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Table tennis in other Languages

The sport we know as table tennis is not necessarily called by the same name around the world. Here are the names for table tennis in many of the languages of the world. The names are taken from the Wikipedia page for table tennis in each of these languages. Many of the names appear to be phonetic spelling of table tennis or its other common name ping-pong.



Name by Language

Language Name for the sport of table tennis
Afrikaans Tafeltennis
Albanian Pingpong
Arabic كرة الطاولة
Armenian Սեղանի թենիս
Asturian Tenis de mesa
Azerbaijani Stolüstü tennis
Bashkir Өҫтәл теннисы
Basque Ping-pong
Belarusian Настольны тэніс
Belarusian Настольны тэніс
Bengali টেবিল টেনিস
Bosnian Stoni tenis
Bulgarian Тенис на маса
Cantonese 乒乓波
Catalan Tennis de taula
Chinese 乒乓球
Croatian Stolni tenis
Czech Stolní tenis
Danish Bordtennis
Dutch Tafeltennis
Eastern Punjabi ਟੇਬਲ ਟੈਨਿਸ
English Table tennis
Esperanto Tabloteniso
Estonian Lauatennis
Faroese Borðtennis
Finnish Pöytätennis
French Tennis de table
Galician Tenis de mesa
Georgian მაგიდის ჩოგბურთი
German Tischtennis
Greek Επιτραπέζια αντισφαίριση
Haitian Pingpong
Hakka Chok-khiù
Hebrew טניס שולחן
Hindi टेबल टेनिस
Hungarian Asztalitenisz
Icelandic Borðtennis
Ido Tabloteniso
Indonesian Tenis meja
Italian Tennistavolo
Japanese 卓球
Javanese Pingpong
Kannada ಟೇಬಲ್ ಟೆನ್ನಿಸ್
Kashubian Stołowi tenys
Kazakh Үстел теннисі
Korean 탁구
Latin Teniludium mensale
Latvian Galda teniss
Lithuanian Stalo tenisas
Luxembourgish Dëschtennis
Macedonian Пинг-понг
Malay Pingpong
Malayalam ടേബിൾ ടെന്നീസ്‌
Marathi टेबल टेनिस
Min Dong Pĭng-pŏng-giù
Min Nan Toh-kiû
Mongolian Ширээний теннис
Nepali टेबुल टेनिस
Norwegian Bordtennis
Norwegian Bordtennis
Occitan Tennis de taula
Persian تنیس روی میز
Picard Tennis éd tabe
Polish Tenis stołowy
Portuguese Tênis de mesa
Romanian Tenis de masă
Russian Настольный теннис
Sanskrit टेबल्-टेनिस्-क्रीडा
Scots Table tennis
Serbian Стони тенис
Serbo-Croatian Stoni tenis
Sinhalese මේස ‍පන්දු
Slovak Stolný tenis
Slovene Namizni tenis
Sorani Kurdish تێنیسی سەرمێز
Southern Azerbaijani میز اوسته تنیس
Spanish Tenis de mesa
Sundanese Tenis Meja
Swedish Bordtennis
Tagalog Pingpong
Tamil மேசைப்பந்தாட்டம்
Tatar Өстәл теннисы
Telugu టేబుల్ టెన్నిస్
Thai เทเบิลเทนนิส
Tibetan ཕིན་ཕང་སྤོ་ལོ།
Turkish Masa tenisi
Ukrainian Настільний теніс
Uyghur Tiktak top
Uzbek Stol tennisi
Venetian Pinpón
Vietnamese Bóng bàn
Walloon Tenisse di tåve
Welsh Tenis bwrdd
Wu 乒乓球


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