baseball
See also: Baseball, base ball, and base-ball
English
A baseball.
A game of baseball.
Alternative forms
- base ball (obsolete) [1800s]
- base-ball (dated)
Etymology
base + ball
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/
- (US) IPA(key): /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.
- 1817 December, [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 1818, OCLC 318384910:
- 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.
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- The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
- 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
- baseball Annie
- baseball bat
- baseball cap
- baseball card
- baseball diamond
- baseballer
- baseball field
- baseball game
- baseball glove
- baseballist
- baseball mitt
- baseball player
- baseball rule
- baseball stadium
- British baseball
- fantasy baseball
- indoor baseball
- inside baseball
- inside-baseball
- organized baseball
- rotisserie baseball
- scrub baseball
- Welsh baseball
Translations
ball game
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ball used in baseball-game
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variety of poker
See also
- rounders
- softball
- wiffleball
- Appendix:Glossary of baseball
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English baseball.
Noun
baseball m
- baseball
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbei̯sboːl/, [ˈbe̞i̯s̠bo̞ːl]
- Syllabification(key): base‧ball
Noun
baseball
- baseball
Declension
| Inflection of baseball (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | baseball | baseballit | |
| genitive | baseballin | baseballien | |
| partitive | baseballia | baseballeja | |
| illative | baseballiin | baseballeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | baseball | baseballit | |
| accusative | nom. | baseball | baseballit |
| gen. | baseballin | ||
| genitive | baseballin | baseballien | |
| partitive | baseballia | baseballeja | |
| inessive | baseballissa | baseballeissa | |
| elative | baseballista | baseballeista | |
| illative | baseballiin | baseballeihin | |
| adessive | baseballilla | baseballeilla | |
| ablative | baseballilta | baseballeilta | |
| allative | baseballille | baseballeille | |
| essive | baseballina | baseballeina | |
| translative | baseballiksi | baseballeiksi | |
| instructive | — | baseballein | |
| abessive | baseballitta | baseballeitta | |
| comitative | — | baseballeineen | |
| Possessive forms of baseball (type risti) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | baseballini | baseballimme |
| 2nd person | baseballisi | baseballinne |
| 3rd person | baseballinsa | |
Synonyms
- amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English baseball.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛz.bɔl/
Audio (file)
Noun
baseball m (uncountable)
- post-1990 spelling of base-ball
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English baseball.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbeːzboːl]
- Hyphenation: base‧ball
- Rhymes: -oːl
Noun
baseball (usually uncountable, plural baseballok)
- (sports) baseball
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | baseball | baseballok |
| accusative | baseballt | baseballokat |
| dative | baseballnak | baseballoknak |
| instrumental | baseballal | baseballokkal |
| causal-final | baseballért | baseballokért |
| translative | baseballá | baseballokká |
| terminative | baseballig | baseballokig |
| essive-formal | baseballként | baseballokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | baseballban | baseballokban |
| superessive | baseballon | baseballokon |
| adessive | baseballnál | baseballoknál |
| illative | baseballba | baseballokba |
| sublative | baseballra | baseballokra |
| allative | baseballhoz | baseballokhoz |
| elative | baseballból | baseballokból |
| delative | baseballról | baseballokról |
| ablative | baseballtól | baseballoktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | baseballé | baseballoké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | baseballéi | baseballokéi |
| Possessive forms of baseball | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | baseballom | baseballjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | baseballod | baseballjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | baseballja | baseballjai |
| 1st person plural | baseballunk | baseballjaink |
| 2nd person plural | baseballotok | baseballjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | baseballjuk | baseballjaik |
Derived terms
Compound words
- 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 Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.zbol/
- Rhymes: -ɛzbol
Noun
baseball m (invariable)
- baseball
- Synonym: (rare) pallabase
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
Borrowed from English baseball.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛj.zbɔl/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛjzbɔl
- Syllabification: base‧ball
Noun
baseball m inan
- baseball
Declension
Declension of baseball
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | baseball |
| genitive | baseballu |
| dative | baseballowi |
| accusative | baseball |
| instrumental | baseballem |
| locative | baseballu |
| vocative | baseballu |
Derived terms
- baseballista
- baseballowy
- 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
declension of baseball (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) baseball | baseballul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) baseball | baseballului |
| vocative | baseballule | |
Swedish
Noun
baseball c
- Alternative form of baseboll
Declension
| Declension of baseball | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | baseball | baseballen | baseballar | baseballarna |
| Genitive | baseballs | baseballens | baseballars | baseballarnas |
References
- baseball in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- baseball in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)