dragon boat

English

Dragon boat race.

Etymology

Calque from Chinese 龍船／龙船 (lóngchuán).

Noun

dragon boat (plural dragon boats)

1. A type of boat raced in Chinese festivals featuring a dragon motif and twenty paddling, one drumming, and one steering known as the sweep.

Derived terms

• Dragon Boat Festival
• dragon boating
• ice dragon boat

Translations

a type of boat raced in Chinese festivals

• Bengali: আজদাহা নাও (azdaha nao)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 龍船／龙船 (zh) (lóngchuán)

• Czech: dračí loď f
• Dutch: drakenboot
• Finnish: lohikäärmevene
• French: bateau-dragon (fr) m
• German: Drachenboot (de) n
• Hungarian: sárkányhajó
• Indonesian: perahu naga
• Italian: dragonboat m
• Japanese: ドラゴンボート (doragon bōto), ペーロン (pēron)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: perahu naga
• Persian: قایق اژدها (qâyeq eždehâ), اژدهابَلم (eždehâ-balam)
• Portuguese: barco dragão m
• Russian: драгонбо́т m (dragonbót)
• Slovak: dračia loď f
• Spanish: barco dragón m
• Vietnamese: thuyền rồng (vi)
• Zhuang: lungzconz

See also

• Viking longships (called dragonships by enemies such as the English)