raft

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɑːft/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹæft/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːft

Etymology 1

an inflatable life raft

a wooden raft

From Scandinavian; compare West Old Norse raptr (“rafter”), Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).

Noun

raft (plural rafts)

1. A flat structure made of planks, barrels etc., that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies or a platform for swimmers.
2. A flat-bottomed inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water.
3. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals.
4. (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
5. (slang, informal) A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.
   • W. D. Howells

     a whole raft of folks

Derived terms

• life raft

Translations

flat, floating structure

• Albanian: trap m
• Arabic: طوف m (ṭawf)
• Armenian: լաստ (last)
• Azeri: sal (az)
• Belarusian: плыт m (plyt)
• Bulgarian: сал (bg) m (sal)
• Catalan: rai (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 木排 (zh) (mùpái), 筏 (zh) (fá)

• Czech: vor (cs) m
• Danish: flåde
• Dutch: vlot (nl) n
• Estonian: parv
• Faroese: flaki m
• Finnish: lautta (fi)
• French: radeau (fr) m
• Georgian: ტივი (tivi)
• German: Floß (de) n
• Greek: σχεδία (el) f (schedía)
• Hebrew: רַפסוֹדָה (he)
• Hindi: बेड़ा m (bēṛā)
• Hungarian: tutaj (hu)
• Icelandic: fleki (is) m
• Irish: rafta m
• Italian: zattera (it)
• Japanese: いかだ (ikada)
• Korean: 뗏목 (ko) (ttetmok)
• Lao: ແພ (lo) (phǣ)

• Latgalian: sīlejs m
• Latin: trabica f
• Latvian: plosts m
• Lithuanian: plaustas m
• Macedonian: сплав m (splav)
• Maori: mōkihi, mōkī
• Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flåte m

  Nynorsk: flote m, flåte m

• Persian: کلک (fa) (kalak)
• Polish: tratwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: balsa (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਬੇੜਾ m (bēṛā)
• Romanian: plută (ro) f
• Russian: плот (ru) m (plot)
• Serbo-Croatian: splav f, сплав f
• Slovak: plť f
• Slovene: splav (sl) m
• Spanish: balsa (es) f
• Swedish: flotte (sv) c
• Telugu: తెప్ప (te) (teppa)
• Thai: แพ (th) (pae)
• Turkish: sal (tr)
• Ukrainian: пліт m (plit)
• Vietnamese: bè (vi)
• Volapük: floted (vo), boadafloted

inflatable floating craft

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橡皮艇 (zh) (xiàngpítǐng)

• Czech: raft m
• Dutch: rubberboot
• Finnish: lautta (fi), kumilautta (fi)
• German: Schlauchboot (de) n

• Italian: gommone m
• Japanese: ラフト (rafuto)
• Polish: tratwa (pl) f
• Russian: плот (ru) m (plot), рафт m (raft)
• Swedish: flotte (sv) c

Verb

raft (third-person singular simple present rafts, present participle rafting, simple past and past participle rafted)

1. (transitive) to convey on a raft
2. (transitive) to make into a raft
3. (intransitive) to travel by raft

Translations

to convey on a raft

• Finnish: kuljettaa lautalla

• Maori: mōkihi, mōkī

to make into a raft

• Finnish: tehdä lautta

to convey on a raft

• Finnish: kulkea lautalla

Related terms

• rafter
• whitewater rafting

Etymology 2

Alteration of raff.

Noun

raft (plural rafts)

1. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
   • 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 31:

     Among those arrested was the grand master himself, Jacques de Molay, who found himself facing a raft of charges based on the specious evidence of former knights [...].

Translations

large but unspecified number of something

• Finnish: roppakaupalla
• French: multitude (fr), masse (fr)

• Russian: уйма (ru) f (újma), куча (ru) f (kúča), множество (ru) n (mnóžestvo)

Etymology 3

Verb

raft

1. simple past tense and past participle of reave

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Anagrams

• fart
• frat
• RTFA
• traf, TRAF

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Albanian

Etymology

From the Turkish raf.

Noun

raft m

1. shelf

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Czech

Etymology

From English raft.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raft/

Noun

raft m

1. raft (inflatable floating craft)

Declension

Declension of raft

	singular	plural
nominative	raft	rafty
genitive	raftu	raftů
dative	raftu	raftům
accusative	raft	rafty
vocative	rafte	rafty
locative	raftu	raftech
instrumental	raftem	rafty