Quidditch

See also: quidditch

English

Some Quidditch gear.

Alternative forms

• quidditch

Etymology

Coined by British author J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In Quidditch Through the Ages, Rowling gives some etymological information, hinting that the word evolved from Queerditch (compound of queer +‎ ditch), with some spelling variation as would be expected in real life Middle English, namely Kwidditch, Kweerditch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪdɪt͡ʃ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

Quidditch (uncountable)

1. A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals.
   • 2003, “Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Maybe you wish your parents were smarter or funnier or richer or better looking, but you might as well wish for a spot on the local Quidditch team.

   • 2007 December 16, Ethan Todras-Whitehill, “In Tikal, Temples in the Mist”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     Turn to the south, and you see the Central Acropolis, a five-story palace where the nobles might have sat to watch plaza ceremonies or the famous Quidditch-like Mayan ball games.

   • 2007, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007:

     Whichever team gets Yegor holds the edge. This is like Quidditch in hell.

   • 2010 May 8, Brooks Barnes, “Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio‎^[3]:

     Eton’s playing fields are famous, not least because of the Eton Field Game. It’s played only there. It’s sort of like Quidditch for real people.

Coordinate terms

• Golden Snitch
• quaffle

Derived terms

• Muggle quidditch

Translations

fictitious ball game

• Albanian: Kuidiç m
• Arabic: كْوِيدِتْش m (kwīditš)
• Armenian: Քվիդիչ (Kʻvidičʻ)
• Azerbaijani: Qviddiç
• Belarusian: кві́дыш m (kvídyš), кві́дыч m (kvídyč)
• Bengali: কুইডিচ (kuiḍic), কিডিচ (kiḍic)
• Bulgarian: куи́дич m (kuídič)
• Catalan: Quidditch m, quidditch m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魁地奇 (kuídìqí)

• Czech: famfrpál m
• Danish: Quidditch c
• Dutch: Zwerkbal m
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} kvidiĉo
• Estonian: lendluudpall
• Finnish: huispaus (fi)
• French: quidditch (fr) m
• Georgian: ქვიდიჩი (kvidiči)
• German: Quidditch n
• Greek: κουίντιτς n (kouíntits)
• Hebrew: קְוִוידיץ׳ m (Kvídich)
• Hindi: क्विडिच m (kviḍic)
• Hungarian: kviddics (hu)
• Icelandic: Quidditch n
• Italian: Quidditch m, quidditch m
• Japanese: クィディッチ (kwiditchi)
• Korean: 퀴디치 (kwidichi)
• Latvian: kalambols m
• Lithuanian: kvidičas m
• Macedonian: кви́дич m (kvídič), метлобој m (metloboj)
• Norwegian: rumpeldunk m
• Persian: کوییدیچ (kvidič)
• Polish: quidditch m
• Portuguese: quidditch m (Portugal), quadribol m (Brazil)
• Romanian: vâj-haț n
• Russian: кви́ддич (ru) m (kvíddič)
• Samogitian: kvidičos m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: квидич m, метлобој m

  Roman: kvidič m, metloboj m

• Slovak: metlobal m
• Slovene: quidditch m
• Spanish: Quidditch m, quidditch m
• Swedish: quidditch c
• Telugu: క్విడిచ్ (kviḍic)
• Thai: ควิดดิช (kwít-dìch)
• Ukrainian: кві́дич m (kvídyč)
• Vietnamese: Quidditch (as written in a translation), Quít-đit (Vietnamese version)
• Yiddish: קווידיטש n (kviditsh)

References

• Collegiate Quidditch takes off — figuratively, at least