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English
Etymology
From Shrapnel. Named after British army officer Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842) who invented an anti-personnel shell that transported a large number of bullets to the target before releasing them, at a far greater distance than rifles could fire the bullets individually. The surname is likely a metathesized form of Charbonnel, a diminutive of Old French charbon (“charcoal”) in reference to hair color, complexion, or the like.
Pronunciation
Noun
shrapnel (usually uncountable, plural shrapnels)
- (military, historical) An anti-personnel artillery shell used in World War I which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
- (military, historical) The bullets from the aforementioned type of artillery shell.
- (military) Shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb or landmine.
- (slang) Loose change.
2004, “Fit But You Know It”, in Mike Skinner (lyrics), A Grand Don’t Come For Free, performed by The Streets:I was waiting in the queue, looking at the board / Wondering whether to have a burger or chips / Or what the shrapnel in my back pocket could afford
- Debris.
The dog ate my sandwich, and there was shrapnel all over the place from him tearing open the bag.
Translations
fragments and debris thrown out by an exploding device
- Afrikaans: skrapnel
- Albanian: shrapnel (sq) m
- Arabic: شَظَايَا (ar) f pl (šaẓāyā)
- Armenian: շրապնել (hy) (šrapnel), կոտորակառումբ (kotorakaṙumb)
- Azerbaijani: şrapnel
- Belarusian: шрапнэ́ль f (šrapnélʹ)
- Bulgarian: шрапне́л m (šrapnél)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 彈片/弹片 (zh) (dànpiàn), 榴霰彈/榴霰弹 (zh) (liúxiàndàn), 霰彈/霰弹 (zh) (xiàndàn), 子母彈/子母弹 (zh) (zǐmǔdàn)
- Czech: šrapnel m
- Dutch: granaatscherven (nl) pl or f
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: šrapnell
- Finnish: sirpaleet (fi) pl
- French: shrapnel (fr) m
- Galician: metralla f
- Georgian: შრაპნელი (šraṗneli)
- German: Schrapnell (de) n, Granatsplitter (de) m
- Greek: θραύσμα (el) n (thráfsma), μύδρος (el) m (mýdros)
- Hungarian: repesz (hu)
- Italian: schegge (it), proiettili (it), scheggia di bomba
- Japanese: 榴散弾 (りゅうさんだん, ryūsandan), 榴霰弾 (りゅうさんだん, ryūsandan)
- Kazakh: шрапнель (şrapnel)
- Korean: 유산탄(榴散彈) (yusantan), 류산탄(榴散彈) (ryusantan) (North Korea)
- Kyrgyz: шрапнель (ky) (şrapnel)
- Latvian: šrapnelis m
- Lithuanian: šrapnelis m
- Macedonian: шрапнел m (šrapnel)
- Malay: serpihan peluru, serpihan bom
- Maori: matā korara
- Persian: ترکش (fa) (tarkaš, tarkeš)
- Polish: szrapnel (pl) m
- Portuguese: estilhaço (pt)
- Romanian: șrapnel (ro) n
- Russian: шрапне́ль (ru) f (šrapnɛ́lʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: шра̀пнел m
- Roman: šràpnel (sh) m
- Slovak: šrapnel (sk) m
- Slovene: šrapnel m
- Spanish: shrapnel, metralla f
- Swedish: splitter (sv)
- Tajik: шрапнель (šrapnel)
- Thai: สะเก็ด (th) (sà-gèt), สะเก็ดระเบิด
- Turkish: şarapnel (tr)
- Turkmen: şrapnel
- Ukrainian: шрапне́ль f (šrapnélʹ)
- Uyghur: شراپنېل (shrapnël)
- Uzbek: shrapnel (uz)
- Vietnamese: trái phá (vi), đạn trái phá
- Volapük: jräpnäl
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Pronunciation
Noun
shrapnel m (plural shrapnels)
- shrapnel
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