rapport

See also: Rapport

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French rapport. Doublet of report.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹæˈpɔɹ/, /ɹəˈpɔɹ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Noun

rapport (countable and uncountable, plural rapports)

1. A relationship of mutual trust and respect; a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.

   He always tried to maintain a rapport with his customers.

   • 1910, Charles Webster Leadbeater, chapter VII, in The Inner Life, volume I:

     Such a man would almost certainly be pouring out a constant stream of loving thought towards humanity, and this thought would be a real and potent shower of blessing, tending generally towards the spiritual helping of those upon whom it fell; and there is no doubt that the man who was earnestly thinking of or praying to that saint would come into rapport with him, and would therefore draw down upon himself a great deal of that force, though entirely without the knowledge of the saint from whom it came.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "You can't have less than nothing. They ignore them altogether. Some time ago I had a series of cases of telepathic rapport which I wished to lay before the Royal Society."

   • 2023 September 18, HarryBlank, “Hidden Depths”, in SCP Foundation‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 May 2024:

     She'd expected to sleep fitfully. Her bunk was in an alcove separated from the others physically by a server partition and sonically by an extra-loud electronic hum, which didn't surprise her since she'd only started attempting a chummier rapport with her troops in the year which hadn't happened.

2. Relation; proportion; conformity.

   Synonyms: accord, correspondence

   • 1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, page 60:

     'Tis obvious enough, what rapport there is, and muſt ever be, between the Thoughts and Words, the Conceptions and Languages of every Country, [...]

Derived terms

• rapportive

Related terms

• en rapport
• rapportage

Translations

relationship of mutual trust and respect

• Bulgarian: разбирателство (bg) n (razbiratelstvo), хармония (bg) f (harmonija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 互信 (zh) (hùxìn), 和睦關係 / 和睦关系 (hémù guānxì)

• Dutch: verstandhouding (nl) f
• Finnish: hyvä suhde, hyvät välit, yhteisymmärrys (fi)
• German: gutes Verhältnis n, vertrauensvolles Verhältnis n, harmonisches Verhältnis n, guter Draht m (colloquial)
• Icelandic: samband (is) n, tengsl (is) n pl
• Japanese: 交感 (こうかん, kōkan)
• Russian: взаимопонима́ние (ru) n (vzaimoponimánije), взаимоотноше́ния (ru) n pl (vzaimootnošénija)
• Scottish Gaelic: càirdeas m
• Serbo-Croatian: dobri odnosi, prisnost (sh) f
• Spanish: compenetración f, afinidad (es) f, relación (es) f, conexión (es) f, nexo (es) m, vínculo (es) m, entendimiento (es) m, camaradería (es) f, compañerismo (es) f

Further reading

• “rapport”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French rapport.

Noun

rapport c (singular definite rapporten, plural indefinite rapporter)

1. a report (information describing events)

Inflection

Declension of rapport

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rapport	rapporten	rapporter	rapporterne
genitive	rapports	rapportens	rapporters	rapporternes

Synonyms

• rapportering

Related terms

• rapportere
• rapportering
• rapportør

See also

• reportage

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rapport, from Middle French rapport.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑˈpɔrt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: rap‧port
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

Noun

rapport n (plural rapporten, diminutive rapportje n)

1. a report
2. (education) a report card

Derived terms

• rapporteren
• eindrapport
• schoolrapport

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rapport
• → Caribbean Javanese: lapor, laporan, repot
• → Indonesian: lapor, rapor
  • → Tausug: lapuran
• → Papiamentu: rapòrt

French

Etymology

Deverbal from rapporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.pɔʁ/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁ
• Homophone: rapports

Noun

rapport m (plural rapports)

1. ratio
2. report

   rapport de stage ― internship report, training period report

3. relationship
4. ellipsis of rapport sexuel (“sexual intercourse”)

Derived terms

• aucun rapport avec la choucroute
• par rapport à
• rapport à
• rapport de force
• rapport sexuel
• rapportage
• rapporteur

Descendants

• → Crimean Tatar: raport
• → Danish: rapport
• → English: rapport
• → German: Rapport
• → Luxembourgish: Rapport
• → Norman: rapport
• → Norwegian Bokmål: rapport
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: rapport
• → Polish: raport
• → Russian: ра́порт (ráport), → Russian: раппорт (rapport)
• → Swedish: rapport
• → Turkish: rapor

Further reading

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

Maltese

Alternative forms

• riport, laport

Etymology

Etymology tree

Italian rapportobor.

Maltese rapport

Borrowed from Italian rapporto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rapˈpɔrt/
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

Noun

rapport m (plural rapporti)

1. report, statement, account

Related terms

• raportaġ
• riporter (reporter)
• rrapporta

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French rapport.

Noun

rapport m (plural rapports)

1. (Jersey) report

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French rapport.

Noun

rapport m (definite singular rapporten, indefinite plural rapporter, definite plural rapportene)

1. a report (on events)

Derived terms

• kvartalsrapport
• årsrapport

Related terms

• rapportere

References

• “rapport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French rapport.

Noun

rapport m (definite singular rapporten, indefinite plural rapportar, definite plural rapportane)

1. a report (on events)

Derived terms

• kvartalsrapport
• årsrapport

References

• “rapport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French rapport.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /rapˈɔʈː/, [ɾapˈɔʈː]

Noun

rapport c

1. a report (relayed account of something one has learned or the result of an investigation or the like)

   Gå och kolla och lämna en rapport

   Go and check and leave a report

   institutets senaste rapport

   the institute's latest report

2. (capitalized) Rapport (a news program)

   Coordinate term: Aktuellt

   • 1979, Per Gessle, Mats Persson, “Flickorna på TV2 [The Girls on TV2]”‎^[2]performed by Gyllene Tider:

     Sätter på TV2, sönderstressad av stan. Rapport med sport och väder.

     [I] turn on TV2 [former name of SVT2, a television channel], broken by the stress of the city [broken-stressed by the city]. Rapport with sports and weather.

Declension

Declension of rapport

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rapport	rapports
	definite	rapporten	rapportens
plural	indefinite	rapporter	rapporters
	definite	rapporterna	rapporternas

Derived terms

• vindruterapport (“initial assessment (when just arrived to incident)”)

Related terms

• rapportera
• rapportör
• reporter
• reportage

References

• “rapport”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “rapport”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “rapport”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• trappor