paintball

See also: Paintball

English

Etymology

paint +‎ ball

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪntbɔːl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

paintball (countable and uncountable, plural paintballs)

1. (uncountable) A sport where teams shoot each other with gelatin capsules filled with paint-like dye.
2. (countable) The dye-filled capsule fired in the sport of paintball.

Translations

sport

• Finnish: värikuulasota, paintti
• German: Paintball (de) m
• Greek: χρωματοσφαίριση f (chromatosfaírisi)
• Hungarian: paintball (hu), festékharc
• Japanese: ペイントボール (peintobōru)
• Polish: paintball (pl) m
• Russian: пейнтбо́л (ru) m (pɛjntból)
• Turkish: boyartop

capsule

• Finnish: värikuula
• Hungarian: festékgolyó, paintballgolyó, festéklövedék, festék (hu)
• Turkish: boyartop

See also

• archery tag
• dart tag
• laser tag
• tagball

 

Verb

paintball (third-person singular simple present paintballs, present participle paintballing, simple past and past participle paintballed)

1. To engage in the sport of paintball.
2. To shoot someone using a paintball gun.

Derived terms

• paintballer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛnt.bɔl/

Noun

paintball m (uncountable)

1. paintball

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English paintball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛjnd.bɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɛjndbɔl
• Syllabification: paint‧ball

Noun

paintball m inan

1. paintball (sport)

Declension

Declension of paintball

	singular
nominative	paintball
genitive	paintballu
dative	paintballowi
accusative	paintball
instrumental	paintballem
locative	paintballu
vocative	paintballu

Derived terms

adjective

• paintballowy

 

Further reading

• paintball in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• paintball in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

paintball m (uncountable)

1. paintball

Hypernyms

• deporte de combate

Swedish

Alternative forms

• paintboll (uncommon except for the balls)

Etymology

Borrowed from English paintball. Attested since 1992.

Noun

paintball c

1. paintball (sport)
2. paintball (dye-filled capsule fired in paintball)

Declension

Declension of paintball
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	paintball	paintballen	—	—
Genitive	paintballs	paintballens	—	—

References

• paintball in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• paintball in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Turkish

Noun

paintball

1. paintball