volleyball

See also: Volleyball and volley-ball

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volleyball

Alternative forms

Etymology

From volley +‎ ball. In 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, William G. Morgan created a new game called Mintonette, a name derived from the game of badminton. After an observer, Alfred Halstead, noticed the volleying nature of the game at its first exhibition match in 1896, played at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfield College), the game quickly became known as volleyball (it was originally spelled as two words: "volley ball") (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɒlibɔ(ː)l/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

volleyball (countable and uncountable, plural volleyballs)

(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.
(countable) The inflated ball used in such a game.

Derived terms

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)
→ Korean: 발리볼 (ballibol)
→ 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 (wɔn-lêe-bɔn)
→ Turkish: voleybol

Translations

game

Afrikaans: vlugbal
Albanian: volejboll (sq) m
Arabic: الكُرَةُ اَلْطَّائِرَة f (kurat aṭ-ṭāʔira)
Armenian: վոլեյբոլ (hy) (voleybol)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܣܦܹܝܪ ܛܵܘܣܵܐ m (ispēyr ṭāwsā)
Azerbaijani: voleybol (az)
Basque: boleibol
Belarusian: валейбо́л m (valjejból)
Bengali: ভলিবল (bn) (bholibol)
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)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: voleybol (ku) f
Kyrgyz: волейбол (ky) (voleybol)
Lao: ບານສົ່ງ (lo) (bān song)
Latin: follis volitatis m
Latvian: volejbols m
Lithuanian: tinklinis m
Macedonian: одбојка (mk) 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) n
Russian: волейбо́л (ru) m (volejból)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: одбојка f

Roman: odbojka (sh) f
Sinhalese: වොලිබෝල් (si) (wolibōl)
Slovak: volejbal (sk) 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 (th) (wɔn-lêe-bɔn)
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
Korean: 배구공 (ko) (baegugong)
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