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English

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 yacht on Wikipedia
A yacht

Etymology

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Circa 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from Dutch jacht (“yacht; hunt”), in older spelling jaght(e), short for jaghtschip (“light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship”, literally “pursuit ship”), compound of jacht and schip (“ship”).

In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships of pirates and smugglers from the coast. The ship was introduced to England in 1660 when the Dutch East India Company presented one to King Charles II, who used it as a pleasure boat, after which it was copied by British shipbuilders as a pleasure craft for wealthy gentlemen.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) enPR: yŏt, IPA(key): /jɒt/
  • (US) enPR: yät, IPA(key): /jɑːt/, /jɑt/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

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yacht (plural yachts)

  1. (nautical) A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock. Would you like to go sailing on my uncle’s yacht? You are a true yachtsman! Are you a member of the local yacht club?
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
  2. Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:“I don’t mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […], the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, […], the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
    • 2020 November 25, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “The $550 million megayacht concept that looks like a shark”, in CNN‎[1]:The megayacht concept is equipped with its own port with enough space for a second yacht measuring up to 30 meters, as well as three swimming pools. […] The market is projected to reach a value of $10.2 billion by 2025 as an increasing amount of yachts measuring longer than 24 meters are ordered, and designers are going all out to ensure their concepts are bigger and better than the competition.

Derived terms

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  • aeroyacht
  • gigayacht
  • ice yacht
  • land yacht
  • maxi yacht
  • megayacht
  • miniyacht
  • motor yacht, motoryacht, MY
  • sailing yacht, steam yacht, SY
  • sand yacht
  • superyacht
  • yachtboard
  • yacht club
  • yachtdom
  • yachtee
  • yachter
  • yachtful
  • yachtie
  • yachting
  • yachtist
  • yachtless
  • yachtlike
  • yachtman
  • yachtperson
  • yacht person
  • yacht rock
  • yachtsfolk
  • yachtsman
  • yachtsperson
  • yachtswoman
  • yachtwear
  • yachty

Translations

[edit] slick and light ship
  • Albanian: jaht (sq) m
  • Arabic: يَخْت (ar) m (yaḵt) Moroccan Arabic: يخت (yaḵt)
  • Armenian: զբոսանավ (hy) (zbosanav)
  • Azerbaijani: yaxta
  • Basque: yate
  • Belarusian: я́хта f (jáxta)
  • Bulgarian: я́хта (bg) f (jáhta)
  • Burmese: ရွက်လှေ (my) (rwakhle)
  • Catalan: iot m
  • Cherokee: ᏥᏳ (tsiyu)
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 游艇 (zh) (yóutǐng)
  • Czech: jachta (cs) f
  • Danish: yacht c
  • Dutch: jacht (nl) f
  • Esperanto: jaĥto, jakto
  • Estonian: jaht (et)
  • Faroese: jakt f, skemtibátur m
  • Finnish: jahti (fi), huvipursi (fi)
  • French: yacht (fr) m
  • Galician: iate m
  • Georgian: იახტა (iaxṭa)
  • German: Yacht (de) f, Jacht (de) f
  • Greek: γιοτ (el) n (giot), θαλαμηγός (el) f (thalamigós)
  • Hebrew: יאכטה (he) f (yakhta)
  • Hindi: याख़्ट (yāxṭ)
  • Hungarian: jacht (hu)
  • Icelandic: snekkja f
  • Irish: luamh m
  • Italian: panfilo (it) m, yacht (it) m
  • Japanese: ヨット (ja) (yotto)
  • Kazakh: яхта (äxta)
  • Khmer: ទូកកម្សាន្ត (tuuk kɑmsaan)
  • Korean: 요트 (yoteu)
  • Kyrgyz: яхта (ky) (yahta)
  • Lao: ເຮືອໃບ (lo) (hư̄a bai)
  • Latvian: jahta f
  • Lithuanian: jachta (lt) f
  • Macedonian: јахта f (jahta)
  • Malay: kapal pesiar
  • Manx: birling
  • Māori: iata
  • Marshallese: io̧o̧t
  • Mongolian: дарвуулт онгоц (darvuult ongoc)
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: yacht (no) m Nynorsk: yacht m
  • Occitan: iòt m
  • Persian: یات (yât)
  • Polish: jacht (pl) m
  • Portuguese: iate (pt) m
  • Romanian: iaht (ro) n
  • Russian: я́хта (ru) f (jáxta)
  • Scottish Gaelic: gheat f, sgoth-long f
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ја̏хта f Latin: jȁhta (sh) f
  • Slovak: jachta f
  • Slovene: jahta f
  • Spanish: yate (es) m
  • Swedish: jakt (sv), yacht (sv)
  • Tagalog: yate
  • Thai: เรือใบ (rʉʉa-bai), ยอชต์, เรือยอชต์
  • Turkish: yat (tr)
  • Ukrainian: я́хта (uk) f (jáxta)
  • Uzbek: yaxta (uz)
  • Vietnamese: du thuyền (vi)
  • Volapük: yakt, blesirayakt
any private noncommercial vessel
  • Bulgarian: яхта (bg) f (jahta)
  • Finnish: huvialus
  • French: yacht (fr) m
  • German: Yacht (de) f, Jacht (de) f
  • Greek: θαλαμηγός (el) f (thalamigós)
  • Hebrew: יכטה (he) f (yakhta)
  • Hungarian: jacht (hu)
  • Japanese: 船 (ja) (fune), ボート (ja) (bōto)
  • Scottish Gaelic: gheat f, sgoth-long f
  • Volapük: yakt

Verb

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yacht (third-person singular simple present yachts, present participle yachting, simple past and past participle yachted)

  1. (intransitive) To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.

Translations

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  • Mongolian: дарвуулт онгоцоор явах (darvuult ongocoor javax)
  • Spanish: ir en yate

Anagrams

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  • Cathy, tachy, tachy-, yatch

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English yacht, from Dutch jacht.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /jɔt/, /jot/, (Canada) /jat/
  • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)
  • Audio (France (Somain)):(file)

Noun

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yacht m (plural yachts)

  1. yacht

Further reading

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

Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English yacht.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈjɔt/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔt
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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yacht m (invariable)

  1. yacht
  2. the letter Y in the Italian spelling alphabet

References

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  1. ^ yacht in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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  • yacht in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English yacht.

Noun

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yacht ? (plural yachts)

  1. (Jersey) yacht

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:yachtWikipedia no

Etymology

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From Dutch jacht, via English yacht.

Noun

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yacht m (definite singular yachten, indefinite plural yachter, definite plural yachtene)

  1. a yacht

References

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  • “yacht” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Dutch jacht, via English yacht.

Noun

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yacht m (definite singular yachten, indefinite plural yachtar, definite plural yachtane)

  1. a yacht

References

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  • “yacht” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

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Alternative forms

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  • jakt

Etymology

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Borrowed from English yacht.

Noun

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yacht c

  1. yacht

Declension

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nominative genitive
singular indefinite yacht yachts
definite yachten yachtens
plural indefinite yachter yachters
definite yachterna yachternas

Derived terms

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  • lyxyacht
  • segelyacht
  • yachtklubb

Further reading

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  • “yacht”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
  • “yacht”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
  • “yacht”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
  • yacht in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)

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