different between ballon vs ballow

English

Etymology

From French ballon. Doublet of balloon.

Noun

ballon (usually uncountable, plural ballons)

1. (ballet) The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair

See also

• Ballon (ballet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• no ball

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch ballon, from French ballon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?l?n/

Noun

ballon (plural ballons or ballonne)

1. balloon

Derived terms

• ballonvaarder
• ballonvaart
• lugballon
• warmlugballon

Danish

Etymology

From French ballon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal?n?/, [b?a?l??]

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)

Inflection

Descendants

• ? Greenlandic: ballonngi

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??l?n/
• Hyphenation: bal?lon
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

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

1. balloon
2. hot-air balloon

   Synonym: heteluchtballon

Derived terms

Related terms

• bal
• ballonet

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ballon
• ? Indonesian: balon

French

Etymology

From Middle French ballon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)

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

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

• balle

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From northern Italian balone, ballone; compare standard pallone.

Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)

1. large ball

Descendants

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

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?pallon/

Verb

ballon

1. first-person singular imperative of ballat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæ.l??/
• Rhymes: -æl??

Etymology 1

From Middle English balowe, balwe, balgh, from Old English bælg, bæli? (“bag, purse, leathern bottle, pair of bellows, pod, husk”), from Proto-Germanic *balgiz (“bag”). Doublet of belly, bellows, and bulge.

Adjective

ballow (comparative more ballow, superlative most ballow)

1. (obsolete) Round; pot-bellied.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 3 p. 40[1]:

     A horse of greater speed, nor yet a righter hound,

     Not any where twixt Kent and Calidon is found.

     Nor yet the levell South can shewe a smoother Race,

     Whereas the ballow Nag out-strips the winds in chase;

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

ballow (plural ballows)

1. (nautical) Deep water inside a shoal or bar.

References

• ballow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.