ball (round or roundish object, most commonly used in games) · pass, play
çekim: çoğul Bälle · tamlayan Balles
eş: Laberl, Kugel, Pille, Leder, Ei, Kullerball
köken: From Middle High German and Old High German bal, from Proto-West Germanic *ballu, from Proto-Germanic *balluz. Cognates include English ball, Dutch bal, Danish bold, Swedish boll, Icelandic böllur, and Norwegian ball.
köken: Inherited from Middle French balle, from northern Italian balla. Doublet of balle (“bundle”).
aile: à deux balles, à fond de balle, balle de break, balle de match, balle de plastique, balle de set, balle rapide, balle rebondissante, hockey-balle, renvoyer la balle
köken: Uncertain. * From Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish *ballu. * From Lombardic *palla, *balla. Both etymologies ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”). Doublet of palla. Cognate with Sicilian baḍḍa, whence the dialectal doublet badda.
a ball; a more or less spherical object which is not hard or unyielding (compare kula) · a ball (pass) · a ball (testicle)
çekim: çoğul bollar · tamlayan bolls
köken: From Old Swedish balder, baller, from Old Norse bǫllr (“ball, globe”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“round thing, bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”).
any round object; a sphere; a globe · a glob, group
çekim: çoğul globī · tamlayan globī
köken: Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“form into a ball; ball”), but if so it may have to be via some substrate loan which was also absorbed by other Indo-European branches, based on the unexplained suffix and variants. Apparently cognate with Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”) (see there for more), glomus, Sanskrit ग्लुन्थ (gluntha, “lump”), and Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump;…