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See also: bâbord

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.bɔʁ/
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Noun

babord m (plural babords)

  1. Archaic spelling of bâbord.; larboard, port (the left side of a ship)
    Antonym: tribord

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Norman

Etymology

From Old Norse bakborði.

Noun

babord m (plural babords)

  1. (nautical) port (left-hand side of a vessel)

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Old Norse bakborð, bakborði.

Adverb

babord

  1. (nautical) aport

Noun

babord (indeclinable) (uncountable)

  1. (nautical, aviation) port (left hand side)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse bakborð, bakborði or from Dutch bakboord. Cognate with Danish bagbord and Swedish babord. Compare also Spanish babor, Finnish paapuuri and French bâbord.

Adverb

babord

  1. (nautical) aport
    2010, Storbynatt:
    Intervjuar: Men ka du sa som (va) muliheten før å komm’ sæ unna da?
    Harald Anton Adolfsen: Vi ha’ itj fått løs tampan’, vi på babord sia, fordi der va flammen og der kom røyken ut. Vi va itj kome båtlaus fra’n, for hann hadd sætt att tampan’ sine på babord sia tå oss, hann.
    Intervjuar: Og viss dere hadd kjørt bære da?
    Adolfsen: Kjørt bære? Da hadd vi tatt med oss hann òg da.
    The interviewer: But what you said about the escape possibility?
    Harald Anton Adolfsen: We, who were on the aport side, haven’t get loose the hawser ends, because there was the flame and the smoke came therefrom. We weren’t coming away from him (the boat), ’cause he got his hawser ends on the aport side from us.
    The interviewer: And what if you just took off?
    Adolfsen: Took off? Then we would take him (the boat) with us (pulled behind our boat).

Noun

babord (indeclinable)

  1. (nautical, aviation, uncountable) port (left hand side)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bâbord.

Noun

babord n (plural baborduri)

  1. port (left-hand side of a vessel)

Declension

Swedish

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Etymology

From bak (back, behind) +‎ bord (bord, side of ship), i.e. the side you turned your back to when steering the vessel as the steering oar was on starboard side. Calque of Dutch bakboord. First attested in 1691.[1]

Adverb

babord (not comparable)

  1. aport, on the left side of a vessel
    Antonym: styrbord

Noun

babord n

  1. port, left side of a vessel
    Antonym: styrbord

Declension

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