different between catamaran vs Tagalog

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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ta?alok]

Noun

tagalog m

1. Tagalog (language)

Synonyms

• tagalština

Danish

Noun

tagalog

1. Tagalog, the Tagalog language, native language of the Philippines.

Finnish

Noun

tagalog

1. Tagalog (language)

Declension

French

Noun

tagalog m (uncountable)

1. Tagalog, the Tagalog language, native language of the Philippines.

Further reading

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

Icelandic

Noun

tagalog

1. Tagalog (language)

Portuguese

Noun

tagalog m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of tagalo