ricochet

Etymology
Borrowed from, of uncertain origin.

Noun

 * 1)  A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
 * 2) An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: рикошет
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: rikošett
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Querschuss,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: endurkast, skopp
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 跳弾
 * Kazakh: жанап тию
 * Korean: 도탄(跳彈)
 * Latvian: rikošets
 * Macedonian: рикоше́
 * Malay: lantunan
 * Maori: ripi
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: đạn nảy (彈𫡐)

Verb

 * 1) To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
 * 2)  To operate upon by ricochet firing.
 * 1)  To operate upon by ricochet firing.
 * 1)  To operate upon by ricochet firing.
 * 1)  To operate upon by ricochet firing.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, querschlagen, wegprallen
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: endurkastast, kastast frá, skoppa, fleyta kerlingar
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: рикошети́ра
 * Malay: melantun
 * Maori: ripi, pahu
 * Ottoman Turkish: سكمك
 * Russian: бить рикоше́том,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Etymology
. The word first appears in the phrases,. This is apparently related to other story-titles such as the ; other dialectal terms such as and Norman  has led to theories that the word originally indicated a "young cock". The sense-development is unclear.

Noun

 * 1) rebound;
 * 2)  ducks and drakes, stone skipping