barque

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• General-American: /bɑɹk/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /bɑːk/
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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)k
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• homophone: bark
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From Middle English barke (“boat”), borrowed from Middle French barque, itself borrowed from Italian barca or a Medieval Latin equivalent, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris) 'Egyptian boat', from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship, type of fish”), b-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1. Doublet of bark, barge and baris. Possibly cognate with Spanish barco.

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: bricbarca — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Czech: bark — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Danish: bark — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Dutch: zeilboot — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Dutch: bark — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Esperanto: barko — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Finnish: parkki — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• French: barque — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Greek: μπάρκο (bárko) — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Hebrew: בַּרְקָה (barka) — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Hebrew: בַּארְק (bark) — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Hungarian: bark — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Macedonian: барка (barka) — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Māori: pāka — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Norwegian Bokmål: bark — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bark — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Polish: bark — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Russian: барк (bark) — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Russian: па́русник (párusnik) — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Spanish: bricbarca — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Swedish: bark — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Swedish: barkskepp — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Tarifit: aɣarrabu — sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged
• Czech: bárka — archaic, any small sailing vessel
• Dutch: zeilbootje — archaic, any small sailing vessel
• Dutch: bark — archaic, any small sailing vessel
• Dutch: schuit — archaic, any small sailing vessel
• Finnish: pursi — archaic, any small sailing vessel
• Catalan: veler — poetic, any sailing vessel or boat
• Czech: bárka — poetic, any sailing vessel or boat
• Dutch: zeilboot — poetic, any sailing vessel or boat
• Dutch: schuit — poetic, any sailing vessel or boat
• Finnish: pursi — poetic, any sailing vessel or boat
• Finnish: venho — poetic, any sailing vessel or boat
• Luxembourgish: Naachen — poetic, any sailing vessel or boat