wharf

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
2. The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.

Verb

1. To secure by a wharf.
2. To place on a wharf.

Concepts

quai

appontement

jetée

embarcadère

débarcadère

falaise à pic

pont

darse

wharf

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wɔːf/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English wharf, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf”); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), Old Saxon hwerf (whence German Werft), Dutch werf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn”), hwerban (“to turn”), Old Norse hvarf (“circle”), and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).