kapotować
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French capoter + -ować. Compare Ukrainian капотувати (kapotuvaty).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]kapotować impf (perfective skapotować)
- (intransitive, aviation) to overturn, to nose over (crash by landing such that the nose of the plane hits the ground first, causing the plane to topple forward)
- Synonym: dachować
- 1991, Jerzy Pawlak, Polskie eskadry w wojnie obronnej, wrzesień 1939:
- Łabicki kapotował podczas przymusowego lądowania raniąc poważnie twarz. Został umieszczony w szpitalu lubelskim.
- Łabicki nosed over during a forced landing seriously injuring his face. He was placed in a Lublin hospital.
Conjugation
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Further reading
[edit]- kapotować in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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