Word Origin Summary

Basketball is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• basketball

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• basketbal

  Dutch · borrowed from

• basquetbol

  Spanish · borrowed from

• basketbol

  Crimean Tatar · borrowed from

• basketra

  Bara Malagasy · borrowed from

• баскетбол

  Kazakh · derived from

• basket

  French · derived from

• basquetbol

  Catalan · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root