ballon
See also: Ballon and ballón
English
Etymology
From French ballon. Doublet of balloon.
Noun
ballon (usually uncountable, plural ballons)
- (ballet) The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
- 1988, November 18, “Dorothy Samachson”, in Moscow Classical Ballet:
- Tall and slender, with a superb ballon and effortless flight in air, Malakhov […] will unquestionably have an extraordinary career.
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See also
Ballon (ballet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- no ball
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch ballon, from French ballon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈlɔn/
Noun
ballon (plural ballons or ballonne)
- balloon
Derived terms
- ballonvaarder
- ballonvaart
- lugballon
- warmlugballon
Danish
ballon
Etymology
From French ballon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /balɔnɡ/, [b̥aˈlʌŋ]
Noun
ballon c (singular definite ballonen, plural indefinite balloner)
- balloon (inflatable object)
- bulb
- carboy, demijohn (large bottle)
- (ballet, singular only) ballon (the quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair)
Inflection
Declension of ballon
| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | ballon | ballonen | balloner | ballonerne |
| genitive | ballons | ballonens | balloners | ballonernes |
Descendants
- → Greenlandic: ballonngi
Further reading
- “ballon” in Den Danske Ordbog
- ballon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French ballon. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑˈlɔn/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bal‧lon
- Rhymes: -ɔn
Noun
ballon m (plural ballonnen or ballons, diminutive ballonnetje n)
- balloon
- hot-air balloon
- Synonym: heteluchtballon
Derived terms
- ballonoptocht
- ballonvaarder
- ballonvaart
- een ballonnetje oplaten
- heliumballon
- heteluchtballon
- luchtballon
- meetballon
- proefballon
- tekstballon
- waterballon
Related terms
- bal
- ballonet
Descendants
- Afrikaans: ballon
- → Indonesian: balon
- → Papiamentu: balòn
French
des ballons (definition 3 - round-bottomed flask)
Etymology
From Middle French ballon. Doublet of balloune.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.lɔ̃/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔ̃
Noun
ballon m (plural ballons)
- (inflatable) ball
- beachball
- balloon
- (chemistry) round-bottom flask
Derived terms
- ballon à air chaud
- ballon à gaz
- ballon cerf-volant
- ballon-chasseur
- ballon de baudruche
- ballon d'essai
- ballon dirigeable
- ballon d'oxygène
- ballonnet
- ballon-pilote
- ballon rond
- ballon-satellite
- ballon-sonde
- crever un ballon
- faire ballon
Descendants
Descendants
- → Albanian: balonë
- → Alemannic German: Balung
- → Arabic: بالون (bālūn)
- → Bulgarian: балон (balon)
- → Bwatoo: balo
- → Catalan: baló
- → Czech: balón
- → Danish: ballon
- → Greenlandic: ballonngi
- → Dutch: ballon
- Afrikaans: ballon
- → Indonesian: balon
- → Papiamentu: balòn
- → English: ballon
- → Greek: μπαλόνι (balóni)
- → Hausa: balan
- → Northern Kurdish: balon
- → Latvian: balons
- → Lithuanian: balionas
- → Macedonian: балон (balon)
- → Norwegian: ballong
- → Ottoman Turkish: بالون (balon)
- → Armenian: պալօն (palōn)
- Turkish: balon
- → Persian: بالون (bâlon)
- → Portuguese: balão
- → Romanian: balon
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: балон
- Latin: balon
- → Slovak: balón
- → Slovene: balon
- → Swedish: ballong
See also
- balle
Further reading
- “ballon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From northern Italian balone, ballone; compare standard pallone.
Noun
ballon m (plural ballons)
- large ball
Descendants
- French: ballon (see there for further descendants)
- → English: balloon (see there for further descendants)
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpallon/
Verb
ballon
- first-person singular imperative of ballat