waterproof

waterproof

English

Etymology

water +‎ -proof. Compare West Frisian wetterproef (“waterproof”), Dutch waterproef (“waterproof”).

Adjective

waterproof (comparative more waterproof, superlative most waterproof)

1. Resistant to the effects of water.
2. Made of or covered with material that doesn't allow water in.
3. (figurative) Incapable of failing; unassailable.
   • 1931, The British Clay Worker

     The only waterproof plan and the one increasingly adopted by leading trades is the consolidation of the interests of all parties in a scheme of amalgamation.

   • 2001, W. A. M. van Dijk, J. L. Hovens, Netherlands. Koninklijke Marechaussee, Arresting war criminals

     Especially within an international framework, guarding this process is of the utmost importance. The eyes of the world are focussed on the action at hand and demand a waterproof plan and execution.

   • 2013, Barry Davies, Soldier of Fortune Guide to How to Disappear and Never Be Found, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

     Unless you have a 100 percent waterproof plan to defraud insurance companies, I would suggest you don't do it.

Synonyms

• (made of a material that doesn't allow water in): waterfast, watertight

Translations

resistant to water

Bulgarian: непромокаем (bg) (nepromokaem) Catalan: submergible Chinese: Mandarin: 防水的 (zh) (fángshuǐde) Crimean Tatar: suv keçmez Danish: vandfast Finnish: vedenkestävä French: résistant à l'eau Galician: impermeable (gl) m or f, impermeábel (gl) m or f Georgian: წყალგაუმტარი (c̣q̇algaumṭari), წყალგამძლე (c̣q̇algamʒle) German: wasserfest (de) Greek: αδιάβροχος (el) (adiávrochos) Hungarian: vízálló (hu) Irish: uiscedhíonach Italian: impermeabile (it), a tenuta stagna Japanese: 防水の (ja) (ぼうすいの, bōsui-no) Kazakh: суөткізбейтін (suötkızbeitın) Malay: kalis air, kedap air, waterpruf Maori: maru Norwegian: vanntett (no) (formally) Persian: واترپروف‎ (fa) (vâterpruf) Polish: wodoodporny (pl) Portuguese: à prova de água Russian: водонепроница́емый (ru) (vodonepronicájemyj), водосто́йкий (ru) (vodostójkij), водоупо́рный (ru) (vodoupórnyj) Scottish Gaelic: uisge-dhìonach Spanish: impermeable (es) Swedish: vattentät (sv), vattenfast, vattentålig

made or covered with material that doesn't let water in

Catalan: impermeable (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 防水 (zh) (fángshuǐ) Crimean Tatar: suv keçmez Czech: vodotěsný (cs) Danish: vandtæt (da), imprægneret Finnish: vedenpitävä, vesitiivis (fi) French: waterproof (fr), étanche (fr), imperméable (fr) Georgian: წყალგაუმტარი (c̣q̇algaumṭari), ულტობი (ulṭobi), წყალმედეგი (c̣q̇almedegi), წყალშეუღწევი (c̣q̇alšeuɣc̣evi), წყალგამძლე (c̣q̇algamʒle) German: wasserdicht (de), wasserfest (de), wasserundurchlässig (de) Greek: αδιάβροχος (el) (adiávrochos) Hungarian: vízhatlan (hu) Icelandic: vatnsheldur (is) Irish: uiscedhíonach Italian: impermeabilizzato (it) m Japanese: 防水の (ja) (ぼうすいの, bōsui-no) Maori: parewai, whakapiri Norwegian: Bokmål: vanntett (no), vasstett Nynorsk: vasstett Polish: nieprzemakalny (pl) m Portuguese: impermeável (pt) Russian: водонепроница́емый (ru) (vodonepronicájemyj), непромока́емый (ru) (nepromokájemyj) Scottish Gaelic: uisge-dhìonach Spanish: impermeable (es) Swedish: vattentät (sv) Turkish: su geçirmez (tr) Vietnamese: chống thấm nước, chống nước, chống thấm

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Italian: (please verify) impermeabile (it) Korean: (please verify) 방수의 (bangsuui)

Verb

waterproof (third-person singular simple present waterproofs, present participle waterproofing, simple past and past participle waterproofed)

1. To make waterproof or water-resistant.
   • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

Translations

to make waterproof or water-resistant

Bulgarian: импрегнирам (bg) (impregniram) Danish: imprægnere Finnish: tiivistää (fi), vesitiivistää, kosteussuojata French: étanchéifier (fr) Italian: impermeabilizzare Japanese: 防水加工する (bousui-kakō suru) Spanish: impermeabilizar (es)

Noun

waterproof (plural waterproofs)

1. A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water.
2. Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; especially, an outer garment made of such material.

Translations

A waterproof coat, waterproof clothing

Maori: makitohi

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French

Adjective

waterproof (feminine waterproofe, masculine plural waterproofs, feminine plural waterproofes)

1. (anglicism) waterproof

Further reading

• “waterproof”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English waterproof.

Adjective

waterproof (invariable)

1. waterproof (all senses)

   Synonym: impermeabile

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English waterproof.

Noun

waterproof n (plural waterproofuri)

1. a waterproof cloak

Declension

Declension of waterproof

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) waterproof	waterprooful	(niște) waterproofuri	waterproofurile
genitive/dative	(unui) waterproof	waterproofului	(unor) waterproofuri	waterproofurilor
vocative	waterproofule		waterproofurilor