barque

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barque

/bɑɹk/ US
/bɑːk/ UK

Sounds like bark · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)k

Where it comes from

From Middle English barke (“boat”), borrowed from Middle French barque, itself borrowed from Italian barca or a Medieval Latin equivalent, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris) 'Egyptian boat', from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship, type of fish”), b-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1. Doublet of bark, barge and baris. Possibly cognate with Spanish barco.

noun barques · bark

A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged On being told, however, that the Norwegian barque Daphne was about to leave An-peng for Tamsui, I had my things taken on board, and we set sail a few hours later.
archaic Any small sailing vessel.
Similar: boat
poetic A sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Barque of phosphor On the palmy beach…

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noun sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged

Español	bricbarca
Français	barque
Ελληνικά	μπάρκο bárko
Русский	барк bark, па́русник párusnik
עברית	בַּרְקָה barka, בַּארְק bark

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@misc{barque_2026,
  title = {barque},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/barque},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}