badminton

See also: Badminton, bádminton, bàdminton, and badmínton

English

Badminton player Peter Gade.

Etymology

Named after Badminton House, an estate in Gloucestershire owned by the Duke of Beaufort, where the game was first played in England.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbæd.mɪn.tən/

Noun

badminton (uncountable)

1. A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.
2. A cooling summer drink made with claret, sugar, and soda water.

Synonyms

• (sport): badders (UK, informal)

Derived terms

• badminton court
• badminton player

Translations

a racquet sport

• Afrikaans: pluimbal (af)
• Arabic: بَدْمِينْتُون m (badmintūn), تِنِس اَلرِّيشَة m (tenis ar-rīša)
• Armenian: բադմինտոն (hy) (badminton)
• Azerbaijani: badminton
• Belarusian: бадмінто́н m (badmintón)
• Bulgarian: бадминто́н m (badmintón)
• Catalan: bàdminton (ca) m
• Central Dusun: badminton
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 羽毛球 (jyu⁵ mou⁴ kau⁴)

  Mandarin: 羽毛球 (zh) (yǔmáoqiú)

• Czech: badminton (cs) m
• Danish: badminton (da) c
• Estonian: sulgpall
• Faroese: badminton n
• Finnish: sulkapallo (fi)
• French: badminton (fr) m
• Galician: bádminton m
• German: Badminton (de) n, Federball (de) m
• Greek: αντιπτέριση (el) (antiptérisi)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: tollaslabda (hu)
• Icelandic: badminton n, hnit (is)
• Ido: badmintono
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
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• Italian: badminton m
• Japanese: バドミントン (ja) (badominton)
• Korean: 배드민턴 (ko) (baedeuminteon)
• Latvian: badmintons m
• Macedonian: бадминтон m (badminton)
• Malay: badminton
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: badminton m

  Nynorsk: badminton m

• Polish: badminton (pl) m
• Portuguese: badminton (pt) m, badmínton (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਚਿੜੀ-ਛਿੱਕਾ (ciṛī-chikkā)
• Russian: бадминто́н (ru) m (badmintón)
• Slovak: bedminton m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: pjerobul m

• Spanish: bádminton (es) m
• Tagalog: badminton
• Thai: แบดมินตัน (th) (bɛ̀t-min-dtân)
• Turkish: badminton (tr), tüylü top
• Ukrainian: бадмінто́н m (badmintón)
• Vietnamese: cầu lông
• Welsh: badminton m
• Zhuang: yijmauzgiuz

Further reading

• badminton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:badminton on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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Czech

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

1. badminton

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Danish

Etymology

From English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /badməntɔn/, [ˈb̥ad̥məntˢʌn]

Noun

badminton c

1. badminton

Declension

Declension of badminton

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	badminton	badmintonen	badminton	badmintonene
genitive	badmintons	badmintonens	badmintons	badmintonenes

References

• “badminton” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛt.mɪnˌtɔn/, /ˈbɛt.mɪnˌtən/
• Hyphenation: bad‧min‧ton

Noun

badminton n (uncountable)

1. badminton

Derived terms

• badmintonnen

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Faroese

Etymology

From English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpat.mɪn.tʰɔn]

Noun

badminton n (genitive singular badmintons, uncountable)

1. badminton

Declension

Declension of badminton (singular only)
n3s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	badminton	badmintonið
accusative	badminton	badmintonið
dative	badmintoni	badmintoninum
genitive	badmintons	badmintonsins

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French

Etymology

From English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bad.min.tɔn/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio:

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Noun

badminton m (uncountable)

1. badminton

Further reading

• “badminton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m (uncountable)

1. badminton

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m (definite singular badmintonen, uncountable)

1. (sports) badminton

Derived terms

• badmintonbane
• badmintonspiller

References

• “badminton” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m (definite singular badmintonen, uncountable)

1. (sports) badminton

Derived terms

• badmintonbane

References

• “badminton” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /badˈmin.tɔn/

• audio:

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Noun

1. badminton

Declension

Declension of badminton

	singular
nominative	badminton
genitive	badmintona
dative	badmintonowi
accusative	badmintona
instrumental	badmintonem
locative	badmintonie
vocative	badmintonie

Derived terms

• (nouns) badmintonista, badmintonistka
• (adjective) badmintonowy

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• badmínton

Etymology

From English badminton.

Noun

badminton m (uncountable)

1. badminton

Further reading

• Template:R:Priberam

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Noun

bádmintón, badmintón

1. badminton