lifeboat

English

Etymology

From life +‎ boat.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪfˌbəʊt/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪfˌboʊt/
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Noun

lifeboat (plural lifeboats)

(nautical) A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea

Synonyms

quarter boat, rowboat, raft

Derived terms

Translations

a boat to save shipwrecked people

Arabic: قَارِب نَجَاةَ‎‎ m (qārib najāha)
Catalan: bot salvavides m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 救生船 (zh) (jiùshēngchuán), 救生艇 (zh) (jiùshēngtǐng)
Czech: záchranný člun m
Dutch: reddingsboot (nl) m, f
Finnish: pelastusvene (fi)
French: radeau de survie m
German: Rettungsboot (de) n
Gujarati: જીવાહોડી (jīvāhoḍī)
Hebrew: סירת הצלה‎‎ (he)
Hungarian: mentőcsónak (hu)
Icelandic: björgunarbátur (is) m
Indonesian: sekoci (id)
Italian: scialuppa di salvataggio f, scialuppa (it) f
Japanese: 救命ボート (きゅうめいボート, kyūmei bōto)

Latvian: glābšanas laivas
Maori: poti whakaora, poti kārewa
Norman: baté d'sauvetage m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: livbåt m

Nynorsk: livbåt m
Polish: łódź ratunkowa f
Portuguese: barco salva-vidas m
Russian: спаса́тельная ло́дка f (spasátelʹnaja lódka)
Scottish Gaelic: bàta-teasairginn m, bàta-sàbhalaidh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: чамац за спасавање m

Roman: čamac za spasavanje m
Spanish: bote salvavidas m
Swedish: livbåt (sv) c
Thai: เรือชูชีพ

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