different between boat vs manji
boat
English
Etymology
From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English b?t (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *bait? (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to break, split”). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”).
Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?t, IPA(key): /b??t/
- Rhymes: -??t
- (General American) enPR: b?t, IPA(key): /bo?t/
Noun
boat (plural boats)
- A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- (poker slang) A full house.
- A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
- (chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
- (Australia, politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
Usage notes
- There is no explicit limit, but the word boat usually refers to a relatively small watercraft, smaller than a ship but larger than a dinghy. It is also the normal designation for a submarine (however large), and also for lakers (ships used in the Great Lakes trade in North America).
Synonyms
- (craft on or in water): craft, ship, vessel
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants
- Esperanto: boato
- Dhivehi: ????? (b??u)
- Fijian: boto
- Hijazi Arabic: ???? (b?t)
- Japanese: ??? (b?to)
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: boet (Norfuk)
- Sinhalese: ???????? (b???uwa)
- Swahili: boti
- Scots: boat, bote (compare native bait, bate)
- Tahitian: poti
- Tok Pisin: bot
See also
- Category:Watercraft
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN
Verb
boat (third-person singular simple present boats, present participle boating, simple past and past participle boated)
- (intransitive) To travel by boat.
- (transitive) To transport in a boat.
- to boat goods
- (transitive) To place in a boat.
- to boat oars
Translations
Anagrams
- Bato, Tabo, atob, btoa
Finnish
Noun
boat
- nominative plural of boa
Anagrams
- abot
Latin
Verb
boat
- third-person singular present active indicative of bo?
Malay
Alternative forms
- buat
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buat/
- Rhymes: -uat, -wat, -at
Verb
boat (1701, used in the form berboat)
- Obsolete form of buat.
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo??t/
Noun
boat n (plural boaten, diminutive boatsje or boatke)
- boat
Derived terms
- stoomboat
- ûnderseeboat
Further reading
- “boat (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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manji
English
Etymology 1
From Hindi ????? (m?ñjh?, “boatman, sailor”).
Alternative forms
- mangee, manjee
Noun
manji (plural manjis)
- (obsolete, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan) A captain or skipper of a boat. [17th–19th c.]
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 361:
- I prevailed upon the mangee of a pinnace I found laying in the creek, awaiting the arrival of a gentleman hourly expected from Vizagapatam, to convey us up the river as far as Budge Budge […] .
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 361:
Etymology 2
From a form of Punjabi ???? (mañj?, “raised bed”). The Sikh sense is based on their use as seats of authority.
Noun
manji (plural manjis)
- A type of raised bed similar to a cot from South Asia.
- 1990, W. H. McLeod, Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism, page 152:
- Literally, 'He sat on a manji.' The manji is a small string bed. In the villages of the Punjab acknowledged leaders, spiritual and temporal, would commonly receive their followers seated on a manji.
- 2005, W. Owen Cole, Piara Singh Sambhi, A Popular Dictionary of Sikhism: Sikh Religion and Philosophy:
- The significance of a manji lies in its use as the seat of a person in authority, other people sitting on the ground.
- 2011, Rocky Singh, Mayur Sharma, Highway on my Plate: The indian guide to roadside eating, Random House India (?ISBN):
- There is even a tap to bathe under after you have spent a night sleeping on the manjis (beds), and all this comes at the price of a meal!
- 2015, Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers:
- Roop doesn't want to sleep on a mat on the floor; she wants to sleep with Lajo Bhua on a manji, wants Lajo Bhua to tell her stories till she falls asleep.
- 1990, W. H. McLeod, Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism, page 152:
- (Sikhism) A Sikh religious administrative unit.
- 1993, Sunita Puri, Advent of Sikh Religion: A Socio-political Perspective, page 155:
- In the Janam Sakhis and utterances of Guru Nanak there is no reference, implicit or explicit, to the subject of manjis.
- 1993, Sunita Puri, Advent of Sikh Religion: A Socio-political Perspective, page 155:
Derived terms
- manji sahib/Manji Sahib
Etymology 3
From Japanese ? (manji).
Noun
manji (plural manjis)
- A left-facing Japanese swastika.
Embu
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *màjíj??.
Noun
manji
- water
References
- Ciarunji Chesaina, Oral Literature of the Embu and Mbeere (1997, ?ISBN
Japanese
Romanization
manji
- R?maji transcription of ???
Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
manji (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- comparative degree of malen
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