yacht

Borrowed from English yacht, from Dutch jacht.


car

Borrowed from English car, itself borrowed from Anglo-Norman and the Old Northern French car, variant of Old French char. Doublet of char.

Les élèves vont à l’école en car.

a single-decked long-distance, or privately hired, bus, a coach


train

→ German: Train

→ Romanian: tren

desctree

→ Spanish: tren
→ Moroccan Arabic: تران (trān)
→ Tagalog: tren
→ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: treni̱
→ Yaqui: tréen

→ Sicilian: trenu

→ Turkish: tren

→ Italian: treno

Inherited from Middle French train, from Old French train, from the verb trahiner (“to pull, drag”).


plate

On va se mettre à ressembler aux gens qui racontent leur crisse de vie plate dans les émissions de télé débiles.

1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 204:

We're going to sound like those people who tell their frickin' boring lives on those idiotic tv shows.


bicyclette

→ Asturian: bicicleta

→ Basque: bizikleta

→ Catalan: bicicleta

→ Galician: bicicleta

→ Hijazi Arabic: بُسْكُليتة

→ Italian: bicicletta (see there for further descendants)

→ Malagasy: bisikilety

Mauritian Creole: bisiklet

→ Occitan: bicicleta

→ Portuguese: bicicleta

→ Romanian: bicicletă

→ Sicilian: picicaletta

→ Spanish: bicicleta (see there for further descendants)

→ Turkish: bisiklet

→ Laz: ბისიქლეთი (bisikleti)

→ Yiddish: ביציקלעט (bitsiklet)


kayak

From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun) ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”).


omnibus

Ellipsis of voiture omnibus (“carriage for all”), the latter element being a learned borrowing from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).

lbor

un train omnibus

(rail transport) local (of a train; making stops at all stations)


tire

(North America) tire, tyre (of a car, truck, etc)


dreadnought

dreadnought (battleship in which most of the firepower is concentrated in large guns that are of the same caliber)


automobile

desctree

→ Danish: automobil, bil
→ Faroese: bilur
→ Greenlandic: biili
→ Icelandic: bíll
→ Norwegian Bokmål: bil
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: bil
→ Swedish: bil

→ Dutch: automobiel

→ English: automobile

→ German: Automobil

→ Moroccan Arabic: طمبيل (ṭumubīl)

→ Russian: автомоби́ль (avtomobílʹ)
→ Armenian: ավտոմոբիլ (avtomobil)
→ Azerbaijani: avtomobil
→ Georgian: ავტომობილი (avṭomobili)
→ Ingrian: automobili
→ Kazakh: автомобиль (avtomobil)
→ Kyrgyz: автомобиль (avtomobil)
→ Turkmen: awtomobil
→ Uyghur: ئاپتوموبىل (aptomobil)
→ Uzbek: avtomobil

From auto- + mobile, as the vehicle is powered by an engine rather than pulled by horses.

L’automobile est un moyen de déplacement pratique à la campagne, mais cher et polluant.

The automobile is a practical means of travel in the countryside, but it's expensive and polluting.


direction

→ Turkish: direksiyon

→ Hijazi Arabic: دركسون (diriksōn)

(mechanics) Set of subsystems which allow to orient the wheels of a vehicle.


catamaran

From Tamil கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to tie”) + மரம் (maram, “tree, wood”).


moteur

→ Persian: موتور

Borrowed from Latin mōtor. Displaced Old French mouveur.

moteur de recherche


cabriolet

→ Catalan: cabriolé

→ Czech: kabriolet

→ Danish: cabriolet

→ Dutch: cabriolet

→ English: cabriolet

→ German: Cabriolet

→ Galician: cabriolé

→ Italian: cabriolet, cabriolè

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kabriolet

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kabriolet

→ Portuguese: cabriolé

→ Spanish: cabriolé

→ Swedish: cabriolet

Borrowed from Italian cabriola, cabriole (“horse caper”) + -et, from Latin capreolus, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfer, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor. Doublet of Chevrolet.

der

a knotted cord, each end tied to wood, to tie criminals to by the wrists


taxi

→ Polish: taxi

(by extension) helicopter or plane used for transport


autobus

→ German: Autobus

desc

→ Greek: οτομπούς (otompoús), οτομπίς (otompís) (Egyptiot Dialect)

→ Hebrew: אוֹטוֹבּוּס (ótobus)

desctree

→ Polish: autobus
→ Belarusian: аўтобус (aŭtóbus)

→ Romanian: autobuz

→ Russian: авто́бус (avtóbus) (see there for further descendants)

→ Spanish: autobús

→ Turkish: otobüs

Coined in Paris in 1907 as a compound of automobile + omnibus.


klaxon

Borrowed from English klaxon. Genericized trademark.


barque

fr-noun

barque f (plural barques, diminutive barquette)

Haitian Creole: bak

une barque

Inherited from Middle French barque, probably borrowed from Italian barca or a Medieval Latin equivalent, from Late Latin barca. Doublet of barge.


corvette

→ Catalan: corbeta

→ Danish: korvet

→ English: corvette

→ Dutch: korvet

→ Ottoman Turkish: قوروت (korvet)

Turkish: korvet

→ Portuguese: corveta

→ Spanish: corbeta

From Middle Dutch korf, korver (“a kind of ship”), or Middle Low German korf (“a kind of ship and basket”), + -ette. Possibly ultimately connected to Latin corbita (navis), "slow-sailing ship of burden, grain ship," which is from corbis.


char

Inherited from Old French char, from Latin carrus, a loan from Transalpine Gaulish. Doublet of car (“coach”), a borrowing from English.


vedette

→ Dutch: vedette

→ English: vedette

→ Italian: vedette

→ Polish: wedeta

→ Portuguese: vedeta

→ Romanian: vedetă

→ Spanish: vedete


bac

→ Catalan: bac

desctree

→ Dutch: bak
Afrikaans: bak
Berbice Creole Dutch: baksi
Negerhollands: bak
→ Virgin Islands Creole: bak, baks (archaic)
→ Caribbean Hindustani: báki
→ Caribbean Javanese: bak, bag
→ Indonesian: bak, baki
→ Javanese: ꦧꦏꦶ (baki)
→ Ternate: baki
→ Javanese: ꦧꦏ꧀ (bak)
→ Papiamentu: baki (from the diminutive)
→ Sranan Tongo: baki
→ Caribbean Javanese: baki

→ English: bac

Inherited from Middle French bac, from Old French bas, bac- (“flat boat”), of obscure origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *baccu (“container”), from Latin bacar (“kind of wine glass”). Or, possibly borrowed from Celtic or Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *baką (“back, rear”).

unk

obscure


bateau

From Old French batel, Anglo-Norman bat, from Old English bāt (English boat) + suffix from Latin -ellus. It displaced the native word nef, which comes from Latin navis.

(nautical) a vessel of any size, a ship or boat


coche

From Hungarian kocsi, via German Kutsche or Italian cocchio. Doublet of coach.


équipage

→ Belarusian: экіпа́ж (ekipáž)

→ Bulgarian: екипа́ж (ekipáž)

→ Catalan: equipatge

→ Crimean Tatar: ekipaj

→ Danish: ekvipage

→ Galician: equipaxe

→ German: Equipage

→ Italian: equipaggio

→ Portuguese: equipagem

→ Romanian: echipaj

desctree

→ Russian: экипа́ж (ekipáž), экипа́жъ (ekipáž) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Kazakh: экипаж (ékipaj)

→ Spanish: equipaje

→ Swedish: ekipage

→ Ukrainian: екіпа́ж (ekipáž)

Dans la nuit du vendredi 2 février 1761, un équipage avançait péniblement sur la voie qui conduit de la Courtille à la Villette.

2000, Jean-François Parot, L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux, JC Lattès 2012, page 11:

On the night of Friday February 2, 1761, a horse and carriage was advancing with difficulty on the way leading from La Courtille to La Villette.


landau

→ English: landau

→ Catalan: landó

→ Spanish: landó

Coordinate term: poussette


aileron

→ Dutch: aileron

→ English: aileron

→ Portuguese: ailerão

→ Spanish: alerón


voiture

→ Chadian Arabic: وتير (watīr)

Inherited from Old French voiture, from Latin vectūra.


tramway

→ Romanian: tramway

→ Russian: трамва́й (tramváj)
→ Armenian: տրամվայ (tramvay)
→ Azerbaijani: tramvay
→ Bashkir: трамвай (tramvay)
→ Belarusian: трамва́й (tramváj)
→ Georgian: ტრამვაი (ṭramvai)
→ Kazakh: трамвай (tramvai)
→ Kyrgyz: трамвай (tramvay)
→ Mongolian:
Cyrillic script: трамвай (tramvaj)
Mongolian script: ᠲᠷᠠᠮᠸᠠᠢ (tramwai)
→ Polish: tramwaj
→ Tajik: трамвай (tramvay)
→ Tatar: трамвай (tramway)
→ Turkmen: tramwaý
→ Ukrainian: трамва́й (tramváj)
→ Uyghur: ترامۋاي (tramway)
→ Uzbek: tramvay

→ Turkish: tramvay

Unadapted borrowing from English tramway, from Middle Dutch trame, ultimately from a lost West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) word.

ubor

(rail transport) tram (passenger vehicle)


volant

fr-adj

volant (feminine volante, masculine plural volants, feminine plural volantes)

volante (feminine)
volants (masculine plural)
volantes (feminine plural)

soucoupe volante

tapis volant


voyant

fr-noun

voyant m (plural voyants, feminine voyante)


champignon

→ Catalan: xampinyó

→ Crimean Tatar: şampinyon

→ Danish: champignon

→ Dutch: champignon

→ English: champignon

→ Galician: champiñón

→ German: Champignon

→ Italian: champignon

→ Luxembourgish: Champignon

→ Portuguese: champignon

→ Serbo-Croatian: šampìnjōn, шампѝњо̄н

→ Spanish: champiñón

/ʃɑ̃.pi.ɲɔ̃/

From Vulgar Latin *campāniolus (“grows in the field”), from Late Latin campāneus (“relating to fields”), from Latin campānia (“level country”).
The “accelerator” sense comes from the fact that accelerator pedals were initially mushroom-shaped.

der

appuyer sur le champignon

to step on it, to floor it, to put the pedal to the metal, to put one's foot down, to step on the gas

le pied sur le champignon

champignon au plancher


paquebot

→ English: paquebot


camion

→ Bulgarian: камион (kamion)

→ Dutch: camion

→ English: camion

→ Galician: camión

→ Hungarian: kamion

→ Italian: camion

→ Luxembourgish: Camion

→ Macedonian: камион (kamion)

→ Moore: kamiyõ

→ Portuguese: camião

→ Macanese: camiám

→ Brazilian Portuguese: caminhão

→ Hunsrik: Kamiong

→ Romanian: camion

→ Serbo-Croatian: kamìōn/камѝо̄н

→ Sicilian: camiu, camiuni

→ Slovene: kamion

→ Spanish: camión

→ Switzerland German: Camion

→ Turkish: kamyon

→ Vietnamese: cam nhông

Unknown origin, however, most likely early 19th century. Possibly from chemin (“way, route”), see Spanish camino, or from Latin chamūlcus (“cart”), from Ancient Greek χᾰμουλκός (khamoulkós, “crane, windlass, or possibly other machine”), from χθών (khthṓn, “earth, ground”) + ἑλκέω (helkéō, “I drag”).


pneu

Mon pneu est crevé!


corbillard

From Corbeil + -ard; originally the name for the horse-drawn barge service between Corbeil, a town in France, and Paris.


caisse

Inherited from Middle French caisse, borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa. Compare the etymological doublets châsse and casse.

Dans sa caisse / La musique à Joe / C’est la rumba

1987, “Joe le taxi”, Étienne Roda-Gil (lyrics), Franck Langolff (music), performed by Vanessa Paradis:


jeep

Borrowed from English jeep. Genericized trademark.


bahut

Inherited from Old French bahur. Further origin unknown, most hypotheses being weak in one respect or another (cf. Further reading below). Bratchet suggests Middle High German behut (“hutch for provisions”) or Frankish *baghūdi, *baghōdi (“sideboard”), from Proto-Germanic *bagg- (possibly related to Old Norse baggi, Proto-Germanic *pakkô) + *hūdiz (“hide, protection”).
Compare Italian baule, Ladino baul, Portuguese baú.


wheeling

Pseudo-anglicism, from English wheel + -ing.

wheelie (an action or stunt where a bicycle, motorcycle, or other vehicle is ridden for a short period while it is standing only on its rear wheel or wheels)


monocoque

First attested in 1911: formed as mono- (“one”) + coque (“shell, hull”).


frein

→ Khmer: ហ្វ្រ័ង (frang)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: فرن (fren), فرهن (fren)
Turkish: fren

→ Vietnamese: phanh

Inherited from Old French frein, from Latin frēnum n. Cognate with Portuguese freio and Spanish freno.
Cf. the borrowed freiner.

(chiefly obsolete) bit (equipment put in a horse's mouth)


motocyclette

desc

Greek: μοτοσυκλέτα f (motosykléta, “motorcycle”)

Portuguese: motocicleta f (“motorcycle”)

Russian: мотоцикле́т m (motociklét, “motorcycle”)

Spanish: motocicleta f (“motorcycle”)

Uyghur: موتسىكلىت (motsiklit)

From the Motorcyclette produced in 1897 by the French Werner Frères et Cie.


draisienne

From Drais + -ienne, named after Baron Karl Drais (1785–1851).

named-after

(historical) hobby horse, dandy horse (early bicycle)


ceinture de sécurité

fr-noun

ceinture de sécurité f (plural ceintures de sécurité)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-ceinture de sécurité.wav


phare

Borrowed from Latin pharus, itself from Ancient Greek Φάρος (Pháros).

“La vie en rose” est une des chansons phares d’Édith Piaf.

“La vie en rose” is one of Edith Piaf's signature songs.


phare

→ Bulgarian: фар (far)

→ English: phare

→ Khmer: ហ្វារ (faa)

→ Luxembourgish: Phar

→ Macedonian: фар (far)

→ Moore: faare

→ Romanian: far

→ Russian: фара (fara)

→ Crimean Tatar: fara

→ Turkish: far

→ Vietnamese: pha

(nautical) The set of sails on the mast.


trax

(Switzerland) excavator, digger (construction equipment)

(Switzerland) backhoe, backhoe loader, loader excavator


* (UEFA Intertoto Cup): From Coupe 4 (“Cup 4”), because was the four more important football competition in Europe, at the time of its creation.
* (UEFA Europa Conference League): Because the UEFA Champions League is called "C1" and the UEFA Europa League is called "C3" (it retains the name of "C3" despite the disappearance of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup which was called "C2") and the UEFA Europa Conference League is the third competition most important in Europe.

the defunct UEFA Intertoto Cup (1961-2008)

the UEFA Europa Conference League (2021-)


caïque

→ English: caique

→ Portuguese: caique

→ Spanish: caique

Inherited from Middle French caïq, from Ottoman Turkish قایق (modern Turkish kayık), possibly via Italian caicco or Greek καΐκι (kaḯki).

(nautical) a small craft/boat used in the archipelago and Constantinople. [from 16th c.]


Suzuki

Borrowed from Japanese Suzuki (Suzuki), from Japanese すずき (Suzuki, “surname”) or Japanese スズキ (Suzuki, “automaker”); from Japanese 鈴木 (Suzuki) (automaker from the surname).


calèche

From Slavic (compare Russian коляска (koljaska)).


roulotte

→ Italian: roulotte

→ Portuguese: rulote

→ Romanian: rulotă

Inherited from Old French ruele + -otte.


camping-car

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from camping + car.


vaisseau

Inherited from Middle French vaisseau, from Old French vaissel, from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of Latin vāsculum, diminutive of vās (“vessel”). Compare Occitan vaissèl, Catalan vaixell, Italian vascello.


carriole

Borrowed from Old Occitan carriola, from carri (“chariot”), from Vulgar Latin *carreum, variant of carrus.


Volkswagen

, Volksie


compteur de vitesse

fr-noun

compteur de vitesse m (plural compteurs de vitesse)

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-compteur de vitesse.wav


moissonneuse-batteuse

moissonneuse-batteuse f (plural moissonneuses-batteuses)


clignotant

fr-adj

clignotant (feminine clignotante, masculine plural clignotants, feminine plural clignotantes)

clignotante (feminine)
clignotants (masculine plural)
clignotantes (feminine plural)


frégate

→ English: frigate

→ Romanian: fregată

desctree

→ Russian: фрега́т (fregát)
→ Kazakh: фрегат (fregat)

(nautical) frigate (a number of different classes of ships)


plaque d'immatriculation

fr-noun

plaque d’immatriculation f (plural plaques d’immatriculation)

plaque d’ immatriculation (canonical feminine)
plaques d’immatriculation (plural)

license plate, number plate (identifying tag, usually of metal, bearing a unique sequence of letters, numbers, or both, and placed at the back and, sometimes, also at the front of a motor vehicle)


navire de guerre

navire de guerre m (plural navires de guerre)


porte-aéronefs

porte-aéronefs m (plural porte-aéronefs)


radeau

→ English: radeau

desc

→ Greek: ραντό (rantó) (Egyptiot Dialect)

Borrowed from Old Occitan radel, a diminutive of rat, itself from Latin ratis (“raft”).

Non, ce n’était pas le radeau / De la Méduse, ce bateau / Qu’on se le dise au fond des ports / Dise au fond des ports / Il naviguait en père peinard / Sur la grand-mare des canards / Et s’app’lait les Copains d’abord

1964, “Les copains d'abord”, performed by Georges Brassens:


vilebrequin

→ Catalan: filaberquí

→ Spanish: berbiquí

→ Portuguese: berbequim, virabrequim

Inherited from Middle French wembelkin, from Middle Dutch wimmelkijn.


bagnole

(colloquial) ride; whip; wheels (an automobile)


gabare

Cependant le vent était tombé et la gabare ne gouvernait plus. Il fallut jeter l’ancre et attendre.

1842, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, L'archipel de Chausey, souvenirs d'un Naturaliste". Revue des Deux Mondes, volume 30.:

Meanwhile, the wind had fallen and the barge couldn't be steered. We had to drop anchor and wait.


benne

Inherited from Latin benna, from Gaulish bennā.


caravane

→ Turkish: karavan

From Old French carvane, a borrowing from Persian کاروان (kârvân), from Middle Persian kʾlwʾn' (kārawān).

les chiens aboient, la caravane passe

caravan (convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals)

travel trailer (furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary)


kibitka

Borrowed from Russian киби́тка (kibítka).


pneumatique

Learned borrowing from Latin pneumaticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πνευματικός (pneumatikós, “relating to wind or air”), from πνεῦμα (pneûma, “wind, air, breath, spirit”).


phare antibrouillard

fr-noun

phare antibrouillard m (plural phares antibrouillard)


pare-brise

→ Armenian: պարբրիս (parbris)

→ Romanian: parbriz

→ Greek: παρμπρίζ (parmpríz)

From parer + brise. Compare Spanish parabrisas, Italian parabrezza, Portuguese para-brisa.


calandre

→ English: calander

Inherited from Middle French calende, calandre. Trésor de la langue française informatisé proposes a dialectal form of charançon as the origin, but other sources derive this group of cognates (including Dutch kalander) from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros, “cylinder”) through Latin.

der

wheat weevil larva (Sitophilus granarius)


canot

→ Greek: κανό (kanó)

→ Turkish: kano

From Middle French canot (“little boat”, also “dugout”), partly continuing (in diminutive form) Old French cane (“boat, ship”), from Middle Low German kane (“boat”), from Old Saxon *kano, from Proto-West Germanic *kanō, from Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”) (compare German Kahn (“boat”)); and partly from an alteration of Middle French canoe (“dugout made from the trunk of a tree”), from Spanish canoa (“dugout canoe”). More at canard.


papamobile

Popemobile (any of various vehicles with bulletproof glass sides used to transport the Pope)


capot

→ Catalan: capó

→ Gulf Arabic: كبوت (kabbūt)

→ Hijazi Arabic: كَبُّوت (kabbūt)

→ Portuguese: capô

→ Spanish: capó

→ Luxembourgish: Capot

Inherited from Old French capote (“hooded cloak”), diminutive of cape, from Late Latin cappa.


embrayage

→ Greek: αμπραγιάζ (ampragiáz)

→ Portuguese: embraiagem


chaloupe

→ Basque: txalupa

→ Catalan: xalupa

→ English: shallop

→ Galician: chalupa

→ German: Schaluppe

→ Italian: scialuppa
→ Turkish: şalupa

→ Portuguese: chalupa

→ Spanish: chalupa
→ English: chalupa

Inherited from Middle French chaloppe (“a sort of flat-bottomed boat”), of uncertain origin, but probably by apheresis from Old French eschalope (“shell”), used figuratively. An alternative theory deriving the term from Dutch sloep appears unlikely, since the Dutch word is attested only much later and the phonetic development is hard to explain; it is more likely that the Dutch term was borrowed from French.


VTT

(Quebec, automotive) Initialism of véhicule tout-terrain: an ATV (all terrain vehicle)


pétrolier

fr-adj

pétrolier (feminine pétrolière, masculine plural pétroliers, feminine plural pétrolières)

pétrolière (feminine)
pétroliers (masculine plural)
pétrolières (feminine plural)


silencieux

→ Norman: silencieux

Borrowed from Latin silentiōsus (adjective). Documented since 1527.

bor+

pot d’échappement
pot d'échappement#French

(North America) Synonym of pot d’échappement (“exhaust pipe”)


sabord

gunport (hatch in the hull of a ship through which a cannon is fired)


guimbarde

→ Catalan: guimbarda

→ English: guimbarde

→ Spanish: guimbarda

From Occitan guimbardo, from guimbar (“to jump”), from Old Occitan guimar (“to leap”), possibly from a hypothetical Gothic *𐍅𐌹𐌼𐍉𐌽 (*wimōn, “to rise [?]”), which would be related to Old Saxon upwimōn (“to rise”), Old High German ūfwiumen (“to well or bubble up”) and/or Old High German wemōn (“to sway, fluctuate”), all ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīpaną (“to wrap, wind”).


voiturette

English: voiturette

From voiture + -ette. Genericization of brand name "Voiturette". Coined by Léon Bollée in 1895 to name his new motor tricycle, «Voiturette».


planétaire

(automobile) epicyclic gear, planetary gear


tapecul

(informal) old banger (car with poor suspension)


esquif

Inherited from Middle French esquif, from Old Italian schifo (“small boat”), from Lombardic skif (“boat”).

(literary) skiff (any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)


voilier

(nautical) sailboat (a boat propelled by sails)


galion

An augmentative form of Old French galee with the modern meaning borrowed from Spanish galeón.


amortisseur

→ Greek: αμορτισέρ (amortisér)

→ Turkish: amortisör

→ Laz: ამორტისორი (amorťisori)


galère

From Catalan galera, from Medieval Latin galēra, alternative form of galea, from Byzantine Greek γάλεα (gálea). Compare galée, from Old French, directly from Latin galea.


négrier

fr-noun

négrier m (plural négriers, feminine négrière)

From nègre + -ier. Compare Spanish negrero, Italian negriero, Portuguese negreiro, Galician negreiro.

a slaver, slave trader, slaveholder, slave driver (specifically black slaves)


tombereau

dumper, dump truck, flatbed (vehicle to carry and then tip materials)


vélo tout terrain

vélo tout terrain m (plural vélos tout terrain)


patache

→ Italian: petaccio


chaland

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χελάνδιον (khelándion, “chelandion, dromon”).

bor+

[…] des bêtes et des hommes tiraient, s’essoufflaient, sur les gros pavés en pente qui descendaient jusqu’à l’eau, à ce bord de granit où s’amarrait une double rangée de chalands et de péniches; […]

barge (flat-bottomed bulk carrier mainly for inland waters)


remorqueur

/ʁə.mɔʁ.kœʁ/


vaisseau spatial

fr-noun

vaisseau spatial m (plural vaisseaux spatiaux)

spaceship (vehicle that flies through space)


pédalo

→ English: pedalo

→ Italian: pedalò

→ Switzerland German: Pedalo

From pédale (“pedal”) + -o, a brand name (1936).


autocar

→ Bulgarian: автока́р (avtokár)

→ German: Autocar

→ Italian: autocarro (calque)

→ Portuguese: autocarro (calque)

→ Spanish: autocar

→ Turkish: otokar

→ Vietnamese: xe ca (calque)


excavateur

→ Romanian: excavator

→ Turkish: ekskavatör

excavator (vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe)


contre-torpilleur

contre-torpilleur m (plural contre-torpilleurs)

(North America, military, nautical) destroyer: a type of warship.

torpedo-boat destroyer
torpedo-boat destroyer#English

(historical, nautical, military) torpedo-boat destroyer

(France, historical, nautical, military) Former name of destroyer.

torpedo-boat destroyer
Former name of destroyer.


arbre à cames

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-arbre à cames.wav


carrosse

Borrowed from Italian carrozza. An older form carroche was borrowed from the older Italian carroccia.


fourgonnette

→ Portuguese: furgoneta


plaquette de frein

plaquette de frein f (plural plaquettes de frein)


tableau de bord

tableau de bord m (plural tableaux de bord)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-tableau de bord.wav


démarreur

Georgetown pète le champagne, y’a du son, y’a des go et le sunshine
Tu vois y’a pas de fringues, en caleçon et débardeurs
Avec une bande de démarreurs, des go qui me disent “t’es speed comme Schumacher”

1998, “Agrévolution”, in Ol Kainry (lyrics), Ce n’est que l’début, performed by Agression Verbale:


auto-tamponneuse

auto-tamponneuse f (plural auto-tamponneuses or autos-tamponneuses)

auto-tamponneuses (plural)
autos-tamponneuses (plural)


baleinier

fr-adj

baleinier (feminine baleinière, masculine plural baleiniers, feminine plural baleinières)

baleinière (feminine)
baleiniers (masculine plural)
baleinières (feminine plural)


baleinier

fr-noun

baleinier m (plural baleiniers, feminine baleinière)

baleiniers (plural)
baleinière (feminine)


trirème

trireme (galley with three banks of oars)


fourgon

→ Catalan: furgó

→ English: fourgon

→ Italian: furgone

→ Lithuanian: furgonas

→ Piedmontese: forgon

→ Portuguese: furgão

→ Romanian: furgon

→ Russian: фурго́н (furgón) (see there for further descendants)

→ Spanish: furgón

→ Turkish: furgon

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *furicōnem, from *furicāre, from Latin furō (“to steal”).

(rail transport) goods wagon, freight car


dragueur

dragueur m (plural dragueurs, feminine dragueuse)


drakkar

Italian: drakar

Borrowed from Swedish drakar, plural of drake (“dragon”).


échappement

desc

→ North Levantine Arabic: أشطمان (ʔašṭmān, “exhaust pipe”), أشكمان (ʔašᵊkmān), أشكمون (ʔašᵊkmōn) (Lebanon)

→ Moroccan Arabic: شاكمة (šāgma, “exhaust pipe”), شاڭمة (šāgma), شاگمة (šāgma)


pelleteuse

excavator, digger (a large piece of machinery that digs up holes)


rouleau compresseur

fr-noun

rouleau compresseur m (plural rouleaux compresseurs)


frein à main

/fʁɛ̃ a mɛ̃/

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-frein à main.wav

handbrake, parking brake (hand-operated brake in a car, that can be set to avoid the vehicle rolling down a slope)


car-ferry

car-ferry m (plural car-ferries or car-ferrys)

car-ferries (plural)
car-ferrys (plural)


dragueur de mines

dragueur de mines m (plural dragueurs de mines)


câblier

Ellipsis of navire câblier.: cable layer; cable ship


phoquier

sealship (boat or ship used for seal hunting)


méthanier

fr-adj

méthanier (feminine méthanière, masculine plural méthaniers, feminine plural méthanières)

méthanière (feminine)
méthaniers (masculine plural)
méthanières (feminine plural)

liquefied natural gas
liquefied natural gas


palangrier

palangrier (feminine palangrière, masculine plural palangriers, feminine plural palangrières)

palangrière (feminine)
palangriers (masculine plural)
palangrières (feminine plural)


motocycle

desc

مُوتُوسِيكِل

→ Arabic: مُوتُوسِيكِل (mūtūsīkil)

→ Arabic: مُوتُوسِيكِل (mūtūsīkil)

→ Belarusian: матацыкл (matacykl)

→ Crimean Tatar: mototsikl

→ Czech: motocykl

→ Egyptian Arabic: متوسكل (mutusekl)

→ English: motocycle

→ Georgian: მოტოციკლი (moṭociḳli)

→ Latvian: motocikls

→ Lithuanian: motociklas

→ Macedonian: мотоцикл (motocikl)

→ Malay: motosikal

desctree

→ Russian: мотоцикл (motocikl)
→ Armenian: մոտոցիկլ (motocʻikl)
→ Bezhta: матацик (matacik)
→ Georgian: მოტოციკლი (moṭociḳli)
→ Kazakh: мотоцикл (motosikl)
→ Kyrgyz: мотоцикл (mototsikl)
→ Mongolian:
Cyrillic script: мотоцикл (motocikl)
Mongolian script: ᠮᠣᠲᠣᠼᠢᠻᠯ (motocikl)
→ Turkmen: motosikl
→ Uzbek: mototsikl

→ Kazakh: мотоцикл (motosikl)

→ Kyrgyz: мотоцикл (mototsikl)

→ Polish: motocykl

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: мотоцикл

Latin script: motocikl

→ Slovak: motocykel

→ Slovene: motocikel

→ Tajik: мотосикл (motosikl)

→ Turkmen: motosikl

→ Ukrainian: мотоцикл (motocykl)

→ Uzbek: mototsikl

→ Yiddish: מאָטאָציקל (mototsikl)


déhanché

(motorcycling) technique of tilting the body when taking a curve in a motorcycle race


bâtiment précieux

fr-noun

bâtiment précieux m (plural bâtiments précieux)


navire capital

navire capital m (plural navires capitaux)


VPS

vélo à pneus surdimensionnés
vélo à pneus surdimensionnés#French

Abbreviation of vélo à pneus surdimensionnés. Synonym of fat bike


camion plateau

camion plateau m (plural camions plateaux)


hélico

D’où tombent les gargouilles en bas relief / Où est, où est Casimodo ? Est-il parti en hélico ?

2023, “Il Pleut Sur Notre Dame”, performed by Chilly Gonzales & Bonnie Banane:

Where do the gargoyles in bas-relief fall from / Where is, where is Casimodo? Did he leave by helicopter?


pneu de secours

pneu de secours m (plural pneus de secours)


roue de secours

roue de secours f (plural roues de secours)


mobylette

From the brand name, apparently from mobile + -ette.


charbonnier

From charbon + -ier, Latin carbōnārius, from carbō.


delco

From the Delco corporation, whose acronym spells Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company.


morutier

morutier m (plural morutiers, feminine morutière)


chebec

Inherited from Old French chabek, chebec, chebeck, chebek, via probably Italian sciabecco from Arabic شُبَّاك (šubbāk).

Certains chebecs, au siècle dernier, furent armés en guerre et portèrent jusqu’à 26 canons

1888, P. A. Hennique, Les caboteurs et pêcheurs de la côte de Tunisie: pêche des éponges, page 3:


traversier

(nautical, Canada) ferry (for cars, etc.)


sardinier

fr-adj

sardinier (feminine sardinière, masculine plural sardiniers, feminine plural sardinières)

sardinière (feminine)
sardiniers (masculine plural)
sardinières (feminine plural)


tractopelle

backhoe, backhoe loader, loader excavator


phaéton

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: فایطون (fayton)
Turkish: fayton

Borrowed from Latin Phaëtōn, from the Ancient Greek Φᾰέθων (Phaéthōn).


vélocipède

→ Belarusian: веласіпе́д (vjelasipjéd)

→ Bulgarian: велосипе́д (velosipéd)

→ Catalan: velocípede

→ Danish: væltepeter

→ English: velocipede

→ Finnish: velosipedi

→ Georgian: ველოსიპედი (velosiṗedi)

→ German: Veloziped

→ Indonesian: sepeda

desc

→ Japanese: ベロシペード (beroshipēdo), ベロチペード (berochipēdo)

→ Latvian: velosipēds

→ Macedonian: велосипед (velosiped)

→ Polish: welocyped

desctree

→ Russian: велосипе́д (velosipéd), велосипе́дъ (velosipéd) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Azerbaijani: velosiped
→ Belarusian: веласіпе́д (vjelasipjéd)
→ Ingrian: velosipeda
→ Kazakh: велосипед (velosiped)
→ Kildin Sami: веласипед (vjelasipjed)
→ Kyrgyz: велосипед (velosiped)
→ Turkmen: welosiped
→ Tatar: велосипед (welosiped)
→ Uyghur: ۋەلسىپىت (welsipit)
→ Ukrainian: велосипе́д (velosypéd)
→ Uzbek: velosiped

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: велосѝпе̄д

Latin script: velosìpēd

→ Spanish: velocípedo

→ Ukrainian: велосипе́д (velosypéd)

desc

וועלאָסיפּעד

→ Yiddish: וועלאָסיפּעד (velosiped)

(1804) A learned compound from Latin vēlōcem (“rapid, prompt”) + pēs, pedis (“foot”). Compare vélocifère.


gamos

Sors pas les gros gamos
Car sur toi il feront du srol

2017, “Jacques a dit”, in Indépendant, performed by Elh Kmer:


Renault

Inherited from Latin Reginaldus, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz, a personal name composed of the elements Proto-Germanic *raginą (“counsel”) *waldaną (“to rule”).


véhicule utilitaire sport

fr-noun

véhicule utilitaire sport m (plural véhicules utilitaires sports)

Calque of English sport utility vehicle.

sport utility vehicle
sport utility vehicle


bélandre

→ Catalan: balandra

→ English: belandre

(nautical) a type of flat-bottomed transport boat used on inland waterways


croiseur lourd

croiseur lourd m (plural croiseurs lourds)


vélo à neige

snowbike (a mountain bike with its front wheel replaced by a ski)


vélo à pneus surdimensionnés

vélo à pneus surdimensionnés m (plural vélos à pneus surdimensionnés)

LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-vélo à pneus surdimensionnés.wav

From vélo (“bike”) + pneu (“tyre”) + surdimensionné (“oversized”). From being a bicycle with oversized tires.

af

a fatbike; Synonym of fat bike (a bike for riding on trails of ice and snow)


pot d'échappement

fr-noun

pot d’échappement m (plural pots d’échappement)

pot d’ échappement (canonical masculine)
pots d’échappement (plural)

→ Vietnamese: pô


food truck

LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-food truck.wav

Unadapted borrowing from English food truck.

ubor

food truck; Alternative form of foodtruck (restaurant on wheels)


moteur thermique

fr-noun

moteur thermique m (plural moteurs thermiques)


nacelle élévatrice

nacelle élévatrice f (plural nacelles élévatrices)


navire de croisière

navire de croisière m (plural navires de croisière)


bateau à vapeur

bateau à vapeur m (plural bateaux à vapeur)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-bateau à vapeur.wav


pneu hiver

Coordinate term: pneu été


porte-à-faux

Univerbation of porte à faux (third-person singular present indicative of porter à faux).

univerbation

porter à faux<alt:porte à faux><pos:third-person singular present indicative of <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">porter à faux</i>>


kibick

Likely borrowed from Russian киби́тка (kibítka).


wôrô-wôrô

fr-noun

wôrô-wôrô m (plural wôrô-wôrôs or wôrô-wôrô)

/wɔ.ʁɔ wɔ.ʁɔ/

2002 November 11, Jérome Aloko-N'Guessan, “Taxis woro-woro à Abidjan et résonance communale à Koumassi”, in Actes de CODATU, archived from the original on 2020-02-05:

Ma conquête à moi est déja positionnée
Crangba et prête à tout me déballer
De gauche à droite y a encore des gomis qui bougent
L’horizon bondée de monde démontre des cuirs qui font des sauts en sacadé
Je suis wôrô
Les babis repartent en wôrô wôrô

2009, “G-Playa Party I”, in King Of South, performed by Lil perso:

My conquest is already positioned for me
Present and ready for being unwrapped wholly for me
From right and left there are yet boogying girlfriends
The horizon is full of baggage showing meat, jumping and jerking
I get laid
The babies leave in shared taxis.

2017 October 30, “Société: Quand Port-bouet se réveille sous les Klaxons des Wôrô Wôrô”, in Côte d’Ivoire News:

2017 November 5, Boni Amlaman, “Alépé : Une bagarre entre deux chauffeurs de wôrô-wôrô fait un mort”, in Fratmat:

2020 March 22, Salif D. Cheickna, “Covid-19/Gbaka, Wôrô-wôrô : Les transporteurs adoptent des recommandations à appliquer dès le 23 mars”, in Fratmat^(https://www.fratmat.info/article/202879/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9/Coronavirus%20(covid-19)/covid-19gbaka-woro-woro--les-transporteurs-adoptent-des-recommandations-a-appliquer-des-le-23-mars):


gaz d'échappement

gaz d’échappement m (plural gaz d’échappement)

gaz d’échappement (canonical masculine)
gaz d’échappement (plural)


VTC

Pourtant, côté taxis, on voit la période comme une occasion de prendre une revanche sur leurs grands rivaux, les VTC.

2020 June 21, Eric Béziat, “La bataille du déconfinement entre taxis et VTC”, in Le Monde:

Initialism of Voiture de Transport avec Chauffeur.


pédale d'embrayage

pédale d’embrayage f (plural pédales d’embrayage)

pédale d’ embrayage (canonical feminine)
pédales d’embrayage (plural)


houari

Of obscure origin, but cognate with English wherry, Breton ouari, as well as Welsh chweri.


feux de route

high-beam (automobile's headlights adjusted to brighten a longer distance)


feux de détresse

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-feux de détresse.wav


mahonne

Borrowed into Middle French from Old Anatolian Turkish or Ottoman Turkish ماونه (mavuna), ماعونه (maʼuna) (modern Turkish mavuna), from Arabic مَاعُونَة (māʕūna).

der

Arabic مَاعُونَة (māʕūna)

(archaic, historical) a type of war galley used by the Turks


tchop

Y’a les gyrophares qui éclairent la tchop mais on s’arrête pas

2020 March 13, Lazamah (lyrics and music), “BDFDP”, in Pimp:

There are sirens lightening the cars but one does not hold on


roue arrière

fr-noun

roue arrière f (plural roues arrière or roues arrières)

roues arrière (plural)
roues arrières (plural)

wheelie (an action or stunt where a bicycle, motorcycle, or other vehicle is ridden for a short period while it is standing only on its rear wheel or wheels)


pépine

(North America) backhoe, backhoe loader, loader excavator


chargeuse-pelleteuse

chargeuse-pelleteuse f (plural chargeuse-pelleteuses)


chargeuse

loader, front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, wheel loader (construction machine)


autobus à plate-forme

autobus à plate-forme m (plural autobus à plate-forme)

(historical) A type of urban bus with a small platform at the back, once prevalent in Paris.


thalamège

Borrowed from Latin thalamegus, itself from Ancient Greek θᾰλᾰμηγός (thalamēgós).


plaque minéralogique

plaque minéralogique f (plural plaques minéralogiques)

license plate, number plate (identifying tag, usually of metal, bearing a unique sequence of letters, numbers, or both, and placed at the back and, sometimes, also at the front of a motor vehicle)


pneu été

Coordinate term: pneu hiver


tracteur-tondeuse

tracteur-tondeuse m (plural tracteurs-tondeuses)