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Boxing in other Languages

The sport we know as boxing is not necessarily called by the same name around the world. Here are the names for boxing in many of the languages of the world. The names are taken from the Wikipedia page for boxing in each of these languages.



Name by Language

Language Name for the sport of boxing
Abkhazian Абокс
Afrikaans Boks
Albanian Boksi
Arabic ملاكمة
Aragonese Boxeyo
Armenian Բռնցքամարտ
Asturian Boxéu
Azerbaijani Boks
Banjar Gucuh
Bashkir Бокс
Basque Boxeo
Belarusian Бокс
Belarusian Бокс
Bengali মুষ্টিযুদ্ধ
Bosnian Boks
Breton Boks
Bulgarian Бокс
Burmese လက်ဝှေ့ထိုးခြင်း
Cantonese 拳擊
Catalan Boxa
Chechen Бокс
Chinese 拳击
Croatian Boks
Czech Box
Danish Boksning
Dutch Boksen
Eastern Punjabi ਮੁੱਕੇਬਾਜ਼ੀ
English Boxing
Esperanto Boksado
Estonian Poks
Faroese Nevaleikur
Finnish Nyrkkeily
French Boxe
Galician Boxeo
Georgian კრივი
German Boxen
Greek Πυγμαχία
Haitian Bòks
Hakka Po̍k-sin-kú
Hebrew איגרוף
Hindi मुक्केबाज़ी
Hungarian Ökölvívás
Icelandic Hnefaleikar
Ilokano Boksingero
Indonesian Tinju
Inuktitut ᒥᖏᑎᑕᐅᑎᔪᖅ
Irish Dornálaíocht
Italian Pugilato
Jamaican Baxin
Japanese ボクシング
Javanese Tinju
Kannada ಬಾಕ್ಸಿಂಗ್
Karakalpak Boks
Kashubian Piscowanié
Kazakh Бокс
Korean 권투
Kyrgyz Бокс
Latin Pugilatio (moderna)
Latvian Bokss
Lingala Bobuni bwa makɔ́fi
Lithuanian Boksas
Low Saxon Boxen
Macedonian Бокс
Malay Tinju
Malayalam ബോക്സിങ്
Marathi बॉक्सिंग
Min Nan Bo̍k-sìn-guh
Minangkabau Tinju
Mirandese Boxe
Mongolian Бокс
Nāhuatl Māīxnāmiquiliztli
Neapolitan Pugilato
Nepali मुक्केबाजी
Northern Sami Boksen
Norwegian Boksing
Occitan Bòxa anglesa
Ossetian Бокс
Persian بوکس
Piedmontese Bòcs
Polish Boks
Portuguese Boxe
Quechua Saqmanakuy
Romanian Box
Russian Бокс
Sakha Бокс
Sanskrit मुष्टिकाताडनक्रीडा
Scots Boxin
Scottish Gaelic Dòrnaireachd
Serbian Бокс
Serbo-Croatian Boks
Shona Tsiva
Sicilian Puggilatu
Sindhi باڪسنگ
Sinhalese බොක්සිං
Slovak Box (šport)
Slovene Boks
Somali Feedh (ciyaar)
Sorani Kurdish مستانی
Southern Azerbaijani بوکس
Spanish Boxeo
Sundanese Tinju
Swahili Mchezo wa ngumi
Swedish Boxning
Tagalog Boksing
Tajik Бокс
Tamil குத்துச்சண்டை
Tatar Бокс
Thai มวยสากล
Tibetan ཁུར་འཛིང་།
Turkish Boks
Turkmen Boks
Ukrainian Бокс
Urdu مکے بازی
Uzbek Boks
Vietnamese Quyền Anh
Waray Boksingero
Welsh Paffio
West Frisian Boksen
Wu 拳击
Xhosa Amanqindi
Yiddish באקס


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