breakwater

See also: break water

English

Etymology

From break +‎ water.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪkˌwɔːtə/

Noun

breakwater (plural breakwaters)

1. a construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside
2. (nautical) a low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers
3. On beaches: a wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.

Translations

construction in or around a harbour

• Afrikaans: breekwater
• Bulgarian: вълноло́м (bg) m (vǎlnolóm)
• Catalan: escullera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防波堤 (zh) (fángbōdī)

• Czech: vlnolam m
• Danish: mole (da) c
• Dutch: golfbreker (nl) m, havenhoofd (nl) n
• Finnish: aallonmurtaja (fi)
• French: brise-lames (fr) m
• German: Mole (de) f, Wellenbrecher m
• Greek: κυματοθραύστης (el) m (kymatothráfstis)
• Hebrew: שׁוֹבֵר גַּלִּים‎ (he) m (shover galim)
• Hungarian: hullámtörő (hu)
• Ido: ondegoruptilo (io)
• Irish: tonnchosc m
• Italian: frangiflutti (it) m, frangimare m, frangionde m

• Japanese: 防波堤 (ぼうはてい, bōhatei)
• Korean: 방파제 (ko) (bangpaje) (防波堤 (ko))
• Maori: rongoteka
• Norman: caûchie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bølgebryter m

  Nynorsk: bølgebrytar m

• Polish: falochron (pl) m
• Portuguese: quebra-mar m
• Russian: волноре́з (ru) m (volnoréz), волноло́м (ru) m (volnolóm), мол (ru) m (mol), на́сыпь (ru) f (násypʹ)
• Spanish: rompeolas m
• Swedish: vågbrytare (sv) c
• Tagalog: pamasag-alon
• Ukrainian: хвилері́з m (xvyleríz)
• Welsh: morglawdd m

low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship

• Italian: bulbo (it) m, bulbo di prua

the beach barrier

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防波堤 (zh) (fángbōdī)

• Dutch: golfbreker (nl)
• German: Buhne (de) f, Wellenbrecher m or m pl

• Greek: κυματοθραύστης (el) m (kymatothráfstis)
• Italian: diga foranea f
• Russian: волноре́з (ru) m (volnoréz), волноло́м (ru) m (volnolóm)
• Spanish: rompeolas

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} שובר-גלים‎ m (shover-galym) (1)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} frangiflutti (it) m

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 방파제 (ko) (bangpaje)

Anagrams

• water break, waterbreak