parachute

Etymology
Borrowed from, from (as in ) and.

Noun

 * 1)  A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object or person, causing them to float instead of falling.
 * 2)  A web or fold of skin extending between the legs of gliding mammals, such as the flying squirrel and colugo.
 * 3)  A small collar which fastens around the scrotum and from which weights can be hung.
 * 4)  A large sheet of fabric used in children's physical education, often colorful, with handles allowing many people to control its motion.
 * 1)  A large sheet of fabric used in children's physical education, often colorful, with handles allowing many people to control its motion.
 * 1)  A large sheet of fabric used in children's physical education, often colorful, with handles allowing many people to control its motion.
 * 1)  A large sheet of fabric used in children's physical education, often colorful, with handles allowing many people to control its motion.
 * 1)  A large sheet of fabric used in children's physical education, often colorful, with handles allowing many people to control its motion.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: بَرَاشُوت, مِظَلّة هُبُوط
 * Hijazi Arabic: بَرَشوت
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: paracaíes
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: jausgailu, paraxut
 * Belarusian: парашу́т
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: harz-lamm
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: paracaigudes
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: lammlen
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Dzongkha: མཆོང་གདུགས
 * Esperanto: paraŝuto
 * Estonian: langevari
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, हवाई छतरी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: paracadita
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kabuverdianu: para-kéda
 * Kazakh: парашют
 * Khmer: ឆ័ត្រយោង,
 * Korean:, 락하산(落下傘) , 파라슈트
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پەڕاشوت
 * Northern Kurdish: pereşût
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:, ຈ້ອງຊຸຊິບ
 * Latin: umbrella descensoria
 * Latvian: izpletnis
 * Lithuanian: parašiutas
 * Lü: ᦈᦸᧂᧉᦟᦳᧄ
 * Macedonian: падобран
 * Malay: payung terjun
 * Maori: hekerangi
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: parachute
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto: پاراشوت
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਪੈਰਾਸ਼ੂਟ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: па̏добра̄н
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: පැරෂුටය
 * Slovak: padák
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: parachuti
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: parakayda, payong-payong
 * Tajik: парашют
 * Thai: ,
 * Tigrinya: ጋንጽላ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: paraşüt
 * Ukrainian: парашу́т
 * Urdu: پیراشوٹ
 * Uyghur: پاراشوت
 * Uzbek: parashut
 * Vietnamese:, dù hàng không
 * Welsh: parasiwt
 * Yiddish: פּאַראַשוט


 * Hungarian: ,


 * French:


 * Finnish: leikkivarjo
 * French:
 * German: Schwungtuch
 * Polish: chusta animacyjna
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To jump, fall, descend, etc. using such a device.
 * 2)  To introduce into a place using such a device.
 * The soldiers were parachuted behind enemy lines.
 * 1)  To place (somebody) in an organisation in a position of authority without their having previous experience there; used with in or into.
 * 2)  To wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them, so that they will be released for absorption when the covering dissolves within the body.
 * 1)  To wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them, so that they will be released for absorption when the covering dissolves within the body.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: скачам с парашут
 * Esperanto: paraŝuti
 * Finnish: hypätä laskuvarjolla
 * German: mit dem Fallschirm abspringen
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: hekerangi
 * Norman: parachuter
 * Russian: пры́гать с парашю́том
 * Spanish: lanzarse en paracaídas
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) parachute device designed to control the fall of an object
 * 2)  parachute scrotum collar from which weights can be hung