yacht

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• Received-Pronunciation: yŏt
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• Received-Pronunciation: /jɒt/
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• US: yät
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• US: /jɑt/
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• rhymes with -ɒt
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• CMU ARPABET: Y AA1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Circa 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from Dutch jacht (“yacht; hunt”), in older spelling jaght(e), short for jaghtschip (“light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship”, literally “pursuit ship”), compound of jacht and schip (“ship”). In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships of pirates and smugglers from the coast. The ship was introduced to England in 1660 when the Dutch East India Company presented one to King Charles II, who used it as a pleasure boat, after which it was copied by British shipbuilders as a pleasure craft for wealthy gentlemen.

92 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: jaht — slick and light ship
• Arabic: يَخْت (yaḵt) — slick and light ship
• Arabic: يخت (yaḵt) — slick and light ship
• Armenian: զբոսանավ (zbosanav) — slick and light ship
• Azerbaijani: yaxta — slick and light ship
• Basque: yate — slick and light ship
• Belarusian: я́хта (jáxta) — slick and light ship
• Bulgarian: я́хта (jáhta) — slick and light ship
• Burmese: ရွက်လှေ (rwakhle) — slick and light ship
• Catalan: iot — slick and light ship
• Cherokee: ᏥᏳ (tsiyu) — slick and light ship
• Chinese Mandarin: 游艇 (yóutǐng) — slick and light ship
• Czech: jachta — slick and light ship
• Danish: yacht — slick and light ship
• Dutch: jacht — slick and light ship
• Esperanto: jaĥto — slick and light ship
• Esperanto: jakto — slick and light ship
• Estonian: jaht — slick and light ship
• Faroese: jakt — slick and light ship
• Faroese: skemtibátur — slick and light ship
• Finnish: jahti — slick and light ship
• Finnish: huvipursi — slick and light ship
• French: yacht — slick and light ship
• Galician: iate — slick and light ship
• Georgian: იახტა (iaxṭa) — slick and light ship
• German: Yacht — slick and light ship
• German: Jacht — slick and light ship
• Greek: γιοτ (giot) — slick and light ship
• Greek: θαλαμηγός (thalamigós) — slick and light ship
• Hebrew: יאכטה (yakhta) — slick and light ship
• Hindi: याख़्ट (yāxṭ) — slick and light ship
• Hungarian: jacht — slick and light ship
• Icelandic: snekkja — slick and light ship
• Irish: luamh — slick and light ship
• Italian: panfilo — slick and light ship
• Italian: yacht — slick and light ship
• Japanese: ヨット (yotto) — slick and light ship
• Kazakh: яхта (äxta) — slick and light ship
• Khmer: ទូកកម្សាន្ត (tuuk kɑmsaan) — slick and light ship
• Korean: 요트 (yoteu) — slick and light ship
• Kyrgyz: яхта (yahta) — slick and light ship
• Lao: ເຮືອໃບ (hư̄a bai) — slick and light ship
• Latvian: jahta — slick and light ship
• Lithuanian: jachta — slick and light ship
• Macedonian: јахта (jahta) — slick and light ship
• Malay: kapal pesiar — slick and light ship
• Manx: birling — slick and light ship
• Māori: iata — slick and light ship
• Marshallese: io̧o̧t — slick and light ship
• Mongolian: дарвуулт онгоц (darvuult ongoc) — slick and light ship
• Norwegian Bokmål: yacht — slick and light ship
• Norwegian Nynorsk: yacht — slick and light ship
• Occitan: iòt — slick and light ship
• Persian: یات (yât) — slick and light ship
• Polish: jacht — slick and light ship
• Portuguese: iate — slick and light ship
• Romanian: iaht — slick and light ship
• Russian: я́хта (jáxta) — slick and light ship
• Scottish Gaelic: gheat — slick and light ship
• Scottish Gaelic: sgoth-long — slick and light ship
• Serbo-Croatian: ја̏хта — slick and light ship
• Serbo-Croatian: jȁhta — slick and light ship
• Slovak: jachta — slick and light ship
• Slovene: jahta — slick and light ship
• Spanish: yate — slick and light ship
• Swedish: jakt — slick and light ship
• Swedish: yacht — slick and light ship
• Tagalog: yate — slick and light ship
• Thai: เรือใบ (rʉʉa-bai) — slick and light ship
• Thai: ยอชต์ — slick and light ship
• Thai: เรือยอชต์ — slick and light ship
• Turkish: yat — slick and light ship
• Ukrainian: я́хта (jáxta) — slick and light ship
• Uzbek: yaxta — slick and light ship
• Vietnamese: du thuyền — slick and light ship
• Volapük: yakt — slick and light ship
• Volapük: blesirayakt — slick and light ship
• Bulgarian: яхта (jahta) — any private noncommercial vessel
• Finnish: huvialus — any private noncommercial vessel
• French: yacht — any private noncommercial vessel
• German: Yacht — any private noncommercial vessel
• German: Jacht — any private noncommercial vessel
• Greek: θαλαμηγός (thalamigós) — any private noncommercial vessel
• Hebrew: יכטה (yakhta) — any private noncommercial vessel
• Hungarian: jacht — any private noncommercial vessel
• Japanese: 船 (fune) — any private noncommercial vessel
• Japanese: ボート (bōto) — any private noncommercial vessel
• Scottish Gaelic: gheat — any private noncommercial vessel
• Scottish Gaelic: sgoth-long — any private noncommercial vessel
• Volapük: yakt — any private noncommercial vessel
• Mongolian: дарвуулт онгоцоор явах (darvuult ongocoor javax) — to voyage in a yacht
• Spanish: ir en yate — to voyage in a yacht