ballon
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French ballon. Doublet of balloon.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ballon (usually uncountable, plural ballons)
- (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.
See also
[edit]Ballon (ballet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch ballon, from French ballon.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ballon (plural ballons or ballonne)
Derived terms
[edit]Albanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]ballon m (plural ballona)
- Alternative form of balonë f
References
[edit]- Mann, S. E. (1948) “ballon”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 19a
Danish
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Balloon_arch.jpg/220px-Balloon_arch.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ballon c (singular definite ballonen, plural indefinite balloner)
- balloon (inflatable object)
- bulb
- carboy, demijohn (large bottle)
- (ballet, singular only) ballon (the quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of ballon
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ballon | ballonen | balloner | ballonerne |
genitive | ballons | ballonens | balloners | ballonernes |
Descendants
[edit]- → Greenlandic: ballonngi
Further reading
[edit]- “ballon” in Den Danske Ordbog
ballon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French ballon. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ballon m (plural ballonnen or ballons, diminutive ballonnetje n)
- balloon
- De kinderen lieten een ballon op tijdens het feest.
- The children released a balloon during the party.
- hot-air balloon
- Synonym: heteluchtballon
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]French
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Verrerie-p1030896.jpg/220px-Verrerie-p1030896.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French ballon. Doublet of balloune.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ballon m (plural ballons)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]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
- → English: 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
- → Persian: بالون (bâlon)
- → Portuguese: balão
- → Romanian: balon
- → Russian: баллон (ballon)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: balón
- → Slovene: balon
- → Swedish: ballong
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ballon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From northern Italian balone, ballone; compare standard pallone.
Noun
[edit]ballon m (plural ballons)
- large ball
Descendants
[edit]- French: ballon (see there for further descendants)
- → English: balloon (see there for further descendants)
Northern Sami
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ballon
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