FIFA

From French Fédération Internationale de Football Association (“International Federation of Association Football”).

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association football
association football

(soccer) The International Federation of Association Football, the international governing body of the sport of association football.

فِيفَا

the International Federation of Association Football


X

From the Etruscan letter 𐌗 (x, “ex”), from the Ancient Greek letter Χ (Kh, “chi”), created ex nihilo.

Coordinate term: / (spare)


Sm

(numismatics) Alternative form of ₷ (“spesmilo”)


ASA

American Samoa
American Samoa#Translingual

(sports) Abbreviation of American Samoa.


prêt

From French prêts, from French prêt (“ready”).

(fencing) The command to make ready; used regardless of language of the participants; in the sequence "en garde, prêt, aller".


ready

Borrowed from English ready, from the English-language sequence on your marks, ready, set, go, of which only ready is used translingually.

(sports) The command to make ready, regardless of language of competitors, used in multiple sports to get contestants to their marks in preparation to start.


(tennis) score after a player has scored one point in a game


(tennis) A score after a player has scored three points in a game, one point away from winning the game.


(cricket) Used to marks a score or statistic that is incomplete, such as the score of a batsman who is (or was) not out.


VIN

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines#Translingual

(sports) Abbreviation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.


aller

From French allez, from French aller (“go”).

(fencing) The command to start; used regardless of language of the participants; in the sequence "en garde, prêt, aller".


The hyphen-minus, a catch-all symbol for certain dash and dash-like characters.


O

From the Etruscan letter 𐌏 (o, “o”), from the Ancient Greek letter Ο (O, “omikron”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤏 (ʿ, “ʿayin”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓁹.


NED

(sports) Netherlands Abbreviation of Nederlands.


SOL

Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands#Translingual

(sports) Abbreviation of Solomon Islands.


ROA

(sports) Initialism of refugee Olympics athletes. (country code for the team)


head

† (English symbol name dagger or obelus)

dagger (English name symbol)
obelus (English name symbol)

Derives from the obelus, ⟨⸓⟩. Originally shaped like a dagger, it is now sometimes identical in shape to a Latin cross.

(cricket) Used in scorecards to indicate the wicketkeeper.


L-L

(sports) Late result (results not received at the time of publication)


The shield of the sun god Apollo, with a boss in the center. Medieval replacement of ⟨🜚⟩, the sun with a single ray, which in ancient times had replaced a sun orb surrounded by multiple rays.
Compare the Egyptian hieroglyph ⟨⟩ and the Chinese character ⟨⟩, both of which mean 'sun' and 'day'.

(philately) cancellation (with an ordinary post-office cancellation mark).


en garde

(fencing) The command to go to starting positions; used regardless of language of the participants; in the sequence "en garde, prêts, allez".


For those unfamiliar with him, Geoff Crammond has been the inspiration behind a couple of superb F1 racing simulations on the PC.

2002, Kate Berens, Geoff Howard, The Rough Guide to Videogaming (in English):

Ratcliffe is a majority shareholder of chemical group INEOS which already owns the French soccer club Nice, Swiss club Lausanne-Sport, the Ineos Grenadiers cycling team and is a principal partner of the Mercedes F1 team.

2023 March 20, Issy Ronald, “Manchester United is for sale, who could buy the world-famous club?”, in CNN (in English):

(motor racing) Initialism of Formula One / Formula 1.


FIBA

“The NBA and FIBA are uniquely positioned to build on the rich tradition of European basketball. We look forward to collaborating with FIBA to explore the creation of a new league for fans across the continent,” Silver added.

2025 March 27, Matias Grez, “NBA and FIBA in talks with European soccer teams over new basketball league”, in CNN (in English):

(basketball) The Fédération Internationale de Basketball. Also known in English as International Basketball Federation. Originally known as "Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur" (international federation of amateur basketball); from its French name, hence the initialism.


/ (English name slash or stroke or solidus)

slash (English name)
stroke (English name)
solidus (English name)

The various uses of the present symbol derive from several sources. The medieval virgule (Latin virgula) was an oblique or vertical line that served as a comma, period, and caesura mark and is still used in literary contexts to mark line breaks in verse. (This mark separately developed as the comma ⟨,⟩ and caesura mark ⟨‖⟩ and some senses of the vertical bar ⟨|⟩.) The shilling mark (Latin solidus) was variously written s. or as the long s ſ. This eventually developed into a single unpunctuated slash; its use to separate shillings from pence was sometimes generalized to any currency division. Most mathematical senses derived from the earlier horizontal fraction bar (as in 12, usually attributed to Arabic mathematician al-Hassar), rewritten with a slash by the 18th century to permit fractions to be written on a single line. As a separator and conjunction, it represents an oblique form of the dash ⟨–⟩ or hyphen ⟨-⟩. Its use to mark supposed actions derives from command formatting in online chat forums, while its use to comment on preceding text derives from its use in some programming languages to form closing tags. Its present British name stroke derives from its use in telegraphy; its present American name slash gained wide currency from its use in computing.

£10/– is ten quid even.

(numismatics, sometimes proscribed) Used to separate base currency units from their subdivisions; or, when followed by a dash or hyphen marking an even sum.


(historical, numismatics) The currency sign for British, Irish, Kenyan, etc. shillings.


FR

Formula Regional
Formula Regional#English

(motor racing) Initialism of Formula Regional.: Formula Regional / Formula R; a category on the FIA single seat open wheel open cockpit formula racing ladder. Multinational regional designation for F3 series, such as continental based series.


FINA

Abbreviation of French Fédération Internationale de Natation (International Swimming Federation).

(swimming) Fédération Internationale de Natation, the world's governing body for swimming


(sports) The plus-minus statistic for a player; the net number of points or goals scored while a player is on the playing surface; the number of points or goals made by the player's team during such times minus what the opposing team scored during the same intervals.


ƒ

(photography) Used to denote an f-number, usually in the format “ƒ/N” where N is the f-number.


★ (English symbol name star or five-pointed star)

star (English name symbol)
five-pointed star (English name symbol)

Likely from Egyptian 𓇼 (“determinative for stars and constellations”) (image: dwA). However, around the same time in Mesopotamia, non-cuneiform depictions of a star with eight- or six-points are attested; compare Sumerian 𒀭, a cuneiform character descended from such drawings.

der

(sports, originally soccer) On a kit, indicates a tournament or championship victory.


(numismatics) spesmilo (an obsolete international currency)


LM

lm (alternative)
cml (alternative)
CML (alternative)


CAF

From French Confédération africaine de football.

Confederation of African Football
w:Confederation of African Football

(soccer) Initialism of Confederation of African Football (alternatively African Football Confederation), the governing body for the sport of association football in Africa.


Formula Three
Formula Three#Translingual

(motor racing) Initialism of Formula Three / Formula 3.


ANT

Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda#Translingual

(sports) Abbreviation of Antigua and Barbuda.


ISV

Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands#Translingual

U.S. Virgin Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands#English

(sports) Abbreviation of Virgin Islands.(U.S. Virgin Islands)


TPE

(sports): Abbreviation of English Taipei (Taiwan).

Republic of China
Republic of China#English

(sports) Chinese Taipei (Republic of China / Taiwan).


IOP

(sports) Abbreviation of independent Olympics participants or individual Olympics participants. (country code for the team)


EOR

(sports) Abbreviation of French équipe olympique des réfugiés (“Olympic Team of Refugees”).; an International Olympic Committee country code.


(bodybuilding, Internet slang) injection, injecting, PED needle, pin


(sports) pertaining to a grouping of people who are under 17 years of age


(sports) pertaining to a grouping of people who are under 21 years of age


(sports) pertaining to a grouping of people who are under 20 years of age


(sports) pertaining to a grouping of people who are under 18 years of age


(sports) pertaining to a grouping of people who are under 16years of age


(sports) pertaining to a grouping of people who are under 15 years of age


(sports) pertaining to a grouping of people who are under 19 years of age


IOA

(sports) Abbreviation of independent Olympics athletes or individual Olympics athletes. (country code for the team)


CGO

Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo#English

(sports) Abbreviation of Congo. (Congo-Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo)


GEQ

Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea#English

Guinée équatoriale
Guinée équatoriale#French

(sports) Equatorial Guinea Abbreviation of Guinée équatoriale.


IVB

British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands#English

Îles vierges britanniques
Îles vierges britanniques#French

(sports) British Virgin Islands Abbreviation of Îles vierges britanniques.


CAY

Cayman Islands
Cayman Islands#Translingual

(sports) Abbreviation of Cayman Islands.


SKN

Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis#Translingual

(sports) Abbreviation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.


TCH

(historical, sports) IOC Olympics country code for Czechoslovakia


Fina

(swimming, sports) Alternative form of FINA


FISA

w:en:Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile

(motor racing) FISA: acronym of Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile; from French FISA; the international wheeled terrestrial motorsports world federation sports authority; part of the FIA, the international wheeled terrestrial vehicle world federation


MXG

(sports) Abbreviation of English mixed group.; for country codes of non-national mixed groupings in competitions where other groupings are national teams


(motor racing) Initialism of Formula 4.: Formula 4 / Formula Four; the fourth level of the FIA single seat open wheel open cockpit formula racing ladder. Unlike many Formula series, the "4" is not a displacement rating, in refers to a performance level below Formula One (“F1”), the third step below it. Many national formula racing series are F4-based series. The current iteration of F4 is a spec series.


(philately) fiscal cancellation (cancellation of revenue stamps for taxation purposes)


AIN

(IOC country code): From French athlètes individuels neutres (“neutral individual athletes”), from athlète+individuel+neutre

International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee#English

(Olympics, sports, politics) An International Olympic Committee country code for neutral Olympic competitors