# babord
## Catalan
### Etymology

From French babord.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [bəˈβort]
* IPA: (Balearic) [bəˈbort]
* IPA: (Valencia) [baˈboɾt]

### Noun

babord m (plural babords)
* port (left side of a boat or ship)

#### Antonyms

* estribord

### Further reading

* “babord” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “babord”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “babord” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “babord” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ba.bɔʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

babord m (plural babords)
* Archaic spelling of bâbord.; larboard, port (the left side of a ship)
    Antonym: tribord

### Further reading

* “babord”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* bobard

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old Norse bakborði.

### Noun

babord m (plural babords)
* (nautical) port (left-hand side of a vessel)

#### Derived terms

* à babord (“aport”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse bakborð, bakborði.

### Adverb

babord
* (nautical) aport

### Noun

babord (indeclinable) (uncountable)
* (nautical, aviation) port (left hand side)

#### Related terms

* styrbord

### References

* “babord” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* bakbord

### Etymology

From Old Norse bakborð, bakborði or from Dutch bakboord. Cognate with Danish bagbord and Swedish babord. Compare also Spanish babor, Finnish paapuuri and French bâbord.

### Adverb

babord
* (nautical) aport
** 2010, Storbynatt‎:Intervjuar: Men ka du sa som (va) muliheten før å komm’ sæ unna da? Harald Anton Adolfsen: Vi ha’ itj fått løs tampan’, vi på babord sia, fordi der va flammen og der kom røyken ut. Vi va itj kome båtlaus fra’n, for hann hadd sætt att tampan’ sine på babord sia tå oss, hann. Intervjuar: Og viss dere hadd kjørt bære da? Adolfsen: Kjørt bære? Da hadd vi tatt med oss hann òg da.The interviewer: But what you said about the escape possibility? Harald Anton Adolfsen: We, who were on the aport side, haven’t get loose the hawser ends, because there was the flame and the smoke came therefrom. We weren’t coming away from him (the boat), ’cause he got his hawser ends on the aport side from us. The interviewer: And what if you just took off? Adolfsen: Took off? Then we would take him (the boat) with us (pulled behind our boat).

### Noun

babord (indeclinable)
* (nautical, aviation, uncountable) port (left hand side)

#### Related terms

* styrbord

### References

* “babord” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bâbord.

### Noun

babord n (plural baborduri)
* port (left-hand side of a vessel)

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

From bak (“back, behind”) +‎ bord (“bord, side of ship”), i.e. the side you turned your back to when steering the vessel as the steering oar was on starboard side. Calque of Dutch bakboord. First attested in 1691.

### Adverb

babord (not comparable)
* aport, on the left side of a vessel
    Antonym: styrbord

### Noun

babord n
* port, left side of a vessel
    Antonym: styrbord

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ babord in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* babord in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (14th ed., online)
* babord in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
* babord in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)