rocket

Etymology 1
From, from Old Italian , diminutive of , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, , "a distaff"; > 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at rock⁴.

Noun



 * 1) A projectile.
 * 2) A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion,  a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket.
 * 3) A blunt lance head used in jousting.
 * 4) A long vehicle or craft propelled by a rocket engine; a missile or rocket-propelled spacecraft.
 * 5) An engine operating similarly to the pyrotechnic, generating thrust by the expulsion of hot gases; a rocket engine.
 * 6)  Figurative uses.
 * 7) Something that travels high in the air and/or with great speed; especially, a hard shot.
 * 8)  A severe reprimand; a telling-off.
 * 9)  An ace (the playing card).
 * 10)  A stupid or crazy person.
 * 11)  A very physically attractive woman.
 * 1)  An ace (the playing card).
 * 2)  A stupid or crazy person.
 * 3)  A very physically attractive woman.
 * 1)  A very physically attractive woman.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሮኬት
 * Arabic: صَارُوخ
 * Egyptian Arabic: صاروخ
 * North Levantine Arabic: صاروخ
 * South Levantine Arabic: صاروخ
 * Aragonese: codete, codet
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: раке́та
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 火箭發動機
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: rakett
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: რაკეტა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: roicéad
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: зымыран
 * Khmer:, រ៉ុកកែត
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:, ຈະລວດ, ຈະຣວດ, ບັ້ງໄຟ
 * Latin:, rucheta, missile igneum, radius ignifer
 * Latvian: raķete
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Rakéit
 * Macedonian: раке́та
 * Malay: roket
 * Maltese: rokit
 * Marathi: रॉकेट
 * Mizo: vànkhạwhthėi
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠫᠤᠤᠵᠢᠩ
 * Norman: fîsée
 * Northern Sami: rakeahtta
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: rakett
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ракѐта
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: රොකට්
 * Slovak: raketa
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: motor de cohete
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: raketmotor,
 * Tagalog: kuwitis
 * Tajik: ракета
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: མེ་ཤུགས་འཕུར་མདའི་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: raketa
 * Ukrainian: раке́та, раке́тний двигу́н
 * Urdu: راکِٹ
 * Uyghur: راكېتا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: động cơ tên lửa (動機𥏌焒)
 * Volapük: raket
 * Yiddish: ראַקעט


 * Arabic: صَارُوخ, قَذِيفَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: ساروخ
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: раке́та
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 火箭
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: რაკეტა
 * German:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 噴進弾,, ロケット弾
 * Khmer: រ៉ុកកែត
 * Korean:, 로켓트,
 * Lao:, ຈະລວດ, ຈະຣວດ
 * Latin: rucheta
 * Luxembourgish: Rakéit
 * Macedonian: раке́та
 * Maltese: rokit
 * Marathi: रॉकेट
 * Norman: fîsée
 * Northern Sami: rakeahtta
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: rakett
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sikpad
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: འཕུར་མདའི་མཚོན་ཆ, འཕུར་མདའ, མེ་ཤུགས་འཕུར་མདའ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: раке́та
 * Uyghur: راكېتا
 * Vietnamese: (𥏌焒)
 * Welsh: roced
 * Yiddish: ראַקעט


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: صَارُوخ
 * Belarusian: раке́та
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: რაკეტა
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 로켓트
 * Luxembourgish: Rakéit
 * Macedonian: раке́та
 * Malay: roket
 * Maltese: rokit
 * Maori: rākete
 * Marathi: रॉकेट
 * Norman: fîsée
 * Northern Sami: rakeahtta
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: rakett
 * Occitan:, husada
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sikpad
 * Tibetan: འཕུར་མདའ, མེ་ཤུགས་འཕུར་མདའ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: раке́та
 * Vietnamese: rốc két
 * Yiddish: ראַקעט


 * Belarusian: раке́та
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: რაკეტა
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 打ち上げ花火
 * Kazakh: зымыран
 * Lao:
 * Luxembourgish: Rakéit
 * Macedonian: раке́тка
 * Northern Sami: rakeahtta
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: rakett
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཤོག་སྦག
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: раке́та


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: höyrypää

Verb

 * 1)  To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.
 * 2) To fly vertically.
 * 3) To rise or soar rapidly.
 * 4) To experience sudden fame, popularity, or success.
 * After spending years in obscurity, the band finally rocketed last week.
 * 1) To carry something in a rocket.
 * 2) To attack something with rockets.
 * After spending years in obscurity, the band finally rocketed last week.
 * 1) To carry something in a rocket.
 * 2) To attack something with rockets.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: skyte


 * Bulgarian: излитам право нагоре
 * Finnish: nousta pystysuoraan


 * Finnish: ampaista yläilmoihin


 * Finnish: kuljettaa raketilla


 * Bulgarian: обстрелвам с ракети
 * Finnish: hyökätä raketein, tehdä rakettihyökkäys

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, from , diminutive of , from. Cognate to, , ,.

Noun



 * 1) The leaf vegetable  or.
 * (, syn. ).

Synonyms

 * arugula

Derived terms

 * dame's rocket,
 * dyer's rocket, (Reseda)
 * yellowrocket,, ,
 * dyer's rocket, (Reseda)
 * yellowrocket,, ,
 * yellowrocket,, ,

Noun

 * 1)  weapon