dinghy

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) 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 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 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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /din.ɡi/

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.