ешелон

• ешельо́н (ešelʹón) — 1928–1933 spelling

From French échelon (“rung, step”), from échelle (“ladder”) + -on (“suffix forming diminutives”). Échelle is derived from Latin scāla (“ladder”), from scandō (“to ascend, climb”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump”).

• IPA^(key): [eʃeˈɫɔn]

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Hyphenation: еше‧лон

ешело́н • (ešelón) m inan (genitive ешело́ну, nominative plural ешело́ни, genitive plural ешело́нів, relational adjective ешело́нний)

1. (military) echelon (a train, convoy or group of aircraft of a specific purpose)

   ешело́н польо́ту

   ešelón polʹótu

   flight level

2. (military) echelon (a separate detachment of a deeply divided battle order or column of troops moving at some distance from one another)

   Synonym: ва́лка (válka)

   тилови́й ешело́н штабу

   tylovýj ešelón štabu

   rear headquarters

   дру́гий ешело́н

   drúhyj ešelón

   reserve, rear echelon, follow-on echelon

   бойови́й ешело́н

   bojovýj ešelón

   attack echelon

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “ешелон”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “ешелон”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “ешелон”, in English–Ukrainian Dictionaries