tennis

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tennis (uncountable)

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.

Translations

sport played by two or four players with strung racquets

Arabic: تنس (tínis, tánis, ténis) m. Armenian: թենիս (hy) (t'enis) Catalan: tennis (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 網球 (cmn), 网球 (cmn) (wǎngqiú) Dutch: tennis (nl) Esperanto: teniso (eo) Finnish: tennis (fi) French: tennis (fr) m. German: Tennis (de) n. Greek: αντισφαίριση (el) (antisfaírisi) f., (colloquial) τένις (el) (ténis) n. Hebrew: טניס (he) (tenis) m. Hungarian: tenisz (hu) Icelandic: tennis (is) m. Indonesian: tenis (id) Interlingua: tennis (ia)

Italian: tennis (it) m. Japanese: テニス (ja) (tenisu) Korean: 테니스 (ko) (teniseu) Maltese: tenis (mt) Polish: tenis ziemny (pl) m. Portuguese: tênis (pt) m. Russian: теннис (ru) (ténnis) m. Scottish Gaelic: teanas (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: те́нис (sh) m. Roman: ténis (sh) m. Slovene: ténis (sl) m. Spanish: tenis (es) m. Swedish: tennis (sv) Tajik: теннис (tg) (tennis) Tamil: வரிப்பந்தாட்டம் (ta) (varippandhaattam) Turkish: tenis (tr)

Derived terms

• football tennis - a game played on a tennis-like background with a football
• lawn tennis - tennis played on a grass court.
• real tennis - (retronym) an indoor racket sport from which the modern game of tennis (lawn tennis) is descended.

Related terms

• tennis elbow
• tennis racquet
• tennis ball

See also

• table tennis or ping pong

Anagrams

• nestin
• sennit
• sinnet
• tensin

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

tennis

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

Anagrams

• intens

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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

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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		plural
	indefinite	definite	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. inv.

1. tennis

Related terms

• tennistavolo
• tennista
• tennistico