tribord

adjectivecommon noun

Syllable Decomposition

tribord

aphesis of stribord (1678), itself aphesis of an earlier estribord (1573), destrebort (1484), borrowed from classical Dutch stierboord (1588), from stuur, "rudder", and boord, "side", literally: "side of the rudder", the rudder formerly being fixed to starboard.

Definition

marine

Antonym

Plural

tribords

Translations

  • germangerman:Steuerbord
  • englishenglish:starboard
  • koreankorean:우현
  • spanishspanish:estribor
  • japanesejapanese:右舷
  • dutchdutch:stuurboord
  • polishpolish:burta
  • swedishswedish:styrbord

See also

tribord (adj.) tribords (cn.)