chaloupe

French chaloupe

chaloupe (plural chaloupes)

1. (nautical, obsolete) A launch (type of boat).

Inherited from Middle French chaloppe (“a sort of flat-bottomed boat”), of uncertain origin, but probably by apheresis from Old French eschalope (“shell”), used figuratively. An alternative theory deriving the term from Dutch sloep appears unlikely, since the Dutch word is attested only much later and the phonetic development is hard to explain; it is more likely that the Dutch term was borrowed from French.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.lup/

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chaloupe f (plural chaloupes)

1. (nautical) launch
2. rowing boat (UK), rowboat (US)

• chalouper

• → Basque: txalupa
• → Catalan: xalupa
• → English: shallop
• → Galician: chalupa
• → German: Schaluppe
• → Italian: scialuppa
  • → Turkish: şalupa
• → Portuguese: chalupa
• → Romanian: șalupă
• → Spanish: chalupa
  • → English: chalupa

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