rappel

See also: Rappel and ráppel

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French rappeler (“to pull through (a rope)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹæˈpɛl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

rappel (plural rappels)

1. Descending by means of a rope, abseiling.

Verb

rappel (third-person singular simple present rappels, present participle rappelling or rappeling, simple past and past participle rappelled or rappeled)

1. To abseil.
2. (obsolete) To call back a hawk.

Translations

to abseil

• Bulgarian: рапел m (rapel)
• Czech: slaňovat impf, slanit pf
• Dutch: abseilen (nl)
• French: descendre en rappel
• Russian: спуска́ться на верёвке (spuskátʹsja na verjóvke)
• Spanish: rápel (es)
• Swedish: fira ner sig (sv), fira sig ner (sv)
• Ukrainian: спускатися по мотузці (spuskatysja po motuzci)

Further reading

• rappel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French rappel. Compare repeal.

Noun

rappel (plural rappels)

1. (military) A drumbeat pattern for calling soldiers to gather.

Anagrams

• lapper

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rappel, from French rappeler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rapel/ [ra.pel]
• Rhymes: -apel, -el

Noun

rappel inan

1. (climbing) rappel

Declension

Declension of rappel (inanimate, ending in consonant)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	rappel	rappela	rappelak
ergative	rappelek	rappelak	rappelek
dative	rappeli	rappelari	rappelei
genitive	rappelen	rappelaren	rappelen
comitative	rappelekin	rappelarekin	rappelekin
causative	rappelengatik	rappelarengatik	rappelengatik
benefactive	rappelentzat	rappelarentzat	rappelentzat
instrumental	rappelez	rappelaz	rappelez
inessive	rappeletan	rappelean	rappeletan
locative	rappeletako	rappeleko	rappeletako
allative	rappeletara	rappelera	rappeletara
terminative	rappeletaraino	rappeleraino	rappeletaraino
directive	rappeletarantz	rappelerantz	rappeletarantz
destinative	rappeletarako	rappelerako	rappeletarako
ablative	rappeletatik	rappeletik	rappeletatik
partitive	rappelik	—	—
prolative	rappeltzat	—	—

Further reading

• “rappel”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.pɛl/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

rappel m (plural rappels)

1. reminder
2. encore (at the end of a performance); curtain call
3. (on a speed limit sign) continuance of an existing speed limit
4. (transitive) (A faulty product) subject to a recall. [from 20th c.]

   Veuillez nous le notifier immédiatement si vous savez ou suspectez qu’un produit puisse ou doive faire l’objet d’un rappel.

   Please notify us immediately if you suspect there is a possibility of products needing to become the subject of a recall.

5. abseil

Derived terms

• piqûre de rappel
• pour rappel

Descendants

• → Catalan: ràpel
• → Dutch: rappel
  • → Indonesian: rapel
• → English: rappel
• → Portuguese: rapel
• → Romanian: rapel
• → Spanish: rapel

Further reading

• “rappel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• palper

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French rappel.

Noun

rappel m (plural rappels)

1. Alternative spelling of rapel

Spanish

Noun

rappel m (plural rappels)

1. rappel