barge

See also: Barge and bärge

English

Etymology

From Middle English barge, from Old French barge (“boat”), from Vulgar Latin barca, from Ancient Greek βάρις (báris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship, type of fish”),

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑːdʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑɹdʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ

Noun

barge (plural barges)

1. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
2. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
3. A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
4. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
5. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
6. (US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
7. (US, dialect, dated) A large omnibus used for excursions.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for barge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Synonyms

• lighter

Derived terms

• admiral's barge
• bargee
• barge in

• dumb barge
• rowbarge, row barge

Translations

flat-bottomed bulk carrier mainly for inland waters

• Belarusian: ба́ржа f (bárža)
• Bulgarian: шлеп (bg) (šlep)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 駁船 (zh), 驳船 (zh) (bóchuán)

• Crimean Tatar: barja
• Czech: člun (cs) m
• Danish: pram
• Dutch: duwbak (nl)
• Estonian: praam
• Finnish: proomu (fi), lotja (fi)
• French: chaland (fr) m
• German: Lastkahn (de) m, Schleppkahn m
• Greek: μαούνα (el) f (maoúna), φορτηγίδα (el) f (fortigída)
• Hebrew: אַרְבָּה‎‎ (he) f (arbá), דוברה‎‎ (he) f (dovrá)
• Icelandic: prammi m
• Irish: báirse m

• Italian: chiatta (it) f
• Japanese: 艀 (ja) (はしけ, hashike), はしけ (hashike)
• Korean: 짐배 (jimbae), 바지선 (ko) (bajiseon)
• Mongolian: чиргүүл онгоц (čirgüül ongots), ачааны онгоц (ačaany ongots), барж (barž)
• Norwegian: pram m
• Persian: دوبه‎‎ (fa) (dube)
• Polish: tratwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: barcaça (pt) f
• Romanian: mahonă (ro) f
• Russian: ба́ржа (ru) f (bárža), ба́рка (ru) f (bárka)
• Spanish: lancha a remolque f, barcaza (es) f
• Swedish: pråm (sv) c
• Tagalog: gabara
• Ukrainian: ба́ржа (uk) f (bárža)
• Vietnamese: sà lan (vi)

rowed ceremonial vessel

• Bulgarian: баркас (barkas)
• Finnish: kaleeri (fi)

• Hebrew: אַרְבָּה‎‎ (he) f (arbá)

coastal trading vessel

• Bulgarian: баркас (barkas)
• Dutch: aak (nl) m

• Polish: barka (pl) f
• Russian: ба́рка (ru) f (bárka), барка́с (ru) m (barkás)

One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars

• Polish: szalupa (pl) f

The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 바지선 (ko) (bajiseon)

• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} అతిక్రమించు (te) (atikramiñcu)

Verb

barge (third-person singular simple present barges, present participle barging, simple past and past participle barged)

1. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
2. (transitive) To push someone.
   • 2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     The home side were professionally going about their business and were denied a spot-kick when Dunne clumsily barged Nani off the ball.

Anagrams

• Aberg, Berga, Gaber, begar, rebag

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁʒ/

• Audio

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Etymology 1

Variant of barje, Apocopic form of barjot, from jobard.

Adjective

barge (plural barges)

1. (slang, verlan) nuts, bananas (crazy)

Etymology 2

From Late Latin *barga < barca, itself possibly from a form *barica < baris < Ancient Greek βάρις (báris). Doublet of barque

Noun

barge f (plural barges)

1. barge (boat)

Etymology 3

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin bardea, of Gaulish origin.

Noun

barge f (plural barges)

1. godwit

Anagrams

• gerba

Further reading

• “barge” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• bargge, baarge, berge, barche

Etymology

From Old French barge, from Vulgar Latin barca, from Ancient Greek βάρις (báris), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare), from Egyptian bꜣjr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbardʒ(ə)/, /ˈbaːrdʒ(ə)/

Noun

barge (plural barges)

1. A medium ship or boat, especially one protecting a larger ship.
2. A barge, especially one used for official or ceremonial purposes.

Descendants

• English: barge
• Scots: bairge (possibly)

References

• “bā̆rǧe (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

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Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈparːke/

Verb

barge

1. inflection of bargat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

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Old French

Noun

barge f (oblique plural barges, nominative singular barge, nominative plural barges)

1. boat

Descendants

• Middle French: barge
  • French: barge
    • → Russian: баржа (barža)
• → Middle English: barge
  • English: barge