ballon

From French ballon. Doublet of balloon.

ballon (usually uncountable, plural ballons)

1. (ballet) The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
   • 1988, November 18, “Dorothy Samachson”, in Moscow Classical Ballet‎:

     Tall and slender, with a superb ballon and effortless flight in air, Malakhov […] will unquestionably have an extraordinary career.

• Ballon (ballet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• no ball

From Dutch ballon, from French ballon.

• IPA^(key): /baˈlɔn/

ballon (plural ballons or ballonne)

1. balloon

• ballonvaarder
• ballonvaart
• lugballon
• warmlugballon

From French ballon.

• IPA^(key): /balɔnɡ/, [b̥aˈlʌŋ]

ballon c (singular definite ballonen, plural indefinite balloner)

1. balloon (inflatable object)
2. bulb
3. carboy, demijohn (large bottle)
4. (ballet, singular only) ballon (the quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair)

• → Greenlandic: ballonngi

• “ballon” in Den Danske Ordbog
• ballon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Borrowed from French ballon. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /bɑˈlɔn/

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• Hyphenation: bal‧lon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

ballon m (plural ballonnen or ballons, diminutive ballonnetje n)

1. balloon
2. hot-air balloon

   Synonym: heteluchtballon

• bal
• ballonet

• Afrikaans: ballon
• → Indonesian: balon
• → Papiamentu: balòn

From Middle French ballon. Doublet of balloune.

• IPA^(key): /ba.lɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

ballon m (plural ballons)

1. (inflatable) ball
   1. beachball
2. balloon
3. (chemistry) round-bottom flask

• balle

• “ballon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From northern Italian balone, ballone; compare standard pallone.

ballon m (plural ballons)

1. large ball

• French: ballon (see there for further descendants)
• → English: balloon (see there for further descendants)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpallon/

ballon

1. first-person singular imperative of ballat