parachute

English

Wikipedia

A man with a parachute.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpærəʃuːt/, X-SAMPA: /'p{r@Su:t/

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Etymology

Borrowing from French parachute, from para- (“protection against”) (as in parasol) and chute (“fall”).

Noun

Wikipedia parachute (plural parachutes)

1. (aviation) A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object.
2. (zoology) A web or fold of skin extending between the legs of gliding mammals, such as the flying squirrel and colugo.

Derived terms

• parachutist

Translations

a device designed to control the fall of an object

• Albanian: parashutë f
• Arabic: براشوت (ar) (barashuut) m
• Armenian: պարաշյուտ (hy) (parašyut)
• Asturian: paracaíes (ast) m
• Basque: jausgailu, paraxut
• Breton: harz-lamm m
• Bulgarian: парашут (bg) (parašut) m
• Catalan: paracaigudes m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 降落傘 (cmn), 降落伞 (cmn) (jiàngluòsǎn)

• Czech: padák (cs) m
• Danish: faldskærm (da) c
• Dutch: parachute m, valscherm n
• Esperanto: paraŝuto (eo)
• Estonian: langevari
• Finnish: laskuvarjo (fi)
• French: parachute (fr) m
• Galician: paracaídas (gl) m
• German: Fallschirm (de) m
• Greek: αλεξίπτωτο (el) (alexíptoto) n
• Hebrew: מצנח (he) (matsnéakh) m
• Hungarian: ejtőernyő (hu)

• Ido: parashuto (io), parafalo (io)
• Interlingua: paracadita
• Italian: paracadute (it) m
• Japanese: 落下傘 (ja) (らっかさん, rakkasan), パラシュート (ja) (parashūto)
• Jèrriais: parachute m
• Khmer: ឆ័ត្រយោង (km) (chʰut young)
• Korean: 낙하산 (ko) (nakasan) (落下傘 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: په‌ڕاشوت

• Malay: payung terjun (ms)
• Polish: spadochron (pl) m
• Portuguese: pára-quedas (pt) m
• Romanian: parașută (ro) f
• Russian: парашют (ru) (parašút) m ("шю" is pronounced "šu" here)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: падобран (sh) m

  Roman: padobran (sh) m

• Slovene: padalo (sl) n
• Spanish: paracaídas (es) m
• Swedish: fallskärm (sv) c
• Turkish: paraşüt (tr)
• Vietnamese: cái dù (vi)

Verb

parachute (third-person singular simple present parachutes, present participle parachuting, simple past and past participle parachuted)

1. To jump, fall, descend, etc. using such a device.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36: 

     Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

2. To be placed in an organisation in a position of seniority without having previous experience there.

Translations

to jump with a parachute

• Bulgarian: скачам с парашут
• Esperanto: paraŝuti (eo)
• Finnish: hypätä (fi) laskuvarjolla (fi)
• French: parachuter (fr)
• German: mit dem Fallschirm abspringen

• Hungarian: ejtőernyőzik (hu)
• Jèrriais: parachuter
• Russian: прыгать с парашютом (prýgat’ s parašútom)
• Spanish: lanzarse en paracaídas
• Swedish: hoppa fallskärm (sv)

Related terms

• parapente
• parasail
• paratrooper

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French

Etymology

From para- (“protection against”) +‎ chute (“fall”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

parachute m (plural parachutes)

1. parachute

Anagrams

• crapahute, crapahuté