babord

From French babord.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈβort]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bəˈbort]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈboɾt]

babord m (plural babords)

1. port (left side of a boat or ship)

• estribord

• “babord”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “babord”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “babord” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “babord” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ba.bɔʁ/

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babord m (plural babords)

1. archaic spelling of bâbord; larboard, port (the left side of a ship)

   Antonym: tribord

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

• bobard

From Old Norse bakborði.

babord m (plural babords)

1. (nautical) port (left-hand side of a vessel)

• à babord (“aport”)

From Old Norse bakborð, bakborði.

babord

1. (nautical) aport

babord (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. (nautical, aviation) port (left hand side)

• styrbord

• “babord” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• bakbord

From Old Norse bakborð, bakborði or from Dutch bakboord. Cognate with Danish bagbord and Swedish babord. Compare also Spanish babor, Finnish paapuuri and French bâbord.

babord

1. (nautical) aport
   • 2010, Storbynatt‎^[1]:

     Intervjuar: Men ka du sa som (va) muliheten før å komm’ sæ unna da?
     Harald Anton Adolfsen: Vi ha’ itj fått løs tampan’, vi på babord sia, fordi der va flammen og der kom røyken ut. Vi va itj kome båtlaus fra’n, for hann hadd sætt att tampan’ sine på babord sia tå oss, hann.
     Intervjuar: Og viss dere hadd kjørt bære da?
     Adolfsen: Kjørt bære? Da hadd vi tatt med oss hann òg da.

     The interviewer: But what you said about the escape possibility?
     Harald Anton Adolfsen: We, who were on the aport side, haven’t get loose the hawser ends, because there was the flame and the smoke came therefrom. We weren’t coming away from him (the boat), ’cause he got his hawser ends on the aport side from us.
     The interviewer: And what if you just took off?
     Adolfsen: Took off? Then we would take him (the boat) with us (pulled behind our boat).

babord (indeclinable)

1. (nautical, aviation, uncountable) port (left hand side)

• attertofta
• fortofta
• styrbord

• “babord” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French bâbord.

babord n (plural baborduri)

1. port (left-hand side of a vessel)

From bak (“back, behind”) +‎ bord (“bord, side of ship”), i.e. the side you turned your back to when steering the vessel as the steering oar was on starboard side. Calque of Dutch bakboord. First attested in 1691.^[1]

babord (not comparable)

1. aport, on the left side of a vessel

   Antonym: styrbord

babord n

1. port, left side of a vessel

   Antonym: styrbord

• babord in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (14th ed., online)
• babord in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• babord in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)