camouflage

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• /ˈkæ.məˌflɑːʒ/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 M AH0 F L AA2 ZH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Unadapted borrowing from French camouflage, from camoufler (“to veil, disguise”), alteration (due to camouflet (“smoke blown in one's face”)) of Italian camuffare (“to muffle the head”), from ca- (from Italian capo (“head”)) + muffare (“to muffle”), from Medieval Latin muffula, muffla (“muff”). This Medieval Latin, from which there is also English muffle, is either derived from a Frankish *molfell (“soft garment made of hide”) from *mol (“softened, forworn”) (akin to Old High German molawēn (“to soften”), Middle High German molwic (“soft”)) + *fell (“hide, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, film, fleece”), or, an alternate etymology traces it to a Frankish *muffël (“a muff, wrap, envelope”) composed of *mauwa (“sleeve, wrap”) from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“sleeve”) + *fell (“skin, hide”) from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, film, fleece”).

169 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَمْوِيه (tamwīh) — disguise
• Bulgarian: маскировка (maskirovka) — disguise
• Catalan: camuflament — disguise
• Czech: maska — disguise
• Czech: převlek — disguise
• Czech: převlečení — disguise
• Czech: předstírání — disguise
• Finnish: naamiointi — disguise
• Finnish: valeasu — disguise
• French: déguisement — disguise
• Galician: camuflaxe — disguise
• German: Tarnmaterial — disguise
• German: Tarnung — disguise
• Hungarian: kamuflázs — disguise
• Hungarian: álca — disguise
• Hungarian: álcaháló — disguise
• Hungarian: álcázóanyag — disguise
• Indonesian: kamuflase — disguise
• Indonesian: samaran — disguise
• Irish: duaithníocht — disguise
• Japanese: 迷彩 (meisai) — disguise
• Norwegian Bokmål: forkledning — disguise
• Persian: استتار (estetâr) — disguise
• Polish: kamuflaż — disguise
• Polish: barwa ochronna — disguise
• Polish: kolor ochronny — disguise
• Portuguese: camuflagem — disguise
• Romanian: camuflaj — disguise
• Russian: камуфля́ж (kamufljáž) — disguise
• Russian: маскиро́вка (maskiróvka) — disguise
• Slovak: kamufláž — disguise
• Turkish: kılık değiştirme — disguise
• Welsh: cuddliw — disguise
• Welsh: ffugliw — disguise
• Bulgarian: маскиране (maskirane) — act of disguising
• Catalan: camuflament — act of disguising
• Czech: maskování — act of disguising
• Esperanto: kamufli — act of disguising
• Finnish: naamiointi — act of disguising
• French: camouflage — act of disguising
• Galician: camuflaxe — act of disguising
• German: Tarnen — act of disguising
• Hungarian: álcázás — act of disguising
• Hungarian: leplezés — act of disguising
• Hungarian: rejtőzködés — act of disguising
• Indonesian: kamuflase — act of disguising
• Indonesian: penyamaran — act of disguising
• Irish: duaithníocht — act of disguising
• Italian: camuffaggio — act of disguising
• Māori: whakatūrehutanga — act of disguising
• Māori: whakatārehutanga — act of disguising
• Norwegian Bokmål: forkledning — act of disguising
• Polish: barwa ochronna — act of disguising
• Polish: maskowanie — act of disguising
• Polish: kolor ochronny — act of disguising
• Portuguese: camuflagem — act of disguising
• Romanian: camuflare — act of disguising
• Russian: камуфля́ж (kamufljáž) — act of disguising
• Russian: маскиро́вка (maskiróvka) — act of disguising
• Slovak: kamufláž — act of disguising
• Turkish: kılık değiştirme — act of disguising
• Armenian: կամուֆլյաժ (kamuflyaž) — military
• Armenian: ներկաքողարկում (nerkakʻoġarkum) — military
• Bulgarian: камуфлаж (kamuflaž) — military
• Catalan: camuflament — military
• Czech: kamufláž — military
• Czech: maskování — military
• Czech: zamaskování — military
• Danish: camouflage — military
• Danish: sløring — military
• Esperanto: kamuflo — military
• Finnish: naamiointi — military
• French: camouflage — military
• Galician: camuflaxe — military
• Georgian: კამუფლაჟი (ḳamuplaži) — military
• German: Tarnen — military
• German: Tarnung — military
• German: Camouflage — military
• Greek: καμουφλάζ (kamoufláz) — military
• Hungarian: álcázás — military
• Italian: mimetizzazione — military
• Norwegian Bokmål: kamuflasje — military
• Norwegian Bokmål: kamuflering — military
• Polish: kamuflaż — military
• Polish: barwa ochronna — military
• Polish: kolor ochronny — military
• Portuguese: camuflagem — military
• Russian: камуфля́ж (kamufljáž) — military
• Russian: маскиро́вка (maskiróvka) — military
• Slovak: kamufláž — military
• Swedish: kamouflage — military
• Swedish: maskering — military
• Catalan: camuflament — pattern
• Chinese Mandarin: 迷彩 (mícǎi) — pattern
• Czech: kamufláž — pattern
• Czech: maskování — pattern
• Finnish: maastokuvio — pattern
• German: Tarnmuster — pattern
• Hungarian: terepminta — pattern
• Japanese: 迷彩 (meisai) — pattern
• Korean: 미채 (michae) — pattern
• Norwegian Bokmål: kamuflasje — pattern
• Swedish: kamouflage — pattern
• Thai: ลายพราง — pattern
• Catalan: camuflament — biology
• Chinese Mandarin: 保護色 /保护色 (bǎohùsè) — biology
• Czech: mimikry — biology
• Finnish: suojaväritys — biology
• French: camouflage — biology
• Galician: camuflaxe — biology
• German: Tarnung — biology
• Greek: καμουφλάζ (kamoufláz) — biology
• Haitian Creole: kamouflaj — biology
• Hungarian: álcázás — biology
• Hungarian: mimikri — biology
• Hungarian: kamuflázs — biology
• Japanese: 保護色 (hogoshoku) — biology
• Korean: 보호색 (bohosaek) — biology
• Norwegian Bokmål: kamuflasje — biology
• Norwegian Bokmål: beskyttelseslikhet — biology
• Norwegian Bokmål: mimikry — biology
• Norwegian Bokmål: vernelikhet — biology
• Portuguese: camuflagem — biology
• Swedish: kamouflage — biology
• Chinese Mandarin: 迷彩服 (mícǎifú) — clothes
• Czech: maskáče — clothes
• Finnish: maastopuku — clothes
• German: Tarnanzug — clothes
• Hungarian: terepszínű egyenruha — clothes
• Hungarian: terepmintás ruha — clothes
• Japanese: 迷彩服 (meisaifuku) — clothes
• Korean: 위장복 (wijangbok) — clothes
• Norwegian Bokmål: kamuflasjedrakt — clothes
• Norwegian Bokmål: kamuflasjeuniform — clothes
• Swedish: kamouflagekläder — clothes
• Thai: ลายพราง — clothes
• Basque: kamuflatu — hide, disguise
• Bulgarian: замаскирвам (zamaskirvam) — hide, disguise
• Catalan: camuflar — hide, disguise
• Danish: camouflere — hide, disguise
• Danish: sløre — hide, disguise
• Dutch: camoufleren — hide, disguise
• Finnish: naamioida — hide, disguise
• French: camoufler — hide, disguise
• Galician: camuflar — hide, disguise
• German: tarnen — hide, disguise
• Hebrew: הסווה (hisvá) — hide, disguise
• Hungarian: álcáz — hide, disguise
• Indonesian: berkamuflase — hide, disguise
• Indonesian: menyamar — hide, disguise
• Irish: duaithnigh — hide, disguise
• Italian: camuffare — hide, disguise
• Luxembourgish: camoufléieren — hide, disguise
• Māori: whakatārehu — hide, disguise
• Māori: whakatūrehu — hide, disguise
• Norwegian Bokmål: kamuflere — hide, disguise
• Norwegian Bokmål: maskere — hide, disguise
• Polish: maskować — hide, disguise
• Portuguese: camuflar — hide, disguise
• Romanian: camufla — hide, disguise
• Russian: камуфли́ровать (kamuflírovatʹ) — hide, disguise
• Russian: закамуфли́ровать (zakamuflírovatʹ) — hide, disguise
• Russian: маскирова́ть (maskirovátʹ) — hide, disguise
• Russian: замаскирова́ть (zamaskirovátʹ) — hide, disguise
• Spanish: camuflar — hide, disguise
• Spanish: camuflajear — hide, disguise
• Swedish: kamouflera — hide, disguise
• Swedish: maskera — hide, disguise
• Welsh: cuddliwio — hide, disguise