tugboat

See also: tug-boat and tug boat

English

A tugboat on the Mississippi River

Alternative forms

• tug-boat, tug boat

Etymology

From tug +‎ boat.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌɡbəʊt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌɡboʊt/

Noun

tugboat (plural tugboats)

1. A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.

   Synonym: tug

   Coordinate term: towboat

Translations

small, powerful boat

• Afrikaans: sleepboot
• Albanian: rimorkiator (sq)
• Arabic: زَوْرَق اَلْقَطْر m (zawraq al-qaṭr)
• Armenian: բուքսիրային նավ (bukʻsirayin nav), քարշականավ (kʻaršakanav)
• Azerbaijani: buksir
• Basque: atoiontzi
• Belarusian: буксі́р m (buksír)
• Bulgarian: влекач m (vlekač)
• Catalan: remolcador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拖船 (zh) (tuōchuán)

• Czech: remorkér m
• Danish: slæbebåd
• Dutch: sleepboot (nl) m, sleper (nl) m
• Esperanto: trenšipo
• Estonian: puksiir
• Finnish: hinaaja (fi)
• French: remorqueur (fr) m
• Galician: revocador m
• Georgian: საბუქსირო გემი (sabuksiro gemi)
• German: Schlepper (de) m, Schleppschiff n, Schleppboot n, Schleppdampfer m
• Greek: ρυμουλκό πλοίο (rymoulkó ploío)
• Haitian Creole: remokè
• Hebrew: גּוֹרֶרֶת (he) f (goréret)
• Hungarian: vontatóhajó (hu)
• Icelandic: dráttarbátur m
• Ido: remorkero (io)
• Indonesian: kapal tunda (id)
• Italian: rimorchiatore (it) m
• Japanese: タグボート (tagubōto), 曳船 (えいせん, eisen)
• Korean: 예인선(曳引船) (ko) (yeinseon)
• Latvian: velkonis m, tālbraucējs m
• Livonian: vilkikas
• Macedonian: реморке́р m (remorkér), шле́пер m (šléper)
• Maltese: irmonk
• Maori: poti pārete, tima pārete
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bukserbåt m, slepebåt m, taubåt m

  Nynorsk: bukserbåt m, slepebåt m, taubåt m

• Polish: holownik (pl) m
• Portuguese: rebocador (pt) m
• Romanian: remocher
• Russian: букси́р (ru) m (buksír), букси́рное су́дно n (buksírnoje súdno)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàta slaodaidh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: реморкер, тегљач

  Roman: remoker, tegljač (sh)

• Slovak: remokér m
• Slovene: ladijski vlačilec m
• Spanish: remolcador m
• Swahili: tishari
• Swedish: bogserbåt c
• Thai: เรือโยง (reua yohng)
• Turkish: römorkör (tr)
• Ukrainian: букси́р (uk) m (buksýr)
• Volapük: tränanaf (vo), tränastemanaf (vo)
• Welsh: tynfad
• Yiddish: בוקסיר m (buksir)

Further reading

• tugboat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia