used in Japanese, as in 日本サッカー協会 (lit. Japan Soccer Association, but the official English name is Japan Football Association). From 1885 to around 1908 in the Meiji era, fūtobōru (フートボール) was the most common and assoshieshon (アッソシエーション) was also used, and these were often written together with kemari (蹴鞠), a game of the Heian period. From the Taisho era to the early Showa era, ashiki futtobōru (ア式フットボール), ashiki shūkyū (ア式蹴球) and shūkyū (蹴球) were often used. Kannada: ಫುಟ್‌ಬಾಲ್ (phutball) Kazakh: футбол (futbol) Kyrgyz: футбол (futbol) Latvian: futbols Lithuanian: futbolas Macedonian: фудбал (fudbal) Malayalam: ഫുട്ബോൾ (phutball) Maltese: futbol Marathi: फुट्बॉल् (phutball) Persian: فوتبال (futbâl) Polish: futbol, as well as the native term piłka nożna literally "foot-ball" Portuguese: futebol Romanian: fotbal Russian: футбол (futbol) Serbian: фудбал (fudbal) Slovak: futbal Spanish: fútbol or futbol; the calque balompié, from the words "balón" (ball) and "pie" (foot), is seldom used. Tajik: футбол (futbol) Telugu: ఫుట్‌బాల్ (phutball) Thai: ฟุตบอล (fút-bol) Turkish: futbol Ukrainian: футбол (futbol), occasionally called копаний м'яч (kopanyi myach), literally "kicked ball" or simply копаний (kopanyi) Uzbek: futbol Yiddish: פוטבאָל (futbol) This commonality is reflected in the auxiliary languages Esperanto and Interlingua, which utilize futbalo and football, respectively. Literal translations of foot ball (calques) Arabic: كرة القدم (kurat al-qadam; however, in vernacular Arabic, كرة (kura), meaning "ball," is far more common. فوتبول (fūtbōl) is also fairly common, particularly in the former French colonies of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.) Breton: mell-droad Bulgarian: ритнитоп (ritnitop) literally "kickball") Chinese: 足球 (Hanyu Pinyin: zúqiú, Jyutping: zuk1 kau4) from 足 = foot and 球 = ball Hong Kong daily Cantonese: 踢波 (tek3 bo1) where 踢 means kick, and 波 is a phonetic imitation of ball, (literally 波 means sea wave in Chinese). Danish: fodbold Dutch: voetbal Estonian: jalgpall Faroese: fótbóltur Finnish: jalkapallo Georgian: ფეხბურთი (pekhburti), from ფეხი (pekhi = foot) and ბურთი (burti = ball). German: Fußball Greek: ποδόσφαιρο (podosphero), from πόδι (podi) = "foot" and σφαίρα (sphera) = "sphere" or "ball". In Greek-Cypriot, the sport is called "mappa" (μάππα), which means "ball" in this dialect. Hebrew: כדורגל (kaduregel), a portmanteau of the words "כדור" (kadur: ball) and "רגל" (regel: foot, leg). Icelandic: fótbolti, but knattspyrna (from knöttur ("ball") + spyrna ("kicking")) is almost equally used. Karelian: jalgamiäččy Kinyarwanda: umupira w'amaguru(from umupira ("ball") + amaguru ("legs"), literally "ball of legs") Latvian: kājbumba (the historic name in the first half of the 20th century, a literal translation from English). Malayalam: