Basketball in other Languages
The sport we know as basketball is not necessarily called by the same name around the world. Here are the names for basketball in many of the languages of the world. The names are taken from the Wikipedia page for basketball in each of these languages.
Name by Language
| Language | Name for the sport of Basketball |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Basketbal |
| Albanian | Basketbolli |
| Alemannic | Basketball |
| Amharic | የቅርጫት ኳስ |
| Anglo-Saxon | Cawlþōðer |
| Arabic | كرة السلة |
| Aragonese | Baloncesto |
| Armenian | Բասկետբոլ |
| Asturian | Baloncestu |
| Azerbaijani | Basketbol |
| Balinese | Bola basket |
| Banjar | Baskét |
| Bashkir | Баскетбол |
| Basque | Saskibaloi |
| Bavarian | Basketboi |
| Belarusian | Баскетбол |
| Bengali | বাস্কেটবল |
| Bosnian | Košarka |
| Breton | Basketball |
| Bulgarian | Баскетбол |
| Burmese | ဘတ်စကက်ဘော |
| Buryat (Russia) | Баскетбол |
| Cantonese | 籃球 |
| Catalan | Basquetbol |
| Central_Bicolano | Basketbol |
| Chechen | Баскетбол |
| Cheyenne | Hohtsemo |
| Chinese | 篮球 |
| Chuvash | Баскетбол |
| Croatian | Košarka |
| Czech | Basketbal |
| Danish | Basketball |
| Dinka | Dökthiɔ̈l |
| Dutch | Basketbal |
| Eastern Punjabi | ਬਾਸਕਟਬਾਲ |
| Egyptian Arabic | كرة السله |
| English | Basketball |
| Esperanto | Korbopilko |
| Estonian | Korvpall |
| Extremaduran | Baloncestu |
| Faroese | Kurvabóltur |
| Fiji Hindi | Basketball |
| Fijian | Basketball |
| Finnish | Koripallo |
| French | Basket-ball |
| Friulian | Bale tal zei |
| Galician | Baloncesto |
| Georgian | კალათბურთი |
| German | Basketball |
| Greek | Καλαθοσφαίριση |
| Guarani | Ajakakuapytĩ |
| Gujarati | બાસ્કેટબોલ (રમત) |
| Haitian | Baskètbòl |
| Hakka | Làm-khiù |
| Hebrew | כדורסל |
| Hindi | बास्केटबॉल |
| Hungarian | Kosárlabda |
| Icelandic | Körfuknattleikur |
| Ido | Basketbalo |
| Ilokano | Basketbol |
| Indonesian | Bola basket |
| Interlingua | Basketball |
| Irish | Cispheil |
| Italian | Pallacanestro |
| Jamaican | Baaskitbaal |
| Japanese | バスケットボール |
| Javanese | Baskèt |
| Kabiye | Ɖaakuɖe pombo |
| Kannada | ಬ್ಯಾಸ್ಕೆಟ್ಬಾಲ್ |
| Karakalpak | Basketbol |
| Kazakh | Баскетбол |
| Kinyarwanda | Umupira w'agatebo |
| Komi | Кудсяр |
| Korean | 농구 |
| Kurdish | Basketbol |
| Kyrgyz | Баскетбол |
| Lak | Баскетбол |
| Lao | ບານບ້ວງ |
| Latin | Canistriludium |
| Latvian | Basketbols |
| Lezgian | Баскетбол |
| Ligurian | Ballabanastra |
| Lingala | Motópi mwa dangú |
| Lingua Franca Nova | Bascetbal |
| Lithuanian | Krepšinis |
| Livvi-Karelian | Basketbol |
| Luxembourgish | Basketball |
| Macedonian | Кошарка |
| Maithili | बास्केटबल |
| Malay | Bola keranjang |
| Malayalam | ബാസ്ക്കറ്റ്ബോൾ |
| Maltese | Baskitbol |
| Marathi | बास्केटबॉल |
| Mazandarani | بسکتوال |
| Meadow Mari | Баскетбол |
| Min Dong | Lài-giù |
| Min Nan | Nâ-kiû |
| Minangkabau | Bola basket |
| Mingrelian | კარაჩხაბურთი |
| Mirandese | Basquetebol |
| Mongolian | Сагсан бөмбөг |
| Nāhuatl | Chiquiuhtapayolhuiliztli |
| Nepali | बास्केटबल |
| Newar / Nepal Bhasa | बास्केटबल |
| Northern Sotho | Kgwele ya ntlatlana |
| Norwegian | Korgball |
| Norwegian | Basketball |
| Occitan | Basquetbòl |
| Pangasinan | Basketball |
| Pashto | باسکېټبال |
| Persian | بسکتبال |
| Polish | Koszykówka |
| Portuguese | Basquetebol |
| Quechua | Isanka rump'u |
| Romanian | Baschet |
| Romansh | Ballabasket |
| Russian | Баскетбол |
| Rusyn | Баскетбал |
| Sakha | Баскетбол |
| Samoan | Pasiketipolo |
| Samogitian | Krepšėnis |
| Sanskrit | बास्केट्बाल्-क्रीडा |
| Scots | Basketbaw |
| Scottish Gaelic | Ball-basgaid |
| Serbian | Кошарка |
| Serbo-Croatian | Košarka |
| Sicilian | Palla a canistru |
| Silesian | Korbbal |
| Sindhi | باسڪٽ بال |
| Sinhalese | පැසිපන්දු |
| Slovak | Basketbal |
| Slovene | Košarka |
| Somali | Kubadda Koleyga |
| Sorani Kurdish | تۆپی سەبەتە |
| Southern Azerbaijani | بسکتبال |
| Spanish | Baloncesto |
| Swahili | Mpira wa kikapu |
| Swedish | Basket |
| Tagalog | Basketbol |
| Tajik | Баскетбол |
| Tamil | கூடைப்பந்தாட்டம் |
| Tatar | Баскетбол |
| Thai | บาสเกตบอล |
| Tulu | ಬಾಸ್ಕೆಟ್ ಬಾಲ್ |
| Turkish | Basketbol |
| Turkmen | Basketbol |
| Ukrainian | Баскетбол |
| Urdu | باسکٹ بال |
| Uyghur | ۋاسكېتبول |
| Uzbek | Basketbol |
| Venetian | Bałacanestro |
| Vietnamese | Bóng rổ |
| Võro | Korvpall |
| Walloon | Baskete (spôrt) |
| Waray | Basketbol |
| Welsh | Pêl-fasged |
| West Flemish | Basket |
| West Frisian | Basketbal |
| Western Armenian | Պասքէթպոլ |
| Western Punjabi | باسکٹ بال |
| Wu | 篮球 |
| Yiddish | קוישבאל |
| Yoruba | Bọ́ọ̀lù-alápẹ̀rẹ̀ |
| Zazaki | Basketbol |
| Zhuang | Lanzgiuz |
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