chaloupe
See also: chaloupé
French
Etymology
Middle French chaloppe (“a sort of flat-bottomed boat”), of uncertain origin, but probably by apheresis from Old French eschalope (“shell”), used figuratively. An alternative theory deriving the term from Dutch sloep appears unlikely, since the Dutch word is attested only much later and the phonetic development is hard to explain; it is more likely that the Dutch term was borrowed from French.
Pronunciation
Noun
chaloupe f (plural chaloupes)
- (nautical) launch
- rowing boat (UK), rowboat (US)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Basque: txalupa
- → Catalan: xalupa
- → English: shallop
- → Galician: chalupa
- → German: Schaluppe
- → Italian: scialuppa
- → Portuguese: chalupa
- → Spanish: chalupa
- → English: chalupa
Further reading
- “chaloupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.