different between rappel vs rappen

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

From German Rappen.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??ap?n/

Noun

rappen (plural rappen)

1. A unit of currency in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, equal to one-hundredth of a Swiss franc. [from 17th c.]
   • 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, p. 273:

     ‘Meticulous to a fault,’ he declared respectfully – even if the fault included checking Toby's imprest down to the last Swiss Rappen, a discipline he accepted with a rueful grace.

   • 2015, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau, Random House 2015, p. 112:

     There was a hole the size of a ten-rappen coin on her right shin and a run laddering after it.

Anagrams

• Napper, napper, papern

Dutch

Etymology

From rap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?p?(n)/
• Homophones: reppen (usually)

Verb

rappen

1. to rap (speak lyrics in the style of rap music)

Inflection

Derived terms

• rapper

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p?n/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /???p?n/ (many speakers, approximating English pronunciation)

Verb

rappen (weak, third-person singular present rappt, past tense rappte, past participle gerappt, auxiliary haben)

1. to rap

Conjugation

Related terms

• Rap

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p?n/

Etymology 1

From Middle High German ropfen, from Old High German roph?n, from Proto-Germanic *rupp?n?. Cognate with German rupfen, Dutch roppen.

Verb

rappen (third-person singular present rappt, past participle gerappt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive) to rip, to tear
2. (transitive) to snatch, to tear off

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ausrappen
• berappen
• ofrappen
• oprappen
• urappen
• zerrappen

Etymology 2

Verb

rappen (third-person singular present rappt, past participle gerappt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive) to grate

Conjugation

Related terms

• Rapp

Middle English

Etymology

From rappe.

Verb

rappen

1. to strike, smite

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: rap
• Yola: rapple

References

• “rappen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.