embarkation

English

A lithograph showing the embarkation of sick people

Etymology

From French embarcation. By surface analysis, embark +‎ -ation.

Noun

embarkation (countable and uncountable, plural embarkations)

1. The act of embarking.
2. The process of loading military personnel and vehicles etc into ships or aircraft.
3. (obsolete) A vessel.

Synonyms

• embarkment

Derived terms

• disembarkation
• nonembarkation
• reembarkation

Translations

embarking

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 登船 (dēngchuán), 乘船 (zh) (chéngchuán), 上船 (zh) (shàngchuán)

• Danish: påstigning, indstigning c, ombordstigning c
• Finnish: kulkuvälineeseen nouseminen
• French: embarquement (fr) m
• German: Einschiffung (de) f
• Japanese: 乗船 (ja) (じょうせん, jōsen)
• Latin: conscensiō f
• Maori: ekenga
• Polish: ambarkacja f (obsolete)
• Russian: поса́дка (ru) f (posádka), погру́зка (ru) f (pogrúzka)