sampan

From Sinitic, likely Cantonese 三板 (saam1 baan2) or Min Nan 舢舨 (sam-pán).

sampan (plural sampans)

1. A flat-bottomed Chinese wooden boat propelled by two oars.

• champan (archaic)

From Chinese.

• IPA^(key): /sɑmpɑn/

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• Hyphenation: sam‧pan

sampan f (plural sampans)

1. sampan (Chinese wooden boat)

sampan (plural sampan-sampan, informal first-person possessive sampanku, informal second-person possessive sampanmu, third-person possessive sampannya)

1. sampan

From English sampan, from Sinitic, see the English entry.

sampan m (definite singular sampanen, indefinite plural sampaner, definite plural sampanene)

1. (nautical) a sampan
   • 2014, "Den tapte historien" by Kim Fay, Bazarforlag →ISBN

     Mellom dem drev sampaner som så ut som de var kommet seilende fra et annet århundre.

     Between them went sampans that looked as though they were sailing in from another century.

• “sampan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sampan” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English sampan, from Sinitic, see the English entry.

sampan m (definite singular sampanen, indefinite plural sampanar, definite plural sampanane)

1. (nautical) a sampan

• “sampan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.