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

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

catamaran (plural catamarans)

1. A twin-hulled ship or boat.
   • 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, 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, cat

Hypernyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): multihull

Hyponyms

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

Coordinate terms

• monohull
• outrigger canoe

Derived terms

• cataraft
• cat (diminutive)

 

Related terms

• trimaran

Descendants

• → Catalan: catamarà
• → French: catamaran
  • → Romanian: catamaran
• → Portuguese: catamarã
• → Spanish: catamarán
• → Welsh: catamarán

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)
• Welsh: catamarán m or f

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English catamaran, from Tamil கட்டுமரம் (kaṭṭumaram).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta.ma.ʁɑ̃/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Switzerland):

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• Homophone: catamarans

Noun

catamaran m (plural catamarans)

1. catamaran, a twinhulled ship or boat

Descendants

• → Romanian: catamaran

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English catamaran, from Tamil.

Noun

catamaran m (plural catamarans)

1. (Jersey) catamaran

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French catamaran, from English catamaran, from Tamil கட்டுமரம் (kaṭṭumaram).

Noun

catamaran n (plural catamarane)

1. catamaran

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	catamaran	catamaranul		catamarane	catamaranele
genitive-dative	catamaran	catamaranului		catamarane	catamaranelor
vocative	catamaranule			catamaranelor