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See also: catamarán
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Tamil கட்டுமரம் (kaṭṭumaram), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to tie”) + மரம் (maram, “tree, wood”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌkæ.tə.məˈɹæn/, /ˈkæ.tə.məˌɹæn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (Canada, US) IPA(key): /ˈkæ.tə.məˌɹæn/, /ˌkæ.tə.məˈɹæn/
Noun
[edit]catamaran (plural catamarans)
- A twin-hulled ship or boat.
- 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 218:
- Swift over the seas the vessel drives; Madras appears in sight. The first object catching the eye, upon the anchor being cast, was an Indian upon his catamaran, who, making a sudden motion, sprung to the side of the ship, grappled there for a moment, and the next was on the deck.
- (colloquial, rare, obsolete) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
- 1889, William Makepeace Thackeray, Hobson's Choice:
- She meddles with my prescriptions for your wife; she doctors the infant in private: you'll never have a quiet house or a quiet wife as long as that old Catamaran is here.
- (obsolete) A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90:
- Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] .
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90:
- (obsolete) An old kind of fireship.
Synonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]- (twin-hulled ship or boat): multihull
Hyponyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]twin-hulled boat
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Tamil கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to tie”) + மரம் (maram, “tree, wood”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ka.ta.ma.ʁɑ̃/
Audio: (file) Audio (Switzerland): (file) - Homophone: catamarans
Noun
[edit]catamaran m (plural catamarans)
- catamaran, a twinhulled ship or boat
Further reading
[edit]- “catamaran”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English catamaran, from Tamil.
Noun
[edit]catamaran m (plural catamarans)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French catamaran.
Noun
[edit]catamaran n (plural catamarane)
Declension
[edit]Declension of catamaran
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) catamaran | catamaranul | (niște) catamarane | catamaranele |
genitive/dative | (unui) catamaran | catamaranului | (unor) catamarane | catamaranelor |
vocative | catamaranule | catamaranelor |
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