bullfighting

See also: bull-fighting

English

Alternative forms

• bull-fighting

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “given origins of the sport from Spain there must be something better than this surface analysis”) From bull +‎ fighting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊlˌfaɪ.tɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: bull‧fight‧ing

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

bullfighting (usually uncountable, plural bullfightings)

1. A traditional spectacle, popular in Spain and many former Spanish colonies, in which a matador manipulates and ultimately kills a bull at close range.
   • 2007, Wikipedia:Cattle:

     In Portugal, Spain, Southern France and some Latin American countries, bulls are used in the sport of bullfighting.

Synonyms

• tauromachy (formal), bullfight

Derived terms

• antibullfighting

 

Translations

spectacle of manipulating and killing a bull — see also bullfight

• Afrikaans: stiergeveg
• Arabic: مُصَارَعَة ثِيرَانٍ f (muṣāraʕat ṯīrānin)
• Armenian: ցլամարտ (hy) (cʻlamart)
• Azerbaijani: öküz döyüşü
• Basque: tauromakia
• Bulgarian: бикоборство n (bikoborstvo)
• Catalan: tauromàquia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公牛戰鬥／公牛战斗 (gōngniú zhàndòu), 鬥牛／斗牛 (zh) (dòuniú)

• Dutch: stierenvechten n
• Estonian: härjavõitlus
• Finnish: härkätaistelu (fi)
• French: tauromachie (fr) f, corrida (fr) f
• Galician: toureo m, tauromaquia (gl) f, corrida de touros (gl) f
• Georgian: კორიდა (ḳorida), ხარების ბრძოლა (xarebis brʒola)
• German: Stierkampf (de)
• Greek: ταυρομαχία (el) (tavromachía)
• Hebrew: מלחמת שוורים f (milkhemet shvarym)
• Hungarian: bikaviadal (hu)
• Italian: toromachia f, corrida (it) f
• Japanese: 闘牛 (ja) (とうぎゅう, tōgyū), 雄牛の戦い (おうしのたたかい, oushi-no tatakai)
• Korean: 황소 싸움 (hwangso ssaum)
• Latin: tauromachia f
• Maltese: ġlieda tat-toru
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tyrefekting m or f, tyrefektning m or f

  Nynorsk: tyrefekting f

• Persian: گاوبازی (fa) (gâvbâzi)
• Polish: korrida (pl) f
• Portuguese: tauromaquia (pt) f, tourada (pt) f, corrida de touros f
• Romanian: coridă (ro) f
• Russian: бой быко́в (ru) m (boj bykóv), корри́да (ru) f (korrída)
• Spanish: toreo (es) m, tauromaquia (es) f, corrida de toros f
• Swedish: tjurfäktning (sv) c
• Turkish: boğa güreşi (tr)
• Vietnamese: đấu bò

See also

• Wikipedia article on bullfighting