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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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