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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛvɹən/
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• US: /ˈʃɛvɹɑn/
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• CMU ARPABET: SH EH1 V R AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: SH EH1 V R AA0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kápros Proto-Italic *kapros Latin caper Latin *capreus Vulgar Latin *capriō Old French chevronbor. Middle English cheveroun English chevron From Middle English cheveroun, from Old French chevron, the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's horns.

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: шаўро́н (šawrón) — V-shaped pattern
• Bulgarian: нашивка на ръкава (našivka na rǎkava) — V-shaped pattern
• Cherokee: ᏤᏫᎳᏂ (tsewilani) — V-shaped pattern
• Chinese Cantonese: 柴 (caai4) — V-shaped pattern
• Finnish: väkänen — V-shaped pattern
• Finnish: natsa — V-shaped pattern
• French: chevron — V-shaped pattern
• German: Sparren — V-shaped pattern
• Greek: γαλόνι (galóni) — V-shaped pattern
• Hungarian: katonai rangjelzés — V-shaped pattern
• Irish: rachtán — V-shaped pattern
• Italian: galloni — V-shaped pattern
• Italian: pipa — V-shaped pattern
• Italian: segno diacritico a V — V-shaped pattern
• Italian: scaglione — V-shaped pattern
• Māori: pere tapaono — V-shaped pattern
• Māori: kaokao — V-shaped pattern
• Māori: maihi — V-shaped pattern
• Norman: kevron — V-shaped pattern
• Polish: szewron — V-shaped pattern
• Russian: шевро́н (ševrón) — V-shaped pattern
• Spanish: sardineta — V-shaped pattern
• Ukrainian: шевро́н (ševrón) — V-shaped pattern
• Catalan: xebró — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Czech: krokev — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Dutch: keper — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Finnish: polviorsi — heraldry: wide inverted V
• French: chevron — heraldry: wide inverted V
• German: Sparren — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Irish: rachtán — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Italian: scaglione — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Macedonian: стропило (stropilo) — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Polish: krokiew — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Portuguese: cabria — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Portuguese: asna — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Spanish: chebrón — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Spanish: cabrio — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Spanish: chevrón — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Swedish: sparre — heraldry: wide inverted V
• Finnish: turvavälimerkintä — V-shaped marking on the surface of road
• Hungarian: követési távolság jelzése — V-shaped marking on the surface of road
• Italian: frecce segnaletiche — V-shaped marking on the surface of road
• Polish: szewron — V-shaped marking on the surface of road