Vessel in Different Languages
Discover 'Vessel' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Vessel
Afrikaans vaartuig | ||
Albanian anije | ||
Amharic ዕቃ | ||
Arabic وعاء | ||
Armenian անոթ, նավ | ||
Assamese পাত্ৰ | ||
Aymara jach'a yampu | ||
Azerbaijani gəmi | ||
Bambara bato | ||
Basque ontzia | ||
Belarusian пасудзіна | ||
Bengali পাত্র | ||
Bhojpuri पतीला | ||
Bosnian brod | ||
Bulgarian плавателен съд | ||
Catalan vaixell | ||
Cebuano sudlanan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 船只 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 船隻 | ||
Corsican nave | ||
Croatian brod | ||
Czech plavidlo | ||
Danish beholder | ||
Dhivehi ވެސަލް | ||
Dogri भांडा | ||
Dutch vaartuig | ||
English vessel | ||
Esperanto ŝipo | ||
Estonian laev | ||
Ewe nugo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sisidlan | ||
Finnish aluksen | ||
French navire | ||
Frisian skûtsje | ||
Galician buque | ||
Georgian ხომალდი | ||
German schiff | ||
Greek σκάφος | ||
Guarani kagua | ||
Gujarati વાસણ | ||
Haitian Creole veso | ||
Hausa jirgin ruwa | ||
Hawaiian moku | ||
Hebrew כְּלִי שַׁיִט | ||
Hindi पतीला | ||
Hmong txog ntsha | ||
Hungarian hajó | ||
Icelandic skip | ||
Igbo arịa | ||
Ilocano pagikkan ti danum | ||
Indonesian kapal | ||
Irish árthach | ||
Italian nave | ||
Japanese 容器 | ||
Javanese prau | ||
Kannada ಹಡಗು | ||
Kazakh кеме | ||
Khmer នាវា | ||
Kinyarwanda ubwato | ||
Konkani आयदन | ||
Korean 용기 | ||
Krio bot | ||
Kurdish gemî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کەشتی | ||
Kyrgyz идиш | ||
Lao ເຮືອ | ||
Latin vasa pretiosa | ||
Latvian kuģis | ||
Lingala masuwa | ||
Lithuanian indas | ||
Luganda ekikompe | ||
Luxembourgish schëff | ||
Macedonian сад | ||
Maithili बरतन | ||
Malagasy fanaka | ||
Malay kapal | ||
Malayalam പാത്രം | ||
Maltese bastiment | ||
Maori kaipuke | ||
Marathi भांडे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯥꯇ꯭ꯔ | ||
Mizo bawm | ||
Mongolian хөлөг онгоц | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရေယာဉ် | ||
Nepali भाँडा | ||
Norwegian fartøy | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chotengera | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପାତ୍ର | ||
Oromo baattuu dhangala'aa | ||
Pashto برتن | ||
Persian کشتی | ||
Polish naczynie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) embarcação | ||
Punjabi ਭਾਂਡਾ | ||
Quechua wanpu | ||
Romanian navă | ||
Russian сосуд | ||
Samoan vaʻa | ||
Sanskrit पात्र | ||
Scots Gaelic soitheach | ||
Sepedi sekepe | ||
Serbian брод | ||
Sesotho sejana | ||
Shona mudziyo | ||
Sindhi برتن | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) යාත්රාව | ||
Slovak plavidlo | ||
Slovenian plovilo | ||
Somali weel | ||
Spanish buque | ||
Sundanese bejana | ||
Swahili chombo | ||
Swedish fartyg | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sisidlan | ||
Tajik зарф | ||
Tamil கப்பல் | ||
Tatar судно | ||
Telugu ఓడ | ||
Thai เรือ | ||
Tigrinya መርከብ | ||
Tsonga xikepe | ||
Turkish gemi | ||
Turkmen gämi | ||
Twi (Akan) suhyɛn | ||
Ukrainian судно | ||
Urdu برتن | ||
Uyghur قاچا | ||
Uzbek idish | ||
Vietnamese tàu | ||
Welsh llestr | ||
Xhosa inqanawa | ||
Yiddish שיף | ||
Yoruba ọkọ̀ | ||
Zulu umkhumbi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "vaartuig" in Afrikaans can also mean "vehicle" or "craft". |
| Albanian | The word "anije" is derived from the Proto-Albanian form "*aniia" and is related to the Latin word "navis", meaning "ship". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "gəmi" can also refer to a submarine or airplane in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The word "ontzia" in Basque also refers to a boat or other watercraft, sharing its root with the word "ontzi" (harbor). |
| Belarusian | The word "пасудзіна" (vessel) in Belarusian is derived from the Old East Slavic word "пъдъ" (bottom), which also gave rise to the word "пасудзіна" (vessel) in Russian. |
| Bengali | The word "পাত্র" in Bengali can also mean "recipient" or "container". |
| Bosnian | "Brod" can mean both a "ship" and an "embroidery", depending on the context. |
| Bulgarian | The word "плавателен съд" comes from the Latin word "vas", meaning "container". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "vaixell" derives from Vulgar Latin "vascellum," referring not only to vessels, but also, to servants and slaves. |
| Cebuano | The word 'sudlanan' can also refer to a container or receptacle used for storing or holding something. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 船只 in Chinese can originally mean the body, and it is a metaphor to use the same word for both the body and vessel (船只). |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word 船隻 "vessel" also refers to "boat" or "yacht" in Chinese |
| Corsican | 'Nave' in Corsican also has the sense 'hollow', and can refer to the cavity in a tree or the interior of an instrument. |
| Croatian | Brod in Croatian can also refer to a "convent" or a "ferry". |
| Czech | In Czech, "plavidlo" also refers to a spaceship or aircraft. |
| Danish | Beholder can also refer to a mythical creature consisting of one giant eye surrounded by smaller eyes. |
| Dutch | The word "vaartuig" in Dutch can also mean "vehicle" and is derived from the Middle Dutch "vart" (journey) and "tuuch" (equipment). |
| Esperanto | The word "ŝipo" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *šipъ, which also means "arrowhead" or "shipboard beam". |
| Estonian | The word "laev" derives from Proto-Finnic *laivɑ, which also means "boat" or "ship" in other Finnic languages. |
| Finnish | The word |
| French | The French word "navire" comes from the Latin word "navis", which means "ship". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word 'skûtsje' likely derives from the Dutch 'schuit', with a cognate in the German 'schute'. |
| Galician | The Galician word "buque" derives from the Latin "bucca" and in addition to "vessel" it can also mean "mouth". |
| German | The German word "Schiff" can also refer to a sheep, a ship's hull or a space rocket module. |
| Greek | Ancient Greek word σκάφος (skaphós) also referred to a hollowed out trough or log used as primitive boat, the root of which is Indo-European stem *skep- "to cut, scoop". |
| Gujarati | The word “વાસણ” comes from the Sanskrit word “वस” (vas), meaning “to dwell,” and was later adopted into Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "veso" in Haitian Creole can also mean "pot","pan","container", and "vase". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "moku" also means "island" or "district". |
| Hebrew | In Hebrew, the term "כלי שיט" (vessel) has a nautical connotation implying a vessel used for transportation on water. |
| Hindi | "पतीला" also means "belly" in several dialects of Hindi, particularly in rural areas. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "txog ntsha" is cognate with the Thai "kong thaang" and "khong thaan" and possibly relates to an ancient Southeast Asian water-based society. |
| Hungarian | The word "hajó" can also refer to a building or a ship in some Hungarian dialects.. |
| Icelandic | In Old Norse, |
| Igbo | In the Igbo language, the word "arịa" (vessel) also has the secondary meaning of "container" or "box". |
| Indonesian | The word "kapal" in Indonesian, meaning "vessel" or "ship," shares a similar root with the Sanskrit word "kapala," which refers to a "skull" or "head." |
| Irish | "árthach," a term used to refer to a small vessel, is derived from the Old Irish word "árach," which means "to lift" or "to carry." |
| Italian | In Italian, "nave" also refers to the central part of a church.} |
| Japanese | The term |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "prau" also means "vessel", but specifically a type of traditional sailboat or small ship. |
| Kannada | The word "ಹಡಗು" can also refer to a group of people or a convoy in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The word "кеме" in Kazakh is a derivative of the word "кеме" in Persian, meaning ship, vessel, or boat, and is related to the word "keme" in Turkish, also meaning vessel. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "នាវា" is derived from the Sanskrit word "nāva", meaning "ship" or "boat". |
| Korean | The word "용기" also means "courage" in Korean, a usage that is not found in its Chinese counterpart. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "gemî" derives from the Persian "jahaz" and can also refer to a spacecraft or a vehicle. |
| Kyrgyz | The term "идиш" is also used metaphorically to refer to a person's capacity or ability for doing something. |
| Latin | Vasa pretiosa, meaning "vessel" in Latin, also refers to sacred vessels used in religious ceremonies. |
| Latvian | The term "kuģis" also refers to a person who has been imprisoned. |
| Lithuanian | The word "indas" in Lithuanian can also mean "container" or "jar". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Schëff" can also refer to small sailing boats or a tool used for scooping out liquids. |
| Macedonian | The word 'сад' is derived from the Old Slavic word 'sъdъ', which originally meant a 'container' or 'receptacle'. |
| Malagasy | The word "fanaka" in Malagasy can also refer to a type of ritual basket or a cooking pot. |
| Malay | The word 'kapal' in Malay can also refer to the body of a vehicle or aircraft, or to a large container or tank. |
| Maltese | Bastiment is a word used in Maltese which is related to the French word |
| Maori | In Maori, the term "kaipuke" can also refer to a large group of people or an army. |
| Marathi | The word "भांडे" comes from Sanskrit "भण्ड" and can also mean treasure or property. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "хөлөг онгоц" can also mean "ship" or "boat". |
| Nepali | bhaanda comes from the Sanskrit word |
| Norwegian | The word "fartøy" is derived from the Old Norse word "far", meaning "to travel", and "tøy", meaning "tool" or "equipment". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "chotengera" can also refer to a particular type of traditional clay pot used for cooking and storage in Malawi. |
| Pashto | Although the Pashto word "برتن" usually means "vessel", it can also refer to a "cooking pot" or "utensil". |
| Persian | "کشتی" (vessel) originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*leǵʰ-ti" (to lie) and shares cognates with the English word "lie." |
| Polish | In Polish, "naczynie" is not only a receptacle, but can also refer to a chemical substance that takes part in a chemical reaction. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "embarcação" comes from the verb "embarcar" (to embark) and also means "entrance" or "beginning". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "navă" is derived from the Latin "navis", meaning "ship". In Romanian, however, it can refer to any type of vessel, including boats, ships, and submarines. |
| Russian | The Russian word "сосуд" also has obsolete alternate meanings of "criminal" or "lawsuit", both deriving from its original usage as a container for liquid. |
| Samoan | "Vaʻa" can also refer to a Samoan canoe made of two logs tied together. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "soitheach" can also mean "ship" or "spaceship" |
| Serbian | The word "Брод" (vessel) in Serbian also has the alternate meaning of "ferry". |
| Sesotho | The word "sejana" can also refer to a container or a vehicle. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi term "برتن" (vessel) also refers to items made of clay, brass, gold, or silver |
| Slovak | "Plavidlo" also refers informally to any type of vehicle. |
| Slovenian | The word "plovilo" can also mean "tool". |
| Somali | The Somali word "weel" originally referred to a type of wooden bowl used for serving food or drinks. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "buque" comes from the medieval Latin "buttica", with origins in an unknown vulgar Latin term. |
| Sundanese | The word "bejana" is cognate with the Malay word "bejana" (meaning "vessel") and the Javanese word "wadah" (meaning "container"). |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "chombo" derives from the Arabic word "safina" meaning "ship" or "vessel". |
| Swedish | "Fartyg" is likely derived from the old Norse "ferjutr" and ultimately from PIE "per- " or "por- " ("to move"), related to the Latin "portus" ("harbour"). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "sisidlan" can also refer to a container or a place where something is kept. |
| Tajik | In Persian, "zarf" means both "vessel" and "container" with a "lid" or "cover". |
| Tamil | "கப்பல்" also refers to the act or the process of mixing various ingredients together, such as in cooking, or in making traditional medicine |
| Telugu | The word ఓడ can also refer to the act of loading or unloading a vessel. |
| Thai | เรือ can also refer to a person's body, or to a container for holding something. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "Gemi" originates from the Persian word "kambu" meaning "ship" but also denotes a "vessel" in the sense of a container for liquids. |
| Ukrainian | The word "судно" can mean not only a "vessel" but also a "trial" in Ukrainian. |
| Uzbek | The word "idish" can also refer to a large wooden scoop or a trough for kneading dough. |
| Vietnamese | The word "tàu" in Vietnamese can also refer to a train, plane, or spacecraft. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "llestr" comes from an older word meaning "container," but is now most often used to refer to a boat. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "inqanawa" can also mean "a place where something is kept or stored". |
| Yiddish | "שיף" (vessel) in Yiddish also means "nave" (hub) in Hebrew and "ship" in German. |
| Yoruba | In some contexts, ọkọ̀ translates to "ship," whereas in others it means "vehicle." |
| Zulu | The word 'umkhumbi' also denotes a container used for carrying liquids, such as water or milk. |
| English | In nautical contexts, a vessel also pertains to an entire boat. |