caravel

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəvɛl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkæɹəˈvɛl/
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• General-American: /ˈkæɹəvɛl/
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• General-American: /ˈkɛ-/
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• CMU ARPABET: K EH1 R AH0 V EH2 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French caravelle, from Old French caruelle, carvelle (“caravel”), from Old Galician-Portuguese caravela (“caravel”), a diminutive of caravo, carabo (“type of small vessel”), from Late Latin carabus (“small wicker boat decked with hide”), from Ancient Greek κᾱ́ρᾰβος (kā́răbos, “type of light ship; kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; kind of crustacean, probably a crayfish”).

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: karveel — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Arabic: كارافيل — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Armenian: կարավելլա (karavella) — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Asturian: carabela — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Azerbaijani: karavella — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Basque: karabela — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Belarusian: каравела (karavjela) — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Bulgarian: каравела (karavela) — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Catalan: caravel·la — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Chinese Mandarin: 卡拉維爾帆船 /卡拉维尔帆船 (kǎlāwéi'ěr fānchuán) — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Czech: karavela — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Danish: karavel — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Dutch: karveel — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Esperanto: karavelo — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Estonian: karavell — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Finnish: karavelli — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• French: caravelle — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Galician: carabela — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• German: Karavelle — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Greek: καραβέλα (karavéla) — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Hebrew: קרוולה — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Hungarian: karavella — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Icelandic: karavella — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Ido: karavelo — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Indonesian: karavel — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Irish: carbhal — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Italian: caravella — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Japanese: キャラベル船 — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Korean: 캐러벨 (kaereobel) — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Northern Kurdish: karavel — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Lithuanian: karavelė — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Macedonian: каравела (karavela) — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Malay: caravel — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Norwegian Bokmål: karavell — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: karavell — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Occitan: caravèla — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Polish: karawela — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Portuguese: caravela — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Romanian: caravelă — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Russian: караве́лла (karavélla) — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Scots: caravel — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Serbo-Croatian: karavela — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Serbo-Croatian: каравела — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Slovene: caravela — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Spanish: carabela — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Swedish: karavell — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Tagalog: karabela — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Turkish: karavel — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Ukrainian: карав́ела (karav́ela) — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel
• Welsh: carfil — light, usually lateen-rigged sailing vessel