corvette

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; – called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
 * 2)  In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.
 * 3)  A starship of comparable role

Translations

 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Japanese: コルベット
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: korvett
 * Nynorsk: korvett
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: корве́т


 * Arabic: فرقيطَة
 * Basque: korbeta
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: korvet
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: korvett
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: corveta
 * German:
 * Greek: κορβέττα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: korvetta
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: コルベット
 * Lithuanian: korvetė
 * Macedonian: корвета
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: korvett
 * Nynorsk: korvett
 * Persian: ناوچه سبک
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: корвета
 * Roman:
 * Slovene: korveta
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: корве́т

Etymology
From, , or , +. Possibly ultimately connected to, "slow-sailing ship of burden, grain ship," which is from.