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Ballon

Ballon

See also: ballon

German

Noun

Ballon m (genitive Ballons, plural Ballons)

  1. balloon

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Declension

References

  1. compare to "Wissenschaftlicher Rat der Dudenredaktion" (publisher): Duden, Deutsches Universalwörterbuch. 6. edition. Duden press, Mannheim/Leipzig/Vienna/Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-05506-7, page 243

ballon

ballon

See also: Ballon

English

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”, in Moscow Classical Ballet:
      Tall and slender, with a superb ballon and effortless flight in air, Malakhov [] will unquestionably have an extraordinary career.

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Danish

ballon

Etymology

From French ballon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /balɔnɡ/, [b̥aˈlʌŋ]

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


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

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

  1. balloon

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French

des ballons (definition 3 - round-bottomed flask)

Etymology

From Middle French ballon from Northern Italian bal(l)one (compare Italian pallone (large ball)) from palla (ball), from Lombardic *palla (ball), perhaps influenced by the earlier Northern Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Frankish balla, both from Proto-Germanic *ballô (ball), *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bholn- (bubble), from Proto-Indo-European *bhel- (to blow, swell, inflate). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (ball) (German Ballen (bale); Ball (ball)). More at ball.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.lɔ̃/
  • Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)

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

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Middle French

Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)

  1. large ball

Northern Sami

Verb

ballon

  1. first-person singular imperative of ballat