tarpaulin

Etymology
From +  +.

Noun

 * 1)  A tarp, a heavy, waterproof sheet of material, often cloth, used as a cover or blanket.
 * Throw a tarpaulin over that woodpile before it gets wet.
 * 1)  A sailor.
 * 2)  Any heavy, waterproof material used as a cover.
 * 3)  Canvas waterproofed with tar, used as a cover.
 * 4) A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.
 * 1) A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: brezent
 * Belarusian: брызе́нт, брэзэ́нт, брызэ́нт
 * Bulgarian: мушама́,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: plachtovina,, nepromokavá (vodoodpudivá, vodoodpuzující) látka (tkanina)
 * Danish: presenning
 * Dutch:, bâche,
 * Esperanto: baŝo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: suojapeite,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბრეზენტი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: tamfol
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: yfirbreiðsla
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: telone impermeabile, tela cerata
 * Japanese:, ターポリン
 * Kazakh: брезент
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: brezents
 * Lithuanian: brezentas
 * Macedonian: мушама, церада
 * Maori: tāpōrena
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: níbaal
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: presenning
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: encerado, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: цера́да
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: celtovina
 * Slovene: ponjava, cerada
 * Spanish: lona alquitranada, lona impermeable,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tarapal
 * Tajik: брезент
 * Thai: ผ้าใบกันน้ำ
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: تِرپال
 * Uyghur: برېزېنت
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, bâche
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: tāpōrena
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: presenning
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: мушама́
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: gudrotuko
 * Finnish: tervakangas
 * French: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:, tela incatramata
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Crimean Tatar:
 * French:
 * German:

Verb

 * 1) To cover with a tarpaulin.

Usage notes

 * In the US, has been more common than tarpaulin in print since about 1990. In speech since at least 1970.