barge

See also: Barge and bärge

English

Etymology

From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjr

(“transport ship”). Doublet of bark, barque and baris.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑːd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑɹd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ

Noun

barge (plural barges)

1. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
2. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
3. A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
4. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
5. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
6. (US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
7. (US, dialect, dated, historical) A large bus used for excursions.

Synonyms

• lighter

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of barge (noun)

• admiral's barge
• dumb barge
• rowbarge
• row barge

 

Derived terms

• barge board
• bargee
• bargeful
• barge in
• bargelike
• bargeman
• barge master
• bargemaster
• barge pole
• barger
• bargewoman
• billet barge
• bread-barge
• bunker barge
• dumb barge
• honey barge
• hoverbarge
• monkey barge
• shoulder-barge
• Thames barge
• Thames sailing barge

 

Translations

flat-bottomed bulk carrier mainly for inland waters

• Afrikaans: aak
• Belarusian: ба́ржа f (bárža)
• Bulgarian: шлеп (bg) (šlep)
• Catalan: barcassa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 駁船／驳船 (zh) (bóchuán)

• Crimean Tatar: barja
• Czech: člun (cs) m
• Danish: pram
• Dutch: duwbak (nl), aak (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: barĝo
• Estonian: praam
• Finnish: proomu (fi), lotja (fi)
• French: chaland (fr) m
• Galician: barca (gl) f, barcaza f
• German: Lastkahn (de) m, Schleppkahn (de) m
• Greek: φορτηγίδα (el) f (fortigída)

  Ancient: βᾶρις f (bâris)

• Hebrew: אַרְבָּה (he) f (arbá), דוברה (he) f (dovrá)
• Hindi: बजरा (hi) m (bajrā)
• Hungarian: bárka (hu) sg, uszály (hu)
• Icelandic: prammi m
• Irish: báirse m
• Italian: chiatta (it) f, maona f, bettolina f
• Japanese: 艀 (ja) (はしけ, hashike), はしけ (ja) (hashike)
• Korean: 짐배 (jimbae), 바지선 (ko) (bajiseon)
• Macedonian: ба́ржа f (bárža), шлеп m (šlep)
• Maori: pāti
• Mongolian: чиргүүл онгоц (čirgüül ongoc), ачааны онгоц (ačaany ongoc), барж (barž)
• Norwegian: pram m
• Persian: دوبه (fa) (dube)
• Polish: tratwa (pl) f, barka (pl) f
• Portuguese: barcaça (pt) f
• Romanian: mahonă (ro) f
• Russian: ба́ржа (ru) f (bárža), ба́рка (ru) f (bárka)
• Spanish: lancha a remolque f, barcaza (es) f
• Swedish: pråm (sv) c
• Tagalog: gabara
• Ukrainian: ба́ржа (uk) f (bárža)
• Vietnamese: sà lan (vi)
• Welsh: cwch camlas m

rowed ceremonial vessel

• Bulgarian: баркас (barkas)
• Finnish: kaleeri (fi)
• Hebrew: אַרְבָּה (he) f (arbá)

coastal trading vessel

• Afrikaans: aak
• Bulgarian: баркас (barkas)
• Dutch: aak (nl) m
• Macedonian: ба́рка f (bárka)
• Polish: barka (pl) f
• Russian: ба́рка (ru) f (bárka), барка́с (ru) m (barkás)

one of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars

• Polish: szalupa (pl) f

the wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table

• Italian: paniere (it) m

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Translations to be checked

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 바지선 (ko) (bajiseon)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} అతిక్రమించు (te) (atikramiñcu)

Verb

barge (third-person singular simple present barges, present participle barging, simple past and past participle barged)

1. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
   • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 209:

     I mean I couldn't sit there on that desk for the rest of my life, and besides, I was afraid my parents might barge in on me all of a sudden and I wanted to at least say hello to her before they did.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 52:

     In making this extension, the Metropolitan also built a connection from Farringdon Street towards an overground railway that had just barged its way into the City from Kent. This railway was the London, Chatham & Dover.

2. (transitive) To push someone.
   • 2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     The home side were professionally going about their business and were denied a spot-kick when Dunne clumsily barged Nani off the ball.

Derived terms

• barge into
• shoulder-barge

Translations

to roughly and unwelcomely push through a group

Anagrams

• Gaber, Aberg, Berga, begar, rebag, Garbe, Brega

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁʒ/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Variant of barje, clipping of barjot, verlan form of jobard.

Adjective

barge (plural barges)

1. (Verlan) nuts, bananas (crazy)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French barge, from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjr

(“transport ship”). Doublet of barque.

Noun

barge f (plural barges)

1. barge (boat)

Descendants

• → Russian: баржа (barža)
  • → Georgian: ბარჟა (barža)

Etymology 3

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *bardea, of Gaulish origin.

Noun

barge f (plural barges)

1. godwit

Further reading

• “barge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• gerba

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bargge, baarge, berge, barche

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French barge, from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjr

(“transport ship”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbard͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈbaːrd͡ʒ(ə)/

Noun

barge (plural barges)

1. A medium ship or boat, especially one protecting a larger ship.
2. A barge, especially one used for official or ceremonial purposes.

Descendants

• English: barge
• Scots: bairge (possibly)

References

• “bā̆rǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈparːke/

Verb

barge

1. inflection of bargat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjr

(“transport ship”).

Noun

barge oblique singular, f (oblique plural barges, nominative singular barge, nominative plural barges)

1. boat

Descendants

• Middle French: barge
  • French: barge
    • → Russian: баржа (barža)
• → Middle English: barge, bargge, baarge, berge, barche
  • English: barge
  • Scots: bairge (possibly)