Meaning

3 senses
  1. A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.

    Dingi, Jolle

    я́ликjálik, шлю́пкаšljúpka

    a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled

  2. A sailing dinghy.

  3. An inflatable rubber life raft.

    Schlauchboot, Floßsack, Gummiboot

    рези́новая ло́дкаrezínovaja lódka, надувна́я ло́дкаnaduvnája lódka

Examples

5 sentences
  1. I took the dinghy from the ship.

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  2. Tom went out across the lake in his dinghy.

    deTom fuhr mit dem Schlauchboot auf den See hinaus.

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  3. Tom inflated the rubber dinghy on the beach using a pump.

    deTom pumpte am Strand das Schlauchboot mit der Luftpumpe auf.

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  4. Down by the dinghy our cat is being hazarded by an angry pelican.

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  5. Once, these precarious dinghies were a rare sight in the Canary Islands.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
small boat:
inflatable boat:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
small boat:
inflatable boat:

Origin

From Bengali ডিঙি (ḍiṅi), perhaps from Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “wooden trough”).

From Bengali ডিঙি (ḍiṅi), perhaps from Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “wooden trough”).

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Forms

plural: dinghies
Singulardinghy
Pluraldinghies

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled:doryrowboat

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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