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. For the house name, see Badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæd.mɪn.tən/, /ˈbæd.mɪt.ən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

badminton (countable and uncountable, plural badmintons)

1. (uncountable) 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.
   • 2012 August 1, Peter Walker, Haroon Siddique, “Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games'”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 August 2024:

     Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.

2. (countable) A cooling summer drink made with claret, sugar, and soda water.

Synonyms

• (sport): badders (UK, informal)

Derived terms

• badminton ball
• badminton court
• badmintonist
• badminton player
• badminton racket
• badminton racquet
• para-badminton

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)
• Betawi: tepok bulu
• Bulgarian: бадминто́н m (badmintón)
• Catalan: bàdminton (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 羽毛球 (jyu⁵ mou⁴ kau⁴)

  Mandarin: 羽毛球 (zh) (yǔmáoqiú)

• Czech: badminton (cs) m
• Danish: badminton (da) c
• Dusun:

  Central Dusun: badminton

• Esperanto: badmintono, volanludo
• Estonian: sulgpall
• Faroese: badminton n
• Finnish: sulkapallo (fi)
• French: badminton (fr) m
• Galician: bádminton (gl) m
• German: Badminton (de) n, Federball (de) m
• Greek: αντιπτέριση (el) (antiptérisi)
• Hindi: चिड़ी छ्क्का (ciṛī chkkā)
• Hungarian: tollaslabda (hu)
• Icelandic: badminton (is) n, hnit (is)
• Indonesian: bulu tangkis (id)
• Italian: badminton m
• Japanese: バドミントン (ja) (badominton), 羽球 (ja) (ukyū)
• Korean: 배드민턴 (ko) (baedeuminteon), 바드민톤 (badeuminton) (North Korea)
• Latvian: badmintons m
• Lithuanian: badmintonas (lt) m
• Macedonian: бадминтон m (badminton)
• Malay: badminton
• Naga:

  Khiamniungan Naga: vēukōisīuh-îe

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: badminton m

  Nynorsk: badminton m

• Persian: بدمینتون (fa) (badminton)
• Polish: badminton (pl) m
• Portuguese: badminton (pt) m, badmínton (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਚਿੜੀ-ਛਿੱਕਾ (ciṛī-chikkā)
• Romanian: badminton (ro) n
• Russian: бадминто́н (ru) m (badmintón)
• Slovak: bedminton (sk) m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: pjerobul m

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

Further reading

• badminton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:badminton on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Mills, A.D., A Dictionary of English Place Names, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛdmɪnton]

Noun

badminton m inan

1. badminton

Declension

Declension of badminton (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	badminton	badmintony
genitive	badmintonu	badmintonů
dative	badmintonu	badmintonům
accusative	badminton	badmintony
vocative	badmintone	badmintony
locative	badmintonu	badmintonech
instrumental	badmintonem	badmintony

Further reading

• “badminton”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “badminton”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From English badminton.

Pronunciation

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

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛt.mɪnˌtɔn/, /ˈbɛt.mɪnˌtən/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bad‧min‧ton

Noun

badminton n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. badminton

Derived terms

• badmintonnen
• badmintonracket
• badmintonspeler

Faroese

Etymology

From English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpat.mɪn.tʰɔn]

Noun

badminton n (genitive singular badmintons, uncountable)

1. badminton

Declension

n3s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	badminton	badmintonið
accusative	badminton	badmintonið
dative	badmintoni	badmintoninum
genitive	badmintons	badmintonsins

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bad.min.tɔn/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Paris)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

badminton m (invariable)

1. badminton

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• (English-based) IPA^(key): /bedˈmintən/ [bɛt̪̚ˈmin̪.t̪ən]

• (Literary Standard) IPA^(key): /badˈminton/ [bat̪̚ˈmin̪.t̪on]
• Rhymes: -tən, -ən

Noun

badminton (Jawi spelling بدمينتون, uncountable)

1. the sport of badminton

   Synonyms: bulu tangkis (rare), bola tangkis (rare)

Further reading

• "badminton" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "badminton" at PRPM first version)

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.

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.

Polish

Alternative forms

• (proscribed) babington, (proscribed) badmington

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbad.min.tɔn/, /badˈmin.tɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -admintɔn, -intɔn
• Syllabification: bad‧min‧ton

Noun

badminton m animal (related adjective badmintonowy)

1. (uncountable) badminton (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)

   Synonym: kometka

2. (countable) badminton equipment

Declension

Declension of badminton

	singular	plural
nominative	badminton	badmintony
genitive	badmintona	badmintonów
dative	badmintonowi	badmintonom
accusative	badmintona	badmintony
instrumental	badmintonem	badmintonami
locative	badmintonie	badmintonach
vocative	badmintonie	badmintony

Derived terms

nouns

• badmintonista
• badmintonistka

Further reading

• “badminton”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “badminton”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• badminton in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /be.d͡ʒiˈmĩ.tõ/, /bed͡ʒˈmĩ.tõ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨdˈmĩ.tɔn/ [bɨðˈmĩ.tɔn]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨdˈmĩ.tɔn/ [bɨðˈmĩ.tɔn]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨdˈmĩ.tɔn/

• Hyphenation: bad‧min‧ton

Noun

badminton m (uncountable)

1. alternative form of badmínton

Further reading

• “badminton”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English badminton or French badminton.

Noun

badminton n (uncountable)

1. badminton

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	badminton	badmintonul
genitive-dative	badminton	badmintonului
vocative	badmintonule

Swedish

Noun

badminton c

1. badminton (sport)

Declension

Declension of badminton

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	badminton	badmintons
	definite	badmintonen	badmintonens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

• badmintonbana
• badmintonboll
• badmintonnät
• badmintonracket

See also

• fjäderboll

References

• “badminton”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “badminton”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbadminton/ [ˌbad̪.mɪn̪ˈt̪on̪], /badminˈton/ [bɐd̪.mɪn̪ˈt̪on̪]
• Rhymes: -adminton, -on
• Syllabification: bad‧min‧ton

Noun

bádmintón or badmintón (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇ᜔ᜋᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓᜈ᜔)

1. badminton

Derived terms

• magbadminton

Turkish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English badminton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛd.min.t(ɯ)n/

Noun

badminton (definite accusative badmintonı, uncountable)

1. badminton

Declension

Declension of badminton

	singular	plural
nominative	badminton	badmintonlar
definite accusative	badmintonı	badmintonları
dative	badmintona	badmintonlara
locative	badmintonda	badmintonlarda
ablative	badmintondan	badmintonlardan
genitive	badmintonın	badmintonların