archery

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos

Proto-Italic *arkuos

Vulgar Latin arcus

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzijos

Vulgar Latin -ārius

Vulgar Latin arcuārius

Vulgar Latin *arcārius

Old French archier

Old French archeriebor.

Middle English archerie

English archery

From Middle English archerie, from Old French archerie, from archier (“archer”). Equivalent to archer +‎ -ery.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ärchərē, IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹt͡ʃəɹiː/, /ˈɑːt͡ʃəɹiː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: arch‧er‧y

Noun

archery (countable and uncountable, plural archeries)

1. (uncountable) The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.
2. (countable) A group of archers.

Derived terms

• archery ground
• archery tag
• dartchery
• flight archery
• para-archery

Related terms

• archer

Translations

the practice

• Afrikaans: boogskiet (af), boogskut
• Arabic: رِمَايَة (ar) f (rimāya)
• Armenian: նետաձգություն (hy) (netajgutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: oxatma
• Belarusian: стральба́ з лу́ка f (stralʹbá z lúka)
• Bulgarian: стрелба́ с лък f (strelbá s lǎk)
• Catalan: tir amb arc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 箭術 / 箭术 (jiànshù), 射箭 (zh) (shèjiàn)

• Czech: lukostřelba f
• Danish: bueskydning c
• Dutch: boogschieten (nl) n
• Estonian: vibusport
• Ewe: aŋutrɔdada n
• Finnish: jousiammunta (fi)
• French: tir à l'arc (fr) m, archerie (fr) f
• Georgian: მშვილდოსნობა (mšvildosnoba)
• German: Bogenschießen (de) n
• Greek: τοξοβολία (el) f (toxovolía)

  Ancient Greek: τοξεία f (toxeía)

• Hindi: धनुर्विद्या (hi) f (dhanurvidyā), तीरंदाज़ी f (tīrandāzī)
• Hungarian: íjászat (hu)
• Indonesian: panahan (id)
• Italian: tiro con l'arco n
• Japanese: 弓道 (ja) (きゅうどう, kyūdō), 弓術 (ja) (きゅうじゅつ, kyūjutsu), アーチェリー (ja) (ācherī)
• Kazakh: садақ ату (sadaq atu)
• Korean: 궁도(弓道) (ko) (gungdo), 궁술(弓術) (ko) (gungsul), 양궁(洋弓) (ko) (yanggung)
• Latvian: loka šaušana f
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: стреличарство n (streličarstvo)
• Maltese: dwell
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: харваа (mn) (xarvaa)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bueskyting m or f

  Nynorsk: bogeskyting f

• Occitan: tir amb arc m
• Persian: تیراندازی با کمان
• Polish: łucznictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: arco e flecha (pt) m
• Russian: стрельба́ из лу́ка f (strelʹbá iz lúka)
• Scottish Gaelic: boghadaireachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стрѐлича̄рство n

  Latin: strèličārstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: lukostrelectvo n
• Slovene: lokostrelstvo n
• Spanish: arquería (es) f, tiro con arco (es) m
• Swedish: bågskjutning n
• Tamil: வில்லாண்மை (ta) (villāṇmai), விற்கலை (viṟkalai), வில்வித்தை (ta) (vilvittai)
• Telugu: విలువిద్య (te) (viluvidya)
• Thai: การยิงธนู (kār ying ṭhnū)
• Turkish: okçuluk (tr)
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: стрільба́ з лу́ка f (strilʹbá z lúka)
• Vietnamese: bắn cung (𪧻弓)
• Welsh: saethyddiaeth f

a group of archers

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 射箭隊 / 射箭队 (shèjiàn duì), 弓箭手隊 / 弓箭手队 (gōngjiànshǒu duì)

• Finnish: ryhmä jousiampujia
• French: archerie (fr) f

See also

• bowman
• bowmanship
• toxophilite