yacht

Etymology
Circa 1557; variant of, earlier , from , in older spelling , short for , compound of and.

In the 16th century the Dutch built light, fast ships to chase the ships of pirates and smugglers from the coast. The ship was introduced to England in 1660 when the Dutch East India Company presented one to King Charles II, who used it as a pleasure boat, after which it was copied by British shipbuilders as a pleasure craft for wealthy gentlemen.

Noun

 * 1) A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
 * 2) Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
 * 1) Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
 * 1) Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
 * 1) Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: يخت
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: yaxta
 * Basque: yate
 * Belarusian: я́хта
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: iot
 * Cherokee: ᏥᏳ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: yacht
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: jaĥto, jakto
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: jakt, skemtibátur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: iate
 * Georgian: იახტა
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: याख़्ट
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: snekkja
 * Irish: luamh
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: яхта
 * Khmer: ទូកកម្សាន្ត
 * Korean: 요트
 * Kyrgyz: яхта
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: jahta
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: јахта
 * Malay: kapal pesiar
 * Manx: birling
 * Maori: iata
 * Marshallese: io̧o̧t
 * Mongolian: дарвуулт онгоц
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: yacht
 * Occitan: iòt
 * Persian: یات
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gheat, sgoth-long
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ја̏хта
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: jachta
 * Slovene: jahta
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: yate
 * Thai: เรือใบ, ยอชต์, เรือยอชต์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: yakt, blesirayakt


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: huvialus
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: gheat, sgoth-long
 * Volapük: yakt

Verb

 * 1)  To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.

Translations

 * Mongolian: дарвуулт онгоцоор явах
 * Spanish: ir en yate

Etymology
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Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  yacht

Etymology
From, via.

Noun

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Etymology
From, via.

Noun

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Etymology
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