badminton
English
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/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
badminton (countable and uncountable, plural badmintons)
- (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.
- (countable) A cooling summer drink made with claret, sugar, and soda water.
Synonyms
- (sport): badders (UK, informal)
Translations
a racquet sport
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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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɛdmɪnton]
Declension
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /badməntɔn/, [ˈb̥ad̥məntˢʌn]
Declension
Declension of badminton
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | badminton | badmintonen | badminton | badmintonene |
| genitive | badmintons | badmintonens | badmintons | badmintonenes |
References
Dutch
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˈbɛt.mɪnˌtɔn/, /ˈbɛt.mɪnˌtən/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bad‧min‧ton
Derived terms
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpat.mɪn.tʰɔn]
Declension
| Declension of badminton (singular only) | ||
|---|---|---|
| n3s | singular | |
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | badminton | badmintonið |
| accusative | badminton | badmintonið |
| dative | badmintoni | badmintoninum |
| genitive | badmintons | badmintonsins |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bad.min.tɔn/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Further reading
- “badminton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛtmintən/, [bɛt̚mintən]
- (Baku) IPA(key): [badminton]
- Rhymes: -tən, -ən
Further reading
- “badminton” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /badˈmin.tɔn/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -intɔn
- Syllabification: bad‧min‧ton
Declension
Declension of badminton
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | badminton |
| genitive | badmintona |
| dative | badmintonowi |
| accusative | badmintona |
| instrumental | badmintonem |
| locative | badmintonie |
| vocative | badmintonie |
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /be.d͡ʒiˈmĩ.tõ/, /bed͡ʒˈmĩ.tõ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /bed͡ʒˈmĩ.tõ/, /be.d͡ʒiˈmĩ.tõ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /bɨˈdmĩ.tɔn/ [bɨˈðmĩ.tɔn]
- Hyphenation: bad‧min‧ton
Further reading
Romanian
Swedish
Declension
| Declension of badminton | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | badminton | badmintonen | — | — |
| Genitive | badmintons | badmintonens | — | — |
Derived terms
- badmintonbana
- badmintonboll
- badmintonnät
- badmintonracket
See also
References
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbadminton/ [ˈbad.mɪn.ton], /badminˈton/ [bɐd.mɪnˈton]
- Rhymes: -adminton, -on
- Syllabification: bad‧min‧ton
Derived terms
- magbadminton
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛd.min.t(ɯ)n/
Declension
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | badminton | |
| Definite accusative | badmintonı | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | badminton | badmintonlar |
| Definite accusative | badmintonı | badmintonları |
| Dative | badmintona | badmintonlara |
| Locative | badmintonda | badmintonlarda |
| Ablative | badmintondan | badmintonlardan |
| Genitive | badmintonın | badmintonların |
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