umbrella

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Etymology

From Italian ombrella, umbrella (“an umbrella, sunshade”), dim. of ombra (“shade”), from Latin umbra (“shadow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ʌmˈbɹɛlə(ɹ)/ X-SAMPA: /Vm"brEl@(r)/
• Rhymes: -ɛlə(r)
• (US) IPA: /ʌmˈbɹɛlə/ X-SAMPA: /Vm"brEl@/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛlə

Noun

umbrella (plural umbrellas)

An umbrella (1)

1. Cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.

   Quick, grab that umbrella before you get rained on!

2. Generally, anything that provides protection.

   The fighters provide a defensive air umbrella over the battle group.

3. Something that covers a wide range of concepts, purposes, groups and etc.

   The test facility was established under the umbrella of the company's quality program.

4. The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.

   Jellyfish are composed of more than 90% water and most of their umbrella mass is made up of gelatinous material.

Synonyms

• rainshade

Derived terms

Japanese umbrella pine subumbrella umbrella bird umbrella body umbrella brand umbrella fund umbrellaless

umbrella organisation, umbrella organization umbrella pine umbrella plant umbrella school umbrella stand umbrella term umbrella tree

Related terms

• brolly
• sunshade

Translations

cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun

• Albanian: çadër (sq), ombrellë (sq)
• Amharic: ጃንጥላ (am) (janṭəla)
• Arabic: مظلة (ar) (miZálla) f (for rain), شّمسيّة (ar) (šamsíyya) f (for sun)
• Armenian: անձրևանոց (hy) (anjrevanoc')
• Asturian: paragües (ast) m, sombriya (ast) f (sun)
• Basque: euritako (eu), aterki (eu)
• Bengali: ছাতা (bn) (chata)
• Bulgarian: чадър (bg) (čadǎr) m
• Burmese: ထီး (my) (hti:)
• Catalan: paraigua (ca) m, para-sol (ca) m, ombrel·la (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傘 (cmn), 伞 (cmn) (sǎn), 雨傘 (cmn), 雨伞 (cmn) (yǔsǎn)

• Cia-Cia: 빠우
• Czech: deštník (cs) m (rain), slunečník (cs) m (sun)
• Dutch: paraplu (nl), regenscherm (nl)
• Esperanto: ombrelo (eo)
• Finnish: sateenvarjo (fi) (rain), päivänvarjo (fi), aurinkovarjo (fi) (sun), varjo (fi) (generic)
• French: parapluie (fr) m
• Galician: paraugas (gl) m, parasol (gl) m (sun), antuca (gl) f, catasol (gl) m (sun)
• German: Schirm (de) m, Sonnenschirm (de) m, Regenschirm (de) m
• Greek: ομπρέλα (el) (umpréla) f, (rain) αλεξιβρόχιο (el) (alexivróchio) n, (sun) αλεξήλιο (el) (alexílio) n
• Guernésiais: parapi m
• Hawaiian: māmalu
• Hebrew: מטריה (he) (mitriá) f
• Hindi: छाता (hi) (chātā) m
• Hungarian: esernyő (hu)
• Icelandic: regnhlíf (is) f
• Ido: parapluvo (io)
• Interlingua: parapluvia (ia), umbrella (ia)
• Italian: ombrello (it) m, parapioggia (it)
• Japanese: 傘 (ja) (かさ, kasa)
• Khmer: ឆ័ត្រ (km) (chʰut)
• Korean: 우산 (ko) (usan) (雨傘 (ko)), (Jeju) 가사 (ko) (gasa)
• Kurdish: sîwane (ku)

  Sorani: چه‌تر (ku)

• Latin: umbrella (la) f, alexivrochium (la), alexilum (la) n
• Luhya: linyenya
• Luo: mwabul
• Luxembourgish: Prabbeli (lb) m
• Macedonian: чадор (mk) (čádor) m
• Malay: payung (ms)
• Maltese: umbrella (mt) f
• Navajo: bee chahaʼohí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: paraply (nb) m

  Nynorsk: paraply (nn) m

• Persian: سایه بان (fa)
• Polish: parasol (pl) m (rain), parasolka (pl) f (sun)
• Portuguese: guarda-chuva (pt) m, sombrinha (pt) f
• Rohingya: sáti
• Romani: brishindalyi f
• Romanian: umbrelă (ro) f
• Romansch: paraplievgia (rm) f
• Russian: зонтик (ru) (zóntik) m, зонт (ru) (zont) m
• Scottish Gaelic: sgàilean (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кишобран (sh) m (rain), сунцобран (sh) m (sun)

  Latin: kišobran (sh) m (rain), suncobran (sh) m (sun)

• Slovene: dežnik (sl) m (rain), sončnik (sl) m (sun)
• Spanish: parasol (es) m, paraguas (es) m, sombrilla (es) f
• Swahili: mwavuli (sw)
• Swedish: paraply (sv) n (rain), parasoll (sv) n (sun)
• Tagalog: (literally) payong (tl) n
• Telugu: గొడుగు (te) (goDugu)
• Tok Pisin: ambrela (tpi)
• Turkish: şemsiye (tr)
• Ukrainian: парасолька (uk) (parasól’ka) f
• Urdu: چھاتا (ur) (chātā) m
• Vietnamese: dù (vi), ô (vi)
• Volapük: (rain) reinajelöm (vo), (sun) solajelöm (vo)
• Welsh: ymbarél (cy) m and f

anything that provides protection

• Arabic: واقي (ar)
• Basque: aterki (eu)
• Finnish: sateenvarjo (fi)
• German: Schirm (de) m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: که‌پر (ku)

• Norwegian: paraply (no) m
• Serbo-Croatian: kȉšobrān (sh) m
• Spanish: amparo (es) m
• Tok Pisin: ambrela (tpi)

something that covers a wide range of concepts, ideas, etc.

• Finnish: sateenvarjo (fi)
• German: Dach (de) n

• Norwegian: paraply (no) m
• Swedish: paraply (sv)

the main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles

• Finnish: uimakello (fi)
• French: ombrelle (fr) f

• Macedonian: купола (mk) (kúpola) f
• Russian: купол (ru) (kúpol) m

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• Breton: disglavier m, paraplu m
• Cebuano: payong
• Mandarin: yǔsǎn trad. 雨傘, simpl. 雨伞
• Esperanto: pluvombrelo
• Gujarati: છત્રી (čatrī) f
• Hindi: छत्री (čatrī) f
• Ido: parapluvo
• Indonesian: payung
• Interlingua: parapluvia, umbrella

• Kinyarwanda: umutaka
• Macedonian: чадор (čador) m
• Malayalam: കുട (kuta)
• Northern Sami: arvesuodji
• Tagalog: payong,pandong,panukob
• Urdu: چھتری (čatrī) f

See also

• awning
• bumbershoot
• gamp
• parasol
• shield

External links

• umbrella in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• umbrella in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• umbellar

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Maltese

Etymology

From English umbrella.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʊmbˈrɛlːɐ/

Noun

umbrella f

1. umbrella

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Romansch

Noun

umbrella f (plural umbrellas)

1. (Surmiran, Vallader) umbrella, parasol

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) paraplievgia
• (Puter) paraplövgia
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter) parisol
• (Sutsilvan) prisol
• (Vallader) parasul