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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Rapunzel, the name of several varieties of lettuce.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Rapunzel (plural Rapunzels)
- A German fairy tale about a girl imprisoned in a tower who lets down her long hair for a rescuer to climb.
- The fictional girl who is the protagonist and title character of the fairy tale.
- 1966, Hal Porter, The Paper Chase, Angus and Robertson, page 90:
- […] as they loll in pairs or trios, looking down from the windows like Rapunzels and carpet-knights, while they eat bruised apricots, tomorrow is always on their lips as honey to come.
- 2011, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta, Forge, →ISBN, page 172:
- I spot Sleeping Beauty in a thorn forest. Two of them, only they are more like Rapunzels who’ve fallen from their tower.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a German fairy tale
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the main character of that tale
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Further reading
[edit]German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably borrowed from 16th century Italian raponzolo, dialectal diminutive of Italian rapa (“turnip”), from Latin rāpa, from the neuter plural of rāpum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Rapunzel f (genitive Rapunzel, plural Rapunzeln)
- lamb's lettuce (Valerianella locusta)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Feldsalat
- rampion (Campanula rapunculus)
- Synonym: Rapunzel-Glockenblume
- spiked rampion (Phyteuma spicatum)
- Synonyms: Ährige Teufelskralle, Weiße Teufelskralle
Declension
[edit]Declension of Rapunzel [feminine]
Synonyms
[edit]- (Valerianella): Feldsalat, Vogerlsalat (Austrian), Nüsslisalat (Swiss)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Rapunzel f (genitive Rapunzels or Rapunzel)
- Rapunzel, the long-haired protagonist of an eponymous fairy tale
Descendants
[edit]- → Arabic: رَابُونْزِل (rābūnzil)
- → Armenian: Ռապունցել (Ṙapuncʻel)
- → English: Rapunzel
- → French: Raiponce (calque)
- → Greek: Ραπουνζέλ (Rapounzél)
- → Hebrew: רפונזל, רפונצל
- → Italian: Raperonzolo (calque)
- → Japanese: ラプンツェル (Rapuntseru)
- → Korean: 라푼첼 (Rapunchel)
- → New Latin: Rapuncula (calque)
- → Esperanto: Rapunkolo
- → Marathi: रॅपुन्जेल (rĕpunjel)
- → Persian: راپانزل (râpânzel), راپونزل (râpunzel)
- → Polish: Roszpunka (calque)
- → Portuguese: Rapunzel
- → Russian: Рапу́нцель (Rapúncelʹ)
- → Spanish: Rapunzel
- → Thai: ราพันเซล (raa-pan-sel)
- → Turkish: Rapunzel
Further reading
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Rapunzel.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Rapunzel f
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