Ball

"Ball" in Dutch

bal

(object, generally spherical, used for playing games)

bal

(testicle — see also testicle)

bal

(formal dance)

ballen

(mildly vulgar slang: nonsense)

bol

(solid or hollow sphere)

bolleke

(quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape)

bolletje

(quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape)

gala

(formal dance)

kloot

(object, generally spherical, used for playing games)

kloot

(testicle — see also testicle)

kloten

(mildly vulgar slang: nonsense)

kloten aan z’n lijf

(in plural — slang — courage)

kluwen

(quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape)

kogel

(ballistics: a solid nonexplosive missile)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.