volleyball

See also: Volleyball and volley-ball

English

Alternative forms

• volley-ball
• bolleyball (humorous)

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):

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Noun

volleyball (countable and uncountable, plural volleyballs)

2. (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.
3. (countable) The inflated ball used in such a game.

Derived terms

• beach volleyball
• indoor volleyball
• kick volleyball
• rebound volleyball
• sand volleyball
• sitting volleyball
• volleyballene
• volleyballer
• volleyball player
• 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)
• → 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

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English volleyball.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

volleyball m (definite singular volleyballen, uncountable)

1. volleyball (ball game)

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English volleyball.

Noun

volleyball m (definite singular volleyballen, uncountable)

1. volleyball (ball game)

References

• “volleyball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

volleyball m (uncountable)

1. Dated form of voleibol.