ballon

See also Ballon

English

Etymology

From French ballon

Noun

ballon

1. (ballet) The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
   • 1988 November 18, Dorothy Samachson, “Moscow Classical Ballet”:

     Tall and slender, with a superb ballon and effortless flight in air, Malakhov […] will unquestionably have an extraordinary career.

See also

• Ballon (ballet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Ballon (ballet)

Anagrams

• no ball

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Danish

ballon

Etymology

From French ballon.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /balɔnɡ/, [b̥aˈlʌŋ]

Noun

ballon c (singular definite ballonen, plural indefinite balloner)

1. balloon (inflatable object)
2. bulb
3. carboy, demijohn (large bottle)
4. (ballet, no plural) ballon (the quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair)

Inflection

    Inflection of ballon

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	ballon	ballonen	balloner	ballonerne
genitive	ballons	ballonens	balloners	ballonernes

External links

• Ballon on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

ballon m (plural ballonnen or ballons, diminutive ballonnetje)

1. balloon

Derived terms

• luchtballon
• tekstballon

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

des ballons (definition 3 - round-bottomed flask)

Etymology

From Middle French ballon from Northern Italian bal(l)one (compare Italian pallone "large ball") from balla "ball", from Lombardic balla, palla "ball" from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bholn- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal "ball" (German Ballen "bale"; Ball "ball"). More at ball.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ba.lɔ̃/, X-SAMPA: /ba.lO~/

Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)

1. (large) ball
   1. beachball
2. balloon
3. (chemistry) round-bottom flask

Derived terms

• ballon à air chaud
• ballon à gaz
• ballon cerf-volant
• ballon d'oxygène
• ballon dirigeable
• ballon-pilote
• ballon-satellite
• ballon-sonde
• ballonnet
• crever un ballon
• faire ballon

See also

• balle (small ball)