chaloupe

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French chaloupe. === Noun === chaloupe (plural chaloupes) (nautical, obsolete) A launch (type of boat). == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French chaloppe (“a sort of flat-bottomed boat”), of uncertain origin, but probably by apheresis from Old French eschalope, escalope (“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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃa.lup/ === Noun === chaloupe f (plural chaloupes) (nautical) launch rowing boat (UK), rowboat (US) ==== Related terms ==== chalouper ==== Descendants ==== → Basque: txalupa → Catalan: xalupa → English: shallop → Galician: chalupa → German: Schaluppe → Italian: scialuppa→ Turkish: şalupa → Portuguese: chalupa → Romanian: șalupă → Spanish: chalupa→ English: chalupa === Further reading === “chaloupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012