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Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).

Alteration of raff.

154 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: vlot — flat, floating structure
• Albanian: trap — flat, floating structure
• Southern Altai: сал (sal) — flat, floating structure
• Arabic: طَوْف (ṭawf) — flat, floating structure
• Arabic: رَمَث (ramaṯ) — flat, floating structure
• Armenian: լաստ (last) — flat, floating structure
• Assamese: ভূৰ (bhur) — flat, floating structure
• Assamese: ভেল (bhel) — flat, floating structure
• Asturian: chalana — flat, floating structure
• Asturian: bote — flat, floating structure
• Azerbaijani: sal — flat, floating structure
• Bashkir: һал (hal) — flat, floating structure
• Belarusian: плыт (plyt) — flat, floating structure
• Bengali: ভেলা (bhela) — flat, floating structure
• Bulgarian: сал (sal) — flat, floating structure
• Burmese: ဖောင် (hpaung) — flat, floating structure
• Catalan: rai — flat, floating structure
• Cebuano: gakit — flat, floating structure
• Chechen: бурам (buram) — flat, floating structure
• Classical Chinese: 槎 (chá) — flat, floating structure
• Chinese Mandarin: 木排 (mùpái) — flat, floating structure
• Chinese Mandarin: 筏 (fá) — flat, floating structure
• Chinese Mandarin: 木筏 (mùfá) — flat, floating structure
• Chinese Mandarin: 竹筏 (zhúfá) — flat, floating structure
• Czech: vor — flat, floating structure
• Czech: plť — flat, floating structure
• Danish: flåde — flat, floating structure
• Dutch: vlot — flat, floating structure
• Esperanto: floso — flat, floating structure
• Estonian: parv — flat, floating structure
• Faroese: flaki — flat, floating structure
• Finnish: lautta — flat, floating structure
• French: radeau — flat, floating structure
• Galician: balsa — flat, floating structure
• Georgian: ტივი (ṭivi) — flat, floating structure
• German: Floß — flat, floating structure
• Greek: σχεδία (schedía) — flat, floating structure
• Ancient Greek: σχεδία (skhedía) — flat, floating structure
• Hebrew: רַפסוֹדָה (rafsodá) — flat, floating structure
• Higaonon: gakit — flat, floating structure
• Hindi: बेड़ा (beṛā) — flat, floating structure
• Hungarian: tutaj — flat, floating structure
• Icelandic: fleki — flat, floating structure
• Ido: rafto — flat, floating structure
• Indonesian: rakit — flat, floating structure
• Irish: rafta — flat, floating structure
• Isnag: xakit — flat, floating structure
• Italian: zattera — flat, floating structure
• Japanese: いかだ (ikada) — flat, floating structure
• Kamta: ভূৰা (bhura) — flat, floating structure
• Kamta: ভূরা — flat, floating structure
• Kamta: bhura — flat, floating structure
• Kazakh: сал (sal) — flat, floating structure
• Khmer: ក្បូន (kboon) — flat, floating structure
• Korean: 뗏목 (ttenmok) — flat, floating structure
• Northern Kurdish: kelek — flat, floating structure
• Kyrgyz: сал (sal) — flat, floating structure
• Lao: ແພ (phǣ) — flat, floating structure
• Latgalian: sīlejs — flat, floating structure
• Latin: trabica — flat, floating structure
• Latin: ratis — flat, floating structure
• Latvian: plosts — flat, floating structure
• Lithuanian: plaustas — flat, floating structure
• Macedonian: сплав (splav) — flat, floating structure
• Malay: rakit — flat, floating structure
• Maltese: ċatra — flat, floating structure
• Manchu: ᠠᡩᠠ (ada) — flat, floating structure
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: gakit — flat, floating structure
• Mansaka: gakit — flat, floating structure
• Māori: mōkihi — flat, floating structure
• Māori: mōkī — flat, floating structure
• Mongolian: сал (sal) — flat, floating structure
• Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł — flat, floating structure
• Norwegian Bokmål: flåte — flat, floating structure
• Norwegian Nynorsk: flote — flat, floating structure
• Norwegian Nynorsk: flåte — flat, floating structure
• Pashto: سل (sal) — flat, floating structure
• Dari: سَل (sal) — flat, floating structure
• Iranian Persian: کَرَجی (karaji) — flat, floating structure
• Iranian Persian: کَلَک (kalak) — flat, floating structure
• Iranian Persian: بَلَم (balam) — flat, floating structure
• Plautdietsch: Plut — flat, floating structure
• Polish: tratwa — flat, floating structure
• Portuguese: balsa — flat, floating structure
• Portuguese: jangada — flat, floating structure
• Punjabi: ਬੇੜਾ (beṛā) — flat, floating structure
• Réunion Creole French: rado — flat, floating structure
• Romanian: plută — flat, floating structure
• Russian: плот (plot) — flat, floating structure
• Serbo-Croatian: спла̑в — flat, floating structure
• Serbo-Croatian: splȃv — flat, floating structure
• Slovak: plť — flat, floating structure
• Slovene: splav — flat, floating structure
• Spanish: balsa — flat, floating structure
• Swedish: flotte — flat, floating structure
• Sylheti: ꠜꠥꠞꠣ (búra) — flat, floating structure
• Tagalog: lamo — flat, floating structure
• Tajik: амад (amad) — flat, floating structure
• Tajik: сал (sal) — flat, floating structure
• Tatar: сал (sal) — flat, floating structure
• Telugu: తెప్ప (teppa) — flat, floating structure
• Thai: แพ (pɛɛ) — flat, floating structure
• Tocharian B: plewe — flat, floating structure
• Turkish: sal — flat, floating structure
• Ottoman Turkish: صال (sal) — flat, floating structure
• Turkmen: sal — flat, floating structure
• Ukrainian: пліт (plit) — flat, floating structure
• Urdu: بیڑا (beṛā) — flat, floating structure
• Uyghur: سال (sal) — flat, floating structure
• Uzbek: sol — flat, floating structure
• Vietnamese: bè — flat, floating structure
• Volapük: floted — flat, floating structure
• Volapük: boadafloted — flat, floating structure
• Welsh: rafft — flat, floating structure
• Yiddish: פּליט (plit) — flat, floating structure
• Arabic: قَارِب مَطَّاطِيّ (qārib maṭṭāṭiyy) — inflatable floating craft
• Asturian: auxiliar — inflatable floating craft
• Asturian: bote — inflatable floating craft
• Bashkir: һал (hal) — inflatable floating craft
• Chinese Mandarin: 橡皮艇 (xiàngpítǐng) — inflatable floating craft
• Czech: raft — inflatable floating craft
• Dutch: rubberboot — inflatable floating craft
• Finnish: lautta — inflatable floating craft
• Finnish: kumilautta — inflatable floating craft
• French: canot pneumatique — inflatable floating craft
• Galician: balsa — inflatable floating craft
• German: Schlauchboot — inflatable floating craft
• Hebrew: רַפְסוֹדָה (rafsodah) — inflatable floating craft
• Ido: rafto — inflatable floating craft
• Italian: gommone — inflatable floating craft
• Japanese: ラフト (rafuto) — inflatable floating craft
• Polish: tratwa — inflatable floating craft
• Russian: плот (plot) — inflatable floating craft
• Russian: рафт (raft) — inflatable floating craft
• Serbo-Croatian: гумѐња̄к — inflatable floating craft
• Serbo-Croatian: gumènjāk — inflatable floating craft
• Swedish: flotte — inflatable floating craft
• Bulgarian: куп (kup) — large but unspecified number of something
• Catalan: multitud — large but unspecified number of something
• Finnish: roppakaupalla — large but unspecified number of something
• French: multitude — large but unspecified number of something
• French: masse — large but unspecified number of something
• Galician: multitude — large but unspecified number of something
• Italian: moltitudine — large but unspecified number of something
• Portuguese: multidão — large but unspecified number of something
• Russian: у́йма (újma) — large but unspecified number of something
• Russian: ку́ча (kúča) — large but unspecified number of something
• Russian: мно́жество (mnóžestvo) — large but unspecified number of something
• Spanish: multitud — large but unspecified number of something
• Finnish: kuljettaa lautalla — to convey on a raft
• Māori: mōkihi — to convey on a raft
• Māori: mōkī — to convey on a raft
• Finnish: tehdä lautta — to make into a raft
• Finnish: kulkea lautalla — to travel by raft