Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈstimˌboʊt/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstiːmˌbəʊt/
- Rhymes: -iːmbəʊt
- Hyphenation: steam‧boat
Noun
steamboat (countable and uncountable, plural steamboats)
- A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
- Synonyms: steamer, steamship
1870, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi:By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.
- (uncountable, Singapore, Malaysia) Hot pot (Chinese dish).
- (countable, Singapore, Malaysia) A metal pan, sometimes divided into sections or having a central flue, for heating this kind of hot pot.
Descendants
- → Dutch: stoomboot (calque)
- → Ottoman Turkish: استمبوط (istimbot)
Translations
vessel powered by steam
- Albanian: vapor (sq) m
- Arabic: بَاخِرَة f (bāḵira), سَفِينَة بُخَارِيَّة f (safīna buḵāriyya)
- Armenian: շոգենավ (hy) (šogenav)
- Azerbaijani: buxar gəmisi, paroxod
- Basque: lurrunontzi
- Belarusian: парахо́д m (paraxód)
- Bengali: স্টিমার (bn) (sṭimar)
- Bulgarian: парахо́д (bg) m (parahód)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 汽船 (zh) (qìchuán), 輪船 / 轮船 (zh) (lúnchuán)
- Chuvash: пӑрахут (părah̬ut)
- Czech: parník (cs) m
- Danish: dampskib (da) n, damper c
- Dutch: stoomboot (nl) f or m
- Esperanto: vaporŝipo
- Estonian: aurik
- Finnish: höyryalus (fi)
- French: bateau à vapeur (fr) m
- Georgian: პარახოდი (ṗaraxodi)
- German: Dampfschiff (de) n, Dampfer (de) m
- Greek: ατμόπλοιο (el) n (atmóploio)
- Hindi: स्टीमर (hi) m (sṭīmar)
- Hungarian: gőzhajó (hu), gőzös (hu)
- Icelandic: gufuskip n
- Ido: vapornavo (io)
- Indonesian: kapal uap
- Ingrian: parahoda
- Irish: stíméar m, stíomar m
- Italian: nave a vapore f, piroscafo (it) m
- Japanese: 蒸気船 (ja) (じょうきせん, jōkisen), 汽船 (ja) (きせん, kisen)
- Kazakh: пароход (paroxod)
- Korean: 기선(汽船) (ko) (giseon), 증기선(蒸氣船) (ko) (jeunggiseon)
- Kyrgyz: пароход (parohod)
- Latin: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: tvaikonis m
- Lithuanian: garlaivis m
- Low German: Damper
- Macedonian: параброд m (parabrod), параход m (parahod)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dampbåt m, dampskip n
- Nynorsk: dampbåt m, dampskip n
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: کَشْتیِ بُخار (kašti-ye boxâr), واپور (vâpor)
- Polish: parowiec (pl) m, parostatek (pl) m
- Portuguese: barco a vapor m
- Romanian: vapor (ro) n, navă cu aburi f
- Russian: парохо́д (ru) (paroxód)
- Scottish Gaelic: bàta-smùide m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: па̏робро̄д m
- Roman: pȁrobrōd (sh) m
- Slovak: parník m
- Slovene: parnik (sl) m
- Spanish: barco de vapor m
- Swedish: ångfartyg (sv) n, ångbåt (sv) c
- Tagalog: bapor
- Thai: เรือไฟ (rʉʉa-fai), เรือจักรไอน้ำ
- Turkish: vapur (tr), buharlı gemi (tr)
- Turkmen: parohod
- Ukrainian: паропла́в m (paropláv)
- Uyghur: پاراخوت (paraxot)
- Uzbek: paroxod (uz)
- Vietnamese: thuyền hơi nước
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