sailboat

English

Very simplified diagram of a sailboat.

Alternative forms

• (archaic) sail-boat
• (Commonwealth English) sailing boat

Etymology

From sail +‎ boat.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪlˌbəʊt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪlˌboʊt/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

sailboat (plural sailboats)

2. (nautical) A boat propelled by a sail.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sailboat

   Hypernyms: boat < watercraft, vessel < vessel

   Coordinate terms: motorboat, rowboat

4. (slang, card games) A playing card with the rank of four.

Derived terms

• sailboater
• sailboat fuel

Translations

a boat propelled by a sail

• Armenian: առագաստանավ (hy) (aṙagastanav)
• Azerbaijani: yelkənli qayıq
• Bulgarian: платноход (bg) m (platnohod)
• Catalan: barca de vela f, veler (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 帆船 (faan⁴ syun⁴)

  Mandarin: 帆船 (zh) (fānchuán)

• Czech: plachetnice (cs) f
• Danish: kutter (da), sejlbåd (da) c
• Dutch: zeilboot (nl) m
• Esperanto: velboato
• Finnish: purjevene (fi), pursi (fi)
• French: cotre (fr) m, voilier (fr) m
• German: Kutter (de) m, Segelboot (de) n
• Greek: ιστιοφόρο (el) n (istiofóro), κότερο (el) n (kótero)
• Haitian Creole: vwalye
• Hebrew: מפרשית (he), ספינת מפרש (he) f (sfinát mifrás)
• Hindi: पालनौका (pālnaukā)
• Hungarian: vitorlás (hu), kutter
• Icelandic: kútter
• Irish: bád seoil m
• Italian: barca a vela f
• Japanese: 帆船 (ja) (ほぶね, hobune; はんせん, hansen)
• Kalmyk: җилктә оңһц (jilktä oñğts)
• Kannada: ಹಾಯಿಹಡಗು (kn) (hāyihaḍagu)
• Korean: 범선(帆船) (ko) (beomseon)
• Malay: perahu layar
• Māori: waka hēra, waka kōmaru
• Mongolian: дарвуулт завь (darvuult zavʹ)
• Mwani: ngalawa
• Norwegian: kutter, seilbåt (no)
• Ojibwe: ningaasimoo-jiimaan
• Persian: قایق بادبانی (qâyeq-e bâdbâni)
• Plautdietsch: Säajelboot n
• Polish: żaglówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: veleiro (pt) m
• Russian: па́русное су́дно n (párusnoje súdno), па́русник (ru) m (párusnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàta-siùil
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кутер m, једрењача f, једрењак m, једрилица f,

  Latin: kuter (sh) m, jedrenjača (sh) f, jedrenjak (sh) m, jedrilica (sh) f

• Sholaga: ಹಡಗು (haḍagu)
• Slovak: plachetnica f
• Slovene: jadrnica f
• Spanish: embarcación a vela f, velero (es) m
• Swahili: dhau
• Swedish: kutter (sv), segelbåt (sv) c
• Thai: เรือใบ (reua bai)
• Ukrainian: вітри́льник m (vitrýlʹnyk)
• Welsh: llong hwylio (cy) f

Verb

sailboat (third-person singular simple present sailboats, present participle sailboating, simple past and past participle sailboated)

1. To travel by sailboat.

See also

• ⛵

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN