repechage

See also: repêchage

English

WOTD – 15 May 2009, 12 August 2012

Alternative forms

• repêchage

Etymology

From French repêchage, from repêcher (“to fish out, rescue”), from re- (“again”) + pêcher (“to fish”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛp.ə.ʃɑːʒ/, /ˈɹɛp.ɪ.ʃɑːʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛp.əˈʃɑʒ/, /ɹəˌpɛʃˈɑʒ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

repechage (countable and uncountable, plural repechages)

1. (sports, countable) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.
2. (sports, uncountable) The use of this form of competition.

Translations

heat for competitors who have lost in a previous round

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 復活賽 / 复活赛 (zh) (fùhuósài)

• Czech: opravná jízda f (in rowing)
• Danish: opsamlingsheat
• Dutch: herkansing (nl)
• Finnish: keräilyerä (fi)
• French: repêchage (fr) m
• German: (esp. in rowing) Hoffnungslauf m, (in fencing) Trostrunde f
• Greek: ρεπεσάζ (el) n (repesáz)
• Hungarian: vigaszág (hu)
• Italian: ripescaggio m
• Korean: 패자부활전(敗者復活戰) (ko) (paejabuhwaljeon)
• Norwegian: oppsamlingsheat
• Persian: شانس مجدد (šâns-e mojaddad), ریشاژ (repešâž)
• Polish: repasaż (pl) m, repesaż m
• Portuguese: repescagem
• Romanian: recalificări pl
• Russian: репеша́ж m (repešáž)
• Spanish: (Spain) repesca (es) f, (Latin America) repechaje (es) m
• Swedish: uppsamlingsheat (sv) n

See also

• A final / A-final
• B final / B-final
• relegation