breakwater

See also: break water

English

Etymology

From break +‎ water. Compare Dutch breekwater (“breakwater”).

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
• Armenian: ծովապատնեշ (hy) (covapatneš)
• Bulgarian: вълноло́м (bg) m (vǎlnolóm)
• Catalan: escullera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防波堤 (zh) (fángbōdī)

• Czech: vlnolam m
• Danish: mole (da) c, bølgebryder c
• Dutch: golfbreker (nl) m, havenhoofd (nl) n
• Estonian: muul (et)
• Finnish: aallonmurtaja (fi)
• French: jetée (fr) f, brise-lames (fr) m
• Galician: crebaondas m
• German: Mole (de) f, Wellenbrecher m
• Greek: κυματοθραύστης (el) m (kymatothráfstis)

  Ancient: πρόχωσις f (prókhōsis)

• Hebrew: שׁוֹבֵר גַּלִּים‎ (he) m (shover galim)
• Hungarian: hullámtörő (hu)
• Ido: ondegoruptilo (io)
• Irish: tonnchosc m, bábhún m
• Italian: frangiflutti (it) m, frangimare m, frangionde m

• Japanese: 防波堤 (ぼうはてい, bōhatei)
• Khmer: ជញ្ជាំងការពារឆ្នេរសមុទ្រ (cʊəñceang kaa pie cneɛ sa’mot)
• Korean: 방파제 (ko) (bangpaje) (防波堤 (ko))
• Macedonian: насип m (nasip)
• 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)
• Scottish Gaelic: doirlinn-fasgaidh m
• Serbo-Croatian: lukobran (sh) m
• Slovak: vlnolam m
• 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

beach barrier

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防波堤 (zh) (fángbōdī)

• Dutch: golfbreker (nl)
• French: brise-lames (fr) m
• 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