Paratroopers.
Blend of parachute + trooper .
paratrooper (plural paratroopers )
A type of soldier who is trained to enter combat zones by parachuting from aircraft .
1992 , Yanchi (权延赤 ) Quan, “Mao Enjoys a Challenge”, in Wang Wenjiong, transl., edited by Gale Hadfield, 走下神坛的毛泽东 [Mao Zedong: Man, Not God ][1] , Beijing : Foreign Languages Press , published 1996 , →ISBN , →OCLC , →OL , page 13 :Upon receiving intelligence reports about the massing of enemy paratroopers , General Peng Dehuai posted a defence regiment at Yan'an airfield, and requested that Mao leave Yan'an as soon as possible.
soldier that parachutes from aircraft
Albanian: parashutist (sq) m
Arabic: مِظَلِّيّ m ( miẓalliyy )
Armenian: պարաշյուտիստ (hy) ( parašyutist ) , դեսանտավոր (hy) ( desantavor )
Azerbaijani: paraşütçü , desantçı
Belarusian: дэса́нтнік m ( desántnik ) , парашуты́ст m ( parašutýst )
Bulgarian: парашути́ст (bg) m ( parašutíst )
Catalan: paracaigudista m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 傘兵 / 伞兵 (zh) ( sǎnbīng ) , 空降兵 (zh) ( kōngjiàngbīng )
Czech: výsadkář m
Danish: faldskærmssoldat c , faldskærmsjæger c
Dutch: parachutist (nl) m
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Estonian: langevarjur
Finnish: laskuvarjojääkäri (fi)
French: para (fr) m , parachutiste (fr) m or f , parachutiste militaire m or f
Galician: paracaidista (gl) m or f , paracaidista militar m or f
Georgian: პარაშუტისტი (ka) ( ṗarašuṭisṭi ) , მედესანტე ( medesanṭe )
German: Fallschirmjäger (de) m
Greek: αλεξιπτωτίστρια (el) m or f ( alexiptotístria ) , αλεξιπτωτιστής (el) m ( alexiptotistís )
Hebrew: צַנְחָן m ( tsanhan )
Hindi: पैराट्रूपर m ( pairāṭrūpar ) , छतरी सैनिक m ( chatrī sainik )
Hungarian: ejtőernyős (hu)
Italian: paracadutista (it) m or f , paracadutista militare m or f
Japanese: 空挺兵 (ja) ( くうていへい, kūteihei )
Kazakh: десантшы ( desantşy ) , парашютші ( paraşütşı ) , парашютист ( paraşütist )
Korean: 공수부대(空輸部隊) ( gongsubudae )
Kyrgyz: парашютист ( paraşyutist )
Latvian: desantnieks m
Lithuanian: parašiutininkas m , desantininkas m
Macedonian: падо́бранец m ( padóbranec )
Maori: hōia heketau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fallskjermsoldat m
Nynorsk: fallskjermsoldat m
Polish: spadochroniarz (pl) m
Portuguese: paraquedista (pt) m or f , paraquedista militar m or f
Romanian: parașutist (ro) m
Russian: деса́нтник (ru) m ( desántnik ) , парашюти́ст -деса́нтник m ( parašutíst-desántnik ) , парашюти́ст (ru) m ( parašutíst )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: падобра́нац m
Roman: padobránac (sh) m
Slovak: výsadkár m
Slovene: padalec (sl) m
Spanish: paracaidista (es) m or f , paracaidista militar m or f
Swedish: fallskärmsjägare (sv) c
Tagalog: parasyutista
Thai: พลร่ม ( pon-lá-rôm )
Turkish: paraşütçü asker
Ukrainian: деса́нтник m ( desántnyk ) , парашути́ст m ( parašutýst )
Uzbek: desantchi (uz) , parashyutchi (uz)
Vietnamese: lính dù (vi)