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Olympics
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English
Etymology
en :af Olympic -s<id:pluralia tantum> + 1
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-PerfectSoundWhatever-Olympics.wav CA
en en-us-Olympics.ogg US
Proper noun
p 1
en Q5389 en Olympic Games<id:Q5389>.
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Derived terms
en Deaflympics Paralympics Special Olympics Summer Olympics Winter Olympics victim Olympics victimhood Olympics
Related terms
en Olympiad
en Olympic
Translations
sport event Olympic Games
Albanian: sq olimpiadë f
Arabic: ar أُولِمْبِيَّة f ʔulimbiyya
Armenian: hy օլիմպիադա
Azerbaijani: az olimpiada
Belarusian: be алімпія́да f
Bengali: bn অলিম্পিক, bn অলিম্পিক্স
Bulgarian: bg олимпиа́да f
Burmese: my အိုလံပစ်
Catalan: ca olimpíada f, ca olimpíades f-p
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 奧林匹克 Àolínpǐkè, cmn 奧運會 Àoyùnhuì
Czech: cs olympiáda f
Danish: da olympiade c
Dutch: nl olympiade f
Esperanto: eo olimpikoj
Estonian: et olümpia
Finnish: fi olympiakisat p, fi olympialaiset
French: fr Olympiades f-p, fr Olympiques
Georgian: ka ოლიმპიადა
German: de Olympia n, de Olympiade f
Hindi: hi ओलंपिक m
Hungarian: hu olimpia
Indonesian: id Olimpiade
Italian: it Olimpiadi f-p
Japanese: ja オリンピック Orinpikku, ja 五輪 ごりん, gorin
Kazakh: kk олимпиада
Korean: ko 올림픽, ko 오륜(五輪)
Kyrgyz: ky олимпиада
Latvian: lv olimpiāde f
Lithuanian: lt olimpiada f
Macedonian: mk олимпија́да f
Navajo: nv ahąą honinééh
Pashto: ps المپيا f olampyã
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira اُلَمْپیک
Polish: pl olimpiada f
Portuguese: pt Olimpíada f, pt Olimpíadas f-p
Romanian: ro Jocurile Olimpice n-p, ro olimpiadă f
Russian: ru олимпиа́да f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh олимпијада f
Latin: sh olimpijada f
Sinhalese: si ඔලිම්පික්
Slovak: sk olympiáda f
Slovene: sl olimpijada f
Spanish: es olimpiada f may be capitalized, es olimpiadas f-p may be capitalized, es olimpíada f may be capitalized, es olimpíadas f-p may be capitalized
Swedish: sv OS n, sv Olympiaden c
Tagalog: tl Olimpiko
Tajik: tg олимпиада
Thai: th โอลิมปิก
Turkish: tr olimpiyat
Turkmen: tk olimpiada
Ukrainian: uk олімпіа́да f
Urdu: ur اولَمْپِک m
Uzbek: uz olimpiada
Vietnamese: vi thế vận hội, vi ô-lim-pích
Noun
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en slang figurative often derogatory Any real or perceived competition.
en A champion in the beauty Olympics
Derived terms
en Oppression Olympics
en woke Olympics
en 3-syllable words
en Sports