golf

Etymology
The word is first known in English from the 17th century as a from,. Although the etymology is uncertain, the most likely origin is that it comes from the, , ultimately from , related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: gholf
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ጎልፍ
 * Arabic: جُولْف, جُولْف, غُولْف, غُولْف, غُولْف
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: golf
 * Azerbaijani: qolf
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: гольф
 * Bengali: গল্ফ
 * Bulgarian: голф
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 哥爾夫球, 高爾夫球
 * Hokkien:, 高爾夫球, 戛仔球
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: golf
 * Finnish:, kolopallo
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გოლფი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: gòf
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: गोल्फ़,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: galf
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada: ಗಾಲ್ಫ್
 * Kazakh: гольф
 * Khmer: ហ្គោល
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ກອຟ
 * Latin: pilamalleus
 * Latvian: golfs
 * Lithuanian: golfas
 * Luxembourgish: golf
 * Macedonian: голф
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: hahaupōro, korowha
 * Marathi: गोल्फ
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: jooł yázhí náás yikalí, nʼdilkal
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: golf
 * Occitan: gòlf
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: gowf
 * Scottish Gaelic: goilf
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: голф
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: ගොල්ෆ්
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: golf
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: golp
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: கோல்ஃப்
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: golf
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: گولف
 * Uyghur: گولف توپى
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: golff
 * Yiddish: גאָלף
 * Zulu: igalofu

Verb

 * 1)  To play the game of golf.
 * 2)  To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)
 * 1)  To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)

Translations

 * Bengali: গল্ফ খেলা
 * Bulgarian: играя голф
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:

Noun

 * 1)  golf

Etymology 1
or, , , alteration of , from.

Noun

 * 1) gulf

Etymology 2
.

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1)  a ball game

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1) bay, gulf

Etymology 1
From, from , Influenced by, from.

Noun

 * 1) wave
 * 2)  wave
 * 3)  gulf

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) golf

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) golf

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) golf

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) golf

Etymology
From.

Etymology
,, most likely from , , ultimately from.

Noun

 * : A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) jumper, cardigan
 * 1) jumper, cardigan

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From and.

Noun

 * 1) a gulf

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From and.

Noun

 * 1) a gulf

Etymology 1
.

Etymology 2
. Perhaps.

Noun

 * 1)  turtleneck, polo-neck

Etymology 3
, a.

Noun

 * 1)  car

Etymology 4
.

Noun

 * 1)  gulf

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) gulf

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1)  bay, gulf
 * 1)  bay, gulf

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  a gulf (very large bay)
 * 1)  a gulf (very large bay)

Usage notes
is used instead of golf in some names, for example in "Persiska viken" (the Persian Gulf).

Noun

 * 1) golf

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) wave (motion in a liquid)
 * 2) wave, gush
 * 3) wave (in any other medium or field)
 * 4)  tilde
 * 1)  tilde
 * 1)  tilde