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==English== |
==English== |
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[[File:Sorry, Andrea – so unflattering, I know (29616725232).jpg|thumb|'''tennis''' player]] |
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{{commons}} |
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{{wikipedia}} |
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===Etymology=== |
===Etymology=== |
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From {{inh|en|enm|tennys}}, {{m|enm|teneys}}, {{m|enm|tenis}}, from {{der|en|fro|tenez|pos=second-person plural imperative of {{m|fro|tenir|t=to hold}}}}. |
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===Pronunciation=== |
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* {{IPA|en|/ˈtɛnɪs/}} |
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** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tennis.wav|a=Southern England}} |
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* {{rhymes|en|ɛnɪs|s=2}} |
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* {{homophones|en|tenness}} |
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===Noun=== |
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{{en-noun|-|+}} |
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'''tennis''' |
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# {{senseid|en|Q847}}{{lb|en|sports}} A sport played by two players (or four in [[doubles]]), who alternately strike the ball over a net using [[racquet]]s. |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1935|author=[https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/288354.George_Goodchild George Goodchild] |
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|title=Death on the Centre Court|chapter=1 |
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|passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that '''tennis''' bloke{{...}}whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”}} |
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# {{lb|en|dated}} A [[match]] in this sport. |
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#* {{quote-text|en|year=1918|author=w:Violet Hunt|title=The Last Ditch|page=95 |
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|passage=We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and '''tennises'''{{...}}}} |
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# {{lb|en|obsolete}} An earlier game in which a ball is driven [[to and fro]], or kept in motion by striking it with a [[racquet]] or with the [[open]] [[hand]]. |
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#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5|passage= '''tennis'''-balls}} |
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#* {{RQ:Macaulay History of England|chapter=11|passage=His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing '''tennis''', {{...}} were familiar to all London.}} |
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====Derived terms==== |
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{{der3|en|court tennis|paddle tennis|platform tennis|ring tennis|royal tennis|soft tennis|table tennis table|telly tennis|tennis bracelet|tennis club|tennis dress|tennis polo|tennis shirt|tennis shoe|tennis wear|tennis-racket|text tennis|tonsil tennis|totem tennis |
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{{top}} |
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|football tennis|anti-tennis|squash tennis|wheelchair tennis |
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*Arabic: {{ARchar|[[تنس]]}} {{Unicode|(tínis)}} {{m}} |
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|lawn tennis |
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|real tennis |
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*Chinese: [[网球]] (wăngqiú) |
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|table tennis |
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|tennis ball |
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|tennis court |
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|tennis elbow |
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*German: [[Tennis]] {{n}} |
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|tennis player |
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*Hebrew: [[טניס]] (tenis) {{m}} |
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|tennis racket |
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*Hungarian: [[tenisz]] |
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|tennis racquet}} |
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*Indonesian: [[tenis]] |
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====Descendants==== |
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*[[Interlingua]]: tennis |
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{{top4}} |
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*Italian: tennis {{m}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|hy|թենիս}} |
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*Japanese: [[テニス]] (tenisu) |
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* {{desc|bor=1|ar|تِنِس}} |
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*Korean: [[테니스]] (teniseu) |
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* {{desc|bor=1|ast|tenis}} |
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*Polish: [[tenis ziemny]] {{m}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|eu|tenis}} |
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*Portuguese: [[tênis]] {{m}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|my|တင်းနစ်}} |
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*Russian: [[теннис]] (ténnis) {{m}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|ca|tennis}} |
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*Spanish: [[tenis]] {{m}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|cs|tenis}} |
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*Swedish: tennis |
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* {{desc|bor=1|da|tennis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|nl|tennis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|fi|tennis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|fr|tennis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|gl|tenis}} |
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* {{desctree|de|Tennis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|el|τένις}} |
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* {{desc|bor|bor=1|el|τένις}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|he|טניס|tr=ténis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|hi|टेनिस}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|hu|tenisz}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|is|tennis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|it|tennis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|ja|テニス|tr=tenisu}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|ko|테니스}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|lv|teniss}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|lb|Tennis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|ms|tenis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|kmr|tenîs}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|no|-}} {{l|nb|tennis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|fa|تنیس|tr=tenis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|pl|tenis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|pt|ténis|alts=1}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|ro|tenis}} |
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* {{desctree|bor=1|ru|те́ннис}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|gd|teanas}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|sh|ténis}} / {{l|sh|те́нис}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|sl|tenis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|es|tenis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|sw|tenisi}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|sv|tennis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|te|టెన్నిసు|టెన్నిస్}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|th|เทนนิส}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|tr|tenis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|uk|те́ніс}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|uz|tennis}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|wa|tenisse}} |
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* {{desc|bor=1|yi|טעניס}} |
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====Translations==== |
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{{trans-top|sport played by two or four players with strung racquets}} |
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*[[lawn tennis]] |
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* Afrikaans: {{t+|af|tennis}} |
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* Albanian: {{t+|sq|tenis|m}} |
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*[[royal tennis]] |
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* Amharic: {{t|am|ተኒስ|sc=Ethi}} |
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*[[table tennis]] |
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* Arabic: {{t|ar|تَنِس|m}}, {{t|ar|تِنِس|m}}, {{t|ar|كُرَةُ المَضْرِب|f}}, {{t|ar|كُرَةُ المِضْرَب|f}} |
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*[[tennis elbow]] |
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*: Gulf Arabic: {{t|afb|تنس|tr=tinis}} |
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*[[tennis racquet]] |
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*: Hijazi Arabic: {{t|acw|تِنِس|m|tr=tinis}} |
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*[[tennis ball]] |
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* Armenian: {{t+|hy|թենիս}} |
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* Asturian: {{t|ast|tenis|m}} |
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* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|tennis}} |
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* Bashkir: {{t|ba|теннис|sc=Cyrl}} |
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* Bavarian: {{t|bar|Tennis}} |
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* Belarusian: {{t|be|тэ́ніс|m|sc=Cyrl}} |
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* Bengali: {{t+|bn|টেনিস|sc=Beng}} |
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* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|те́нис|m|sc=Cyrl}} |
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* Burmese: {{t|my|တင်းနစ်|sc=Mymr}} |
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* Carpathian Rusyn: {{t|rue|те́ніс|m|sc=Cyrl}} |
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* Catalan: {{t+|ca|tennis|m}} |
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* Chinese: |
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*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|網球|tr=mong5 kau4}} |
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*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|網球|tr=wǎngqiú}} |
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* Czech: {{t+|cs|tenis|m}} |
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* Danish: {{t+|da|tennis|c}} |
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* Dutch: {{t+|nl|tennis|n}} |
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* Esperanto: {{t|eo|teniso}} |
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* Estonian: {{t+|et|tennis}} |
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* Finnish: {{t+|fi|tennis}} |
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* French: {{t+|fr|tennis|m}} |
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* Galician: {{t+|gl|tenis|m}} |
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* Georgian: {{t+|ka|ჩოგბურთი|sc=Geor}} |
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* German: {{t+|de|Tennis|n}} |
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* Greek: {{t+|el|αντισφαίριση|f}}, {{t+|el|τένις|n}} {{qualifier|colloquial}} |
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* Gujarati: {{t|gu|ટેનિસ|sc=Gujr}} |
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* Hausa: {{t|ha|tanis|m|alt=tanìs}} |
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* Hebrew: {{t+|he|טֶנִיס|m|tr=tenis}} |
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* Hindi: {{t+|hi|टेनिस|sc=Deva}} |
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* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|tenisz}} |
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* Icelandic: {{t+|is|tennis|m}} |
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* Indonesian: {{t+|id|tenis}} |
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* Interlingua: {{t|ia|tennis}} |
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* Irish: {{t+|ga|leadóg|f}} |
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* Italian: {{t+|it|tennis|m}} |
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* Japanese: {{t+|ja|テニス|tr=tenisu}}, {{t+|ja|庭球|tr=teikyū|sc=Jpan}} |
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* Kannada: {{t|kn|ಟೆನ್ನಿಸ್|sc=Knda}} |
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* Kazakh: {{t|kk|теннис|sc=Cyrl}} |
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* Khmer: {{t|km|តែន្និស|tr=taennih|sc=Khmr}} |
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* Korean: {{t+|ko|테니스}}, {{t+|ko|정구(庭球)}} |
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* Kurdish: |
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*: Northern Kurdish: {{t+|kmr|tenîs}} |
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* Kyrgyz: {{t|ky|теннис|sc=Cyrl}} |
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* Lao: {{t|lo|ເຕັນນິສ}}, {{t|lo|ເທນນິດ}}, {{t|lo|ເທັນນິດ}} |
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* Latin: {{t|la|tenisia|f}} |
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* Latvian: {{t+|lv|teniss|m}} |
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* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|tenisas|m}} |
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* Macedonian: {{t|mk|те́нис|m|sc=Cyrl}} |
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* Malay: {{t|ms|tenis}} |
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* Malayalam: {{t|ml|ടെന്നീസ്|sc=Mlym}} |
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* Maltese: {{t|mt|tenis}} |
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* Marathi: {{t|mr|टेनिस|sc=Deva}} |
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* Mongolian: |
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*: Cyrillic: {{t|mn|теннис}} |
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* Navajo: {{t|nv|jooł ałchʼįʼ abínídzílghałí}} |
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* Nepali: {{t|ne|टेनिस}} |
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* Norwegian: |
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*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|tennis|m}} |
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*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|tennis|m}} |
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* Palauan: {{t|pau|tenis}} |
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* Pashto: {{t|ps|تېنس|m|tr=tenís}}, {{t+|ps|ټېنس|m|tr=ṭenés}} |
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* Persian: {{t+|fa|تنیس|tr=tenis}} |
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* Polish: {{t|pl|tenis ziemny|m-an}}, {{t+|pl|tenis|m-an}}, {{t|pl|biały sport|m}} {{qualifier|literary}} |
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* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|tênis|m}}, {{t+|pt|ténis|m}} |
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* Punjabi: {{t|pa|ਖਿੱਦੋ-ਛਿੱਕਾ}}, {{t|pa|ਗੇਂਦ-ਛਿੱਕਾ}} |
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* Romanian: {{t+|ro|tenis|n}} |
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* Russian: {{t+|ru|те́ннис|m|tr=tɛ́nnis}} |
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* Sanskrit: {{t|sa|लानम्}} |
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* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|teanas|m}} |
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* Serbo-Croatian: |
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*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|те́нис|m|sc=Cyrl}} |
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*: Roman: {{t+|sh|ténis|m}} |
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* Sinhalese: {{t|si|ටෙනිස්|sc=Sinh}} |
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* Slovak: {{t+|sk|tenis|m}} |
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* Slovene: {{t+|sl|ténis|m}} |
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* Spanish: {{t+|es|tenis|m}} |
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* Swahili: {{t|sw|tenisi}} |
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* Swedish: {{t+|sv|tennis|c}} |
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* Tagalog: {{t|tl|tenis}} |
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* Tajik: {{t+|tg|теннис|sc=Cyrl}} |
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* Tamil: {{t|ta|வரிப்பந்தாட்டம்}}, {{t|ta|வலைப்பந்து|sc=Taml}} |
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* Tatar: {{t|tt|теннис|sc=Cyrl}} |
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* Telugu: {{t|te|టెన్నిస్|sc=Telu}} |
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* Thai: {{t+|th|เทนนิส}} |
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* Tibetan: {{t|bo|ཏན་ནེ་སི་སྤོ་ལོ།|sc=Tibt}} |
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* Tigrinya: {{t|ti|ተኒስ|sc=Ethi}} |
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* Turkish: {{t+|tr|tenis}} |
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* Turkmen: {{t|tk|tennis}} |
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* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|те́ніс|m|sc=Cyrl}} |
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* Urdu: {{t|ur|ٹینس|tr=ṭenis|sc=ur-Arab}} |
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* Uyghur: {{t|ug|چويلا توپ|sc=ug-Arab}}, {{t|ug|تېننىس}} |
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* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|tennis}} |
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* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|quần vợt}}, {{t|vi|ten-nít}} |
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* Walloon: {{t+|wa|tenisse|m}} |
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* Yiddish: {{t|yi|טעניס|n|sc=Hebr}} |
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===Verb=== |
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{{en-verb}} |
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# {{lb|en|intransitive|dated}} To play tennis. |
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# {{lb|en|transitive}} To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball. |
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#* {{RQ:Spenser Ireland |
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|passage=they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and '''tennis''' him amongst them}} |
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===See also=== |
===See also=== |
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*[[ping pong]] |
* {{l|en|table tennis}} or [[ping pong]] |
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===Anagrams=== |
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* {{anagrams|en|a=einnst|innest|nestin|sennit|sinnet|tensin}} |
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{{C|en|Tennis}} |
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==Catalan== |
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===Alternative forms=== |
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* {{alt|ca|tenis}} |
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===Etymology=== |
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{{bor+|ca|en|tennis}}. |
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===Pronunciation=== |
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* {{ca-IPA|è}}<!-- per GDLC, DNV; pronun (under [[tenis]]) not in DCVB --> |
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===Noun=== |
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{{ca-noun|m|-}} |
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# {{l|en|tennis}} |
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===Further reading=== |
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* {{R:ca:IEC2}} |
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* {{R:ca:GDLC}} |
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* {{R:ca:DNV}} |
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{{C|ca|Sports}} |
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==Danish== |
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{{wikipedia|lang=da}} |
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===Etymology=== |
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From {{bor|da|en|tennis}}. |
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===Noun=== |
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{{head|da|noun|g=c|definite singular|tennissen|or|tennisen}} |
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# {{lb|da|uncountable|sports}} {{l|en|tennis}} |
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====Derived terms==== |
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* {{l|da|tennisbane}} |
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* {{l|da|tennisbold}} |
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* {{l|da|tennisketsjer}} |
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===Further reading=== |
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* {{R:DDO}} |
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==Dutch== |
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===Pronunciation=== |
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* {{IPA|nl|/ˈtɛ.nɪs/|/ˈtɛ.nəs/}} |
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* {{audio|nl|Nl-tennis.ogg}} |
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* {{hyphenation|nl|ten|nis}} |
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* {{rhymes|nl|ɛnɪs|s=2}} |
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===Etymology 1=== |
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Borrowed from {{bor|nl|en|tennis}}. |
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====Noun==== |
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{{nl-noun|n|-|-}} |
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# {{l|en|tennis}} {{gloss|sport}} |
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* {{l|nl|rolstoeltennis}} |
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* {{l|nl|tafeltennis}} |
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* {{l|nl|tennisarm}} |
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* {{l|nl|tennisbaan}} |
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* {{l|nl|tennisnet}} |
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* {{l|nl|tennisracket}} |
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* {{l|nl|tennissen}} |
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* {{l|nl|tennisspeelster}} |
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* {{l|nl|tennisspeler}} |
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* {{l|nl|tennisveld}} |
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===Etymology 2=== |
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{{nonlemma}} |
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====Verb==== |
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{{head|nl|verb form}} |
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# {{infl of|nl|tennissen||bare-verb}} |
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===Anagrams=== |
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* {{l|nl|intens}} |
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==Estonian== |
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===Etymology=== |
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From {{bor|et|de|Tennis}}.{{dercat|et|en|fro}} |
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===Noun=== |
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{{et-noun|tennise|tennist}} |
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# {{l|en|tennis}} |
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{{topics|et|Sports}} |
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==Finnish== |
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===Etymology=== |
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From {{bor|fi|en|tennis}}. |
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===Pronunciation=== |
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{{fi-pronunciation}} |
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===Noun=== |
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{{head|fi|noun}} |
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# [[#English|tennis]] |
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====Declension==== |
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{{fi-decl-vastaus|tenni|ä}} |
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====Synonyms==== |
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* {{l|fi|verkkopallo}} {{qualifier|dated}} |
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====Derived terms==== |
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{{col-auto|fi|title=compounds |
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|minitennis |
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|pyörätuolitennis |
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|pöytätennis |
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|salkotennis |
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|tenniksenopettaja |
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|tenniksenpelaaja |
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|tennisasu |
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|tennishalli |
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|tenniskenkä |
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|tenniskenttä |
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|tenniskyynärpää |
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|tennismaila |
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|tennisottelu |
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|tennispaita |
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|tennispallo |
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|tennispelaaja |
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|tennissukka |
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|tennistossu |
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|tennistunti |
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|tennisturnaus |
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}} |
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===Further reading=== |
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* {{R:KTSK|accessdate=2023-07-03}} |
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{{C|fi|Sports}} |
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==French== |
==French== |
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===Etymology=== |
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{{bor+|fr|en|tennis}}. |
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===Pronunciation=== |
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* {{fr-IPA|[s:s_]}} |
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* {{audio|fr|Fr-tennis.ogg}} |
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===Noun=== |
===Noun=== |
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{{fr-noun|m}} |
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'''tennis''' {{m}} |
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# tennis |
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# {{lb|fr|usually|_|uncountable|sports}} {{l|en|tennis}} |
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# {{lb|fr|countable|Europe|dated}} [[sneaker]] |
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====Derived terms==== |
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* {{l|fr|tennis de table}} |
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===Further reading=== |
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* {{R:fr:TLFi}} |
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==Icelandic== |
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===Pronunciation=== |
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* {{is-IPA}} |
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* {{rhymes|is|ɛnːɪs}} |
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===Noun=== |
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{{is-noun|m|tenniss|-}} |
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# {{l|en|tennis}} |
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====Declension==== |
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{{is-decl-noun-m-s1|tenn|i|s|pl=-}} |
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====Derived terms==== |
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* {{l|is|tennisolnbogi}} |
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* {{l|is|tennisspaði}} |
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===Anagrams=== |
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* {{l|is|steinn}} |
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==Italian== |
==Italian== |
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===Etymology=== |
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{{bor+|it|en|tennis}}. |
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===Pronunciation=== |
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{{it-pr|tènnis}} |
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===Noun=== |
===Noun=== |
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{{it-noun|m|#}} |
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'''tennis''' {{m}} |
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# tennis |
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# {{l|en|tennis}} |
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====Related terms==== |
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* {{l|it|tennistavolo}} |
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* {{l|it|tennista}} |
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* {{l|it|tennistico}} |
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===Further reading=== |
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* {{R:it:Treccani}} |
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{{C|it|Sports}} |
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==Norwegian Bokmål== |
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{{wikipedia|lang=no}} |
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===Noun=== |
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{{head|nb|noun|g=m|definite singular|tennisen}} {{lb|nb|uncountable}} |
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# {{lb|nb|sports}} {{l|en|tennis}} |
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====Derived terms==== |
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* {{l|nb|bordtennis}} |
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Latest revision as of 12:57, 27 September 2024
See also: Tennis
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)
- (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
- “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke […] whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
- (dated) A match in this sport.
- 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch, page 95:
- We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises […]
- (obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- tennis-balls
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.
Derived terms
[edit]- anti-tennis
- court tennis
- football tennis
- lawn tennis
- paddle tennis
- platform tennis
- real tennis
- ring tennis
- royal tennis
- soft tennis
- squash tennis
- table tennis
- table tennis table
- telly tennis
- tennis ball
- tennis bracelet
- tennis club
- tennis court
- tennis dress
- tennis elbow
- tennis player
- tennis polo
- tennis-racket
- tennis racket
- tennis racquet
- tennis shirt
- tennis shoe
- tennis wear
- text tennis
- tonsil tennis
- totem tennis
- wheelchair tennis
Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: թենիս (tʻenis)
- → Arabic: تِنِس (tinis)
- → Asturian: tenis
- → Basque: tenis
- → Burmese: တင်းနစ် (tang:nac)
- → Catalan: tennis
- → Czech: tenis
- → Danish: tennis
- → Dutch: tennis
- → Finnish: tennis
- → French: tennis
- → Galician: tenis
- German: Tennis
- → Estonian: tennis
- → Greek: τένις (ténis)
- → Borôro: el, τένις
- → Hebrew: טניס (ténis)
- → Hindi: टेनिस (ṭenis)
- → Hungarian: tenisz
- → Icelandic: tennis
- → Italian: tennis
- → Japanese: テニス (tenisu)
- → Korean: 테니스 (teniseu)
- → Latvian: teniss
- → Luxembourgish: Tennis
- → Malay: tenis
- → Northern Kurdish: tenîs
- → Norwegian: tennis
- → Persian: تنیس (tenis)
- → Polish: tenis
- → Portuguese: ténis, tênis (Brazil)
- → Romanian: tenis
- → Russian: те́ннис (ténnis)
- → Kazakh: теннис (tennis)
- → Scottish Gaelic: teanas
- → Serbo-Croatian: ténis / те́нис
- → Slovene: tenis
- → Spanish: tenis
- → Swahili: tenisi
- → Swedish: tennis
- → Telugu: టెన్నిసు (ṭennisu), టెన్నిస్ (ṭennis)
- → Thai: เทนนิส (ten-nít)
- → Turkish: tenis
- → Ukrainian: те́ніс (ténis)
- → Uzbek: tennis
- → Walloon: tenisse
- → Yiddish: טעניס (tenis)
Translations
[edit]sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
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Verb
[edit]tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)
- (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
- (transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
- 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
- they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tennis m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “tennis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tennis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “tennis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tennis” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]tennis n (uncountable)
- tennis (sport)
Derived terms
[edit]- rolstoeltennis
- tafeltennis
- tennisarm
- tennisbaan
- tennisnet
- tennisracket
- tennissen
- tennisspeelster
- tennisspeler
- tennisveld
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]tennis
- inflection of tennissen:
Anagrams
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tennis (genitive tennise, partitive tennist)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tennis
Declension
[edit]Inflection of tennis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tennis | tennikset | |
genitive | tenniksen | tennisten tenniksien | |
partitive | tennistä | tenniksiä | |
illative | tennikseen | tenniksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tennis | tennikset | |
accusative | nom. | tennis | tennikset |
gen. | tenniksen | ||
genitive | tenniksen | tennisten tenniksien | |
partitive | tennistä | tenniksiä | |
inessive | tenniksessä | tenniksissä | |
elative | tenniksestä | tenniksistä | |
illative | tennikseen | tenniksiin | |
adessive | tenniksellä | tenniksillä | |
ablative | tennikseltä | tenniksiltä | |
allative | tennikselle | tenniksille | |
essive | tenniksenä | tenniksinä | |
translative | tennikseksi | tenniksiksi | |
abessive | tenniksettä | tenniksittä | |
instructive | — | tenniksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]- verkkopallo (dated)
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “tennis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tennis m (plural tennis)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tennis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Icelandic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, no plural)
Declension
[edit]Declension of tennis | ||
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m-s1 | singular | |
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | tennis | tennisinn |
accusative | tennis | tennisinn |
dative | tennis | tennisnum |
genitive | tenniss | tennissins |
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tennis m (invariable)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- tennis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)
Derived terms
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)
Derived terms
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]tennis c
Declension
[edit]Declension of tennis | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | tennis | tennisen | — | — |
Genitive | tennis | tennisens | — | — |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- tennis in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- tennis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- tennis in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:English/ɛnɪs
- Rhymes:English/ɛnɪs/2 syllables
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Sports
- English terms with quotations
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- English intransitive verbs
- English transitive verbs
- en:Tennis
- Catalan terms borrowed from English
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- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan uncountable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- ca:Sports
- Danish terms borrowed from English
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- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- Danish uncountable nouns
- da:Sports
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛnɪs
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- Dutch terms borrowed from English
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- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch uncountable nouns
- Dutch neuter nouns
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- Estonian terms borrowed from German
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- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian nouns
- et:Sports
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
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- Rhymes:Finnish/enːis
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- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish vastaus-type nominals
- fi:Sports
- French terms borrowed from English
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- fr:Sports
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- it:Sports
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- nn:Sports
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- sv:Sports