English
Etymology
From tug + boat.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtʌɡbəʊt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtʌɡboʊt/
Noun
tugboat (plural tugboats)
- (nautical) A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.
- Synonym: tug
- Coordinate term: towboat
Translations
small, powerful boat
- Afrikaans: sleepboot
- Albanian: rimorkiator (sq)
- Arabic: زَوْرَق اَلْقَطْر m (zawraq al-qaṭr)
- Armenian: բուքսիրային նավ (bukʻsirayin nav), քարշականավ (kʻaršakanav)
- Azerbaijani: buksir
- Basque: atoiontzi
- Belarusian: буксі́р m (buksír)
- Bulgarian: влекач m (vlekač)
- Catalan: remolcador m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 拖船 (zh) (tuōchuán)
- Czech: remorkér m
- Danish: slæbebåd
- Dutch: sleepboot (nl) m, sleper (nl) m
- Esperanto: trenšipo
- Estonian: puksiir
- Finnish: hinaaja (fi)
- French: remorqueur (fr) m
- Galician: revocador m
- Georgian: საბუქსირო გემი (sabuksiro gemi)
- German: Schlepper (de) m, Schleppschiff n, Schleppboot n, Schleppdampfer m
- Greek: ρυμουλκό πλοίο (rymoulkó ploío)
- Haitian Creole: remokè
- Hebrew: גּוֹרֶרֶת (he) f (goréret)
- Hungarian: vontatóhajó (hu)
- Icelandic: dráttarbátur m
- Ido: remorkero (io)
- Indonesian: kapal tunda (id)
- Italian: rimorchiatore (it) m
- Japanese: タグボート (ja) (tagubōto), 曳船 (ja) (えいせん, eisen)
- Korean: 예인선(曳引船) (ko) (yeinseon)
- Latvian: velkonis m, tālbraucējs m
- Livonian: vilkikas
- Macedonian: реморке́р m (remorkér), шле́пер m (šléper)
- Maltese: irmonk
- Maori: poti pārete, tima pārete
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bukserbåt m, slepebåt m, taubåt m
- Nynorsk: bukserbåt m, slepebåt m, taubåt m
- Polish: holownik (pl) m
- Portuguese: rebocador (pt) m
- Romanian: remocher
- Russian: букси́р (ru) m (buksír), букси́рное су́дно n (buksírnoje súdno)
- Scottish Gaelic: bàta slaodaidh
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: реморкер, тегљач
- Roman: remoker, tegljač (sh)
- Slovak: remokér m
- Slovene: ladijski vlačilec m
- Spanish: remolcador m
- Swahili: tishari
- Swedish: bogserbåt (sv) c
- Thai: เรือโยง (reua yohng)
- Turkish: römorkör (tr)
- Ukrainian: букси́р (uk) m (buksýr)
- Volapük: tränanaf (vo), tränastemanaf (vo)
- Welsh: tynfad
- Yiddish: בוקסיר m (buksir)
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