Frisbee

See also: frisbee

English

Alternative forms

• frisbee (genericization of the trademark)
• frisbie (obsolete)

Etymology

1957, brand name Frisbee was trademarked in 1959 by Fred Morrison, later acquired by Wham-O. From an alteration of frisbie, applied to the disk game by U.S. college students who tossed pie plates from Mrs. Frisbie's Pies, Frisbie Bakery, Bridgeport Ct., since the 1930s. From the English family name Frisby attested 1226, from the toponym attested 1086 in Frisby on the Wreak, Leicestershire, from Old Danish Frisby (“Frisian village”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪzbi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Frisbee

1. A trademarked brand name of disc-shaped gliding toy.

Noun

Frisbee (countable and uncountable, plural Frisbees)

1. A disk-shaped gliding toy, sold under the brand name Frisbee.

   Hypernyms: frisbee, disc, flying disc

2. (by extension, genericization) A frisbee, a disk-shaped gliding toy of any brand.
3. (sports, uncountable) frisbee: the sport involving Frisbees.

   Synonyms: disc, flying disc

Usage notes

Frisbee is proprietary name, trademarked in 1959. In avoiding the trademark, the term "flying disc", later shortened to disc has been used.

Derived terms

• frisbee
• frisbee golf
• frolf
• ultimate frisbee

 

Translations

toy

• Arabic: صَحْنٌ طَائِر m (ṣaḥnun ṭāʔir)
• Armenian: թռչող ափսե (tʻṙčʻoġ apʻse), տարելկա (tarelka) (colloquial)
• Bavarian: Frisbee n
• Bulgarian: летя́щ ди́ск m (letjášt dísk)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 飛碟 / 飞碟 (fei¹ dip^6-2)

  Mandarin: 飛盤 / 飞盘 (zh) (fēipán)

• Czech: frisbee
• Danish: frisbee
• Dutch: frisbee (nl)
• Esperanto: flugdisko
• Finnish: frisbee (fi), liitokiekko
• French: frisbee (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Frisbee (de) n, Wurfscheibe (de) f
• Hebrew: פריזבי m
• Hungarian: frizbi (hu)
• Icelandic: svifdiskur
• Italian: frisbee
• Japanese: フライングディスク (ja) (furaingu-disuku), フリスビー (furisubī)
• Korean: 프리스비 (peuriseubi)
• Latin: discus volans m
• Latvian: frisbija disks m
• Lithuanian: plastinė lėkštė f
• Macedonian: фризби n (frizbi)
• Maori: ripi
• Mongolian: нисдэг таваг (nisdeg tavag)
• Norwegian: frisbee
• Polish: frisbee (pl)
• Portuguese: frisbee m, disco (pt) m
• Russian: лета́ющий диск m (letájuščij disk), лета́ющая таре́лка (ru) f (letájuščaja tarélka)
• Serbo-Croatian: frizbi (sh)
• Slovak: frisbee
• Spanish: frisbee m
• Swedish: frisbee
• Thai: จานบิน (th) (jaan-bin)
• Turkish: frizbi
• Ukrainian: фрісбі (frisbi)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

sport

• Finnish: frisbee (fi), liitokiekkoilu
• Polish: frisbee (pl) n

See also

• boomerang

Verb

Frisbee (third-person singular simple present Frisbees, present participle Frisbeeing, simple past and past participle Frisbeed)

1. To throw something in the manner of a Frisbee.

   The bartender Frisbeed a cardboard coaster to the patron at the end of the bar.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Frisbee”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

Frisbee n

1. frisbee

Further reading

• “Frisbee” in Duden online