ballon
See also: Ballon
English
Etymology
Noun
ballon (usually uncountable, plural ballons)
- (ballet) The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
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See also
- Ballon (ballet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch ballon, from French ballon.
Pronunciation
Noun
ballon (plural ballons or ballonne)
Derived terms
Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
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
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 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
Noun
ballon m (plural ballonnen or ballons, diminutive ballonnetje n)
- balloon
- hot-air balloon
- Synonym: heteluchtballon
Derived terms
- ballonoptocht
- ballonvaarder
- ballonvaart
- heliumballon
- heteluchtballon
- luchtballon
- meetballon
- proefballon
- tekstballon
- een ballonnetje oplaten
- waterballon
Related terms
Descendants
French
Etymology
From Middle French ballon.
Pronunciation
Noun
ballon m (plural ballons)
Derived terms
- ballon à air chaud
- ballon à gaz
- ballon cerf-volant
- ballon d’oxygène
- ballon dirigeable
- ballon-pilote
- ballon-satellite
- ballon-sonde
- ballonnet
- crever un ballon
- faire ballon
Descendants
- → Albanian: balonë
- → Alemannic German: Balung
- → Arabic: بالون (bālūn)
- → Bulgarian: балон (balon)
- → Bwatoo: balo
- → Catalan: baló
- → Czech: balón
- → Danish: ballon
- → Greenlandic: ballonngi
- → Dutch: ballon
- → English: ballon
- → Greek: μπαλόνι (balóni)
- → Hausa: balan
- → Kurdish: balon
- → Latvian: balons
- → Lithuanian: balionas
- → Macedonian: балон (balon)
- → Norwegian: ballong
- → Persian: بالون (bâlon)
- → Portuguese: balão
- → Romanian: balon
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: balón
- → Slovene: balon
- → Swedish: ballong
- → Turkish: balon
See also
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)
- large ball
Descendants
- French: ballon (see there for further descendants)
- → English: balloon (see there for further descendants)
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
Verb
ballon
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