A small vessel for travel on water
English: boat
perahuBahasa Indonesia
barge, boat, canoe, dugout, dugout canoe
Common
#3,078 of the corpus · 34.6 per million words · 147,817 occurrences
Noun
A craft designed for water transportation
English: vessel, watercraft
Bahasa: kapal
A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
English: barge, flatboat, hoy, lighter
Bahasa: tongkang, kapal sungai
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2 more noun senses
Small and light boat, pointed at both ends, propelled with a paddle
English: canoe
Bahasa: jalur, kano, jongkong, kolek, wangkang
Less certain link between this word and this sense.
A canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
English: dugout canoe, dugout, pirogue
Less certain link between this word and this sense.