parachute

See also: parachuté

English

A man with a parachute.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹəʃuːt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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.
3. (BDSM) A small collar which fastens around the scrotum and from which weights can be hung.
   • 2013, Mistress Peggy Sue, Guide to Female Supremacy (page 75)

     Parachutes are usually made of leather and can be purchased through most fetish catalogs or stores catering to the BDSM scene.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• chute
• collared parachute ()
• drogue parachute
• drag parachute
• parachutic
• parachuting
• parachutist

Translations

a device designed to control the fall of an object

• Afrikaans: valskerm
• Albanian: parashutë (sq) f
• Arabic: بَرَاشُوت m (barāšūt), مِظَلّة هُبُوط f (miẓallat hubūṭ)
• Armenian: պարաշյուտ (hy) (parašyut)
• Asturian: paracaíes m
• Azerbaijani: paraşüt (az)
• Basque: jausgailu, paraxut
• Belarusian: парашу́т m (parašút)
• Bengali: প্যারাশুট (pêraśuṭ)
• Breton: harz-lamm m
• Bulgarian: парашу́т (bg) m (parašút)
• Burmese: လေထီး (my) (lehti:)
• Catalan: paracaigudes m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 降落傘／降落伞 (zh) (jiàngluòsǎn), 降落伞 (zh) (jiàngluòsǎn)

• Cornish: lammlen f or c pl
• Czech: padák (cs) m
• Danish: faldskærm (da) c
• Dutch: parachute (nl) m, valscherm (nl) n
• Esperanto: paraŝuto
• Estonian: langevari
• Finnish: laskuvarjo (fi)
• French: parachute (fr) m
• Galician: paracaídas m
• Georgian: პარაშუტი (ka) (ṗarašuṭi)
• German: Fallschirm (de) m
• Greek: αλεξίπτωτο (el) n (alexíptoto)
• Hebrew: מַצְנֵחַ (he) m (matsnéakh)
• Hindi: पैराशूट (hi) (pairāśūṭ)
• Hungarian: ejtőernyő (hu)
• Icelandic: fallhlíf (is)
• Ido: parafalo (io)
• Indonesian: parasut (id)
• Interlingua: paracadita
• Italian: paracadute (it) m
• Japanese: 落下傘 (らっかさん, rakkasan), パラシュート (parashūto)
• Kazakh: парашют (paraşüt)
• Khmer: ឆ័ត្រយោង (chʰut young)
• Korean: 낙하산 (ko) (nakhasan) (落下傘 (ko)), 파라슈트 (parasyuteu)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: парашют (ky) (paraşyut)
• Lao: ຈ້ອງໂດດ (lo) (chǭng dōt)
• Latin: umbrella descensoria f
• Latvian: izpletnis m
• Lithuanian: parašiutas m
• Macedonian: падобран m (padobran)
• Malay: payung terjun
• Maori: hekerangi
• Mongolian: шүхэр (mn) (šüxer)
• Norman: parachute m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fallskjerm (no) m

• Persian: چتر نجات (fa) (čatr-e nejât), پاراشوت (fa) (pârâšut)
• Polish: spadochron (pl) m
• Portuguese: paraquedas (pt) m
• Romanian: parașută (ro) f
• Russian: парашю́т (ru) m (parašút)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: падобран m

  Roman: padobran (sh) m

• Sinhalese: පැරෂුටය (pæraṣuṭaya)
• Slovak: padák m
• Slovene: padalo (sl) n
• Spanish: paracaídas (es) m
• Swedish: fallskärm (sv) c
• Tagalog: parakayda, payong-payong
• Tajik: парашют (parašyut)
• Thai: ร่มชูชีพ (th) (rôm-chuu-chîip), กระโดดร่ม (th) (grà-dòot-rôm)
• Turkish: paraşüt (tr)
• Turkmen: paraşüt
• Ukrainian: парашу́т m (parašút)
• Urdu: پیراشوٹ (pairāśūṭ)
• Uzbek: parashut
• Vietnamese: cái dù
• Welsh: parasiwt m
• Yiddish: פּאַראַשוט (parashut)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To jump, fall, descend, etc. using such a device.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in 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. (transitive) To introduce into a place using such a device.

   The soldiers were parachuted behind enemy lines.

3. (transitive) To place (somebody) in an organisation in a position of authority without their having previous experience there; used with in or into.

Translations

to jump with a parachute

• Bulgarian: скачам с парашут
• Esperanto: paraŝuti
• Finnish: hypätä laskuvarjolla
• German: mit dem Fallschirm abspringen
• Hungarian: ejtőernyőzik
• Maori: hekerangi
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• Norman: parachuter
• Russian: пры́гать с парашю́том impf (prýgatʹ s parašútom)
• Spanish: lanzarse en paracaídas
• Swedish: hoppa fallskärm (sv)
• Thai: กระโดดร่ม (th) (grà-dòot-rôm)

See also

• parapente
• parasail
• paratrooper
• skydiving

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “parachute”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French parachute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.raːˈʃyt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧chute
• Rhymes: -yt

Noun

parachute m (plural parachutes, diminutive parachuutje n)

1. parachute

   Synonym: valscherm

Derived terms

• parachutespringen
• parachutesprong
• parachutist
• remparachute

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁa.ʃyt/

• audio:

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Noun

parachute m (plural parachutes)

1. parachute

Descendants

• → Dutch: parachute
• → English: parachute
• → Russian: парашю́т (parašút) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “parachute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• crapahute, crapahuté