"kabaddi" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kəˈbædi/, /ˈkʌbədi/ Forms: kabaddis [plural]
Rhymes: -ædi Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi कबड्डी (kabaḍḍī), from Tamil கபடி (kapaṭi), from Tamil கை பிடி (kai piṭi), from கை (kai, “hand”) + பிடி (piṭi, “catch”), which could be translated as "holding hands". Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|hi|कबड्डी}} Borrowed from Hindi कबड्डी (kabaḍḍī), {{der|en|ta|கபடி}} Tamil கபடி (kapaṭi), {{der|en|ta|கை பிடி}} Tamil கை பிடி (kai piṭi) Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} kabaddi (usually uncountable, plural kabaddis)
  1. A South Asian team sport in which players must hold their breath while making raids into the opposing team's half of the field. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Sports Translations (sport): kabaddi (Afrikaans), কাবাডী (kabadi) (Assamese), কপটি (kopoti) (Assamese), হাদুম (hadum) (Assamese), গুদু-গুদু (gudu-gudu) (Assamese), কাবাডি (kabaḍi) (Bengali), কবাডি (kobaḍi) (Bengali), হাডুডু (haḍuḍu) (Bengali), 卡巴迪 (kǎbādí) (Chinese Mandarin), कबड्डी (kabaḍḍī) (Hindi), カバディ (kabadi) (Japanese), ಕಬಡಿ (kabaḍi) (Kannada), 카바디 (kabadi) (Korean), കബഡി (kabaḍi) (Malayalam), कबड्डी (kabaḍḍī) [masculine] (Marathi), کودّی، کبدی (Persian), kabaddi [masculine] (Portuguese), ਕਬੱਡੀ (kabaḍḍī) (Punjabi), சடுகுடு (caṭukuṭu) (Tamil), கபடி (kapaṭi) (Tamil), కబడ్డీ (kabaḍḍī) (Telugu), చెడుగుడు (ceḍuguḍu) (Telugu), کبڈی (Urdu), קאַבאַדדי (kabaddi) (Yiddish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "sense": "sport",
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          "roman": "kabaḍi",
          "sense": "sport",
          "word": "কাবাডি"
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          "sense": "sport",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "kǎbādí",
          "sense": "sport",
          "word": "卡巴迪"
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          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "kabaḍḍī",
          "sense": "sport",
          "word": "कबड्डी"
        },
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          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kabadi",
          "sense": "sport",
          "word": "カバディ"
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          "lang": "Kannada",
          "roman": "kabaḍi",
          "sense": "sport",
          "word": "ಕಬಡಿ"
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          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "kabadi",
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          "word": "കബഡി"
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          "sense": "sport",
          "word": "சடுகுடு"
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          "sense": "sport",
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          "roman": "kabaḍḍī",
          "sense": "sport",
          "word": "కబడ్డీ"
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          "roman": "kabaddi",
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      "ipa": "/kəˈbædi/"
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      "ipa": "/ˈkʌbədi/"
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      "sense": "sport",
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      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "গুদু-গুদু"
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      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "কাবাডি"
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      "roman": "kobaḍi",
      "sense": "sport",
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      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "haḍuḍu",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "হাডুডু"
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      "roman": "kǎbādí",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "卡巴迪"
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      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "kabaḍḍī",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "कबड्डी"
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      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kabadi",
      "sense": "sport",
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      "lang": "Kannada",
      "roman": "kabaḍi",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "ಕಬಡಿ"
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      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "kabadi",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "카바디"
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      "roman": "kabaḍi",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "കബഡി"
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      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "kabaḍḍī",
      "sense": "sport",
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      "word": "कबड्डी"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "کودّی، کبدی"
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sport",
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      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "kabaḍḍī",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "ਕਬੱਡੀ"
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      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "caṭukuṭu",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "சடுகுடு"
    },
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      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "kapaṭi",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "கபடி"
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      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "kabaḍḍī",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "కబడ్డీ"
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      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "ceḍuguḍu",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "చెడుగుడు"
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      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "کبڈی"
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      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "kabaddi",
      "sense": "sport",
      "word": "קאַבאַדדי"
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  "word": "kabaddi"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.