sampan

English

Etymology

From Sinitic, likely Cantonese 三板 (saam1 baan2) or Hokkien 舢板 (sam-pán).

Noun

sampan (plural sampans)

1. A flat-bottomed Chinese wooden boat propelled by two oars.
   • 1953, John C. Caldwell, China Coast Family‎^[1], Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, LCCN 53-9623, OCLC 1199230, page 96:

     We traveled down the Min River from Nanping in a small sampan, flying the American flag for protection against bandits and soldiers. Those were the days when the Stars and Stripes still afforded some protection.

   • 1975 November 16, L. Chen, “Maoist showcase of big troubles”, in Free China Weekly‎^[2], volume XVI, number 45, Taipei, page 3:

     Freedom-fighter Lin Chun-hwei reports his escape from the mainland at the Free China Relief Association. Lin escaped by sampan from Putien in Fukien province to one of the islets near Kinmen Oct. 27.

Alternative forms

• champan, champana, champane

Translations

Chinese boat

• Burmese: သမ္ဗန် (my) (samban)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 三板 (saam¹ baan²), 舢舨 (saan¹ baan²)

  Hakka: 舢舨 (sân-pán)

  Mandarin: 舢舨 (zh) (shānbǎn), 三板 (zh) (sānbǎn)

  Min Nan: 船仔 (zh-min-nan) (chûn-á), 鷁仔, 鹢仔 (ge̍k-á), 舢舨 (sam-pán), 舢舨仔 (zh-min-nan) (sam-pán-á), 雙槳仔, 双桨仔 (siang-chiúⁿ-á)

• Dutch: sampan (nl)
• Finnish: sampaani (fi)
• French: sampan (fr) m
• German: Sampan m, chinesisches Wohnboot n
• Indonesian: sampan (id)
• Italian: sampan m
• Japanese: 三板, 舢板 (サンパン, sanpan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sampan m

  Nynorsk: sampan m

• Polish: sampan (pl) m
• Portuguese: sampana f
• Russian: сампа́н (ru) m (sampán)
• Spanish: junco (es) m
• Swedish: sampan
• Thai: สำปั้น
• Vietnamese: thuyền tam bản

Anagrams

• panams

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• champan (archaic)

Etymology

From Hokkien 舢板 (sam-pán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑmpɑn/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: sam‧pan

Noun

sampan f (plural sampans)

1. sampan (Chinese wooden boat)

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French

Noun

sampan m (plural sampans)

1. sampan

Further reading

• “sampan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay sampan, from Classical Malay sampan, from Hokkien 舢板 (sam-pán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sampan]

Noun

sampan (first-person possessive sampanku, second-person possessive sampanmu, third-person possessive sampannya)

1. sampan

Further reading

• “sampan” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Malay

Etymology

from Classical Malay sampan, from Hokkien 舢板 (sam-pán).

Noun

sampan (Jawi spelling سمڤن‎, plural sampan-sampan, informal 1st possessive sampanku, 2nd possessive sampanmu, 3rd possessive sampannya)

1. sampan

Further reading

• “sampan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English sampan, from Sinitic, see the English entry.

Noun

sampan m (definite singular sampanen, indefinite plural sampaner, definite plural sampanene)

1. (nautical) a sampan
   • 2014, "Den tapte historien" by Kim Fay, Bazarforlag →ISBN [3]

     Mellom dem drev sampaner som så ut som de var kommet seilende fra et annet århundre.

     Between them went sampans that looked as though they were sailing in from another century.

References

• “sampan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sampan” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Ein sampan

Etymology

From English sampan, from Sinitic, see the English entry.

Noun

sampan m (definite singular sampanen, indefinite plural sampanar, definite plural sampanane)

1. (nautical) a sampan

References

• “sampan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sam.pan
• IPA^(key): /samˈpan/, [sɐmˈpan]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish champán.

Noun

sampán

1. champagne

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hokkien 舢板 (sam-pán).

Noun

sampán

1. (nautical) sampan

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West Makian

Etymology

From Indonesian sampan, from Classical Malay سمڤن‎‎ (sampan), from Hokkien 舢板 (sam-pán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪am.pan̪/

Noun

sampan

1. a sampan

References

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[4], Pacific linguistics