See gilli-danda in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sa",
"3": "दण्ड",
"4": ""
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit दण्ड (daṇḍa)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Ultimately from Sanskrit दण्ड (daṇḍa).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Gilli-danda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "Gilli-Danda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "gilli danda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "Gilli Danda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "gillidanda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "guli danda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "gilli-danda (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Bengali terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hindi terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Kannada terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Marathi terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Odia terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Punjabi terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Tamil terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bengali translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hindi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kannada translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Konkani translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Marathi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Odia translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Punjabi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tamil translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Games",
"orig": "en:Games",
"parents": [
"Recreation",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1970, Instructor, Volume 80, Instructor Publications\nIt is played by children of all ages. Boys like it especially, but it is not unusual to see girls and even adults playing Gilli Danda!"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Triveni: Journal of Indian Renaissance, Volume 73, Triveni Publishers:",
"text": "Bhuvan the hero of the film to understand 'cricket', relates it to his understanding of their native folk game of Gilli Danda. He says: ball (image of the silli thing) is gola-gola-ball, bat-phalli-phalli-bat.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Bhaskar Majumder, Rethinking Villages, Concept Publishing Company, page 110:",
"text": "The indigenous games like gilli-danda, goli, kabaddi, tash, kabootar urana (pigeon flying), erhi koodna (long jump), surra, cheel jhapatna, tahat etc., were commonly played by both children and adults of the village[...]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Chatterjee, The Politics of Sport in South Asia, Routledge, page 156:",
"text": "This happens because the hero of the film asserts that cricket is only a poor copy of their own age-old children's game of gilli-danda. So this mockery inverts the colonizing mission of civilizing the childlike natives on its head and also 'desecrates the \"purity\" of cricket roots' asserted by the British.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Hachette India, Indiapedia: The All-India Factfinder:",
"text": "Also called guli danda, Gilli Danda is a sport for an amateur which is very popular among rural youth. It is known as Danguli in Bengali, Kuttiyam Kolum in Malayalam, Kitti-Pullu in Tamil, Chinni-Dandu in Kannada, Gooti-Billa in Telugu and Lappa-Duggi in Pashto. It follows the structure of cricket or baseball, only it is played with sticks.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Victoria Williams Ph.D., Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing, ABC-CLIO, page 122:",
"text": "A game of gilli-danda continues until all players have had a turn at being on strike. The winning team is the side that records the most danda lengths and thus scores the most points.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A game played in several Asian countries, in which a large stick is used to hit a small oval-shaped piece of wood. It is played much like tipcat, baseball, and cricket."
],
"id": "en-gilli-danda-en-noun-mrjlDiHi",
"links": [
[
"Asian",
"Asian"
],
[
"tipcat",
"tipcat"
],
[
"baseball",
"baseball"
],
[
"cricket",
"cricket"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "ḍaṅguli",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ডাংগুলি"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "ḍêṅbaṛi",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ড্যাংবাড়ি"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "guṭbaṛi",
"sense": "game",
"word": "গুটবাড়ি"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "ṭêmoḍaṅ",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ট্যামডাং"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "bhêṭaḍanḍa",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ভ্যাটাডান্ডা"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "gillī ḍaṇḍā",
"sense": "game",
"word": "गिल्ली डंडा"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "gullīḍaṇḍā",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "गुल्लीडंडा"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "gullīḍaṇḍā",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "गुल्लीडण्डा"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "cinni dāṇḍu",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ಚಿನ್ನಿ ದಾಂಡು"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "gilli dāṇḍu",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ಗಿಲ್ಲಿ ದಾಂಡು"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "hāṇe geṇḍe",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ಹಾಣೆ ಗೆಂಡೆ"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "cinni kōlu",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ಚಿನ್ನಿ ಕೋಲು"
},
{
"code": "kok",
"lang": "Konkani",
"roman": "koyaṇḍo bāl",
"sense": "game",
"word": "कोयंडो बाल"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "viṭī dāṇḍū",
"sense": "game",
"word": "विटी दांडू"
},
{
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "guli bāṛi",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ଗୁଲି ବାଡ଼ି"
},
{
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "ḍābalapuā",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ଡାବଲପୁଆ"
},
{
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "pilabāṛi",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ପିଲବାଡ଼ି"
},
{
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "guṭiḍābuḷa",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ଗୁଟିଡାବୁଳ"
},
{
"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "gullī ḍaṇḍā",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ਗੁੱਲੀ ਡੰਡਾ"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "kiṭṭip puḷḷu",
"sense": "game",
"word": "கிட்டிப் புள்ளு"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"gilli-danda"
]
}
],
"word": "gilli-danda"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sa",
"3": "दण्ड",
"4": ""
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit दण्ड (daṇḍa)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Ultimately from Sanskrit दण्ड (daṇḍa).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Gilli-danda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "Gilli-Danda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "gilli danda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "Gilli Danda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "gillidanda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "guli danda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "gilli-danda (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Bengali terms with redundant script codes",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Sanskrit",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Hindi terms with redundant script codes",
"Kannada terms with redundant script codes",
"Marathi terms with redundant script codes",
"Odia terms with redundant script codes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Punjabi terms with redundant script codes",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Tamil terms with redundant script codes",
"Terms with Bengali translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Kannada translations",
"Terms with Konkani translations",
"Terms with Marathi translations",
"Terms with Odia translations",
"Terms with Punjabi translations",
"Terms with Tamil translations",
"en:Games"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1970, Instructor, Volume 80, Instructor Publications\nIt is played by children of all ages. Boys like it especially, but it is not unusual to see girls and even adults playing Gilli Danda!"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Triveni: Journal of Indian Renaissance, Volume 73, Triveni Publishers:",
"text": "Bhuvan the hero of the film to understand 'cricket', relates it to his understanding of their native folk game of Gilli Danda. He says: ball (image of the silli thing) is gola-gola-ball, bat-phalli-phalli-bat.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Bhaskar Majumder, Rethinking Villages, Concept Publishing Company, page 110:",
"text": "The indigenous games like gilli-danda, goli, kabaddi, tash, kabootar urana (pigeon flying), erhi koodna (long jump), surra, cheel jhapatna, tahat etc., were commonly played by both children and adults of the village[...]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Chatterjee, The Politics of Sport in South Asia, Routledge, page 156:",
"text": "This happens because the hero of the film asserts that cricket is only a poor copy of their own age-old children's game of gilli-danda. So this mockery inverts the colonizing mission of civilizing the childlike natives on its head and also 'desecrates the \"purity\" of cricket roots' asserted by the British.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Hachette India, Indiapedia: The All-India Factfinder:",
"text": "Also called guli danda, Gilli Danda is a sport for an amateur which is very popular among rural youth. It is known as Danguli in Bengali, Kuttiyam Kolum in Malayalam, Kitti-Pullu in Tamil, Chinni-Dandu in Kannada, Gooti-Billa in Telugu and Lappa-Duggi in Pashto. It follows the structure of cricket or baseball, only it is played with sticks.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Victoria Williams Ph.D., Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing, ABC-CLIO, page 122:",
"text": "A game of gilli-danda continues until all players have had a turn at being on strike. The winning team is the side that records the most danda lengths and thus scores the most points.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A game played in several Asian countries, in which a large stick is used to hit a small oval-shaped piece of wood. It is played much like tipcat, baseball, and cricket."
],
"links": [
[
"Asian",
"Asian"
],
[
"tipcat",
"tipcat"
],
[
"baseball",
"baseball"
],
[
"cricket",
"cricket"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"wikipedia": [
"gilli-danda"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "ḍaṅguli",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ডাংগুলি"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "ḍêṅbaṛi",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ড্যাংবাড়ি"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "guṭbaṛi",
"sense": "game",
"word": "গুটবাড়ি"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "ṭêmoḍaṅ",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ট্যামডাং"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "bhêṭaḍanḍa",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ভ্যাটাডান্ডা"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "gillī ḍaṇḍā",
"sense": "game",
"word": "गिल्ली डंडा"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "gullīḍaṇḍā",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "गुल्लीडंडा"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "gullīḍaṇḍā",
"sense": "game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "गुल्लीडण्डा"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "cinni dāṇḍu",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ಚಿನ್ನಿ ದಾಂಡು"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "gilli dāṇḍu",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ಗಿಲ್ಲಿ ದಾಂಡು"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "hāṇe geṇḍe",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ಹಾಣೆ ಗೆಂಡೆ"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "cinni kōlu",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ಚಿನ್ನಿ ಕೋಲು"
},
{
"code": "kok",
"lang": "Konkani",
"roman": "koyaṇḍo bāl",
"sense": "game",
"word": "कोयंडो बाल"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "viṭī dāṇḍū",
"sense": "game",
"word": "विटी दांडू"
},
{
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "guli bāṛi",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ଗୁଲି ବାଡ଼ି"
},
{
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "ḍābalapuā",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ଡାବଲପୁଆ"
},
{
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "pilabāṛi",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ପିଲବାଡ଼ି"
},
{
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "guṭiḍābuḷa",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ଗୁଟିଡାବୁଳ"
},
{
"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "gullī ḍaṇḍā",
"sense": "game",
"word": "ਗੁੱਲੀ ਡੰਡਾ"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "kiṭṭip puḷḷu",
"sense": "game",
"word": "கிட்டிப் புள்ளு"
}
],
"word": "gilli-danda"
}
Download raw JSONL data for gilli-danda meaning in English (6.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (9e2b7d3 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.