yacht

See also Yacht

English

Etymology

Circa 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from obsolete Dutch jaght(e) (“hunt”) (modern jacht), short for jaghtschip, jageschip (“light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship”), literally, "pursuit ship", compound of jagen (“to hunt, chase”) and schip (“ship”) (see ship), from Proto-Germanic *jagōną (cf. West Frisian jeie, German jagen, Swedish jaga), from Proto-Indo-European *yegʰo- (compare Irish éad (“jealousy”), Russian ярый (âryj, “furious”), Albanian gjah (“hunt”), Ancient Greek ζητέω (zētéō, “to search, seek”), Sanskrit यवन (yāvana, “barbarian; agressor”), यत्न (yātna, “zeal”)).

In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships of pirates and smugglers from the coast. The ship was introduced to England in 1660 when the Dutch East India Company presented one to King Charles II, who used it as a pleasure boat, after which it was copied by British shipbuilders as a pleasure craft for wealthy gentlemen.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /jɒt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

yacht (plural yachts)

1. A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock (Wikipedia).

   "Would you like to go sailing on my uncle’s yacht?"

   "You are a true yachtsman! Are you a member of the local yacht club?"

2. Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
   • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 6, The Younger Set^[1]:

     “I don’t mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, […] the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, … !”

Derived terms

• ice yacht
• land yacht
• motor yacht, motoryacht, MY
• sailing yacht, steam yacht, SY
• yacht club
• yachter
• yachting
• yachtless
• yachtsman

Translations

slick and light ship

• Arabic: يخت (ar) (yakht) m
• Catalan: iot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 游艇 (cmn) (yóutǐng)

• Czech: jachta (cs) f
• Danish: yacht (da) c
• Dutch: jacht (nl) f
• Esperanto: jaĥto (eo)
• Estonian: jaht (et)
• Faroese: jakt (fo) f, skemtibátur (fo) m
• Finnish: jahti (fi), huvipursi (fi)
• French: yacht (fr) m
• German: Yacht (de) f, Jacht (de) f
• Greek: γιοτ (el) (yiot) n
• Hindi: याख़्ट (hi) (yāḵẖṭ)
• Hungarian: jacht (hu)
• Icelandic: snekkja (is) f
• Italian: panfilo (it) m, yacht (it) m

• Japanese: ヨット (ja) (yotto)
• Korean: 요트 (ko) (yoteu)
• Macedonian: јахта (mk) (jáhta) f
• Manx: birling (gv)
• Portuguese: iate (pt) m
• Russian: яхта (ru) (jáxta) f
• Scottish Gaelic: gheat (gd) f, sgoth-long (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јахта (sh) f

  Roman: jahta (sh) f

• Slovene: jahta (sl) f
• Spanish: yate (es) m
• Turkish: yat (tr)
• Vietnamese: du thuyền (vi)
• Volapük: yakt (vo), blesirayakt (vo)

any private noncommercial vessel

• Finnish: huvialus (fi)
• German: Yacht (de) f, Jacht (de) f
• Greek: θαλαμηγός (el) (thalamigós) f
• Hungarian: jacht (hu)

• Japanese: 船 (ja) (fune), ボート (ja) (bōto)
• Scottish Gaelic: gheat (gd) f, sgoth-long (gd) f
• Volapük: yakt (vo)

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: يخت (yakht)
• Bulgarian: яхта f
• Catalan: iot (ca) m
• Dutch: jacht n
• French: yacht m
• Hebrew: יאכטה (yakhta) f

• Irish: luamh (ga) m
• Korean: 요트 (yoteu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јахта f

  Roman: jahta f

• Turkish: yat [-tı]

Verb

yacht (third-person singular simple present yachts, present participle yachting, simple past and past participle yachted)

1. (intransitive) To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.

Translations

to voyage in a yacht

• Spanish: ir en yate

Anagrams

• Cathy

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French

Etymology

From English yacht, from Dutch.

Noun

yacht m (plural yachts)

1. Yacht.

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

yacht m (invariable)

1. yacht
2. The letter Y in the Italian phonetic alphabet

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Swedish

Noun

yacht c

1. yacht

Declension

Declension of yacht

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	yacht	yachten	yachter	yachterna
genitive	yachts	yachtens	yachters	yachternas