Kaalppanthu, from "Kaal" (foot) and "Panthu" (ball). Manx: bluckan coshey Norwegian: fotball Polish: piłka nożna, from piłka (ball) and noga (leg). Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise Sinhala: පා පන්දු = paa pandu Somali: kubada cagta - kubada "ball" and cagta"feet or foot". Swahili: mpira wa miguu, from mpira (ball), wa (of) and miguu (feet/legs). Swedish: fotboll Tamil: கால்பந்து, கால் (kaal) = foot and பந்து (pandhu) = ball Ukrainian: occasionally called копаний м'яч (kopanyi myach), literally "kicked ball" or simply копаний (kopanyi) Welsh: pêl-droed In the first half of the 20th century, in Spanish and Portuguese, new words were created to replace "football" (fútbol in Spanish and futebol in Portuguese), balompié (balón and pie meaning "ball" and "foot") and ludopédio (from words meaning "game" and "foot") respectively. However, these words were not widely accepted and are now only used in club names such as Real Betis Balompié and Albacete Balompié. From soccer Afrikaans: sokker, echoing the predominant use of "soccer" in South African English. Bulgarian: сокър (sokur) Canadian French: soccer, pronounced like the English word. In Quebec, in New-Brunswick, etc. the word football refers either to American or Canadian football, following the usage of English-speaking North America. Japanese: sakkā (サッカー) is more common than futtobōru (フットボール) because of American influence following World War II. While the Japan Football Association uses the word "football" in its official English name, the Association's Japanese name uses sakkā. Irish: sacar Manx Gaelic: soccar or sackyr Swahili: soka Tok Pisin: soka Other forms Italian: calcio (from calciare, meaning to kick), although football is also widely understood, as many clubs include Football Club in their official denomination. This is due to the game's resemblance to Calcio Fiorentino, a 16th-century ceremonial Florentine court ritual, that has now been revived under the name il calcio storico or calcio in costume (historical kick or kick in costume). Bosnian, Croatian, Slovene: nogomet. The word is derived from "noga" (meaning "leg") and "met" (meaning "to throw"), hence "throwing the ball using legs". In Erzya: пильгеоска (pilgeoska). In Hungarian futball or labdarúgás (meaning ball-kicking), but foci is used in the common language. In Burmese, where the game was introduced in the 1880s by Sir James George Scott, it is called ball-pwe, a pwe being a rural all-night dance party, something like a rave. In Lao, the term "ບານເຕະ:ban-te", literally meaning "ball-kicking", is used to denote "football". In Navajo: jooł nabízníltaałí, meaning "ball is kicked around".