English
Etymology
Calque from Chinese 龍船／龙船 (lóngchuán).
Noun
dragon boat (plural dragon boats)
- 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
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)
- Polish: smocza łódź f
- Portuguese: barco dragão m
- Russian: драгонбо́т m (dragonbót)
- Slovak: dračia loď f
- Spanish: barco dragón m
- Swedish: drakbåt c
- Vietnamese: thuyền rồng (vi)
- Zhuang: lungzconz
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See also
- Viking longships (called dragonships by enemies such as the English)