snorkel

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Borrowed from German Schnorchel (“(submarine) snorkel”), related to schnarchen (“to snore”). Thus named because of the submarine snorkel's functional similarity to a nose and because of its noise when in use. The anglicized spelling was first recorded in 1945. See, for example, Mark S. Watson, "New Epoch in Sea War", The Baltimore Sun, December 31, 1945, p. 8: "The Germans' earlier quest of the last important objective, it will be remembered, had produced the Snorkel, a long exhaust tube whose vent reached above water and permitted a submerged vessel to discharge its Diesel fumes in open air."

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: тру́бка (trúbka) — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Bulgarian: шно́рхел (šnórhel) — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Chinese Mandarin: 呼吸管 (hūxīguǎn) — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Danish: snorkel — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Esperanto: spirtubo — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Esperanto: ŝnorkelo — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Finnish: snorkkeli — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• French: tuba — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• French: prise d'air — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• German: Schnorchel — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Hebrew: שְׁנוֹרְקֶל (shnórkel) — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Hungarian: búvárpipa — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Hungarian: légzőpipa — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Hungarian: légzőcső — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Hungarian: pipa — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Indonesian: snorkel — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Italian: boccaglio — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Japanese: シュノーケル (shunōkeru) — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Japanese: スノーケル (sunōkeru) — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Korean: 스노클 (seunokeul) — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Māori: ngongohā — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Norwegian Bokmål: snorkel — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Polish: fajka — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Polish: rurka — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Portuguese: snorkel — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Russian: тру́бка (trúbka) — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Russian: дыха́тельная тру́бка (dyxátelʹnaja trúbka) — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Spanish: tubo de buceo — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Spanish: snorkel (snórkel) — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Spanish: esnórkel — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Spanish: esnórquel — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Spanish: esnorquel — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Swedish: snorkel — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Ukrainian: тру́бка (trúbka) — hollow tube used for breathing underwater
• Danish: snorkle — use a snorkel
• Dutch: snorkelen — use a snorkel
• German: schnorcheln — use a snorkel
• Hungarian: sznorkelezik — use a snorkel
• Hungarian: sznorizik — use a snorkel
• Hungarian: úszik — use a snorkel
• Hungarian: könnyűbúvárkodik — use a snorkel
• Icelandic: snorkla — use a snorkel
• Norwegian Bokmål: snorkle — use a snorkel
• Spanish: snorkelear — use a snorkel
• Spanish: esnorkelear — use a snorkel
• Swedish: snorkla — use a snorkel