Definitions For Caravel

Noun

CARAVEL (plural CARAVELs) (nautical, historical) A light#adjective, light, usually lateen-rigged#adjective, rigged sailing#adjective, sailing ship#noun, ship used by the portuguese and spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century, first for trade#noun, trade and later for voyage#noun, voyages of exploration. : {{synonyms, en, carvel, q1=one sense}}

Alternative forms

caraval {{qualifier, obsolete}} caravelle

Translations

Afrikaans: karveel Arabic: كارافيل Armenian: կարավելլա Asturian: carabela, f Azerbaijani: karavella Basque: karabela Belarusian: каравела, f Bulgarian: каравела Catalan: caravel·la, f Chinese: : Mandarin: 卡拉維爾帆船}}, {{t, cmn, 卡拉维尔帆船 (kǎlāwéiěrfānchuán) Czech: karavela, f Danish: karavel Dutch: karveel Esperanto: karavelo Estonian: karavell Finnish: karavelli French: caravelle, f Galician: carabela, f German: Karavelle, f Greek: καραβέλα, f Hebrew: קרוולה, f Hungarian: karavella Icelandic: karavella, f Ido: karavelo Indonesian: karavel Irish: carbhal Italian: caravella, f Japanese: キャラベル船 Korean: 캐러벨 Kurdish: karavel Lithuanian: karavelė Macedonian: каравела, f Malay: caravel Norwegian: : Bokmål: karavell : Nynorsk: karavell Occitan: caravèla, f Polish: karawela Portuguese: caravela, f Romanian: caravelă, f Russian: караве́лла, f Scots: caravel Serbo-Croatian: karavela, f, каравела, f Slovene: caravela Spanish: carabela, f Swedish: karavell Tagalog: karabela Turkish: karavel Ukrainian: карав́ела, f Welsh: carfil, f

Etymology

, france.}}]] From "type of light ship; kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; kind of crustacean, probably a crayfish".{{R:Lexico, nodot=yes}}; compare {{R:OED Online, pos=n, id=27723, date=1888}}

Notes

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Anagrams

acerval