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10 Language-to-English DictionariesTable tennis
/ˈteɪ.bəl ˌten.ɪs/Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A indoor racket sport played by two or four players hitting a lightweight ball back and forth across a hard table divided by a net.
"She won the university championship in table tennis." - 2
The lightweight hollow ball used in this sport.
"The table tennis rolled under the couch and was hard to retrieve."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived as a descriptive compound of 'table' and 'tennis', the game originated in Victorian England in the late 19th century as an adaptation of lawn tennis played indoors. The alternative onomatopoeic name 'ping-pong' was trademarked by J. Jaques & Son in the early 1900s, which then integrated into numerous languages globally.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Table tennis" is said worldwide
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tennis de table
Transliteration: te-nis də tabl
"Il joue au tennis de table tous les vendredis."
Tischtennis
Transliteration: tɪʃˌtɛnɪs
"Wir spielen gerne Tischtennis im Park."
tENNIS tAVOLO
Transliteration: tɛn.nis de ta.vo.lo
Script: tennistavolo
"Il tennistavolo è uno sport olimpico."
tenis de mesa
Transliteration: te.nis de me.sa
"El tenis de mesa requiere mucha agilidad mental."
tênis de mesa
Transliteration: te.nis dʒi me.zɐ
"Eles jogam tênis de mesa muito bem."
table tennis
Transliteration: tebhal tenis
Script: टेबल टेनिस
"वह टेबल टेनिस खेलने में माहिर है।"
乒乓球
Transliteration: pīng pāng qiú
"乒乓球是中国最受欢迎的运动之一。"
탁구
Transliteration: tak-gu
"우리는 방과 후에 탁구를 쳤다."
卓球
Transliteration: takkyū
"彼は卓球の選手です。"
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