raket

Meaning

1. (feminine) rocket, missile
2. (feminine) firework
3. (feminine) a type of ice cream in the shape of a rocket

Concepts

rocket

🚀

missile

locket

racket

racquet

warhead

fireworks

🎆

battledore

rocket

🚀

firework

Synonyms

vuurpijl

vuurwerk

🎆

projectiel

Translations

Rakete

🚀

fusée

🚀

foguete

🚀

razzo

cohete

coet

🚀

misil

missile

roket

🚀

missile

rojão

füze

🚀

míssil

roquette

🚀

Pronounced as (IPA)

/raːˈkɛt/

Etymology

Borrowed from German: Rakete

Cognate with Old High German: rocco

Cognate with German: Rocken

Cognate with Swedish: rock

Cognate with Icelandic: rokkur

Cognate with Middle English: rocke

Borrowed from Middle French: roquette

Cognate with English: arugula

Borrowed from English: racket

Borrowed from Middle French: raquette

In summary

Borrowed from German Rakete, from Italian rocchetta, from rochetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), of Germanic origin, perhaps Gothic rukka, 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.