volleyball
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- The inflated ball used in such a game.
Pronunciation
/ˈvɒlibɔ(ː)l/
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Word forms
volleyball
volleyballs
volley-ball
bolleyball
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")
Translations
Afrikaans: vlugbal
Albanian: volejboll
Arabic: الكُرَةُ اَلْطَّائِرَة
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܣܦܹܝܪ ܛܵܘܣܵܐ
Armenian: վոլեյբոլ
Azerbaijani: voleybol
Basque: boleibol
Belarusian: валейбо́л
Bengali: ভলিবল
Bulgarian: во́лейбол
Burmese: ဘော်လီဘော
Catalan: voleibol
Catalan: vòlei
Chinese Cantonese: 排球
Chinese Mandarin: 排球
Czech: volejbal
Czech: odbíjená
Danish: volleyball
Central Dusun: buul tapap
Dutch: volleybal
Esperanto: flugpilkado
Esperanto: retpilko
Esperanto: volejbalo
Esperanto: flugpilko
Estonian: võrkpall
Finnish: lentopallo
French: volley-ball
Galician: voleibol
Galician: balonvolea
Georgian: ფრენბურთი
German: Volleyball
Greek: πετοσφαίριση
Greek: βόλλεϋ
Greek: βόλεϊ
Gujarati: મારદડો
Hebrew: כַּדוּרעָף
Hindi: वॉलीबाल
Hindi: वॉलीबॉल
Hungarian: röplabda
Icelandic: blak
Indonesian: bola voli
Irish: eitpheil
Italian: pallavolo
Italian: palla a volo
Italian: volley
Japanese: バレーボール
Japanese: 排球
Kazakh: волейбол
Khmer: បាល់ទះ
Khmer: កីឡាបាល់ទះ
Korean: 배구
Korean: 발리볼
Northern Kurdish: voleybol
Kyrgyz: волейбол
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