acrobat

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French acrobate, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs, “walking on tiptoe, climbing aloft”), from ἀκροβατέω (akrobatéō, “I walk on tiptoe”), from ἄκρον (ákron, “highest or farthest point, mountain top, peak”) + βαίνω (baínō, “I walk, step”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæk.ɹə.bæt/

Noun

acrobat (plural acrobats)

1. An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination.

Derived terms

• acrobatic

Related terms

• Acrobates (taxonomic genus)
• Acrobatidae (taxonomic family)
• acro-#Related_terms_2

Translations

an athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination

• Albanian: akrobat (sq)
• Arabic: بَهْلَوَان m (bahlawān)
• Armenian: ակրոբատ (hy) (akrobat)
• Basque: akrobata (eu)
• Catalan: acròbata (ca) m or f, equilibrista (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雜技演員／杂技演员 (zh), 杂技演员 (zh) (zájì yǎnyuán), 馬戲演員／马戏演员, 马戏演员 (mǎxì yǎnyuán)

• Czech: akrobat m
• Danish: akrobat
• Dutch: acrobaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: akrobato, ekvilibristo
• Estonian: akrobaat
• Finnish: akrobaatti (fi), tasapainotaiteilija
• French: acrobate (fr) m or f
• Georgian: ჯამბაზი (ǯambazi)
• German: Akrobat (de) m, Akrobatin (de) f
• Greek: ακροβάτης (el) m (akrovátis)

  Ancient: ἀκροβάτης m (akrobátēs), κυβιστητήρ m (kubistētḗr)

• Gujarati: કળાબાજ઼ (kaḷābāz)
• Hebrew: לולין (he) m (lulyán)
• Hindi: कलाबाज़ (kalābāz)
• Hungarian: akrobata (hu)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: acrobata (it)
• Japanese: アクロバット (akurobatto)
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• Korean: 곡예사 (ko) (gogyesa)
• Latin: petaurista m, funambulus m
• Marathi: डोंबारी (ḍombārī)
• Norman: acrobate m or f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: akrobat (no) m

  Nynorsk: akrobat m

• Persian: بندباز (fa) (bandbâz)
• Polish: akrobata (pl) m, akrobatka (pl) f
• Portuguese: acrobata (pt) m or f
• Romanian: acrobat (ro) m, acrobată (ro) f
• Russian: акроба́т (ru) m (akrobát), акроба́тка (ru) f (akrobátka)
• Sanskrit: जायाजीव (sa) m (jāyājīva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: акробата m

  Roman: akrobata (sh) m

• Slovak: akrobat m
• Slovene: akrobat m
• Spanish: acróbata (es) m or f, saltimbanqui (es) m, equilibrista m
• Swedish: akrobat (sv)
• Tagalog: akrobata, sirkero, magsisirko
• Thai: นักโลดโผน (nák-lôot-pǒon)
• Turkish: akrobat (tr), cambaz (tr)

Anagrams

• CATOBAR, abactor