bouée

Meaning

1. (feminine) buoy (nautical: a moored float)
2. (feminine) rubber ring

Concepts

buoy

life preserver

lifesaver

rubber ring

lifebuoy

lifebelt

beacon

lifering

buoy up

life belt

life buoy

life ring

ring buoy

Synonyms

balise

bouée de sauvetage

flotteur

amer

balisons

balise flottante

Translations

boa

Boje

boya

bóia

şamandıra

boia

gavitello

Rettungsring

salvagente

boei

ciambella

σημαδούρα

baken

boia

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bwe/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch: boeye

Inherited from Middle French: boue

Inherited from Old French: boue

Cognate with Old High German: bouhhan

Cognate with Old Saxon: bōkan

Cognate with Old Frisian: bāken

Cognate with Old English: bēacn

In summary

Partly from Middle Dutch boeye (“life buoy”); and partly continuing Middle French boue(e) (“a flotation signalling danger”), from Old French boue, buie (“a piece of wood or cork floating above an anchor to indicate where it is anchored”), ultimately from Frankish *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną. Akin to Old High German bouhhan (“beacon”), Old Saxon bōkan (“signal”), Old Frisian bāken (“signal”), Old English bēacn (“sign, signal”).
Less likely from Latin boia (“fetter, collar”), from Ancient Greek βοείη (boeíē), (this being the feminine singular form of Ancient Greek βόειος (bóeios), see here, an adjective ('of/concerning an ox'), used substantively with an understood δορά 'hide'). More at English beacon.