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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒk.ɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈɹɑk.ɪt/
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• /ˈɹɑ.kət/ weak vowel merger
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• rhymes with -ɒkɪt
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• CMU ARPABET: R AA1 K AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock4. For the meaning development, compare fuselage, ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”).

Borrowed from French roquette, from Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, from Latin eruca. Cognate to arugula, rucola, eruca, roquette.

251 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: raketë — rocket engine
• Amharic: ሮኬት (roket) — rocket engine
• Arabic: صَارُوخ (ṣārūḵ) — rocket engine
• Arabic: صاروخ (ṣarūḵ) — rocket engine
• Arabic: صاروخ (ṣarūḵ) — rocket engine
• Arabic: صاروخ (ṣarūḵ) — rocket engine
• Aragonese: codete — rocket engine
• Aragonese: codet — rocket engine
• Armenian: հրթիռ (hrtʻiṙ) — rocket engine
• Asturian: cohete — rocket engine
• Azerbaijani: raket — rocket engine
• Belarusian: раке́та (rakjéta) — rocket engine
• Bengali: রকেট (rokeṭ) — rocket engine
• Bengali: মাহতাব (mahotab) — rocket engine
• Bulgarian: раке́та (rakéta) — rocket engine
• Burmese: ဒုံးပျံ (dum:pyam) — rocket engine
• Catalan: coet — rocket engine
• Chinese Mandarin: 火箭發動機 /火箭发动机 (huǒjiàn fādòngjī) — rocket engine
• Czech: raketa — rocket engine
• Danish: raket — rocket engine
• Dutch: raket — rocket engine
• Estonian: rakett — rocket engine
• Finnish: rakettimoottori — rocket engine
• Finnish: raketti — rocket engine
• French: fusée — rocket engine
• Galician: foguete — rocket engine
• Georgian: რაკეტა (raḳeṭa) — rocket engine
• German: Rakete — rocket engine
• Greek: πύραυλος (pýravlos) — rocket engine
• Hebrew: מָנוֹעַ (manóa) — rocket engine
• Hebrew: רָקֶטָה (rakéta) — rocket engine
• Hindi: राकेट (rākeṭ) — rocket engine
• Hungarian: rakéta — rocket engine
• Hungarian: rakétahajtómű — rocket engine
• Icelandic: eldflaug — rocket engine
• Indonesian: roket — rocket engine
• Irish: roicéad — rocket engine
• Italian: motore a razzo — rocket engine
• Japanese: ロケット (roketto) — rocket engine
• Kazakh: зымыран (zymyran) — rocket engine
• Khmer: កាំជ្រួច (kamcruəc) — rocket engine
• Khmer: រ៉ុកកែត (rokkaet) — rocket engine
• Korean: 로켓 (roket) — rocket engine
• Northern Kurdish: roket — rocket engine
• Kyrgyz: ракета (raketa) — rocket engine
• Lao: ຈະຫລວດ (cha lūat) — rocket engine
• Lao: ຈະລວດ (cha lūat) — rocket engine
• Lao: ຈະຣວດ (cha rūat) — rocket engine
• Lao: ບັ້ງໄຟ — rocket engine
• Latin: rocheta — rocket engine
• Latin: rucheta — rocket engine
• Latin: missile igneum — rocket engine
• Latin: radius ignifer — rocket engine
• Latvian: raķete — rocket engine
• Lithuanian: raketa — rocket engine
• Luxembourgish: Rakéit — rocket engine
• Macedonian: раке́та (rakéta) — rocket engine
• Malay: roket — rocket engine
• Maltese: rokit — rocket engine
• Māori: pūkaha torohaki — rocket engine
• Marathi: रॉकेट (rŏkeṭ) — rocket engine
• Mizo: vànkhạwhthėi — rocket engine
• Mongolian: пуужин (puužin) — rocket engine
• Mongolian: ᠫᠤᠤᠵᠢᠩ (puuǰing) — rocket engine
• Norman: fîsée — rocket engine
• Norwegian Bokmål: rakett — rocket engine
• Iranian Persian: راکِت (râket) — rocket engine
• Polish: rakieta — rocket engine
• Portuguese: foguete — rocket engine
• Romanian: rachetă — rocket engine
• Russian: раке́та (rakéta) — rocket engine
• Northern Sami: rakeahtta — rocket engine
• Serbo-Croatian: ракѐта — rocket engine
• Serbo-Croatian: rakèta — rocket engine
• Sinhalese: රොකට් (rokaṭ) — rocket engine
• Slovak: raketa — rocket engine
• Slovene: raketa — rocket engine
• Spanish: motor de cohete — rocket engine
• Swahili: roketi — rocket engine
• Swedish: raketmotor — rocket engine
• Swedish: raket — rocket engine
• Tagalog: kuwitis — rocket engine
• Tajik: ракета (raketa) — rocket engine
• Thai: จรวด (jà-rùuat) — rocket engine
• Tibetan: མེ་ཤུགས་འཕུར་མདའི་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར (me shugs 'phur mda'i 'phrul 'khor) — rocket engine
• Turkish: roket — rocket engine
• Turkish: füze — rocket engine
• Turkmen: raketa — rocket engine
• Ukrainian: раке́та (rakéta) — rocket engine
• Ukrainian: раке́тний двигу́н (rakétnyj dvyhún) — rocket engine
• Urdu: راکِٹ (rākiṭ) — rocket engine
• Uyghur: راكېتا (rakëta) — rocket engine
• Uzbek: raketa — rocket engine
• Vietnamese: động cơ tên lửa — rocket engine
• Volapük: raket — rocket engine
• Yiddish: ראַקעט (raket) — rocket engine
• Arabic: صَارُوخ (ṣārūḵ) — military: non-guided missile
• Arabic: قَذِيفَة (qaḏīfa) — military: non-guided missile
• Arabic: ساروخ (sarūḵ) — military: non-guided missile
• Armenian: հրթիռ (hrtʻiṙ) — military: non-guided missile
• Belarusian: раке́та (rakjéta) — military: non-guided missile
• Bulgarian: раке́та (rakéta) — military: non-guided missile
• Burmese: ဒုံး (dum:) — military: non-guided missile
• Chinese Cantonese: 火箭 (fo2 zin3) — military: non-guided missile
• Chinese Mandarin: 火箭 (huǒjiàn) — military: non-guided missile
• Czech: raketa — military: non-guided missile
• Dutch: raket — military: non-guided missile
• Esperanto: raketo — military: non-guided missile
• Finnish: raketti — military: non-guided missile
• French: roquette — military: non-guided missile
• Georgian: რაკეტა (raḳeṭa) — military: non-guided missile
• German: Rakete — military: non-guided missile
• Hebrew: רָקֶטָה (rakéta) — military: non-guided missile
• Hebrew: טִיל (til) — military: non-guided missile
• Hindi: प्रक्षेपास्त्र (prakṣepāstra) — military: non-guided missile
• Hungarian: rakéta — military: non-guided missile
• Italian: razzo — military: non-guided missile
• Japanese: 噴進弾 (funshindan) — military: non-guided missile
• Japanese: ロケット (roketto) — military: non-guided missile
• Japanese: ロケット弾 (roketto dan) — military: non-guided missile
• Khmer: រ៉ុកកែត (rokkaet) — military: non-guided missile
• Korean: 로켓 (roket) — military: non-guided missile
• Korean: 로켓트 (roket'teu) — military: non-guided missile
• Korean: 미사일 (misail) — military: non-guided missile
• Lao: ຈະຫລວດ (cha lūat) — military: non-guided missile
• Lao: ຈະລວດ (cha lūat) — military: non-guided missile
• Lao: ຈະຣວດ (cha rūat) — military: non-guided missile
• Latin: rucheta — military: non-guided missile
• Latvian: raķete — military: non-guided missile
• Luxembourgish: Rakéit — military: non-guided missile
• Macedonian: раке́та (rakéta) — military: non-guided missile
• Maltese: rokit — military: non-guided missile
• Māori: rākete — military: non-guided missile
• Māori: tākirirangi — military: non-guided missile
• Marathi: रॉकेट (rŏkeṭ) — military: non-guided missile
• Norman: fîsée — military: non-guided missile
• Norwegian Bokmål: rakett — military: non-guided missile
• Pashto: راکټ (rākeṭ) — military: non-guided missile
• Iranian Persian: راکِت (râket) — military: non-guided missile
• Polish: rakieta — military: non-guided missile
• Portuguese: foguete — military: non-guided missile
• Romanian: rachetă — military: non-guided missile
• Russian: раке́та (rakéta) — military: non-guided missile
• Northern Sami: rakeahtta — military: non-guided missile
• Slovene: raketa — military: non-guided missile
• Spanish: cohete — military: non-guided missile
• Swahili: roketi — military: non-guided missile
• Swedish: raket — military: non-guided missile
• Tagalog: sikpad — military: non-guided missile
• Thai: จรวด (jà-rùuat) — military: non-guided missile
• Tibetan: འཕུར་མདའི་མཚོན་ཆ ('phur mda'i mtshon cha) — military: non-guided missile
• Tibetan: འཕུར་མདའ ('phur mda') — military: non-guided missile
• Tibetan: མེ་ཤུགས་འཕུར་མདའ (me shugs 'phur mda') — military: non-guided missile
• Turkish: roket — military: non-guided missile
• Turkish: füze — military: non-guided missile
• Ukrainian: раке́та (rakéta) — military: non-guided missile
• Uyghur: راكېتا (rakëta) — military: non-guided missile
• Vietnamese: tên lửa — military: non-guided missile
• Welsh: roced — military: non-guided missile
• Yiddish: ראַקעט (raket) — military: non-guided missile
• Afrikaans: vuurpyl — vehicle
• Arabic: صَارُوخ (ṣārūḵ) — vehicle
• Belarusian: раке́та (rakjéta) — vehicle
• Bulgarian: раке́та (rakéta) — vehicle
• Catalan: coet — vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 火箭 (huǒjiàn) — vehicle
• Czech: raketa — vehicle
• Dutch: raket — vehicle
• Finnish: raketti — vehicle
• French: fusée — vehicle
• Georgian: რაკეტა (raḳeṭa) — vehicle
• German: Rakete — vehicle
• Hebrew: טִיל (til) — vehicle
• Hindi: प्रक्षेपण यान (prakṣepaṇ yān) — vehicle
• Hungarian: rakéta — vehicle
• Hungarian: űrhajó — vehicle
• Hungarian: űrjármű — vehicle
• Hungarian: űreszköz — vehicle
• Italian: razzo — vehicle
• Japanese: ロケット (roketto) — vehicle
• Korean: 로켓트 (roket'teu) — vehicle
• Luxembourgish: Rakéit — vehicle
• Macedonian: раке́та (rakéta) — vehicle
• Malay: roket — vehicle
• Maltese: rokit — vehicle
• Māori: rākete — vehicle
• Māori: tākirirangi — vehicle
• Marathi: रॉकेट (rŏkeṭ) — vehicle
• Norman: fîsée — vehicle
• Norwegian Bokmål: rakett — vehicle
• Occitan: fusada — vehicle
• Occitan: husada — vehicle
• Iranian Persian: راکِت (râket) — vehicle
• Polish: rakieta — vehicle
• Portuguese: foguete — vehicle
• Romanian: rachetă — vehicle
• Russian: раке́та (rakéta) — vehicle
• Northern Sami: rakeahtta — vehicle
• Slovene: raketa — vehicle
• Spanish: cohete — vehicle
• Swedish: raket — vehicle
• Tagalog: sikpad — vehicle
• Tibetan: འཕུར་མདའ ('phur mda') — vehicle
• Tibetan: མེ་ཤུགས་འཕུར་མདའ (me shugs 'phur mda') — vehicle
• Turkish: roket — vehicle
• Ukrainian: раке́та (rakéta) — vehicle
• Vietnamese: rốc két — vehicle
• Yiddish: ראַקעט (raket) — vehicle
• Belarusian: раке́та (rakjéta) — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Bulgarian: раке́та (rakéta) — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Catalan: coet — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Chinese Mandarin: 衝天砲 /冲天炮 (chōngtiānpào) — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Dutch: vuurpijl — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Finnish: raketti — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• French: fusée — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• French: pétard — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Georgian: რაკეტა (raḳeṭa) — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• German: Rakete — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Hungarian: röppentyű — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Hungarian: rakéta — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Italian: razzo — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Japanese: 打ち上げ花火 (uchiage hanabi) — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Kazakh: зымыран (zymyran) — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Luxembourgish: Rakéit — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Macedonian: раке́тка (rakétka) — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Malay: cerawat — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Norwegian Bokmål: rakett — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Polish: rakieta — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Portuguese: foguete — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Romanian: rachetă — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Russian: раке́та (rakéta) — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Northern Sami: rakeahtta — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Spanish: cohete — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Swedish: raket — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Thai: จรวด (jà-rùuat) — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Tibetan: ཤོག་སྦག (shog sbag) — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Turkish: havai fişek — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Ukrainian: раке́та (rakéta) — rocket-propelled firework — see also skyrocket
• Finnish: raketti — figuratively: something that shoots high in the air
• Finnish: höyrypää — stupid or crazy person
• Bulgarian: ускорявам (uskorjavam) — to accelerate
• Finnish: ampaista — to accelerate
• Norwegian Bokmål: skyte — to accelerate
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skyte — to accelerate
• Bulgarian: излитам право нагоре (izlitam pravo nagore) — to fly vertically
• Finnish: nousta pystysuoraan — to fly vertically
• Finnish: ampaista yläilmoihin — to rise or soar rapidly
• Finnish: kuljettaa raketilla — to carry
• Bulgarian: обстрелвам с ракети (obstrelvam s raketi) — to attack
• Finnish: hyökätä raketein — to attack
• Finnish: tehdä rakettihyökkäys — to attack