yacht

Borrowed from English yacht, from Dutch jacht.


kayak

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


dreadnought

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


catamaran

→ Romanian: catamaran

Borrowed from English catamaran, from Tamil கட்டுமரம் (kaṭṭumaram).


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.


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


paquebot

→ English: paquebot


monocoque

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


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.]


jonque

From Italian giunca / giunco, from Portuguese junco, from Arabic جُنْك (junk), from Malay jong, from Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong), from Old Javanese joṅ (“seagoing ship”). Compare German Dschunke, Spanish junco, English junk, Dutch jonk.


frégate

→ English: frigate

→ Romanian: fregată

desctree

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

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


navire de guerre

fr-noun

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:


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.


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.


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.


pétrolier

fr-adj

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

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


sabord

From Middle French sabort. Ultimate origin unknown.

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


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.


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)


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/


pédalo

→ English: pedalo

→ Italian: pedalò

→ Switzerland German: Pedalo

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


contre-torpilleur

fr-noun

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.


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)


dragueur

dragueur m (plural dragueurs, feminine dragueuse)


drakkar

Italian: drakar

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


car-ferry

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

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


câblier

Ellipsis of navire câblier.: cable layer; cable ship


dragueur de mines

dragueur de mines m (plural dragueurs de mines)


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)


phoquier

sealship (boat or ship used for seal hunting)


bâtiment précieux

fr-noun

bâtiment précieux m (plural bâtiments précieux)


navire capital

navire capital m (plural navires capitaux)


charbonnier

charbonnier m (plural charbonniers, feminine charbonnière)

charbonniers (plural)
charbonnière (feminine)

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

(nautical) collier (vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal)


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)


bélandre

→ Catalan: balandra

→ English: belandre

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


croiseur lourd

fr-noun

croiseur lourd m (plural croiseurs lourds)


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


houari

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


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


thalamège

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