different between catamaran vs hinta

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

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hinta, from earlier *šimta-, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *?ímta, compare Lithuanian šimtas (“hundred”). Cognate with Estonian hind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hint?/, [?hin?t??]
• Rhymes: -int?
• Syllabification: hin?ta

Noun

hinta

1. price

Declension

Derived terms

• adjectives: hinnakas, hintava
• verbs: hinnoitella

Compounds

Anagrams

• hanti, thain

Hungarian

Etymology

It converted to noun from the verb hint (“to swing, sway”) +? -a (archaic participle suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hint?]
• Hyphenation: hin?ta
• Rhymes: -t?

Noun

hinta (plural hinták)

1. swing (for children)
2. (rare) seesaw (for children)

   Synonyms: mérleghinta, libikóka

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• hinta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Ingrian

Noun

hinta

1. price

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• hintene

Noun

hinta n

1. definite plural of hint

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hinta n

1. definite plural of hint

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hind?, whence also Old English hind, Old Norse hind.

Noun

hinta f

1. hind

Descendants

• German: Hinde

Swedish

Verb

hinta (present hintar, preterite hintade, supine hintat, imperative hinta)

1. (colloquial) to give a hint

Conjugation