ballon

Etymology

From French ballon.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• no ball

Etymology

From French ballon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /balɔnɡ/, [b̥aˈlʌŋ]

Noun

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)

Further reading

• ballon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

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

1. balloon

Etymology

From Middle French ballon from Northern Italian bal(l)one (compare Italian pallone (“large ball”)) from palla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla (“ball”), perhaps influenced by the earlier Northern Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Frankish balla, both from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bholn- (“bubble”), from *bhel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (“ball”) (German Ballen (“bale”); Ball (“ball”)). More at ball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.lɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)

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

See also

• balle

Further reading

• “ballon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)

1. large ball

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpallon/

Verb

ballon

1. first-person singular imperative of ballat