"bowsprit" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbəʊspɹɪt/ Forms: bowsprits [plural]
Etymology: First attested in late 13th century. Probably borrowed from Middle Low German bochspret, from boch (“bow of a ship”) + spret (“pole”) (related to Old English spreot and English sprout). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|gml|bochspret}} Middle Low German bochspret, {{affix|gml|boch|spret|gloss1=bow of a ship|gloss2=pole|nocat=1}} boch (“bow of a ship”) + spret (“pole”), {{cog|ang|spreot}} Old English spreot, {{cog|en|sprout}} English sprout Head templates: {{en-noun}} bowsprit (plural bowsprits)
  1. (nautical) A spar projecting over the prow of a sailing vessel to provide the means of adding sail surface. Wikipedia link: bowsprit Categories (topical): Ship parts Synonyms: boltsprit Derived forms: bowspritted, reefing bowsprit Translations (spar projecting over the prow of a sailing vessel): бушприт (bušprit) [masculine] (Bulgarian), bauprès [masculine] (Catalan), 船首斜桅 (chuánshǒu xiéwéi) (Chinese Mandarin), 艏斜桅 (shǒuxiéwéi) (Chinese Mandarin), čelen [masculine] (Czech), bovspryd [neuter] (Danish), boegspriet [feminine] (Dutch), busprito (Esperanto), pukspriit (Estonian), kokkapuu (Finnish), keulapuomi (Finnish), puksprööti (Finnish), beaupré [masculine] (French), Bugspriet [masculine, neuter] (German), bompresso [masculine] (Italian), バウスプリット (bausupuritto) (Japanese), forþstefn [masculine] (Old English), forþstemn [masculine] (Old English), bukszpryt [masculine] (Polish), dziobak [masculine] (Polish), gurupés [masculine] (Portuguese), bompres [neuter] (Romanian), бушпри́т (bušprít) [masculine] (Russian), bauprés [masculine] (Spanish), dasturi (Swahili), bogspröt (Swedish)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.