different between barge vs catamaran

English

Etymology

From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Late Latin barca, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ????? (baare, “small boat”), from Egyptian b?jr (“transport ship, type of fish”),

Doublet of bark and barque.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Noun

barge (plural barges)

1. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
2. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
3. A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
4. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
5. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
6. (US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
7. (US, dialect, dated) A large omnibus used for excursions.

Synonyms

• lighter

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

barge (third-person singular simple present barges, present participle barging, simple past and past participle barged)

1. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
2. (transitive) To push someone.

Anagrams

• Aberg, Berga, Gaber, begar, rebag

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??/

Etymology 1

Variant of barje, Apocopic form of barjot, from jobard.

Adjective

barge (plural barges)

1. (slang, verlan) nuts, bananas (crazy)

Etymology 2

From Old French barge, from Vulgar Latin *barga, variant of Late Latin barca, itself possibly from a form *barica, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris), itself probably of Egyptian origin. Doublet of barque

Noun

barge f (plural barges)

1. barge (boat)

Etymology 3

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *bardea, of Gaulish origin.

Noun

barge f (plural barges)

1. godwit

Anagrams

• gerba

Further reading

• “barge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bargge, baarge, berge, barche

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French barge, from Late Latin barca, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris), from Coptic ????? (baare), from Egyptian b?jr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bard?(?)/, /?ba?rd?(?)/

Noun

barge (plural barges)

1. A medium ship or boat, especially one protecting a larger ship.
2. A barge, especially one used for official or ceremonial purposes.

Descendants

• English: barge
• Scots: bairge (possibly)

References

• “b??r?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?par?ke/

Verb

barge

1. inflection of bargat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *barga, variant of Late Latin barca, itself possibly from a form *barica, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris), itself probably of Egyptian origin.

Noun

barge f (oblique plural barges, nominative singular barge, nominative plural barges)

1. boat

Descendants

• Middle French: barge
  • French: barge
    • ? Russian: ????? (barža)
• ? Middle English: barge, bargge, baarge, berge, barche
  • English: barge
  • Scots: bairge (possibly)

English

Etymology

From Tamil ????? (ka??u, “to tie”) + ???? (maram, “tree, wood”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /?kæ.t?.m???æn/, /?kæ.t?.m???æn/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæ.t?.m???æn/, /?kæ.t?.m???æn/

Noun

catamaran (plural catamarans)

1. A twin-hulled ship or boat.
2. (colloquial, rare, obsolete) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
3. (obsolete) A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90:

     Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] .

4. (obsolete) An old kind of fireship.

Synonyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): twinhull

Hypernyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): multihull

Hyponyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): AC45, AC72

Coordinate terms

• monohull
• outrigger canoe

Derived terms

• cat (diminutive)

Related terms

• trimaran

Translations

French

Etymology

From Tamil ????? (ka??u, “to tie”) + ???? (maram, “tree, wood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta.ma.???/
• Homophone: catamarans

Noun

catamaran m (plural catamarans)

1. catamaran, a twin-hulled ship or boat

Further reading

• “catamaran” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English catamaran, from Tamil.

Noun

catamaran m (plural catamarans)

1. (Jersey) catamaran

Romanian

Etymology

From French catamaran

Noun

catamaran n (plural catamarane)

1. catamaran

Declension