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From French.
pétanque (uncountable)
- A form of boules originating from the south of France.
form of boules
- Arabic: بَيْتَانْك f (baytānk)
- Asturian: petanca f
- Bulgarian: петанк (petank)
- Catalan: petanca (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: petanque m
- Dutch: pétanque (nl), petanque (nl)
- Finnish: petanque, petankki (fi)
- French: pétanque (fr) f
- Galician: petanca f, bochas f
- German: Pétanque (de) n
- Greek: πετάνκ (petánk)
- Hebrew: פטאנק
- Italian: pétanque f, petanque f
- Japanese: ペタンク (petanku)
- Khmer: ប៉េតុង (peetong)
- Korean: 페탕크 (petangkeu)
- Lao: ເປຕັງ (pē tang), ເປຕອງ (pē tǭng)
- Maori: maita wīwī
- Occitan: petanca (oc) f
- Persian: پتانک (petânk)
- Portuguese: petanca f
- Russian: пета́нк (ru) m (petánk)
- Spanish: petanca (es) f
- Swedish: pétanque (sv) c
- Thai: เปตอง (th) (bpee-dtɔɔng)
- Ukrainian: петанк (petank)
- Vietnamese: bi sắt
- Walloon: petanke f
From Provençal and Occitan petanca, pèd tanco (“foot fixed (to the ground)”), a contraction of pè (“foot”) and tancar (“to attach, close”), together meaning "feet together" in reference to the position that players are supposed to adopt when throwing the ball (in contrast to that of the Provençal version).
pétanque f (uncountable)
- → English: pétanque, petanque
- → Italian: pétanque
- → Lao: ເປຕັງ (pē tang), ເປຕອງ (pē tǭng)
- → Khmer: ប៉េតុង (peetong)
- → Portuguese: petanca
- → Russian: пета́нк (petánk)
- → Spanish: petanca
- → Thai: เปตอง (bpee-dtɔɔng)
- → Turkish: petank
- “pétanque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.