different between rappel vs appel

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French rappeler (“to pull through (a rope)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?p?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

rappel (plural rappels)

1. Descending by means of a rope, abseiling.

Verb

rappel (third-person singular simple present rappels, present participle rappelling or rappeling, simple past and past participle rappelled or rappeled)

1. To abseil.
2. (obsolete) To call back a hawk.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French rappel. Compare repeal.

Noun

rappel (plural rappels)

1. (military) A drumbeat pattern for calling soldiers to gather.

Anagrams

• lapper

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.p?l/

Noun

rappel m (plural rappels)

1. reminder
2. encore (at the end of a performance); curtain call
3. (on a speed limit sign) continuance of an existing speed limit
4. abseil

Derived terms

• piqûre de rappel

Further reading

• “rappel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• palper

Portuguese

Noun

rappel m (plural rappéis)

1. Alternative spelling of rapel

Spanish

Noun

rappel m (plural rappels)

1. rappel

Westrobothnian

Noun

rappel

1. Alternative spelling of rappäl

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French appel. Doublet of appeal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p?l/, /??p?l/

Noun

appel (plural appels)

1. (fencing) An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.

Hypernyms

• (fencing): feint

Translations

Verb

appel (third-person singular simple present appels, present participle appelling, simple past and past participle appelled)

1. Obsolete spelling of appeal

Anagrams

• Apple, apple, pepla

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch appel, from Middle Dutch appel, from Old Dutch appel, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éb?l.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.p?l/

Noun

appel (plural appels, diminutive appeltjie)

1. apple

Derived terms

• pynappel

Descendants

• ? Xhosa: i-apile

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch appel, from Old Dutch appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éb?l.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?l/
• Hyphenation: ap?pel
• Rhymes: -?p?l

Noun

appel m (plural appels or appelen, diminutive appeltje n)

1. apple

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: appel
  • ? Xhosa: i-apile
• ? Indonesian: apêl
• ? Papiamentu: apel
• ? Unami: apëlìsh (from "appels")

Etymology 2

From French appel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?l/
• Hyphenation: ap?pel
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

appel n (plural appels, diminutive appelletje n)

1. appeal

   Christen Democratisch Appèl — Christian Democratic Appeal (the name of a Dutch political party: old spelling with the accent on the -e-)

Alternative forms

• appèl (superseded)

Descendants

• Afrikaans: appèl
• ? Indonesian: apèl

Anagrams

• lappe

French

Etymology

See the verb appeler (“to call (out)”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.p?l/
• Rhymes: -?l
• Homophones: appelle, appellent, appelles, appels

Noun

appel m (plural appels)

1. call
2. appeal

Derived terms

Related terms

• appelant
• appeler

Descendants

• ? Dutch: appel
  • Afrikaans: appèl
  • ? Indonesian: apèl
• ? English: appel
• ? German: Appell
  • ? English: Appell
• ? Polish: apel
• ? Romanian: apel

Further reading

• “appel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• palpe, palpé

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éb?l.

Noun

appel m

1. apple

Alternative forms

• ?pel

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: appel
  • Afrikaans: appel
    • ? Xhosa: i-apile
  • ? Indonesian: apêl
  • ? Papiamentu: apel
  • ? Unami: apëlìsh (from "appels")
• Limburgish: appel

Further reading

• “appel”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “appel”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle English

Alternative forms

• apple, appyl, appyll, appil, appill, appell, eppel, appul, appull, appulle, eappel
• (Early ME) æppel, æpple, eappel

Etymology

From Old English æppel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from *h?bl-, the oblique stem of Proto-Indo-European *h?éb?l.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ap?l/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /??p?l/

Noun

appel (plural apples or (rare) applen)

1. fruit, nut
2. apple (fruit of Malus domestica).
3. ball; spheroid

Derived terms

• appeltre

Descendants

• English: apple (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: aipple, aiple

References

• “appel, -il, -ul, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *applu. Compare Old English æppel.

Noun

appel m

1. apple

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr, Hallig: aapel

  Helgoland: Oapel

  Mooring: ååpel

• Saterland Frisian: Appel
• West Frisian: apel

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• appul, apl

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *applu. Compare Old Frisian appel, Old English æppel, Old High German apful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p.p?l/

Noun

appel m

1. apple

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Low German: appel
  • German Low German: Appel
    • ? German: Appel (colloquial, regional)
  • Plautdietsch: Aupel

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ap?l/

Noun

appel c (plural appels, diminutive appeltsje)

1. apple

Alternative forms

• apel

Derived terms

• sinesappel

Further reading

• “appel”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011