Sampan

//ˈsæm.pæn//

Synonyms for "sampan" (9 found)

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Closest matches (2)

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Related words (4)

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Translations

32 translations across 22 languages.

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Burmese

1 entries
  • သမ္ဗန် noun (Chinese boat)

Chinese

4 entries
  • 舢舨 noun (Chinese boat)
  • 舢舨仔 noun (Chinese boat)
  • 船仔 noun (Chinese boat)
  • 雙槳仔 /双桨仔 noun (Chinese boat)

Chinese Cantonese

2 entries
  • 三板 noun (Chinese boat)
  • 舢舨 noun (Chinese boat)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 三板 noun (Chinese boat)
  • 舢舨 noun (Chinese boat)

Dutch

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  • sampan noun (Chinese boat)

Finnish

1 entries
  • sampaani noun (Chinese boat)

French

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  • sampan noun (Chinese boat)

German

2 entries
  • Sampan noun (Chinese boat)
  • chinesisches Wohnboot noun (Chinese boat)

Hakka Chinese

1 entries
  • 舢舨 noun (Chinese boat)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • sampan noun (Chinese boat)

Italian

1 entries
  • sampan noun (Chinese boat)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 三板 noun (Chinese boat)
  • 舢板 noun (Chinese boat)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • sampan noun (Chinese boat)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • sampan noun (Chinese boat)

Polish

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  • sampan noun (Chinese boat)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • sampana noun (Chinese boat)

Russian

1 entries
  • сампа́н noun (Chinese boat)

Spanish

2 entries
  • junco noun (Chinese boat)
  • sampán noun (Chinese boat)

Swedish

1 entries
  • sampan noun (Chinese boat)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • sampan noun (Chinese boat)

Thai

1 entries
  • สำปั้น noun (Chinese boat)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • thuyền tam bản noun (Chinese boat)
  • xuồng ba lá noun (Chinese boat)

Sample sentences

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One late afternoon as the sun hung red in the purple mist, which rises from the rice fields beyond Honam, the Breton was dreaming as usual on the bund’s edge when a sampan gondoliered by a boat-girl glided to a landing stair not far from him.

Source: tatoeba (11842633)

We traveled down the Min River from Nanping in a small sampan, flying the American flag for protection against bandits and soldiers. Those were the days when the Stars and Stripes still afforded some protection.

Source: wiktionary

Freedom-fighter Lin Chun-hwei reports his escape from the mainland at the Free China Relief Association. Lin escaped by sampan from Putien in Fukien province to one of the islets near Kinmen Oct. 27.

Source: wiktionary

... by these central poles the litter, or as it is here called, the Sampan, is supported on the shoulders of four men.

Source: wiktionary

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