paratrooper

English

Paratroopers.

Etymology

Blend of parachute +‎ trooper

Noun

paratrooper (plural paratroopers)

A type of soldier who is trained to enter combat zones by parachuting from aircraft.
- 1992, Quan, Yanchi (权延赤), “Mao Enjoys a Challenge”, in Wang Wenjiong, transl.; Gale Hadfield, editor, Mao Zedong: Man, Not God (走下神坛的毛泽东)‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, published 1996, →ISBN, OCLC 929480756, OL 9067522M, page 13:
  Upon receiving intelligence reports about the massing of enemy paratroopers, General Peng Dehuai posted a defence regiment at Yan'an airfield, and requested that Mao leave Yan'an as soon as possible.

Translations

soldier that parachutes from aircraft

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: парашутист (bg) (parašutist)
Catalan: paracaigudista m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 傘兵 (zh), 伞兵 (zh) (sǎnbīng), 空降兵 (zh) (kōngjiàngbīng)
Czech: výsadkář m
Danish: faldskærmssoldat c, faldskærmsjæger c
Dutch: parachutist (nl) m
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: laskuvarjojääkäri (fi)
French: para (fr) m, parachutiste (fr) m or f, parachutisme militaire m or f
Galician: paracaidista (gl) m or f, paracaidista militar m or f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Fallschirmjäger (de) m
Greek: αλεξιπτωτίστρια (el) m or f (alexiptotístria)
Hebrew: צנחן‎ (tzanhan)
Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
Italian: paracadutista (it) m or f, paracadutista militare m or f
Japanese: 空挺兵 (くうていへい, kūteihei)
Kazakh: десантшы (desantşy)
Korean: 공수부대 (gongsubudae)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Maori: hōia heketau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fallskjermsoldat m

Nynorsk: fallskjermsoldat m
Polish: spadochroniarz (pl)
Portuguese: paraquedista (pt) m or f, paraquedista militar m or f
Romanian: parașutist (ro) m
Russian: деса́нтник (ru) m (desántnik), парашюти́ст-деса́нтник m (parašutíst-desántnik), парашюти́ст (ru) m (parašutíst)
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: paracaidista (es) m or f, paracaidista militar m or f
Swedish: fallskärmsjägare c
Tagalog: parasyutista
Turkish: paraşütçü asker
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

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