tugboat

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• UK: /ˈtʌɡbəʊt/
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• US: /ˈtʌɡboʊt/
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• CMU ARPABET: T AH1 G B OW2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From tug + boat. Sense 2 from monthly tugboat, a reference to the saying "our ship has come in," here referring to a small, "reliable" "tugboat" instead of a large windfall.

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sleepboot — small, powerful boat
• Albanian: rimorkiator — small, powerful boat
• Arabic: زَوْرَق اَلْقَطْر (zawraq al-qaṭr) — small, powerful boat
• Armenian: բուքսիրային նավ (bukʻsirayin nav) — small, powerful boat
• Armenian: քարշականավ (kʻaršakanav) — small, powerful boat
• Azerbaijani: buksir — small, powerful boat
• Basque: atoiontzi — small, powerful boat
• Belarusian: буксі́р (buksír) — small, powerful boat
• Bulgarian: влекач (vlekač) — small, powerful boat
• Catalan: remolcador — small, powerful boat
• Chinese Mandarin: 拖船 (tuōchuán) — small, powerful boat
• Czech: remorkér — small, powerful boat
• Danish: slæbebåd — small, powerful boat
• Dutch: sleepboot — small, powerful boat
• Dutch: sleper — small, powerful boat
• Esperanto: trenšipo — small, powerful boat
• Estonian: puksiir — small, powerful boat
• Finnish: hinaaja — small, powerful boat
• French: remorqueur — small, powerful boat
• Galician: revocador — small, powerful boat
• Georgian: საბუქსირო გემი (sabuksiro gemi) — small, powerful boat
• German: Schlepper — small, powerful boat
• German: Schleppschiff — small, powerful boat
• German: Schleppboot — small, powerful boat
• German: Schleppdampfer — small, powerful boat
• Greek: ρυμουλκό πλοίο (rymoulkó ploío) — small, powerful boat
• Haitian Creole: remokè — small, powerful boat
• Hebrew: גּוֹרֶרֶת (goréret) — small, powerful boat
• Hungarian: vontatóhajó — small, powerful boat
• Icelandic: dráttarbátur — small, powerful boat
• Ido: remorkero — small, powerful boat
• Indonesian: kapal tunda — small, powerful boat
• Italian: rimorchiatore — small, powerful boat
• Japanese: タグボート (tagubōto) — small, powerful boat
• Japanese: 曳船 (eisen) — small, powerful boat
• Korean: 예인선 (yeinseon) — small, powerful boat
• Latvian: velkonis — small, powerful boat
• Latvian: tālbraucējs — small, powerful boat
• Livonian: vilkikas — small, powerful boat
• Macedonian: реморке́р (remorkér) — small, powerful boat
• Macedonian: шле́пер (šléper) — small, powerful boat
• Maltese: irmonk — small, powerful boat
• Māori: poti pārete — small, powerful boat
• Māori: tima pārete — small, powerful boat
• Norwegian Bokmål: bukserbåt — small, powerful boat
• Norwegian Bokmål: slepebåt — small, powerful boat
• Norwegian Bokmål: taubåt — small, powerful boat
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bukserbåt — small, powerful boat
• Norwegian Nynorsk: slepebåt — small, powerful boat
• Norwegian Nynorsk: taubåt — small, powerful boat
• Pannonian Rusyn: цагач (cahač) — small, powerful boat
• Pannonian Rusyn: реморкер (remorker) — small, powerful boat
• Pannonian Rusyn: шлепер (šleper) — small, powerful boat
• Polish: holownik — small, powerful boat
• Portuguese: rebocador — small, powerful boat
• Romanian: remocher — small, powerful boat
• Russian: букси́р (buksír) — small, powerful boat
• Russian: букси́рное су́дно (buksírnoje súdno) — small, powerful boat
• Scottish Gaelic: bàta slaodaidh — small, powerful boat
• Serbo-Croatian: реморкер — small, powerful boat
• Serbo-Croatian: тегљач — small, powerful boat
• Serbo-Croatian: remoker — small, powerful boat
• Serbo-Croatian: tegljač — small, powerful boat
• Slovak: remokér — small, powerful boat
• Slovene: ladijski vlačilec — small, powerful boat
• Spanish: remolcador — small, powerful boat
• Swahili: tishari — small, powerful boat
• Swedish: bogserbåt — small, powerful boat
• Thai: เรือโยง (reua yohng) — small, powerful boat
• Turkish: römorkör — small, powerful boat
• Ukrainian: букси́р (buksýr) — small, powerful boat
• Volapük: tränanaf — small, powerful boat
• Volapük: tränastemanaf — small, powerful boat
• Welsh: tynfad — small, powerful boat
• Yiddish: בוקסיר (buksir) — small, powerful boat