OAR  船槳楫

TIMBER TOOL MOVED IN THE WATER, NOT TOUCHING THE GROUND, TO MOVE BOATS.
Hypernym
  • TOOLARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR USE USING a DEFINED METHOD.
    • ARTEFACTTHING PRODUCED by MAN.
      • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The most current general term for an oar or a paddle is jí 楫.

2. Zhào 棹／櫂 refers to a long oar at the side of a vessel.

3. Ráo 橈 is a southern dialect word referring to an oar or paddle of any length.

4. Bèng 榜 is a rarely used southern dialect word for an oar.

黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006

COMM 27. 船上的人工推進工具，常見篙、槳、櫓三種。篙，手撐者，與筏俱生，而其稱秦以後始見。

槳，手劃者，短槳最早。

楫（ j[U+00ed] ），短槳，又作槳的通稱。

櫂（ zh[U+00e0]o ），吊置於船舷的長槳，常含動作意。

橈（ r[U+00e0]o ）, 兼指短、長槳，本是吳越方言詞，遂作口語中槳的通稱。

謗，也含動作意，是唐代及唐以前吳越一帶的方言用法。

枻（ y[U+00ec] ）, 多指漁舟之槳，也可泛稱小槳。槳，中古才見的吳方言口語詞。

櫓，手搖者，改進長槳，置於船舷、船尾的支鈕，作縱向劃動，既省力，又提高功效；櫓在秦以前已產生，而其稱最早見於漢代。

Modern Chinese Criteria
槳

橈

棹

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 10.85

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.305

Words

楫  jí OC: skeb MC: tsiɛp 7 Attributions

The most current general term for an oar or a paddle is jí 楫.

    Syntactic words
  • n(specifically short) a paddling or, short oar
枻  yì OC: lebs MC: jiɛi 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nprobably Chu dialect: short oar
棹  zhào OC: rdeewɡs MC: ɖɣɛu
棹  zhào OC: rleewɡs MC: ɖɣɛu 1 Attribution

Zhào 棹／櫂 refers to a long oar at the side of a vessel.

    Syntactic words
  • n(specifically long) oar
  • vito paddle or use oars
  • vtoNrow (typically a boat) using oarsDS
榜  bèng OC: praaŋs MC: pɣaŋ 0 Attributions

Bèng 榜 is a rarely used southern dialect word for an oar.

    Syntactic words
  • nrare, CC: oar
  • vtoNwhip up water with an oar
槳  jiǎng OC: skaŋʔ MC: tsi̯ɐŋ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • npost-Han, SANGUO: oar
橈  ráo OC: nɢjew MC: ȵiɛu 0 Attributions

Ráo 橈 is a southern dialect word referring to an oar or paddle of any length.

    Syntactic words
  • nperhaps Yue dialect, CC: oar
棹  zhào OC: rleewɡs MC: ɖɣɛu 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNto row (a boat)
櫓  lǔ OC: ɡ-raaʔ MC: luo̝ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nat the earliest stage the lǔ 櫓 was used at the side of the vessel, according to SHIMING; later, at a stage which it is not easy to date, the term came to refer to the sweep, single oar used at the stern to propel a boat
篙  gāo OC: koow MC: kɑu 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nHAN, HN YIWEN, FANGYAN: punting pole

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: