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English
Etymology
From Middle English boteman, botman, bateman. Equivalent to boat + -man.
Noun
boatman (plural boatmen)
- A sailor on a small vessel (boat), particularly its captain.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
a man in charge of a small boat
- Armenian: մակույկավար (hy) (makuykavar), նավավար (hy) (navavar), նավարար (hy) (navarar)
- Bengali: মাল্লা (bn) (malla)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 船工 (zh) (chuángōng)
- Finnish: veneilijä (fi), venemies
- French: passeur (fr) m, batelier (fr) m
- Galician: barqueiro (gl) m
- Georgian: მენავე (menave)
- German: Ruderer (de) m
- Hebrew: סִירַאי (he) m (siray)
- Hungarian: csónakos (hu)
- Indonesian: juru mudi (id)
- Irish: bádóir m
- Italian: barcaiolo (it) m, battelliere m
- Japanese: 船頭 (ja) (せんどう, sendō), 舟子 (しゅうし, shūshi)
- Javanese: wong belahan
- Ladino:
- Latin: barkero m
- Lao: ພົນເຮືອ (phon hư̄a)
- Macedonian: гемиџија m (gemidžija)
- Norman: bat'leux m (Jersey), batelyi m (Jersey)
- Portuguese: barqueiro (pt) m
- Romanian: barcagiu (ro) m, luntraș (ro) m
- Russian: ло́дочник (ru) m (lódočnik)
- Scottish Gaelic: fear-bàta m
- Serbo-Croatian: чамџија m, čamdžija (sh) m
- Spanish: barquero m, balsero (es) m
- Tocharian B: olyitau
- Turkish: kayikchi
- Turkish: kayıkçı (tr)
- Venetian: barcarol m
- Vietnamese: sãi (vi)
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