Frisbee

See also: frisbee

English

Alternative forms

• frisbee
• frisbie (obsolete)

Etymology

1957, brand name Frisbee was trademarked in 1959 by Fred Morrison, later acquired by Wham-O. From an alteration of frisbie, applied to the disk game by U.S. college students who tossed pie plates from Mrs. Frisbie's Pies, Frisbie Bakery, Bridgeport Ct., since the 1930s. From the English family name Frisby attested 1226, from the toponym attested 1086 in Frisby on the Wreak, Leicestershire, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Danish Frisby (“Frisian village”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪzbi/

Noun

Frisbee (plural Frisbees)

1. A disk-shaped gliding toy.
2. The sport involving Frisbees.

Usage notes

Frisbee is proprietary name, trademarked in 1959.

Derived terms

• ultimate frisbee

Translations

disk

• Arabic: صحن طائر m
• Armenian: թռչող ափսե (tʻṙčʻoġ apʻse), տարելկա (tarelka) (colloquial)
• Bavarian: Frisbee n
• Bulgarian: летя́щ ди́ск m (letjášt dísk)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 飛碟／飞碟 (fei¹ dip^6-2), 飞碟 (fei¹ dip^6-2)

  Mandarin: 飛盤／飞盘 (zh) (fēipán), 飞盘 (zh) (fēipán)

• Czech: frisbee
• Danish: frisbee
• Dutch: frisbee (nl)
• Esperanto: flugdisko
• Finnish: frisbee (fi)
• French: frisbee (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Frisbee (de) n, Wurfscheibe f
• Hebrew: פריזבי m
• Hungarian: frizbi (hu)
• Icelandic: svifdiskur
• Italian: frisbee
• Japanese: フライングディスク (ja) (furaingu-disuku), フリスビー (furisubī)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 프리스비 (peuriseubi)
• Latin: discus volans m
• Latvian: frisbija disks m
• Lithuanian: plastinė lėkštė f
• Macedonian: фризби n (frizbi)
• Maori: ripi
• Mongolian: нисдэг таваг (nisdeg tavag)
• Norwegian: frisbee
• Polish: frisbee (pl)
• Portuguese: frisbee m
• Russian: лета́ющий диск m (letájuščij disk), лета́ющая таре́лка (ru) f (letájuščaja tarélka)
• Serbo-Croatian: frizbi (sh)
• Slovak: frisbee
• Spanish: frisbee m
• Swedish: frisbee
• Thai: จานบิน (th) (jaan-bin)
• Turkish: frizbi
• Ukrainian: фрісбі (frisbi)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

sport

• Finnish: frisbee (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: frisbee (pl) n

See also

• boomerang

Verb

Frisbee (third-person singular simple present Frisbees, present participle Frisbeeing, simple past and past participle Frisbeed)

1. To throw something in the manner of a Frisbee.

   The bartender Frisbeed a cardboard coaster to the patron at the end of the bar.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Frisbee”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Pronunciation

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Noun

Frisbee n

1. frisbee

Further reading

• “Frisbee” in Duden online