windsurfing

See also: Windsurfing

English

Windsurfing

Etymology

From wind +‎ surfing.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

windsurfing (uncountable)

1. A marine sport in which one stands on a floating board (typically 2 - 3 meters in length) to which a sail is attached. The board is steered by tilting the sail or banking the board. Some windsurfers use large waves to perform jumps and other stunts.

Synonyms

• boardsailing

Derived terms

• windsurfer

Translations

a marine sport

• Bulgarian: уиндсърфинг m (uindsǎrfing)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 風帆衝浪／风帆冲浪 (fēngfān chōnglàng), 滑浪風帆／滑浪风帆 (huálàngfēngfān), 帆板 (zh) (fānbǎn)

• Czech: windsurfing m
• Finnish: purjelautailu
• French: planche à voile (fr) f, windsurf (fr) m (rare)
• German: Windsurfen (de) n, Windsurfing (de) n
• Greek: ιστιοσανίδα (el) f (istiosanída)
• Hungarian: széllovaglás (hu)
• Japanese: ウィンドサーフィン (ja) (windosāfin)
• Polish: windsurfing (pl) m, serfowanie (pl) n
• Romanian: plutire cu velă f
• Russian: виндсёрфинг (ru) m (vindsjórfing)
• Scottish Gaelic: surfadh-gaoithe m
• Spanish: windsurf (es) m
• Swedish: vindsurfning (sv) c, brädsegling c
• Welsh: bordhwylio m

Verb

windsurfing

1. present participle and gerund of windsurf

Czech

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English windsurfing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪntsɛːrfɪŋk], [ˈvɪntsɛrfɪŋk]
• Hyphenation: wind‧sur‧fing

Noun

windsurfing m inan (related adjective windsurfingový)

1. windsurfing

Declension

Declension of windsurfing (velar masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	windsurfing	windsurfingy
genitive	windsurfingu	windsurfingů
dative	windsurfingu	windsurfingům
accusative	windsurfing	windsurfingy
vocative	windsurfingu	windsurfingy
locative	windsurfingu	windsurfinzích
instrumental	windsurfingem	windsurfingy

Related terms

• surfing m inan

 

Further reading

• “windsurfing”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English windsurfing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wintˈsɛr.fiŋk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛrfiŋk
• Syllabification: wind‧sur‧fing

Noun

windsurfing m inan

1. (sailing, surfing) windsurfing

Declension

Declension of windsurfing

	singular
nominative	windsurfing
genitive	windsurfingu
dative	windsurfingowi
accusative	windsurfing
instrumental	windsurfingiem
locative	windsurfingu
vocative	windsurfingu

Derived terms

adjective

• windsurfingowy

 

Related terms

nouns

• windsurfer
• windsurferka

 

Further reading

• windsurfing in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• windsurfing in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English windsurfing.

Noun

windsurfing n (uncountable)

1. windsurfing

Declension

declension of windsurfing (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) windsurfing	windsurfingul
genitive/dative	(unui) windsurfing	windsurfingului
vocative	windsurfingule