tennis

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Old French tenez, second-person imperative of tenir (“hold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɛ.nɪs/
• (US) X-SAMPA: /tE.nIs/

Noun

tennis (usually uncountable; plural tennises)

1. (sports) A sport played by either two or four players with strung racquets, a 2½" (6.4 cm) ball, and a net approximately 3 feet high on a clay, grass, or cement court.
2. (dated) A match in this sport.
   • 1918, Violent Hunt, The last ditch (page 95)

     We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises […]

Translations

sport played by two or four players with strung racquets

• Afrikaans: tennis (af)
• Albanian: tenisi (sq)
• Arabic: تنس (ar) (tínis, tánis, ténis) m
• Armenian: թենիս (hy) (t'enis) 
• Azeri: tennis (az)
• Bavarian: Tennis
• Belarusian: тэніс (be) (ténis) m 
• Bulgarian: тенис (bg) (ténis) m 
• Catalan: tennis (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 網球 (cmn), 网球 (cmn) (wǎngqiú)

• Czech: tenis (cs)
• Danish: tennis (da)
• Dutch: tennis (nl)
• Esperanto: teniso (eo)
• Finnish: tennis (fi)
• French: tennis (fr) m
• Georgian: ჩოგბურთი (ka) (č'ogburt'i) 
• German: Tennis (de) n
• Greek: αντισφαίριση (el) (antisfaírisi) f , (colloquial) τένις (el) (ténis) n 
• Hebrew: טניס (he) (tenis) m
• Hindi: टेनिस (hi) (ṭenis)
• Hungarian: tenisz (hu)
• Icelandic: tennis (is) m
• Indonesian: tenis (id)
• Interlingua: tennis (ia)
• Italian: tennis (it) m
• Japanese: テニス (ja) (tenisu)
• Kannada: ಟೆನ್ನಿಸ್ (kn) (ṭennis)
• Kazakh: теннис (kk) (tennïs) 
• Korean: 테니스 (ko) (teniseu)

• Kyrgyz: теннис (ky) (tennis) 
• Latvian: teniss (lv) m
• Macedonian: тенис (mk) (ténis) m
• Malay: tenis (ms)
• Malayalam: ടെന്നീസ് (ml) (ṭennīs)
• Maltese: tenis (mt)
• Marathi: टेनिस (mr)
• Norwegian: tennis (no)
• Persian: تنیس (fa) (tenis)
• Polish: tenis ziemny (pl) m, tenis (pl) m
• Portuguese: tênis (pt) m, ténis (pt) m
• Russian: теннис (ru) (tɛ́nnis) m 
• Sanskrit: लानम् (sa)
• Scottish Gaelic: teanas (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: те́нис (sh) m

  Roman: ténis (sh) m

• Slovak: tenis (sk) m
• Slovene: ténis (sl) m
• Spanish: tenis (es) m
• Swedish: tennis (sv)
• Tajik: теннис (tg) (tennis) 
• Tamil: வரிப்பந்தாட்டம் (ta) (varippandhaattam)
• Telugu: టెన్నిస్ (te) (ṭennis)
• Thai: เทนนิส (th) (ten-nít)
• Tibetan: ཏན་ནེ་སི་སྤོ་ལོ། (bo)
• Turkish: tenis (tr)
• Turkmen: tennis (tk)
• Ukrainian: теніс (uk) (ténis) m 
• Urdu: ٹینس (ur) (ṭenis)
• Uzbek: tennis (uz)

Derived terms

• football tennis
• lawn tennis
• real tennis

Related terms

• tennis elbow
• tennis racquet
• tennis ball

See also

• table tennis or ping pong

Verb

tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)

1. (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
2. (transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.

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Anagrams

• nestin, sennit, sinnet, tensin

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

tennis

1. first-person singular present indicative of tennissen
2. imperative of tennissen

Anagrams

• intens

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Estonian

Noun

tennis (genitive tennise, partitive tennist)

1. tennis

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Finnish

Etymology

From English tennis.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ten‧nis
• IPA: [ˈtenːis]

Noun

tennis

1. tennis

Declension

Declension of tennis (type vastaus) singular plural nominative tennis tennikset genitive tenniksen tennisten tenniksien partitive tennistä tenniksiä accusative tennis tenniksen tennikset inessive tenniksessä tenniksissä elative tenniksestä tenniksistä illative tennikseen tenniksiin adessive tenniksellä tenniksillä ablative tennikseltä tenniksiltä allative tennikselle tenniksille essive tenniksenä tenniksinä translative tennikseksi tenniksiksi instructive – tenniksin abessive tenniksettä tenniksittä comitative – tenniksineen

Synonyms

• verkkopallo (dated)

Derived terms

• tenniskenttä
• tennismaila
• tennispallo
• tennistossut
• tennisturnaus

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English tennis.

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

tennis m (plural tennis)

1. (usually uncountable) tennis
2. (countable, Europe, dated) sneaker

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtʰɛnːɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɛnːɪs

Noun

tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, uncountable)

1. tennis

Declension

declension of tennis

m-s1	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	tennis	tennisinn
accusative	tennis	tennisinn
dative	tennis	tennisnum
genitive	tenniss	tennissins

Derived terms

• tennisolnbogi
• tennisspaði

Anagrams

• steinn

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Italian

Noun

tennis m (invariable)

1. tennis

Related terms

• tennistavolo
• tennista
• tennistico