life belt

See also: lifebelt

English

A life belt

Alternative forms

• lifebelt

Pronunciation

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Noun

life belt (plural life belts)

1. A buoyant ring carried on board ships that can be thrown to someone in the water in an emergency to keep themselves afloat.

   Synonyms: see life buoy

Translations

buoyant ring

• Bulgarian: спасителен пояс m (spasitelen pojas)
• Catalan: salvavides m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 救生帶 / 救生带 (zh) (jiùshēngdài), 救生圈 (zh) (jiùshēngjuān)

• Czech: záchranný kruh m
• Finnish: pelastusrengas (fi)
• French: bouée de sauvetage (fr) f
• German: Rettungsring (de) m
• Hungarian: mentőöv (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: salvagente (it), ciambella di salvataggio f
• Japanese: 浮き輪 (ja) (うきわ, ukiwa)
• Korean: 구명부환(救命浮環) (gumyeongbuhwan), 구명부표(救命浮標) (ko) (gumyeongbupyo), 구명(救命)부이 (gumyeongbu'i), 구명환(救命環) (gumyeonghwan)
• Norman: boule d'sauvetage f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: koło ratunkowe (pl) n
• Russian: спаса́тельный круг (ru) m (spasátelʹnyj krug)
• Scottish Gaelic: crios-sàbhalaidh m
• Slovak: záchranný kruh m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: wuchowanska rynka f

• Spanish: salvavidas (es) m
• Thai: พวงชูชีพ
• Turkish: can simidi (tr)
• Ukrainian: рятува́льне ко́ло n (rjatuválʹne kólo), рятівне́ ко́ло n (rjativné kólo)
• Vietnamese: phao cứu sinh
• Welsh: gwregys achub m, gwregys nofio m