soccer

English

A game of soccer.

Wikipedia

Etymology

Colloquial abbreviation for Association football, via abbreviation Assoc. +‎ -er (“(slang suffix)”); earlier socca (1889), then socker (1891), with soccer attested 1895.

Compare contemporary rugger, from Rugby, and note vulgar connotations of analogous *asser if abbreviating on first syllable.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈsɒk.ə/ X-SAMPA: /"sQk@/
• (US) IPA: /ˈsɑk.ɚ/ X-SAMPA: /"sAk@`/
• Rhymes: -ɒkə(r)

Noun

soccer (uncountable)

1. (chiefly North America, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa) Association football, a game in which two teams of eleven players contend to get a round ball into their opponent's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their feet.

Synonyms

• association football (UK)
• football (ambiguous; this term may also refer to: American football, Australian Rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, Rugby League, Rugby Union)

Derived terms

• soccer mom

Related terms

• rugger

See also

• Association football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Association football

Translations

soccer

• Afrikaans: sokker (af)
• Arabic: كرة القدم (ar) (kúrat al-qádam) f
• Armenian: ֆուտբոլ (hy) (futbol)
• Azeri: futbol (az)
• Bavarian: Fuaßboi
• Belarusian: футбол (be) (futból) m
• Bengali: ফুটবল (bn) (phuţbôl)
• Bulgarian: футбол (bg) (futból) m
• Burmese: ဘောလုံး (my) (bo: loun:)
• Catalan: futbol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 足球 (cmn) (zúqiú)

• Czech: fotbal (cs) m, kopaná (cs) f
• Danish: fodbold (da) c
• Dutch: voetbal (nl) n
• Finnish: jalkapallo (fi)
• French: football (fr) m (Europe), soccer (fr) m (America, Australia)
• Georgian: ფეხბურთი (ka) (p'exburt'i)
• German: Fußball (de) m
• Greek: ποδόσφαιρο (el) (podósfairo) n
• Guaraní: vakapi
• Hebrew: כַּדּוּרֶגֶל (he) (kadurégel) m
• Hindi: फ़ुटबॉल (hi) (fuṭbol), फ़ुटबाल (hi) (fuṭbāl, fuṭbol), फुटबॉल (hi) (phuṭbol)
• Hungarian: labdarúgás (hu), futball (hu), foci (hu) (informal)
• Icelandic: fótbolti (is) m, knattspyrna (is) f
• Indonesian: sepakbola (id)
• Interlingua: football
• Italian: calcio (it) m
• Japanese: サッカー (ja) (sakkā), 蹴球 (ja) (しゅうきゅう, shūkyū) (rare), (UK) フットボール (ja) (futtobōru)
• Kannada: ಸಾಕರ್ (kn)
• Kazakh: футбол (kk) (futbol)
• Khmer: កីឡាបាល់ទាត់ (km) (kəylaa bal toat)
• Korean: 축구 (ko) (chukgu) (蹴球 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: футбол (ky) (futbol)
• Lao: ຟຸດບານ (lo) (fūt baːn)
• Macedonian: фудбал (mk) (fúdbal) m
• Malay: bola sepak (ms)
• Mongolian: хөлбөмбөг (mn) (hölbömbög)

• Navajo: jooł nabíznítaałí
• Norwegian: fotball (no) m
• Persian: فوتبال (fa) (futbâl)
• Polish: piłka nożna (pl) f
• Portuguese: futebol (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਫੁਟਬਾਲ (pa)
• Romanian: fotbal (ro) n
• Russian: футбол (ru) (futból) m, (rare, US, Australia) соккер (ru) (sókker) m, (rare, neologism) ногомяч (ru) (nogomjáč) m
• Saterland Frisian: Foutbal
• Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фудбал (sh) m, ногомет (sh) m

  Roman: fudbal (sh) m, nogomet (sh) m

• Slovak: futbal (sk) m, fotbal (sk) m
• Slovene: nogomet (sl) m
• Sotho: bolo (st)
• Spanish: fútbol (es) m, (Mexico) futbol (es); balompié (es) m, balón-pie (es) m; (Mexico) pambol (es)
• Swahili: soka (sw), kandanda (sw)
• Swedish: fotboll (sv) c
• Tagalog: putbol (tl)
• Tajik: футбол (tg) (futbol)
• Tatar: футбол (tt) (futbol)
• Telugu: ఫుట్ బాల్ (te)
• Thai: ฟุตบอล (th) (fóot-bon)
• Tibetan: རྐང་རྩེད་སྤོ་ལོ། (bo)
• Tok Pisin: soka (tpi), kikbal (tpi)
• Turkish: futbol (tr)
• Turkmen: futbol (tk)
• Ukrainian: футбол (uk) (futból) m, копаний м’яч (uk) (kópanyj m”jač) m
• Urdu: فٹ بال (ur) (fuṭ bāl)
• Uzbek: futbol (uz)
• Vietnamese: bóng đá (vi)
• Welsh: pêl-droed (cy) m
• West Frisian: fuotbal (fy) Template:u
• Yiddish: פֿוסבאָל (yi) (fusbol) m
• Zulu: ibhola

Verb

soccer (third-person singular simple present soccers, present participle soccering, simple past and past participle soccered)

1. (Australian rules football) To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.
   • 1990 Geoffrey Blainey, A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football, 2003, Black Inc. Publishing, p73.

     The rule seems to have encouraged players to soccer the ball along the ground.

   • 2008, John Devaney, Full Points Footy′s WA Football Companion, page 334,

     […] West Perth seemed on the verge of victory, only to succumb by 4 points after a soccered goal from Old Easts with less than half a minute remaining.

   • 2010 March 27, Michael Whiting, “Lions give Fev debut to remember”, AFL - The official site of the Australian Football League.

     Fevola showed the best and worst of his play after dropping a simple chest mark, only to regather seconds later and soccer the ball through from the most acute of angles.

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French

Pronunciation

• (Quebec) IPA: [sɔ.kaœ̯ʁ], [sɒ.kɚ]

Noun

soccer m (usually uncountable)

1. (Quebec) soccer (association football)

Synonyms

• football m

Anagrams

• escroc