babord

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• bobard

Norman

Etymology

From Old Norse bakborði.

Noun

babord m (plural babords)

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

Derived terms

• à babord (“aport”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse bakborð, bakborði.

Adverb

babord

1. (nautical) aport

Noun

babord (indeclinable) (uncountable)

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

Related terms

• styrbord

References

• “babord” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bakbord

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^[1]:

     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)

Related terms

• styrbord

References

• “babord” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bâbord.

Noun

babord n (plural baborduri)

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

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	babord	babordul		baborduri	babordurile
genitive-dative	babord	babordului		baborduri	babordurilor
vocative	babordule			babordurilor

Swedish

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.

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

Declension of babord

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	babord	babords
	definite	babordet	babordets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• babord in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (14th ed., online)
• babord in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• babord in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)