camouflage

See also Camouflage

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkæ.mə.ˌflɑːʒ/, /ˈkæ.mŏ.ˌflɑːʒ/
• Hyphenation: cam‧ou‧flage

Etymology

Borrowing from French camouflage, from camoufler (“to veil, disguise”), alteration (due to camouflet "smoke blown in one's face") of Italian camuffare (“to muffle the head”), from ca- (from Italian capo "head") + muffare (“to muffle”), from Medieval Latin muffula, muffla (“muff”), from Frankish *molfell (“soft garment made of hide”) from *mol (“softened, forworn”) (akin to Old High German molawēn "to soften", Middle High German molwic "soft") + *fell (“hide, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, film, fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel(e)(w)-, *plē(w)- (“skin, hide”). Akin to Old High German fel (“fell, skin, hide”), Old English fell (“fell, skin, hide”). Alternate etymology traces the Italian and Medieval Latin words to Middle High German mouwe, mōwe (“sleeve”) (German Muff "muff", Dutch mouw "sleeve") from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“sleeve”) + fell "skin". More at mulch, fell.

Noun

camouflage (plural camouflages)

1. A disguise or covering up.
2. The act of disguising.
3. (military) The use of natural or artificial material on personnel, objects, or tactical positions with the aim of confusing, misleading, or evading the enemy.
4. (textiles) A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
5. (biology) Resemblance of an organism to its surroundings for avoiding detection
6. Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.

Derived terms

• camo

Translations

disguise

• French: déguisement (fr) m
• Japanese: 迷彩 (ja) (meisai)

• Portuguese: camuflagem (pt) f
• Russian: камуфляж (ru) (kamufljáž) m, маскировка (ru) (maskiróvka) f

act of disguising

• Finnish: naamiointi (fi)
• French: camouflage (fr) m

• Portuguese: camuflagem (pt) f
• Russian: камуфляж (ru) (kamufljáž) m, маскировка (ru) (maskiróvka) f

military

• French: camouflage (fr) m
• Portuguese: camuflagem (pt) f

• Russian: камуфляж (ru) (kamufljáž) m, маскировка (ru) (maskiróvka) f
• Swedish: kamouflage (sv) n, maskering (sv) c

biology

• Finnish: suojaväritys (fi)
• French: camouflage (fr)
• Haitian Creole: kamouflaj

• Portuguese: camuflagem (pt) f
• Swedish: kamouflage (sv) n

textiles

• Swedish: kamouflage (sv) n

clothes

• Finnish: maastopuku (fi)

• Swedish: kamouflagekläder (sv) c pl

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• Albanian: maskim; maskimnë ushtri
• Basque: kamuflaje
• Bulgarian: камуфлаж (kamuflaž) m; маскировка (maskirovka) f
• Catalan: camuflatge m
• Serbo-Croatian: kamuflaža (sh) f
• Czech: kamufláž m; maskování; zamaskování; zastírání m
• Danish: camouflage; sløring c
• Dutch: camouflage m; maskeren n; verhulling f
• Estonian: kamuflaaž; maskeering
• French: camouflage m; déguisement m
• German: Tarnung (de) f
• Greek: καμουφλάζ (el) (kamoufláz) n
• Hebrew: הסוואה (he) (hasva'á) f
• Hindi: छद्यावरण
• Hungarian: álcázás (hu)
• Icelandic: dulbúningur m; dulklæði n pl
• Indonesian: kamuflase (id)
• Irish: duaithníocht f
• Italian: camuffamento (it) m

• Japanese: カモフラージュ (kamufurāju); 擬装 (ぎそう, gisō)
• Latvian: kamuflāža f
• Lithuanian: kamufliažas
• Malay: penyamaran
• Norwegian: kamuflasje (no) m
• Polish: kamuflaż m, maskowanie n
• Portuguese: camuflagem (pt) f
• Romanian: camuflaj n
• Russian: камуфляж (kamufljáž) m; маскировка (maskiróvka) f; переряжение (pererjažénije) n
• Serbo-Croatian: камуфлажа (kamuflaža) f
• Slovak: kamufláž m; maskovanie n; zastieranie n
• Spanish: camuflaje (es) m
• Swahili: kamaflaji; majificho
• Swedish: kamouflage (sv) c
• Telugu: చాటు, ముసుగు
• Turkish: kamuflaj (tr)
• Vietnamese: sự nguỵ trang
• Welsh: cuddliw m

Verb

camouflage (third-person singular simple present camouflages, present participle camouflaging, simple past and past participle camouflaged)

1. To hide or disguise something by covering it up or changing the way it looks.

Derived terms

• camo

Translations

hide, disguise

• Basque: kamuflatu
• Bulgarian: замаскирвам (bg) (zamaskirvam)
• Danish: camouflere; sløre
• Dutch: camoufleren (nl)
• Finnish: naamioida (fi)
• French: camoufler (fr)
• German: tarnen (de)

• Hebrew: הסווה (he) (hisvá)
• Hungarian: álcáz (hu)
• Luxembourgish: camoufléieren (lb)
• Maori: whakatārehu (mi)
• Polish: maskować (pl)
• Portuguese: camuflar (pt)
• Spanish: camuflar (es), camuflajear (es)
• Swedish: kamouflera (sv), maskera (sv)