oar

Mane (Îngilîzî)

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.

Hevwate

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

Werger

remo

Ruder

rame

remo

riem

remo

roeiriem

κουπί

roeispaan

remus

rem

aviron

Paddel

kürek

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ɔː/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: ore

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: ār

Hevwate bi Old Norse: 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.