American football

See also: American Football

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

American football (countable and uncountable, plural American footballs) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei)

1. A team sport similar to rugby football, played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "Chain mail, or an American football suit - that's what you'll want."

2. (countable) The ball used to play the sport of American football.

Usage notes

• Called football in the United States and Canada and American football elsewhere in the world. After one mention of American football, it may be referred to simply as football because context is clear what sport is being referred to.

Synonyms

• American handegg
• feetsball (slang)
• handegg
• NFL

Hypernyms

• gridiron football

Translations

American football

• Afrikaans: amerikaanse voetbal
• Albanian: futboll Amerikan
• Arabic: كُرَة الْقَدَم الْأَمْرِيكِيَّة f (kurat al-qadam al-ʔam(i)rīkiyya), (for short), الكُرة الأَمْرِيكِيّة f (al-kura al-ʔam(i)rīkiyya), (informal also) الأَمِرِيكَان فُوتْبُول m (al-ʔamirīkān futbōl)
• Armenian: ամերիկյան ֆուտբոլ (hy) (amerikyan futbol)
• Asturian: fútbol americanu m
• Azerbaijani: amerika futbolu
• Bashkir: америка футболы (amerika futbolı)
• Basque: futbol amerikarra
• Belarusian: амерыка́нскі футбо́л m (amjerykánski futból)
• Bulgarian: америка́нски фу́тбол (amerikánski fútbol)
• Catalan: futbol americà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 美式足球 (mei⁵ sik¹ zuk¹ kau⁴)

  Mandarin: 美式橄欖球 / 美式橄榄球 (zh) (měishìgǎnlǎnqiú), 美式足球 (zh) (Měishì zúqiú) (Taiwan), ^{(please verify)} 橄欖球 / 橄榄球 (zh) (gǎnlǎnqiú),

• Cornish: pel droos amerikanek f
• Czech: americký fotbal m
• Danish: amerikansk fodbold
• Dutch: Amerikaanse voetbal n, rugby (nl) n, American football (nl) n
• Esperanto: usona futbalo, usona piedpilko, usona piedpilkado
• Estonian: ameerika jalgpall
• Faroese: amerikanskur fótbóltur m
• Finnish: amerikkalainen jalkapallo (fi), (colloquial) jenkkifutis
• French: football américain (fr) m, football (fr) m (Canada)
• Galician: fútbol americano m, fútbol estadounidense m
• Georgian: ამერიკული ფეხბურთი (ameriḳuli pexburti)
• German: Football (de) m, American Football (de) m
• Greek: αμερικανικό ποδόσφαιρο m (amerikanikó podósfairo)
• Hawaiian: pōpeku
• Hebrew: פוטבול אמריקאי m (futbol amerikai)
• Hindi: अमेरिकी फ़ुटबॉल (amerikī fuṭbŏl)
• Hungarian: amerikai foci, amerikai futball
• Icelandic: amerískur fótbolti m
• Irish: peil Mheiriceánach f
• Italian: football americano (it) m, football statunitense m, calcio americano m, calcio statunitense m
• Japanese: アメリカンフットボール (ja) (Amerikan futtobōru), 鎧球 (ja) (がいきゅう, gaikyū), フットボール (ja) (futtobōru), アメフト (ja) (amefuto)
• Kannada: ಅಮೇರಿಕದ ಫುಟ್‌ಬಾಲ್ (kn) (amērikada phuṭ‌bāl)
• Kazakh: америкалық футбол (amerikalyq futbol)
• Korean: 미식축구(美式蹴球) (ko) (misikchukgu), 아메리칸 풋볼 (amerikan putbol)
• Latvian: amerikāņu futbols m
• Lithuanian: amerikietiškasis futbolas m
• Lombard: fóball american
• Macedonian: америка́нски фу́дбал m (amerikánski fúdbal)
• Malay: bola sepak Amerika
• Malayalam: അമേരിക്കൻ ഫുട്ബോൾ (amērikkaṉ phuṭbōḷ)
• Maltese: futbol Amerikan
• Marathi: अमेरिकन फुटबॉल (amerikan phuṭbŏl)
• Navajo: jooł yitalí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: amerikansk fotball m

  Nynorsk: amerikansk fotball m

• Occitan: futbòl american m
• Ojibwe: obasikawaadaanaawaa chi-bikwaakwad
• Persian: فوتبال آمریکایی
• Picard: fotbale anmérikin m
• Polish: futbol (pl) m, futbol amerykański (pl) m
• Portuguese: futebol americano (pt) m
• Romanian: fotbal american
• Russian: америка́нский футбо́л (ru) m (amerikánskij futból)
• Scots: American fitbaw, American fitba
• Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise Aimeireaganach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: амерички ногомет m, амерички фудбал m

  Latin: američki nogomet m, američki fudbal m

• Sicilian: futtibboll miricanu m
• Slovak: americký futbal m
• Slovene: ameriški nogomet m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: ameriski football m

• Spanish: fútbol americano m, futbol estadounidense m
• Swedish: amerikansk fotboll (sv) c
• Tagalog: amerikanong putbol
• Tajik: футболи амрикоӣ (futbol-i amrikoyi)
• Tamil: அமெரிக்கக் கால்பந்தாட்டம் (amerikkak kālpantāṭṭam)
• Thai: อเมริกันฟุตบอล (à-mee-rí-gan fút-bɔn)
• Tok Pisin: futbal
• Turkish: Amerikan futbolu
• Ukrainian: америка́нський футбо́л m (amerykánsʹkyj futból)
• Urdu: امریکی فٹ بال
• Uzbek: amerika futboli
• Vietnamese: bóng bầu dục (vi)
• Welsh: pêl-droed Americanaidd f

See also

• association football
• Canadian football
• North American football
• football
• gridiron
• rugby
• rugby football
• soccer

Further reading

• American football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia