oar

(Anglais)

Noun

1. A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.
2. An oarsman; a rower.
3. An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

Verb

To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɔː/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: ore

Hérité de ancien anglais: ār

Appartenant à vieux norrois: ár

In summary

From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Old Norse ár.

Concepts

rame

aviron

pagaie

gouvernail

rameur

aviron de nage

Synonymes

paddle

scull

row

oarsman

rower

outboard motor

pole

punt

rover

rowing

rudder

shaft

string

🪢

sweep

row a boat

long oar

punting-pole

bat

🦇

stern-oar

boat

⛵

canoe

🛶

helm

judgement

Traductions

remo

Ruder

remo

roeiriem

remo

riem

κουπί

remus

roeispaan

wiosło

rem

Paddel

kürek

remigium

rēmus