shuttlecock

Etymology
From (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) +  (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers).

Noun

 * 1)  A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games.
 * 2)  The game of badminton.
 * 3) * 1830, Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Bertha's visit to her uncle in England (volume 3, page 105)
 * Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock
 * 1)  The game of badminton.
 * 2) * 1830, Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Bertha's visit to her uncle in England (volume 3, page 105)
 * Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock
 * 1) * 1830, Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Bertha's visit to her uncle in England (volume 3, page 105)
 * Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock
 * Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock

Translations

 * Arabic: رِيشَة
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 羽毛球
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: pérák
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , vederbal
 * Esperanto: volano
 * Faroese: fjaðurbóltur, fjaðrabóltur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:, शटलकॉक
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: eiteán
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 羽根つき
 * Korean:
 * Lao:
 * Luxembourgish: Fiederball
 * Macedonian: перо
 * Malay: bulu tangkis
 * Maori: pūkura
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fjærball,
 * Nynorsk: fjørball, høne
 * Persian: توپ بدمینتون
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, вола́нчик
 * Serbo-Croatian: лоптица,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, badmintonboll
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: вола́н
 * Vietnamese: quả cầu lông

Verb

 * 1) To move rapidly back and forth.
 * 2) To send or toss back and forth; to bandy.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Portuguese: