Tennis in other Languages
The sport we know as tennis is not necessarily called by the same name around the world. Here are the names for tennis in many of the languages of the world. The names are taken from the Wikipedia page for tennis in each of these languages. You will notice that many of the names appear to be phonetic spelling of tennis in the other languages.
Name by Language
| Language | Name for the sport of tennis |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Tennis |
| Albanian | Tenisi |
| Alemannic | Tennis |
| Anglo-Saxon | Tennis |
| Arabic | كرة المضرب |
| Aragonese | Tenis |
| Armenian | Թենիս |
| Asturian | Tenis |
| Azerbaijani | Tennis |
| Bashkir | Теннис |
| Basque | Tenis |
| Bavarian | Tennis |
| Belarusian | Тэніс |
| Belarusian | Тэніс |
| Bengali | টেনিস |
| Bosnian | Tenis |
| Breton | Tennis |
| Bulgarian | Тенис |
| Cantonese | 網球 |
| Catalan | Tennis |
| Chechen | Теннис |
| Chinese | 网球 |
| Chuvash | Теннис |
| Croatian | Tenis |
| Czech | Tenis |
| Danish | Tennis |
| Dutch | Tennis |
| Eastern Punjabi | ਗੇਂਦ-ਛਿੱਕਾ |
| Egyptian Arabic | تنس |
| English | Tennis |
| Esperanto | Teniso |
| Estonian | Tennis |
| Extremaduran | Tenis |
| Faroese | Tennis |
| Fiji Hindi | Tennis |
| Finnish | Tennis |
| French | Tennis |
| Galician | Tenis |
| Gan Chinese | 網球 |
| Georgian | ჩოგბურთი |
| German | Tennis |
| Greek | Αντισφαίριση |
| Haitian | Tenis |
| Hakka | Mióng-khiù |
| Hebrew | טניס |
| Hindi | टेनिस |
| Hungarian | Tenisz |
| Icelandic | Tennis |
| Ido | Teniso |
| Ilokano | Tenis |
| Indonesian | Tenis |
| Interlingue | Ténnis |
| Irish | Leadóg |
| Italian | Tennis |
| Japanese | テニス |
| Javanese | Tènes |
| Kabiye | Teniisi |
| Kannada | ಟೆನ್ನಿಸ್ |
| Karakalpak | Tennis |
| Kazakh | Теннис |
| Kinyarwanda | Tenisi |
| Korean | 테니스 |
| Kurdish | Tenîs |
| Kyrgyz | Теннис |
| Latin | Teniludus |
| Latvian | Teniss |
| Lezgian | Теннис |
| Limburgish | Tennis |
| Lingua Franca Nova | Tenis |
| Lithuanian | Tenisas |
| Livvi-Karelian | Tennissu |
| Low Saxon | Tennis |
| Luxembourgish | Tennis |
| Macedonian | Тенис |
| Malay | Tenis |
| Malayalam | ടെന്നീസ് |
| Marathi | टेनिस |
| Min Nan | The-ní-suh |
| Mingrelian | ჩოგანბურთი |
| Mirandese | Ténis |
| Mongolian | Теннис |
| Newar / Nepal Bhasa | टेनिस |
| Northern Sotho | Thenisi |
| Norwegian | Tennis |
| Norwegian | Tennis |
| Occitan | Tennis |
| Pennsylvania German | Tennis |
| Persian | تنیس |
| Picard | Tennis |
| Polish | Tenis |
| Portuguese | Ténis |
| Romanian | Tenis |
| Romansh | Tennis |
| Russian | Теннис |
| Rusyn | Теніс |
| Sakha | Теннис |
| Samoan | Tenisi |
| Samogitian | Tenėsos |
| Sanskrit | टेनिस्-क्रीडा |
| Santali | ᱴᱮᱱᱤᱥ |
| Sardinian | Tennis |
| Scots | Tennis |
| Serbian | Тенис |
| Serbo-Croatian | Tenis |
| Sicilian | Tennis |
| Silesian | Tyńis źymny |
| Sinhalese | ටෙනිස් |
| Slovak | Tenis |
| Slovene | Tenis |
| Somali | Ciyaarta Teeniska |
| Sorani Kurdish | تێنس |
| Southern Azerbaijani | تنیس |
| Spanish | Tenis |
| Sundanese | Ténis |
| Swahili | Tennis |
| Swedish | Tennis |
| Tagalog | Tennis |
| Tajik | Теннис |
| Tamil | டென்னிசு |
| Tatar | Теннис |
| Telugu | టెన్నిసు |
| Thai | เทนนิส |
| Tibetan | ཏན་ནེ་སི་སྤོ་ལོ། |
| Tulu | ಟೆನ್ನಿಸ್ |
| Turkish | Tenis |
| Turkmen | Tenis |
| Ukrainian | Теніс |
| Urdu | ٹینس |
| Uzbek | Tennis |
| Vietnamese | Quần vợt |
| Võro | Tennis |
| Walloon | Tenisse |
| Waray | Tenis |
| Welsh | Tenis |
| West Flemish | Tennis |
| West Frisian | Tennis |
| Western Armenian | Թենիս |
| Western Punjabi | ٹینس |
| Wu | 网球 |
| Yiddish | טעניס |
| Yoruba | Tẹ́nìs |
| Zazaki | Teniswan |
Related Pages
- About the Sport of Tennis
- About Tennis Fitness Testing
- Table Tennis in other Languages
- Sport Names in Other Languages
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