boat

English

Wikipedia

A boat kept on land

Etymology

From Middle English boot, bot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheid- (“to break, split”). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”).

Old Norse bātr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt), Dutch boot, German Boot, and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: bōt, IPA: /bəʊt/, X-SAMPA: /b@Ut/
• Rhymes: -əʊt
• (GenAm) enPR: bōt, IPA: /boʊt/, X-SAMPA: /boUt/
• Rhymes: -oʊt

• Audio (US)

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Noun

boat (plural boats)

1. A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
2. (poker slang) A full house.
3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

   a stone boat

   a gravy boat

4. (chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.

Usage notes

There is no explicit limit, but the word boat usually refers to a relatively small watercraft, smaller than a ship but larger than a dinghy.

Synonyms

• (craft on or in water): craft, ship, vessel

Hyponyms

Terms denoting specific kinds of boat

(A craft on or in water): ark, bangca, barge, canoe, catamaran, caravel, carrack, coracle, cruiser, cutter, dhow, dinghy, dory, dragon boat, Dutch barge, East Indiaman, felucca, ferry, ferryboat, fishing boat, flatboat, folding boat, galley, galleon, gig, go-fast boat, gondola, guardboat, gunboat, houseboat, hovercraft, hydrofoil, hydroplane, iceboat, inflatable boat, inflatable raft, jetboat, jetski, junk, caik/kaiki/kayık, kayak, keelboat, ketch, lifeboat, log boat, longboat, luxemotor, mackinaw boat, mailboat, motorboat, motorsailer, narrowboat, Norfolk wherry, outrigger canoe, paddleboat, peniche, pinnace, policeboat, powerboat, raft, rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RIB), riverboat, rowboat, sailboat, schooner, scow, seaboat, sealship, Seiner, ship of the line, skiff, sloop, steamboat, submarine, surfboat, swan boat, tender, tjalk, trawler, trireme, trimaran, troller, tug, tugboat, U-boat, wangkang, water taxi, whaleboat, yacht, yawl

Derived terms

Terms derived from boat (noun)

boatable boatage boatbill boatbuilder boatel, botel boater boatful boathook boathouse boatie boating boatless

boatlift boatload boatman, boatsman boatmanship, boatsmanship boatneck boatslip boatswain boatswainbird boattail boatwoman boatwright boatyard

burn one's boats float someone's boat gravy boat houseboat in the same boat miss the boat narrowboat, narrow boat push the boat out rock the boat speedboat twist-boat U-boat

Translations

water craft

• Afrikaans: boot (af)
• Ainu: チㇷ゚ (cip)
• Albanian: varkë (sq) f
• Aleut: ayxaasix
• Ancient Greek: ναύς
• Arabic: قارب (ar) (qārib) m

  Morocco: فلوكة (felūka)

• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: նավակ (hy) (navak)
• Asturian: barcu (ast) m
• Azeri: qayıq (az)
• Bashkir: ҡайыҡ (qayıq)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: лодка (be) (lódka) f
• Bengali: নৌকা (bn) (nouka)
• Breton: bag (br) f
• Bulgarian: лодка (bg) (lódka) f
• Burmese: လှေ (my) (hle)
• Catalan: vaixell (ca) m
• Chamicuro: wapori
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 船 (cmn) (chuán), 小船 (cmn) (xiǎochuán), 舟 (cmn) (zhōu)

• Chuvash: кимӗ (kimě)
• Coptic: ϫⲟⲓ (ǧoi)
• Czech: loď (cs) f, člun (cs) m
• Dalmatian: buarca f
• Danish: båd (da) c, skib (da) n
• Dutch: boot (nl) m, schip (nl) n
• Egyptian: dpt

• Erzya: венч (vench)
• Esperanto: boato (eo)
• Estonian: paat (et)
• Faroese: bátur (fo) m
• Finnish: vene (fi)
• French: bateau (fr) m
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: barco (gl) m
• Georgian: ნავი (ka) (navi)
• German: Boot (de) n, Schiff (de) n
• Greek: βάρκα (el) (várka) f, λέμβος (el) (lémvos) f, καΐκι (el) (kaḯki) n
• Gujarati: નાવ (gu) (nāv)
• Haida: tluwáay
• Hebrew: סירה (he) (sirá) f
• Hindi: कश्ती (hi) (kaśtī) f, (larger) नाव (hi) (nāv) f
• Hungarian: csónak (hu)
• Icelandic: bátur (is) m
• Ido: batelo (io)
• Inari Sami: käärbis
• Indonesian: perahu (id)
• Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: bád (ga) m
• Italian: barca (it) f, nave (it) f, battello (it) m
• Japanese: 舟 (ja) (ふね, fune), ボート (ja) (bōto)
• Kannada: ದೋಣಿ (kn) (dōṇi)
• Kazakh: қайық (kk) (qayıq)
• Khmer: ទូក (km) (tuuk)
• Korean: 배 (ko) (bae)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: پاپۆڕ (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кайык (ky) (kayık)
• Lao: ເຮືອ (lo) (hyya)
• Latin: navis (la) f
• Latvian: laiva (lv) f

• Lithuanian: valtis (lt) f
• Lojban: bloti (jbo)
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: чамец (mk) (čámec) m, кајче (mk) (kájče) n
• Malay: perahu (ms)
• Malayalam: വഞ്ചി (ml) (vañci), വള്ളം (ml) (vaḷḷam)
• Maltese: dgħajsa (mt) f
• Mandinka: kuluŋo
• Maori: waka (mi)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Miyako: フニ (funi)
• Mongolian: завь (mn) (zavʹ)
• Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł
• Nepali: डुङ्गा (ne) (ḍuṅgā)
• North Frisian: böötj
• Northern Sami: fanas
• Norwegian: båt (no) m
• Novial: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Old English: bāt (ang) m, scip (ang) n, naca (ang) m
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: قایق (fa) (qayeq), کشتی (fa) (kašti)
• Polish: łódź (pl) m, łódka (pl) f
• Portuguese: barco (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਨਾਉ (pa) (nā'u)
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: barcă (ro) f, luntre (ro) f
• Romansch: bartga (rm) f
• Russian: лодка (ru) (lódka) f, шлюпка (ru) (šljúpka) f, бот (ru) (bot) m
• Samoan: please add this translation if you can
• Sanskrit: नौः (sa) (nauḥ), प्लवः (sa) (plavaḥ)
• Sardinian:

  Logudorese Sardinian: feluga, filuga, feluca

• Scottish Gaelic: bàta (gd) m and f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чамац (sh) m, чун (sh) m, бродица (sh) f

  Roman: čamac (sh) m, čun (sh) m, brodica (sh) f

• Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: බෝට්‍ටුව (si) (bōṭṭuva)
• Slovak: čln (sk)
• Slovene: čoln (sl) m, barka (sl) f
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Sotho: seketswana (st)
• Spanish: barca (es) f, bote (es) m, barco (es) m
• Swedish: båt (sv) c
• Tagalog: bangka (tl)
• Tajik: қаиқ (tg) (qaiq), киштӣ (tg) (kištī), заврақ (tg) (zavraq)
• Tamil: நவாடா (ta) (nvāṭā), படகு (ta) (paṭaku)
• Taos: łòthə́na
• Tatar: қайық (tt) (qayıq)
• Telugu: పడవ (te) (paḍava), నావ (te) (nāva)
• Thai: เรือ (th) (reua)
• Tok Pisin: bot (tpi), sip (tpi)
• Turkish: kayık (tr), sandal (tr)
• Turkmen: gaýyk (tk)
• Tuvan: өөш (ööš), хеме (kheme)
• Ukrainian: човен (uk) (čóven) m
• Urdu: کشتی (ur) (kaśtī) f, ناو (ur) (nāv) f
• Uyghur: قېيىق (ug) (qéyiq)
• Uzbek: qayiq (uz)
• Vietnamese: thuyền (vi) (船 (vi))
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: cwch (cy), bad (cy) m
• West Frisian: boat (fy) c
• Yiddish: שיף (yi) (shif)

poker slang: full house

• Finnish: täpö (fi)

chemistry: conformation of cyclohexane

• Finnish: venemuoto (fi)

See also

• Category:Watercraft

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Verb

boat (third-person singular simple present boats, present participle boating, simple past and past participle boated)

1. (intransitive) To travel by boat.
2. (transitive) To transport in a boat.

   to boat goods

3. (transitive) To place in a boat.

   to boat oars

Translations

travel by boat

• Finnish: veneillä (fi)

• Icelandic: fara á báti (is), flytja á báti (is)

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: due · Henry · society · #797: boat · heaven · v. · difficult

Anagrams

• Tabo

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Finnish

Noun

boat

1. Plural form of boa

Anagrams

• abot

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Latin

Verb

boat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of boō

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Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.

Alternative forms

• buat

Pronunciation

• IPA: /buat/
• Rhymes: -uat, -wat, -at

Verb

boat (1701, used in the form berboat)

1. Obsolete form of post-1972 buat.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1701 Bowrey's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /boət/

Noun

boat n (pl boaten)

1. boat