catamaran

catamaran

See also: catamarán

English

A catamaran (twin-hulled boat)

Etymology

From Tamil கட்டுமரம் (kaṭṭumaram), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to tie”) +‎ மரம் (maram, “tree, wood”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkæ.tə.məˌɹæn/, /ˌkæ.tə.məˈɹæn/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkæ.tə.məˈɹæn/, /ˈkæ.tə.məˌɹæn/

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Noun

catamaran (plural catamarans)

1. A twin-hulled ship or boat.
   • 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Duty and Inclination, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, page 218:

     Swift over the seas the vessel drives; Madras appears in sight. The first object catching the eye, upon the anchor being cast, was an Indian upon his catamaran, who, making a sudden motion, sprung to the side of the ship, grappled there for a moment, and the next was on the deck.

2. (colloquial, rare, obsolete) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
   • 1889, William Makepeace Thackeray, Hobson's Choice:

     She meddles with my prescriptions for your wife; she doctors the infant in private: you'll never have a quiet house or a quiet wife as long as that old Catamaran is here.

3. (obsolete) A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90:

     Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] .

4. (obsolete) An old kind of fireship.

Synonyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): twinhull

Hypernyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): multihull

Hyponyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): AC45, AC72

Coordinate terms

• monohull
• outrigger canoe

Derived terms

• cat (diminutive)

Related terms

• trimaran

Descendants

• → Catalan: catamarà
• → Portuguese: catamarã

Translations

twin-hulled boat

Basque: katamaran Catalan: catamarà m Chinese: Mandarin: 雙體船／双体船 (shuāngtǐchuán) Czech: katamaran m Danish: katamaran (da) Faroese: tvíkilja f Finnish: katamaraani (fi) French: catamaran (fr) m German: Katamaran (de) m Greek: καταμαράν (el) n (katamarán), δίγαστρο n (dígastro) Hebrew: קָטָמָרָן‎ (he) m (katamaran) Italian: catamarano (it) m Japanese: 双胴船 (sōdōsen), カタマラン (katamaran) Korean: 뗏목 (ko) (ttenmok) Manx: birling ghooblit f Norman: catamaran m Norwegian: Bokmål: katamaran m Nynorsk: katamaran m Occitan: catamaran Polish: katamaran (pl) m, dwukadłubowiec m Portuguese: catamarã (pt) m Russian: катамара́н (ru) m (katamarán) Spanish: catamarán (es) m Tamil: கட்டுமரம் (ta) (kaṭṭumaram) Thai: เรือใบที่มีลำเรือสองลำ (reua bai têe mee lam reua sŏng lam) Turkish: katamaran (tr) Ukrainian: катамара́н (uk) m (katamarán)

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French

Etymology

From Tamil கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to tie”) +‎ மரம் (maram, “tree, wood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta.ma.ʁɑ̃/

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• Homophone: catamarans

Noun

catamaran m (plural catamarans)

1. catamaran, a twin-hulled ship or boat

Further reading

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

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English catamaran, from Tamil.

Noun

catamaran m (plural catamarans)

1. (Jersey) catamaran

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Romanian

Etymology

From French catamaran.

Noun

catamaran n (plural catamarane)

1. catamaran

Declension

Declension of catamaran

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) catamaran	catamaranul	(niște) catamarane	catamaranele
genitive/dative	(unui) catamaran	catamaranului	(unor) catamarane	catamaranelor
vocative	catamaranule		catamaranelor