paratrooper

English

Paratroopers.

Etymology

Blend of parachute +‎ trooper.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɹətɹupɜɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

paratrooper (plural paratroopers)

1. A type of soldier who is trained to enter combat zones by parachuting from aircraft.
   • 1992, Yanchi (权延赤) Quan, “Mao Enjoys a Challenge”, in Wang Wenjiong, transl., edited by Gale Hadfield, 走下神坛的毛泽东 [Mao Zedong: Man, Not God]‎^[1], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, published 1996, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 13:

     Upon receiving intelligence reports about the massing of enemy paratroopers, General Peng Dehuai posted a defence regiment at Yan'an airfield, and requested that Mao leave Yan'an as soon as possible.

Translations

soldier that parachutes from aircraft

• Albanian: parashutist (sq) m
• Arabic: مِظَلِّيّ m (miẓalliyy)
• Armenian: պարաշյուտիստ (hy) (parašyutist), դեսանտավոր (hy) (desantavor)
• Azerbaijani: paraşütçü, desantçı
• Belarusian: дэса́нтнік m (desántnik), парашуты́ст m (parašutýst)
• Bulgarian: парашути́ст (bg) m (parašutíst)
• Catalan: paracaigudista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傘兵 / 伞兵 (zh) (sǎnbīng), 空降兵 (zh) (kōngjiàngbīng)

• Czech: výsadkář m
• Danish: faldskærmssoldat c, faldskærmsjæger c
• Dutch: parachutist (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: langevarjur
• Finnish: laskuvarjojääkäri (fi)
• French: para (fr) m, parachutiste (fr) m or f, parachutiste militaire m or f
• Galician: paracaidista (gl) m or f, paracaidista militar m or f
• Georgian: პარაშუტისტი (ka) (ṗarašuṭisṭi), მედესანტე (medesanṭe)
• German: Fallschirmjäger (de) m
• Greek: αλεξιπτωτίστρια (el) m or f (alexiptotístria), αλεξιπτωτιστής (el) m (alexiptotistís)
• Hebrew: צַנְחָן m (tsanhan)
• Hindi: पैराट्रूपर m (pairāṭrūpar), छतरी सैनिक m (chatrī sainik)
• Hungarian: ejtőernyős (hu)
• Italian: paracadutista (it) m or f, paracadutista militare m or f
• Japanese: 空挺兵 (ja) (くうていへい, kūteihei)
• Kazakh: десантшы (desantşy), парашютші (paraşütşı), парашютист (paraşütist)
• Korean: 공수부대(空輸部隊) (gongsubudae)
• Kyrgyz: парашютист (paraşyutist)
• Latvian: desantnieks m
• Lithuanian: parašiutininkas m, desantininkas m
• Macedonian: падо́бранец m (padóbranec)
• Maori: hōia heketau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fallskjermsoldat m

  Nynorsk: fallskjermsoldat m

• Polish: spadochroniarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: paraquedista (pt) m or f, paraquedista militar m or f
• Romanian: parașutist (ro) m
• Russian: деса́нтник (ru) m (desántnik), парашюти́ст-деса́нтник m (parašutíst-desántnik), парашюти́ст (ru) m (parašutíst)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: падобра́нац m

  Roman: padobránac (sh) m

• Slovak: výsadkár m
• Slovene: padalec (sl) m
• Spanish: paracaidista (es) m or f, paracaidista militar m or f
• Swedish: fallskärmsjägare (sv) c
• Tagalog: parasyutista
• Thai: พลร่ม (pon-lá-rôm)
• Turkish: paraşütçü asker
• Ukrainian: деса́нтник m (desántnyk), парашути́ст m (parašutýst)
• Uzbek: desantchi (uz), parashyutchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: lính dù (vi)