"débâcle" meaning in All languages combined

See débâcle on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /deɪˈbɑːk(ə)l/, /deɪˈbɑːklə/ Forms: débâcles [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑːkəl Head templates: {{en-noun}} débâcle (plural débâcles)
  1. Alternative form of debacle. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: debacle
    Sense id: en-débâcle-en-noun-7wWBv~iE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 47 10 1 14 23 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 12 1 17 29 4

Noun [French]

IPA: /de.bakl/, /de.bɑkl/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-débâcle.wav Forms: débâcles [plural]
Etymology: Deverbal from débâcler. Etymology templates: {{deverbal|fr|débâcler}} Deverbal from débâcler Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} débâcle f (plural débâcles)
  1. (geology) debacle (break-up of ice dam) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-débâcle-fr-noun-~IlNWzKZ Categories (other): Geology Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
  2. (figurative) debacle (fiasco) Tags: feminine, figuratively
    Sense id: en-débâcle-fr-noun-Y2TK1do6
  3. (historical, with definite article) the French defeat in the Battle of France (May–June 1940) Tags: feminine, historical, with-definite-article
    Sense id: en-débâcle-fr-noun-0eR7U5-Z Categories (other): French deverbals, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French deverbals: 15 2 83 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 15 3 44 26 11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: débâcler, embâcle
Etymology number: 1

Verb [French]

IPA: /de.bakl/, /de.bɑkl/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-débâcle.wav
Etymology: Non-lemma forms Head templates: {{head|fr|verb form}} débâcle
  1. inflection of débâcler:
    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: débâcler
    Sense id: en-débâcle-fr-verb-D4b32eml
  2. inflection of débâcler:
    second-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, second-person, singular Form of: débâcler
    Sense id: en-débâcle-fr-verb-KTdhuIDU
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "débâcles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "débâcle (plural débâcles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "debacle"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 10 1 14 23 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "37 12 1 17 29 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              23,
              30
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2002, Jacqueline West, South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 68:",
          "text": "The Falklands-Malvinas débâcle provided the opportunity to restructure the military High Command; Alfonsín removed anti-democratic senior officers and replaced them with more co-operative ones.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of debacle."
      ],
      "id": "en-débâcle-en-noun-7wWBv~iE",
      "links": [
        [
          "debacle",
          "debacle#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/deɪˈbɑːk(ə)l/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/deɪˈbɑːklə/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑːkəl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "débâcle"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "debakl"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "debacle"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "debacle"
    },
    {
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "Debakel"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "débâcler"
      },
      "expansion": "Deverbal from débâcler",
      "name": "deverbal"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from débâcler.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "débâcles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "débâcle f (plural débâcles)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "débâcler"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "embâcle"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Geology",
          "orig": "fr:Geology",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "debacle (break-up of ice dam)"
      ],
      "id": "en-débâcle-fr-noun-~IlNWzKZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "geology",
          "geology"
        ],
        [
          "debacle",
          "debacle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) debacle (break-up of ice dam)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "debacle (fiasco)"
      ],
      "id": "en-débâcle-fr-noun-Y2TK1do6",
      "links": [
        [
          "debacle",
          "debacle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) debacle (fiasco)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "15 2 83",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French deverbals",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 3 44 26 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              96,
              106
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015 November 22, Alain Paire, “Années 40 à Aix : un écrivain renaissant du nom de Cendrars”, in La Provence, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Blaise Cendrars, auteur de \"La main coupée\" et \"L'homme foudroyé\", s'était retiré à Aix lors de la débâcle. Il y réapprit le goût d'écrire.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the French defeat in the Battle of France (May–June 1940)"
      ],
      "id": "en-débâcle-fr-noun-0eR7U5-Z",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, with definite article) the French defeat in the Battle of France (May–June 1940)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "historical",
        "with-definite-article"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/de.bakl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/de.bɑkl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-débâcle.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "débâcle"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Non-lemma forms",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "débâcle",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "débâcler"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of débâcler:",
        "first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive"
      ],
      "id": "en-débâcle-fr-verb-D4b32eml",
      "links": [
        [
          "débâcler",
          "débâcler#French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "débâcler"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of débâcler:",
        "second-person singular imperative"
      ],
      "id": "en-débâcle-fr-verb-KTdhuIDU",
      "links": [
        [
          "débâcler",
          "débâcler#French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "imperative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/de.bakl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/de.bɑkl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-débâcle.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "débâcle"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "débâcles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "débâcle (plural débâcles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "debacle"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from French",
        "English terms derived from French",
        "English terms spelled with Â",
        "English terms spelled with É",
        "English terms spelled with ◌́",
        "English terms spelled with ◌̂",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɑːkəl"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              23,
              30
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2002, Jacqueline West, South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 68:",
          "text": "The Falklands-Malvinas débâcle provided the opportunity to restructure the military High Command; Alfonsín removed anti-democratic senior officers and replaced them with more co-operative ones.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of debacle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "debacle",
          "debacle#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/deɪˈbɑːk(ə)l/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/deɪˈbɑːklə/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑːkəl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "débâcle"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "French 2-syllable words",
    "French countable nouns",
    "French deverbals",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French feminine nouns",
    "French lemmas",
    "French non-lemma forms",
    "French nouns",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "French verb forms",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "debakl"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "debacle"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "debacle"
    },
    {
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "Debakel"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "débâcler"
      },
      "expansion": "Deverbal from débâcler",
      "name": "deverbal"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from débâcler.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "débâcles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "débâcle f (plural débâcles)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "débâcler"
    },
    {
      "word": "embâcle"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "fr:Geology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "debacle (break-up of ice dam)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geology",
          "geology"
        ],
        [
          "debacle",
          "debacle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) debacle (break-up of ice dam)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "debacle (fiasco)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "debacle",
          "debacle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) debacle (fiasco)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "French terms with historical senses",
        "French terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of French quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              96,
              106
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2015 November 22, Alain Paire, “Années 40 à Aix : un écrivain renaissant du nom de Cendrars”, in La Provence, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Blaise Cendrars, auteur de \"La main coupée\" et \"L'homme foudroyé\", s'était retiré à Aix lors de la débâcle. Il y réapprit le goût d'écrire.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the French defeat in the Battle of France (May–June 1940)"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, with definite article) the French defeat in the Battle of France (May–June 1940)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "historical",
        "with-definite-article"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/de.bakl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/de.bɑkl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-débâcle.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "débâcle"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "French 2-syllable words",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French non-lemma forms",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "French verb forms",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Non-lemma forms",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "débâcle",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "débâcler"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of débâcler:",
        "first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "débâcler",
          "débâcler#French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "débâcler"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of débâcler:",
        "second-person singular imperative"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "débâcler",
          "débâcler#French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "imperative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/de.bakl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/de.bɑkl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-débâcle.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-d%C3%A9b%C3%A2cle.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "débâcle"
}

Download raw JSONL data for débâcle meaning in All languages combined (5.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.