English
A tugboat on the Mississippi River
Etymology
From tug + boat .
Pronunciation
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Noun
tugboat (plural tugboats )
A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels .
Synonyms
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
Indonesian: kapal penarik
Italian: rimorchiatore (it) m
Japanese: タグボート ( tagubōto ) , 曳船 ( えいせん, eisen )
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Korean: 예인선 (ko) ( yeinseon )
Latvian: velkonis m , tālbraucējs m
Livonian: vilkikas
Macedonian: реморкер m ( remorker )
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 )
See also