different between ballon vs billon

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

Etymology

From French billon, from Old French bille (“stick of wood”).

Noun

billon (countable and uncountable, plural billons)

1. Any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that are used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc.

Anagrams

• Bollin, no-bill

French

Etymology

From Old French bille (“stick of wood”), from Medieval Latin billa, billia, from Gaulish *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?olyo- (“leaf”).

Noun

billon m (plural billons)

1. billon
2. ridge (in a ploughed field)

Derived terms

• billonnage
• billonner

Descendants

• ? Catalan: billó
• ? English: billon