German

Noun

Ballon m ‎(genitive Ballons, plural Ballons)

1. balloon

Derived terms

Related terms

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

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.

See also

• Ballon (ballet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• no ball

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

Derived terms

• luchtballon
• tekstballon
• een ballonnetje oplaten

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

Derived terms

• ballon à air chaud
• ballon à gaz
• ballon cerf-volant
• ballon d'oxygène
• ballon dirigeable
• ballon-pilote
• ballon-satellite
• ballon-sonde
• ballonnet
• crever un ballon
• faire ballon

See also

• balle

Middle French

Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)

1. large ball

Northern Sami

Verb

ballon

1. first-person singular imperative of ballat