dinghy

English

Etymology

From Bengali ডিঙি (ḍiṅi), probably from Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “wooden vessel”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪŋ(ɡ)i/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪŋ.i/

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  • Rhymes: -ɪŋi
• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡi

Noun

dinghy (plural dinghies)

1. (nautical) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.
   • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

     The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.

2. (nautical) A sailing dinghy.
3. (nautical) An inflatable rubber life raft.

Synonyms

• tender

Derived terms

• sailing dinghy
• dinghy towing

Translations

small boat

• Bengali: ডিঙ্গা (ḍiṅga)
• Bulgarian: корабна лодка f (korabna lodka)
• Catalan: bot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 救生筏 (zh) (jiùshēngfá)

• Czech: loďka (cs) f, člun (cs) m
• Danish: jolle c
• Dutch: jol (nl), kleine kano
• Finnish: jolla (fi)
• French: youyou (fr) m, petit canoe m, dinghy (fr) m
• Galician: batel m, bote m
• German: Dingi (de) n, Jolle (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: λέμβος f (lémbos)

• Hebrew: דִּנְגִית (he) f (dingit), דּוּגִית (he) f (dugit)
• Hindi: डोंगी (hi) f (ḍoṅgī), नाव (hi) f (nāv)
• Hungarian: gumicsónak (hu)
• Icelandic: julla
• Irish: báidín calaidh m
• Italian: battello (it) m, pedalò (it) m
• Japanese: ディンギー (dingī)
• Maori: poti (mi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jolle (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: jolle f or m

• Polish: bączek (pl) m, bajbot (pl) m
• Portuguese: bote (pt) m
• Russian: я́лик (ru) m (jálik), шлю́пка (ru) f (šljúpka)
• Spanish: lancha (es) f, bote de remo m, dingui m, patera f, batel (es) m
• Swedish: dinge (sv) c, jolle (sv) c
• Urdu: ڈونگی f (ḍoṅgī), ناو f (nāv)

inflatable boat

• Bulgarian: надуваем сал m (naduvaem sal)
• Catalan: bot pneumàtic m
• Czech: nafukovací člun m
• Dutch: rubberboot (nl)
• Finnish: kumivene (fi)
• French: dinghy (fr) m
• German: Schlauchboot (de) n, Floßsack m, Gummiboot (de)
• Hungarian: gumicsónak (hu)
• Italian: battello pneumatico m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gummibåt m

• Portuguese: bote inflável m
• Russian: рези́новая ло́дка f (rezínovaja lódka), надувна́я ло́дка f (naduvnája lódka)
• Spanish: balsa de caucho f, bote inflable m
• Swedish: gummibåt (sv)

Verb

dinghy (third-person singular simple present dinghies, present participle dinghying, simple past and past participle dinghied)

1. (intransitive) To travel by dinghy.

Anagrams

• hyding

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /din.ɡi/

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Noun

dinghy m (plural dinghys)

1. (nautical) dinghy

Further reading

• “dinghy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.