Quidditch

quidditch English thumb|Some Quidditch gear. Alternative forms en quidditch Etymology en J. K. Rowling British author in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In Quidditch Through the Ages, Rowling gives some etymological information, hinting that the word evolved from Queerditch (compound of en queer ditch), with some spelling variation as would be expected in real life enm -, namely Kwidditch, Kweerditch. Pronunciation en /ˈkwɪdɪt͡ʃ/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Quidditch.wav Southern England Noun - en Q305561A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals. en 2003 Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park New York Times http://books.google.co.uk/books?um=1&lr=&q=%22a+spot+on+the+local+Quidditch+team%22&btnG=Search+Books Maybe you wish your parents were smarter or funnier or richer or better looking, but you might as well wish for a spot on the local Quidditch team. en December 16, 2007 Ethan Todras-Whitehill In Tikal, Temples in the Mist New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/travel/16Tikal.html?8br Turn to the south, and you see the Central Acropolis, a five-story palace where the nobles might have sat to watch plaza ceremonies or the famous Quidditch-like Mayan ball games. https://web.archive.org/web/20250123232215/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/travel/16Tikal.html?8br 23 January 2025 en 2007 Roger Ebert Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 Whichever team gets Yegor holds the edge. This is like Quidditch in hell. en May 8, 2010 Brooks Barnes Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me! National Public Radio http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/business/media/16harry.html Eton’s playing fields are famous, not least because of the Eton Field Game. It’s played only there. It’s sort of like Quidditch for real people. Coordinate terms en Golden Snitch en quaffle Derived terms en Muggle quidditch Translations fictitious ball game Albanian: sq Kuidiç m Arabic: ar كْوِيدِتْش m Armenian: hy Քվիդիչ Azerbaijani: az Qviddiç Belarusian: be кві́дыш m, be кві́дыч m Bengali: bn কুইডিচ, bn কিডিচ Bulgarian: bg куи́дич m Catalan: ca Quidditch m, ca quidditch m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 魁地奇 kuídìqí Czech: cs famfrpál m Danish: da Quidditch c Dutch: nl Zwerkbal m Esperanto: eo kvidiĉo Estonian: et lendluudpall Finnish: fi huispaus French: fr quidditch m Georgian: ka ქვიდიჩი German: de Quidditch n Greek: el κουίντιτς n Hebrew: he קְוִוידִיץ׳ m Kvídich Hindi: hi क्विडिच m Hungarian: hu kviddics Icelandic: is Quidditch n Italian: it Quidditch m, it quidditch m Japanese: ja クィディッチ kwiditchi Korean: ko 퀴디치 Latvian: lv kalambols m Lithuanian: lt kvidičas m Macedonian: mk кви́дич m, mk метлобој m Norwegian: no rumpeldunk m Persian: fa کوییدیچ kvidič Polish: pl quidditch m Portuguese: pt quidditch m Portugal, pt quadribol m Brazil Romanian: ro vâj-haț n Russian: ru кви́ддич m Samogitian: sgs kvidičos m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh квидич m, sh метлобој m Latin: sh kvidič m, sh metloboj m Slovak: sk metlobal m Slovene: sl quidditch m Spanish: es Quidditch m, es quidditch m Swedish: sv quidditch c Telugu: te క్విడిచ్ Thai: th ควิดดิช kwít-dìch Ukrainian: uk кві́дич m Vietnamese: vi Quidditch as written in a translation, vi Quít-đit Vietnamese version Yiddish: yi קווידיטש n References Collegiate Quidditch takes off — figuratively, at least en terms derived from Harry Potter en Anti-gravity Ball games Fictional abilities Harry Potter