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Fencing in other Languages

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



Name by Language

Language Name for the sport of fencing
Afrikaans Skermsport
Arabic مبارزة السلاح
Armenian Սուսերամարտ
Asturian Esgrima
Azerbaijani Qılıncoynatma
Bashkir Фехтование
Basque Eskrima
Belarusian Фехтаванне
Belarusian Фэхтаваньне
Bosnian Mačevanje
Breton Iskrim
Bulgarian Фехтовка
Cantonese 劍擊
Catalan Esgrima
Chinese 击剑
Croatian Mačevanje
Czech Sportovní šerm
Danish Fægtning
Dutch Schermen
Eastern Punjabi ਤਲਵਾਰਬਾਜ਼ੀ
English Fencing
Esperanto Skermo
Estonian Vehklemine
Fiji Hindi Fencing
Finnish Miekkailu
French Escrime
Galician Esgrima
Georgian ფარიკაობა
German Fechten
Greek Ξιφασκία
Hebrew סיף
Hindi तलवारबाजी
Hungarian Vívás
Icelandic Skylmingar
Indonesian Anggar
Irish Pionsóireacht
Italian Scherma (sport)
Japanese フェンシング
Javanese Anggar
Kannada ಕತ್ತಿವರಸೆ
Kazakh Семсерлесу
Khmer កីឡាចាក់សាប
Korean 펜싱
Latin Ars gladii
Latvian Paukošana
Lithuanian Fechtavimas
Luxembourgish Fechten
Macedonian Мечување
Malay Lawan pedang
Malayalam ഫെൻസിംഗ്
Maltese Skerma
Min Nan Se-iûⁿ-kiàm
Minangkabau Anggar
Nepali तरवारबाजी
Norwegian Fekting
Occitan Escrima
Persian شمشیربازی
Polish Szermierka
Portuguese Esgrima
Romanian Scrimă
Russian Фехтование
Scots Fencin
Serbian Мачевање
Serbo-Croatian Mačevanje
Sinhalese කඩු හරඹය
Slovak Športový šerm
Slovene Sabljanje
Sorani Kurdish شمشێربازی
Spanish Esgrima
Sundanese Anggar
Swedish Fäktsport
Tagalog Eskrima
Tamil வாள்வீச்சு (விளையாட்டு)
Tatar Фехтование
Telugu ఖడ్గ యుద్ధం
Thai กีฬามหาวิทยาลัยแห่งประเทศไทย ครั้งที่ 44
Tibetan གྲི་རྩེད།
Turkish Eskrim
Ukrainian Фехтування
Uzbek Qilichbozlik
Venetian Scherma
Vietnamese Đấu kiếm
Võro Vehklemine
Waray Iskrima
Welsh Cleddyfa
West Frisian Skermjen


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