rappel

See also: Rappel and ráppel

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-

French re-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *pel-

Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-der.

Proto-Indo-European *-né-der.

Proto-Italic *pelnōder.

Latin pellō

Latin appellārebor.

French appeler

French rappelerbor.

English rappel

Borrowed from French rappeler (“to pull through (a rope)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹæˈpɛl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈpɛl/, /ɹæˈpɛl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

rappel (plural rappels)

1. Descent by means of a rope.

   Synonyms: rappelling, abseiling

Verb

rappel (third-person singular simple present rappels, present participle rappelling or rappeling, simple past and past participle rappelled or rappeled)

1. To abseil.
2. (obsolete) To call back a hawk.

Derived terms

• rappeller

Translations

to abseil

• Bulgarian: рапел m (rapel)
• Czech: slaňovat impf, slanit pf
• Dutch: abseilen (nl)
• French: descendre en rappel
• Polish: opuszczać się przy pomocy liny impf, opuścić się przy pomocy liny pf
• Russian: спуска́ться на верёвке (spuskátʹsja na verjóvke)
• Spanish: rápel (es)
• Swedish: fira ner sig (sv), fira sig ner (sv)
• Ukrainian: спускатися по мотузці (spuskatysja po motuzci)

Further reading

• rappel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French rappel. Compare repeal.

Noun

rappel (plural rappels)

1. (military) A drumbeat pattern for calling soldiers to gather.
   • 1839, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 19, page 711:

     […] he has to retramp the same streets, rebeat the same rappel […]

Anagrams

• lapper

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rappel, from French rappeler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rapel/ [ra.pel]
• Rhymes: -apel, -el

Noun

rappel inan

1. (climbing) rappel

Declension

Declension of rappel (inan C-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	rappel	rappela	rappelak	rappelok
ergative	rappelek	rappelak	rappelek	rappelok
dative	rappeli	rappelari	rappelei	rappeloi
genitive	rappelen	rappelaren	rappelen	rappelon
comitative	rappelekin	rappelarekin	rappelekin	rappelokin
causative	rappelengatik	rappelarengatik	rappelengatik	rappelongatik
benefactive	rappelentzat	rappelarentzat	rappelentzat	rappelontzat
instrumental	rappelez	rappelaz	rappelez	rappelotaz
inessive	rappeletan	rappelean	rappeletan	rappelotan
locative	rappeletako	rappeleko	rappeletako	rappelotako
allative	rappeletara	rappelera	rappeletara	rappelotara
terminative	rappeletaraino	rappeleraino	rappeletaraino	rappelotaraino
directive	rappeletarantz	rappelerantz	rappeletarantz	rappelotarantz
destinative	rappeletarako	rappelerako	rappeletarako	rappelotarako
ablative	rappeletatik	rappeletik	rappeletatik	rappelotatik
partitive	rappelik	—	—	—
prolative	rappeltzat	—	—	—

Further reading

• “rappel”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.pɛl/

• Audio:

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Noun

rappel m (plural rappels)

1. reminder
2. encore (at the end of a performance); curtain call
3. (on a speed limit sign) continuance of an existing speed limit
4. (transitive) (A faulty product) subject to a recall. [from 20th c.]

   Veuillez nous le notifier immédiatement si vous savez ou suspectez qu'un produit puisse ou doive faire l'objet d'un rappel.

   Please notify us immediately if you suspect there is a possibility of products needing to become the subject of a recall.

5. abseil

Derived terms

• piqûre de rappel
• pour rappel

Descendants

• → Catalan: ràpel
• → Dutch: rappel
  • → Indonesian: rapel
• → English: rappel
• → Portuguese: rapel
• → Romanian: rapel
• → Spanish: rapel

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• palper

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French rappel.

Noun

rappel m (plural rappels)

1. alternative spelling of rapel

Further reading

• “rappel”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Noun

rappel m (plural rappels)

1. rappel