# umbrella
## English
### Alternative forms

* brelly, brellie, brolly (chiefly UK, diminutive)
* humbrella (archaic)
* ombrella, umbrello (obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ombrella, umbrella (“parasol, sunshade”), diminutive of ombra (“shade”) (or from a Late Latin or Medieval Latin umbrella), from Latin umbra (“shadow”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ʌmˈbɹɛlə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (Southern US) IPA: /ˈʌmbɹɛlə/
* Rhymes: -ɛlə
* Hyphenation: um‧brel‧la

### Noun

umbrella (plural umbrellas)
* A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
    Meronyms: runner, rib, canopy, stretcher
    Quick, grab that umbrella before you get rained on!
** 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
** 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 197:When the [lost property] office first opened, the most frequently lost items were umbrellas. Every white-collar professional carried one, but despite, or because of, that they were easily forgotten about. [...] In the 1930s, a quarter of a million umbrellas a year came into the office. Now it's more like 10,000.
* (figurative) Anything that provides similar protection.
    The fighters provide a defensive air umbrella over the battle group.
* (figurative) Anything that provides similar overarching coverage of a range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
    The test facility was established under the umbrella of the company's quality program.
* The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
    Jellyfish are composed of more than 90% water and most of their umbrella mass is made up of gelatinous material.
* (photography, television) An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
** 2014, Michael Allen, Modern Wedding Photography, page 97:Using umbrellas for shooting a wedding party is ok, but not necessary.

#### Synonyms

* (cloth-covered frame used as protection from the elements): chatta (India); chatra (royal & religious symbol in South & East Asia); rainshade, parapluie (uncommon); gamp (dated, colloquial); bumbershoot, umbershoot (obsolete US slang); rain napper (obsolete UK slang)

#### Hyponyms

* (cloth-covered frame used as protection from the elements): parasol (sun protection)

#### Derived terms

* Amazonian umbrellabird
* Atlantic umbrella slug
* bare-necked umbrellabird
* bastard umbrella thorn
* beach umbrella
* exumbrella
* exumbrellar
* Japanese umbrella pine
* jumbrella
* long-wattled umbrellabird
* nuclear umbrella
* poor man's umbrella
* subumbrella
* sun umbrella
* Texas umbrella tree
* umbrella ant
* umbrella bird
* umbrellabird
* umbrella brand
* umbrella cockatoo
* umbrella company
* umbrella corallimorpharian
* umbrella-cover
* umbrella cover
* umbrella crab
* umbrella fern
* umbrella fund
* umbrella grass
* umbrella insurance
* umbrella-leaf
* umbrellaless
* umbrellalike
* umbrella organisation, umbrella organization
* umbrella palm
* umbrella pine
* umbrella plant
* umbrella policy
* umbrella school
* umbrella stand
* umbrella step
* umbrella term
* umbrella thorn
* umbrella tree
* umbrella wasp
* yellow umbrella slug

#### Related terms

* umbra
* umbrel
* umbrere

#### Descendants

* → Igbo: mbalarị
* → Welsh: ymbarél
* → Yoruba: ọ̀bùrẹ́là
* → Tok Pisin: ambrela

#### Translations

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#### See also

* awning
* bumbershoot
* gamp
* parasol
* shield

#### Further reading

* “umbrella”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “umbrella”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Verb

umbrella (third-person singular simple present umbrellas, present participle umbrellaing, simple past and past participle umbrellaed)
* (transitive) To cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.
** 1944, Emily Carr, “Life Loves Living”, in The House of All Sorts‎:Experts with saws and ladders came and lopped off the lower branches. This sent the tree's growth rushing violently to her head in a lush overhanging which umbrellaed the House of All Sorts.
** 2008, Jonathan Kellerman, Bad Love: Alex Delaware 8:Huge pine and eucalyptus umbrellaed the grounds, airconditioning the morning.
* (intransitive) To form the dome shape of an open umbrella.
** 2011, B. A. Rothwell, The Peaceful Queen, page 31:Bright yellow gowns fit them tightly and umbrellaed from their waist to just below the knees.
* (intransitive) To move like a jellyfish.
** 1997, National Geographic Traveler, page 36:The light catches the filigreed tendrils and graceful motion of the jellies, their orange bodies umbrella-ing along like fairy parasols come to life.

### Anagrams

* umbellar

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian umbrella.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /umˈbrɛl.la/

### Noun

umbrella f (plural umbrelel, diminutive umbrellin or umbrellina)
* umbrella

## Romansch
### Noun

umbrella f (plural umbrellas)
* (Surmiran, Vallader) umbrella, parasol

#### Synonyms

* (Rumantsch Grischun) paraplievgia
* (Puter) paraplövgia
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter) parisol
* (Sutsilvan) prisol
* (Vallader) parasul