sloop

sloop

See also: Sloop

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and shallop.

Pronunciation

• enPR: slo͞op, IPA^(key): /sluːp/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -uːp

Noun

A sloop

sloop (plural sloops)

1. (nautical) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,

     I stayed in this island for a few days; I believe it could not be above a fortnight; when I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much fretting, were shipped off in a sloop for North America.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299, page 8:

     And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones—so goes the story—to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered.

2. (military) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
3. (military) A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.

Descendants

• → Bengali: সুলুপ (sulup)
• → Catalan: sloop
• → Czech: šalupa
• → Danish: slup
• → Estonian: luup
• → Faroese: slupp
• → Finnish: sluuppi
• → French: sloop
• → German: Sloop, Slup, Schlup
• → Icelandic: slúppa
• → Italian: sloop
• → Norwegian: slupp
• → Polish: slup
• → Serbo-Croatian: слуп (slup)
• → Slovene: šalupa
• → Swedish: slup
• → Thai: สลุบ (sà-lùp)

Translations

single-masted sailboat

Belarusian: шлюп m (šljup) Bulgarian: платноходка (bg) f (platnohodka) Catalan: sloop m, balandra f Chinese: Mandarin: 單桅帆船／单桅帆船 (dānwéi fánchuán) Czech: šalupa f Danish: slup Dutch: sloep (nl) m or f Estonian: luup (et) Faroese: slupp f Finnish: sluuppi (fi) French: sloop (fr) m Georgian: კანჯო (ḳanǯo) German: Slup (de) f, Schaluppe (de) f Icelandic: slúppa Ido: slupo (io) Italian: sloop (it) m Japanese: スループ (surūpu) Norwegian: Bokmål: slupp m Nynorsk: slupp m Polish: slup (pl) m Portuguese: chalupa (pt) f Russian: шлюп (ru) m (šljup) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: слуп m Roman: slup (sh) m Slovak: šalupa f Slovene: slup m Spanish: balandra f, chalupa (es) f Swedish: slup Thai: สลุบ (sà-lùp) Ukrainian: шлюп m (šljup) Volapük: jalup (vo)

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Translations to be checked

Italian: (please verify) corvetta (it) f Low German: (please verify) schlup Vietnamese: thuyền nhỏ một buồm; tàu tuần (please verify) tra (vi)

Anagrams

• Loops, OOPLs, loops, polos, pools, spool

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sloːp/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: sloop
• Rhymes: -oːp

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch slope, from Old Dutch *slōpa, from Proto-Germanic *slaupǭ.

Noun

sloop f or n (plural slopen, diminutive sloopje n)

1. pillowcase, pillowslip

Derived terms

• kussensloop

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: slopi, sloopi

Etymology 2

From slopen.

Noun

sloop m (uncountable)

1. demolition

Verb

sloop

1. singular past indicative of sluipen
2. first-person singular present indicative of slopen
3. imperative of slopen

Anagrams

• loops, los op, oplos, Pools

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French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sloop m (plural sloops)

1. sloop (boat)

Further reading

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