cs) f Danish: volleyball (da) c Dutch: volleybal (nl) n Esperanto: flugpilkado, retpilko, volejbalo, flugpilko Estonian: võrkpall Finnish: lentopallo (fi) French: volley-ball (fr) Galician: voleibol (gl) m, balonvolea (gl) m Georgian: ფრენბურთი (prenburti) German: Volleyball (de) Greek: πετοσφαίριση (el) f (petosfaírisi), βόλλεϋ n (vólleÿ), βόλεϊ (el) n (vóleï) Gujarati: મારદડો (māradḍo) Hebrew: כַּדוּרעָף‎ (he) m (kadur'áf) Hindi: वॉलीबाल (vŏlībāl), वॉलीबॉल (vŏlībŏl) Hungarian: röplabda (hu) Icelandic: blak (is) n Indonesian: bola voli Irish: eitpheil m Italian: pallavolo (it) f, palla a volo f, volley m Japanese: バレーボール (ja) (barēbōru), 排球 (ja) (はいきゅう, haikyū) Kazakh: волейбол (voleibol) Khmer: បាល់ទះ (bal teah), កីឡាបាល់ទះ (kəylaa bal teah) Korean: 배구(排球) (ko) (baegu), 발리볼 (ballibol) Kyrgyz: волейбол (ky) (voleybol) Lao: ບານສົ່ງ (lo) (bān song) Latin: follis volitatis m Latvian: volejbols m Lithuanian: tinklinis m Macedonian: одбојка f (odbojka) Malay: bola tampar (ms) Maori: poirewa Mingrelian: ფურინბურთი (purinburti) Mongolian: волейбол (mn) (volejbol), гар бөмбөг (gar bömbög) Navajo: jooł nabízníkaadí, jooł ałnáábízníltsʼííh Norwegian: Bokmål: volleyball (no) m Nynorsk: volleyball m Persian: والیبال‎ (fa) (vâlibâl) Polish: siatkówka (pl) f, piłka siatkowa (pl) f, siatka (pl) f (colloquial), siata (pl) f (colloquial) Portuguese: voleibol (pt) m, vólei (pt) m (Portugal), vôlei (pt) m (Brazil) Romanian: volei (ro) m Russian: волейбо́л (ru) m (volejból) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: одбојка f Roman: odbojka (sh) f Sinhalese: වොලිබෝල් (si) (wolibōl) Slovak: volejbal m Slovene: odbojka (sl) f Spanish: voleibol (es) m, voley m, balonvolea (es) m Swahili: voliboli (sw) Swedish: volleyboll (sv) c Tagalog: volleyball, balibol Tajik: волейбол (tg) (voleybol) Thai: วอลเลย์บอล (wɔl-lêe-bɔl) Turkish: voleybol (tr) Turkmen: woleýbol Ukrainian: волейбо́л m (volejból), відби́ванка f (vidbývanka) Urdu: والی بال‎ (vālī bāl) Uzbek: voleybol (uz) Vietnamese: bóng chuyền (vi) Welsh: pêl-foli

ball used to play the game

Afrikaans: vlugbal Czech: volejbalový míč m Dutch: volleybal (nl) m Esperanto: flugpilko Finnish: lentopallo (fi) French: balle de volley-ball m, balle de volley m Galician: pelota de voleibol f, balón de voleibol m German: Volleyball (de) m Greek: πετόσφαιρα (el) f (petósfaira) Hungarian: röplabda (hu) Icelandic: blakbolti m Irish: eitpheil f Navajo: jooł Polish: piłka siatkowa (pl) f, piłka do siatkówki f Portuguese: bola de vôlei/vólei f Russian: волейбо́льный мяч m (volejbólʹnyj mjač) Swahili: voliboli (sw) Swedish: volleyboll (sv) c Turkish: voleybol topu Ukrainian: волейбо́льний м’яч m (volejbólʹnyj mʺjač), м’яч до відби́ванки m (mʺjač do vidbývanky) Welsh: pêl-foli f

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.lɛ.bol/, /vɔ.le.bol/

• Audio

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Noun

volleyball m (uncountable)

1. post-1990 spelling of volley-ball

Derived terms

• volleyball de plage

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English volleyball.

Noun

volleyball m (definite singular volleyballen, uncountable)

1. volleyball (ball game)

References

• “volleyball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “volleyball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English volleyball.

Noun

volleyball m (definite singular volleyballen, uncountable)

1. volleyball (ball game)

References

• “volleyball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Noun

volleyball m (uncountable)

1. Dated form of voleibol.