canoe

See also: canoë and canoé

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English

People in a canoe.

Etymology

Adopted in 16th century from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa (“dugout canoe”) (compare Arawak kanoa (“canoe”), Wayuu anuwa, anua (“boat, canoe”)), from Proto-Arawak *kanawa.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kə-no͞o', IPA^(key): /kəˈnuː/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uː

Noun

canoe (plural canoes)

1. A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous, […].

2. (slang) An oversize, usually older, luxury car.

Descendants

• → Irish: canú

Translations

small long and narrow boat

• Armenian: կանոե (hy) (kanoe)
• Asturian: canoa f
• Bulgarian: кану n (kanu)
• Catalan: canoa f
• Chamicuro: pi'tochi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獨木舟 (zh), 独木舟 (zh) (dúmùzhōu)

• Czech: kánoe (cs) f
• Danish: kano (da)
• Dogrib: elà
• Dutch: kano (nl) m
• Esperanto: kanuo, kanoto
• Estonian: kanuu
• Faroese: kano f
• Finnish: kanootti (fi)
• French: canoë (fr) m
• Galician: canoa (gl) f
• Georgian: ბაიდარა (baidara)
• German: Kanu (de) n, Kanadier (de) m
• Greek: κανό (el) n (kanó)
• Hausa: kwalekwale
• Hawaiian: waʻa
• Hebrew: קנו‎ (he)
• Hungarian: kenu (hu)
• Irish: canú m, báidín m, curach (ga) f, curachán m, curach chaol f
• Italian: canoa (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: kianuu, kianu, kunu
• Japanese: カヌー (ja) (kanū)

• Kilivila: waga, masawa (for Kula exchange)
• Korean: 카누 (kanu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: kanu laiva
• Malay: kanu
• Maori: waka
• Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł
• Norwegian: kano m
• Ojibwe: jiimaan
• Pashto: کنوه‎ f (kanoa)
• Persian: کانو‎
• Portuguese: canoa (pt) f
• Romanian: canoe (ro) f
• Russian: кано́э (ru) n (kanóe), байда́рка (ru) f (bajdárka)
• Samoan: vaʻa
• Spanish: canoa (es) f
• Swedish: kanot (sv)
• Tagalog: lunday
• Tahitian: vaʻa
• Thai: เรือแจว (rʉʉa-jɛɛo)
• Tongan: vaka
• Turkish: kano (tr)
• Tuvan: хеме (hämä)
• Vietnamese: xuồng (vi)
• Volapük: kanud
• Welsh: ceufad, canŵ
• Yuracare: pojore

slang: an oversized luxury car

Verb

canoe (third-person singular simple present canoes, present participle canoeing, simple past and past participle canoed)

1. To ride or paddle a canoe.

Translations

to ride or paddle a canoe

• Finnish: meloa (fi), meloa kanootilla
• German: paddeln (de)

• Italian: andare in canoa
• Korean: 카누를 젓다 (kanureul jeotda)

Derived terms

• canoeist
• paddle one's own canoe

See also

• kayak

Further reading

canoe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ocean, ocean

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Italian

Noun

canoe f

1. plural of canoa