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Polo Game Played Tibetan Language English 12786.Polo 英

正面 12786.polo
英 ['pəʊləʊ]美 ['polo]

背面
释义:
n. 马球;水球n. (Polo)人名;(法、俄、西、意、芬、阿尔巴)波洛
例句:
1. He has lived and breathed polo since he was seven.他从7岁开始就一直热衷于马球。

1. Polo一词在英文中是马球(马球,史称“击鞠”、“击球”等,骑在马背上用长柄球槌拍击木球的运动。蒙古族民间马上游戏和运动项目,流行于内蒙古等地。相传唐初由波斯(今伊朗)传入,称“波罗球”,后传入蒙古,相沿至今。)的意思。2. 音译“波罗球”。
polo 马球来自英式印度语polo,马球,一种印度游戏,通常认为该词最终来自藏语pulu,球。
polopolo: [19] In Balti, a Tibetan language of northern Kashmir, polo means ‘ball’. English travellers in Kashmir in the 1840s observed a game being played on horseback which involved trying to knock a wooden polo into a goal using a longhandled mallet. The English sahibs lost no time in taking the game up themselves, and by 1871 it was being played back home in England, under the name ‘polo’.polo (n.)1872, Anglo-Indian polo, from Balti (Tibetan language of the Indus valley) polo "ball," related to Tibetan pulu "ball." An ancient game in south Asia, first played in England at Aldershot, 1871. Water polo is from 1876 (in early versions players sometimes paddled about on barrels or in canoes). Polo shirt (1892) originally was a kind worn by polo players."

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