soccer

Etymology
Originally British English; as an abbreviation for, via abbreviation ; earlier (1885), also  (1889), with  attested 1888.

Compare contemporary, from. Similarly constructed coinages from the same period include:, and. See.

Noun

 * 1)  Association football.

Usage notes

 * Since the 1990s, has become more commonly used in the UK and in some other countries where Association football is the most popular football game, including English-speaking territories in Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia, as well as for some English-as-a-second-language (ESL) speakers worldwide. Countries where another type of football sport (or a different football 'code') is more popular are likely to use soccer. These include US, Canada, South Africa, Ireland and some other countries (see here). Both football and soccer are used in Australia and New Zealand, although football also refers to other codes in these countries.
 * soccer was widely used in the UK until the 1990s, although sometimes perceived as upper class or snobbish. Since then, the term has come to be seen as an Americanism (possibly due to media coverage of the hosted in the US and the rise of ) and its usage has declined significantly. The word is still encountered in the UK in some legacy contexts, such as the title of the show , but otherwise its use is often criticized as inauthentic or incorrect which has reversed the erstwhile snobbery.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: كورة
 * Moroccan Arabic: كورة
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܣܦܹܝܪ ܪܸܓ݂ܠܵܐ
 * Asturian: fútbol
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bavarian: Fuaßboi, Wuchtl
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: фу́тбол
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chichewa: mpira
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 足球
 * Hakka: 足球, 足球
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chukchi: ӄапԓёчеттыргын
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dinka: adiircök
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,  , futa
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, Fuppes
 * Alemannic German: Schuttä, Fuessball, Tschuutte
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: isikkamik arsaanneq, arsaanneq
 * Guaraní:
 * Gujarati: ફૂટબોલ
 * Hawaiian: kinipōpō peku
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: फ़ुटबॉल, फ़ुटबाल, फुटबॉल,
 * Hungarian:, , (informal)
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: football
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᔪᒃᑕᖅ
 * Irish: sacar, peil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kannada: ಸಾಕರ್, ಫುಟ್ಬಾಲ್
 * Kazakh: футбол
 * Khmer: កីឡាបាល់ទាត់
 * Korean:, 풋볼
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຟຸດບານ, ບານເຕະ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:, kājbumba
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: фу́дбал
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ഫുട്ബോൾ, സോക്കർ
 * Maltese: futbol
 * Manx: soccer, soccar
 * Maori: poikiri
 * Marathi: फुटबॉल
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Nahuatl: neicxitapayolhuiliztli
 * Navajo: jooł nabíznítaałí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Pashto: فتبال,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,  ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਫੁਟਬਾਲ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Saterland Frisian: Foutbal
 * Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: фудбал, ногомет
 * Roman: ,
 * Sinhalese: පාපන්දුව
 * Slovak: futbal,
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kopańca, balokopanje
 * Upper Sorbian: kopańca
 * Sotho: bolo
 * Spanish:, ; , balón-pie;
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: putbol
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: футбол
 * Telugu: ఫుట్ బాల్
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རྐང་རྩེད་སྤོ་ལོ
 * Tok Pisin: soka, kikbal
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: futbol
 * Ukrainian:, копа́ний м'яч
 * Urdu: فٹ بال
 * Uyghur: پۇتبول
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Western Panjabi: فٹ بال
 * Yiddish: פֿוסבאָל
 * Zhuang: cukgiuz
 * Zulu:

Verb

 * 1)  To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.

Noun

 * 1)   association football