Umbrella

Etymology
Borrowed from, , dim. of (or from a  or ), from.

Noun



 * 1) Cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
 * There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
 * 1) Generally, anything that provides protection.
 * 2) Something that covers a wide range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
 * 3) The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
 * 4)  An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
 * 5) * 2014, Michael Allen, Modern Wedding Photography (page 97)
 * Using umbrellas for shooting a wedding party is ok, but not necessary.
 * 1) The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
 * 2)  An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
 * 3) * 2014, Michael Allen, Modern Wedding Photography (page 97)
 * Using umbrellas for shooting a wedding party is ok, but not necessary.
 * 1) * 2014, Michael Allen, Modern Wedding Photography (page 97)
 * Using umbrellas for shooting a wedding party is ok, but not necessary.

Related terms

 * See umbra

Translations

 * Adyghe: ӏэкощ, щамсый
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, ,
 * Amharic: ጃንጥላ
 * Arabic: مِظَلَّة, شَمْسِيَّة
 * Egyptian Arabic: شمسية
 * Hijazi Arabic: شمسية
 * Moroccan Arabic: مضلة
 * Armenian: անձրևանոց
 * Assamese: ছাতি
 * Asturian: paragües, sombriya
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: сатыр
 * Basque: ,
 * Belarusian:, парасо́нік
 * Bengali: ছাতা
 * Bikol Central: payong
 * Brunei Malay: payung
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chagatai: کُونْلُوکْ
 * Chakma:
 * Chechen: четар
 * Chichewa: ambulera
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Dungan: сан, йүсан
 * Gan: 傘, 伞
 * Hakka: 遮仔
 * Jin: 傘, 伞
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Min Bei: 傘, 伞
 * Min Dong: 傘, 伞
 * Min Nan:, 伞, , 雨伞
 * Wu: 傘, 伞
 * Cia-Cia: 빠우
 * Cornish: glawlen
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dupaningan Agta: halidong
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Elfdalian: skauratt, paraply
 * Esperanto: ombrelo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: regnskjól
 * Finnish:, , aurinkovarjo ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, , ,
 * Georgian: ქოლგა, შუაგი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σκιάδιον
 * Greenlandic: sialussiut siaartartoq
 * Gujarati: છત્ર
 * Hausa: laima
 * Hawaiian: māmalu
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hunsrik: Scherrem, Rehnscherrem
 * Icelandic:, sólhlíf
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: parapluvia, umbrella
 * Interlingue:
 * Irish: scáth fearthainne, scáth báistí , scáth gréine , parasól
 * Italian:, parapioggia
 * Japanese:, 蝙蝠傘
 * Jeju: 가사
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: қолшатыр
 * Khmer:, ឆ័ត្រ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:, кол чатырча
 * Ladino: chadir
 * Lao: ຈ້ອງ,, , ຮົ່ມ


 * Latin:, alexivrochium, alexilum
 * Latvian: lietussargs
 * Lithuanian: skėtis, lietsargis
 * Luhya: linyenya
 * Luo: mwabul
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Lü:
 * Macedonian: чадор
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Malay: payung
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: umbrella
 * Manchu: ᠰᠠᡵᠠ
 * Manx: fascadagh
 * Maori: amarara
 * Marathi: छत्री
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠬᠦᠷ
 * Navajo: bee chahaʼohí
 * Nepali:
 * Norman: parapi, paraplyie
 * Northern Sami: arvesuodji
 * Northern Thai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: paraply
 * Novial:
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian: سایهبان,
 * Plautdietsch: Sonnenschorm
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਛੱਤਰੀ
 * Quechua: para jark'ana
 * Rohingya: sáti
 * Romani: brishindalyi
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: paraplievgia
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgàilean
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ки̏шобра̄н, су̏нцобра̄н
 * Latin: ,
 * Shan:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: dáždnik, slnečník
 * Slovene:, sončnik
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pśedešćnik, pśesłyńcnik
 * Upper Sorbian: předešćnik
 * Spanish: parasol, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Sylheti:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tai Nüa:
 * Tajik: соябон,, шамсия
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: кулчатыр, зонтик,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, ฉัตร
 * Tibetan: གདུགས, ཆར་གདུགས, ཉི་གདུགས
 * Tok Pisin: ambrela
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: saýawan, zontik
 * Ukrainian: парасо́лька
 * Urdu: چھاتا
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese: (𢂎),  (𢄓)
 * Volapük: ,
 * Welsh: ymbarél
 * Westrobothnian: plimm, parraprygel
 * Yami: payong
 * Yiddish: שירעם
 * Zhuang:


 * Arabic: وَاقٍ,  الْوَاقِي
 * Basque:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: amparo
 * German:
 * Irish: sciath
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:


 * Norwegian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ки̏шобра̄н
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Tok Pisin: ambrela


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Irish: scáth


 * Norwegian:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: uimakello
 * French:


 * Macedonian: ку́пола
 * Russian:


 * Breton: ,
 * Cebuano:
 * Esperanto:
 * Gujarati:
 * Hindi:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:


 * Interlingua: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Northern Sami:
 * Rwanda-Rundi:
 * Tagalog:, ,
 * Urdu:

Verb

 * 1)  To cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.
 * 2) * 1944,, , “Life Loves Living,”
 * Experts with saws and ladders came and lopped off the lower branches. This sent the tree's growth rushing violently to her head in a lush overhanging which umbrellaed the House of All Sorts.
 * 1)  To form the dome shape of an open umbrella.
 * 2)  To move like a jellyfish.
 * 1)  To move like a jellyfish.
 * 1)  To move like a jellyfish.

Etymology
Either from or from regional,. The final -a points to English (but compare 🇨🇬 alongside ). The pronunciation in turn is entirely Romance, meaning that if it is English it must be an early borrowing with a spelling pronunciation (we would now expect ). Compare also the Semitic plural.

Noun

 * 1) umbrella

Noun

 * 1)  umbrella, parasol