ballon

See also: Ballon and ballón

English

Etymology

From French ballon. Doublet of balloon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈlɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

ballon (usually uncountable, plural ballons)

1. (ballet) The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
   • 1988 November 18, Dorothy Samachson, “Moscow Classical Ballet”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Tall and slender, with a superb ballon and effortless flight in air, Malakhov […] will unquestionably have an extraordinary career.

2. (countable) Synonym of balloon (“type of glass for wine etc”).

See also

• Ballon (ballet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• no ball

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch ballon, from French ballon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈlɔn/

Noun

ballon (plural ballons or ballonne)

1. balloon

Derived terms

• ballonvaarder
• ballonvaart
• lugballon
• warmlugballon

Albanian

Noun

ballon m (plural ballona)

1. alternative form of balonë f

References

• Mann, S. E. (1948), “ballon”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 19a

Danish

ballon

Etymology

From French ballon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /balɔnɡ/, [b̥æˈlʌŋ]

Noun

ballon c (singular definite ballonen, plural indefinite balloner)

1. balloon (inflatable object)
2. bulb
3. carboy, demijohn (large bottle)
4. (ballet, singular only) ballon (the quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair)

Inflection

Declension of ballon

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ballon	ballonen	balloner	ballonerne
genitive	ballons	ballonens	balloners	ballonernes

Descendants

• → Greenlandic: ballonngi

Further reading

• “ballon” in Den Danske Ordbog
• ballon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballon. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑˈlɔn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bal‧lon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

ballon m (plural ballonnen or ballons, diminutive ballonnetje n)

1. balloon

   De kinderen lieten een ballon op tijdens het feest.

   The children released a balloon during the party.

2. hot-air balloon

   Synonym: heteluchtballon

Derived terms

• ballonoptocht
• ballonvaarder
• ballonvaart
• een ballonnetje oplaten
• heliumballon
• heteluchtballon
• luchtballon
• meetballon
• proefballon
• tekstballon
• waterballon

Related terms

• bal
• ballonet

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ballon
• → Makasar: balòng
• → Indonesian: balon
• → Papiamentu: balòn

French

des ballons (definition 3 - round-bottomed flask)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French ballon. Doublet of balloune.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.lɔ̃/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)

1. (inflatable) ball
   1. beachball
2. balloon
3. (chemistry) round-bottom flask

Derived terms

• ballon à air chaud
• ballon à gaz
• ballon cerf-volant
• ballon de baudruche
• ballon d'essai
• ballon dirigeable
• ballon d'oxygène
• ballon rond
• ballon-chasseur
• ballon-pilote
• ballon-satellite
• ballon-sonde
• ballonnet
• crever un ballon
• faire ballon

Descendants

Descendants

• → Albanian: balonë
• → Alemannic German: Balung
• → Arabic: بالون (bālūn)
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܵܠܘܿܢܵܐ (bālōnā)
• → Bulgarian: балон (balon)
• → Bwatoo: balo
• → Catalan: baló
• → Czech: balón
• → Danish: ballon
  • → Greenlandic: ballonngi
• → Dutch: ballon
  • Afrikaans: ballon
  • → Makasar: balòng
  • → Indonesian: balon
  • → Papiamentu: balòn
• → English: ballon
• → German: Ballon
• → Greek: μπαλόνι (balóni)
• → Hausa: balan
• → Northern Kurdish: balon
• → Latvian: balons
• → Lithuanian: balionas
• → Macedonian: балон (balon)
• → Norwegian: ballong
• → Ottoman Turkish: بالون (balon), պալօն (balon) — Armeno-Turkish
  • → Armenian: պալօն (palōn)
  • Turkish: balon
• → Persian: بالون (bâlon)
• → Portuguese: balão
• → Romanian: balon
• → Russian: баллон (ballon)
  • → Armenian: բալոն (balon)
  • → Georgian: ბალონი (baloni)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: балон

  Latin script: balon

• → Slovak: balón
• → Slovene: balon
• → Swedish: ballong

See also

• balle

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From northern Italian balone, ballone; compare standard pallone.

Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)

1. large ball

Descendants

• French: ballon (see there for further descendants)
• → English: balloon (see there for further descendants)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpallon/

Verb

ballon

1. first-person singular imperative of ballat