English
Etymology
From light (noun) + ship (noun). Cognate with Middle Low German lüchteschip (“lightship”), Dutch lichtschip (“lightship”).
Noun
lightship (plural lightships)
- (nautical) A ship riding at anchor and displaying a light for the guidance of sailors, in a position where a fixed lighthouse structure would be impracticable.
- Hypernyms: ship, vessel; light; aid
- Coordinate terms: light buoy, lighthouse
- Near-synonyms: lightvessel (usually synonymous), lightboat
Translations
lightship
- Bulgarian: кораб-фар m (korab-far), плаващ фар m (plavašt far)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 灯塔船 (dēngtǎchuán)
- Czech: majáková loď f
- Danish: fyrskib n
- Dutch: lichtschip (nl) n
- Esperanto: lumŝipo
- Faroese: vitaskip n
- Finnish: majakka-alus, majakkalaiva
- French: bateau-phare (fr) m, bateau-feu (fr) m
- Georgian: გემ-შუქურა (gem-šukura)
- German: Feuerschiff (de) n
- Greek: φαρόπλοιο (el) n (faróploio), καραβοφάναρο (el) n (karavofánaro)
- Hebrew: אֳנִיַּת מִגְדַּלּוֹר f (oniyát migdalór)
- Icelandic: vitaskip n
- Irish: long sholais f
- Italian: nave-faro f
- Japanese: 灯台船 (とうだいせん, tōdaisen)
- Korean: 등선 (deungseon)
- Latvian: peldošā bāka f
- Macedonian: брод све́тилник m (brod svétilnik), све́тлосен брод m (svétlosen brod)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fyrskip n
- Nynorsk: fyrskip n
- Polish: latarniowiec (pl) m
- Portuguese: navio-farol (pt) m
- Romanian: navă-far f
- Russian: плаву́чий мая́к (ru) m (plavúčij maják)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бро̑д-свјетио̀нӣк m, лигхтсхип m, ла̏јтшӣп m
- Roman: brȏd-svjetiònīk m, lightship (sh) m, lȁjtšīp m
- Slovak: majáková loď f
- Slovene: svetilniška ladja f
- Spanish: buque faro m
- Swedish: fyrskepp (sv) n, fyrfartyg (sv) n
- Ukrainian: плавучий маяк m (plavučyj majak)
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See also
- lighter (“boat for offloading, transfer, etc”)