Meanings
plural dinghies
- nauticalA small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.
The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick - nauticalA sailing dinghy.
- nauticalAn inflatable rubber life raft.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Sanskritद्रोण“wooden trough”
- Bengaliডিঙি
- Englishdinghy
From Bengali ডিঙি (ḍiṅi), perhaps from Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “wooden trough”).
More words from Bengali, Sanskrit
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek λέμβος
- λέμβος (lémbos)small boat
Bengali ডিঙ্গা
- ডিঙ্গা (ḍiṅga)small boat
Bulgarian корабна лодка, надуваем сал
- корабна лодка (korabna lodka)small boat
- надуваем сал (naduvaem sal)inflatable boat
Catalan bot, bot pneumàtic
- botsmall boat
- bot pneumàticinflatable boat
Chinese Mandarin 救生筏
- 救生筏 (jiùshēngfá)small boat
Czech loďka, člun
- loďkasmall boat
- člunsmall boat
- nafukovací čluninflatable boat
Danish jolle
- jollesmall boat
Dutch jol, kleine kano
- jolsmall boat
- kleine kanosmall boat
- rubberbootinflatable boat
Finnish jolla, kumivene
- jollasmall boat
- kumiveneinflatable boat
French youyou, petit canoe
- youyousmall boat
- petit canoesmall boat
- dinghysmall boat
- dinghyinflatable boat
German Dingi, Jolle
- Dingismall boat
- Jollesmall boat
- Schlauchbootinflatable boat
- Floßsackinflatable boat
- Gummibootinflatable boat
Hebrew דִּנְגִית, דּוּגִית
- דִּנְגִית (dingit)small boat
- דּוּגִית (dugit)small boat
Hindi डोंगी, नाव
- डोंगी (ḍoṅgī)small boat
- नाव (nāv)small boat
Hungarian gumicsónak, gumicsónak
- gumicsónaksmall boat
- gumicsónakinflatable boat
Icelandic julla
- jullasmall boat
Irish báidín calaidh
- báidín calaidhsmall boat
Italian battello, pedalò
- battellosmall boat
- pedalòsmall boat
- battello pneumaticoinflatable boat
Japanese ディンギー
- ディンギー (dingī)small boat
Māori poti
- potismall boat
Norwegian Bokmål jolle, gummibåt
- jollesmall boat
- gummibåtinflatable boat
Polish bączek, bajbot
- bączeksmall boat
- bajbotsmall boat
Portuguese bote, bote inflável
- botesmall boat
- bote inflávelinflatable boat
Russian я́лик, шлю́пка
- я́лик (jálik)small boat
- шлю́пка (šljúpka)small boat
- рези́новая ло́дка (rezínovaja lódka)inflatable boat
- надувна́я ло́дка (naduvnája lódka)inflatable boat
Spanish lancha, bote de remo
- lanchasmall boat
- bote de remosmall boat
- dinguismall boat
- paterasmall boat
- batelsmall boat
- balsa de cauchoinflatable boat
- bote inflableinflatable boat
Swedish dinge, jolle
- dingesmall boat
- jollesmall boat
- gummibåtinflatable boat
Urdu ڈونگی, ناو
- ڈونگی (ḍoṅgī)small boat
- ناو (nāv)small boat
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with dinghy
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