{"id":12454,"date":"2016-06-11T14:05:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12454"},"modified":"2016-06-11T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T13:05:58","slug":"rowing-your-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12454","title":{"rendered":"Rowing your boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French equivalent of to go for a row (in a boat), is <em>faire un tour en barque<\/em> or <em>faire de la barque<\/em>, and to row (a boat) is <em>ramer<\/em>, which also means to stake, although if you&#8217;re rowing as a sport then it&#8217;s <em>faire de l&#8217;aviron<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>A <em>barque<\/em> is a small boat or rowing boat, a <em>barque de p\u00eache<\/em> is a fishing boat, a <em>patron de barque<\/em> is a skipper. <em>Aviron<\/em> is rowing or an oar, which is also <em>main d&#8217;aviron<\/em> or <em>pagaie<\/em>, and <em>avironner<\/em> means to paddle, which is also <em>pagayer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To ram in French is <em>percuter<\/em>, and a battering ram is a <em>b\u00e9lier<\/em>, which is also a ram (male sheep).<\/p>\n<p>A row (noise) in French is <em>un vacarme<\/em>, and a row (noisy argument) <em>une dispute<\/em> and to row is <em>se disputer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So to have a row [ra\u028a] while going for a row [r\u0259\u028a] would be &#8220;se disputer en faire un tour en barque&#8221;, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/english-french\/row\"><em>Reverso<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French equivalent of to go for a row (in a boat), is faire un tour en barque or faire de la barque, and to row (a boat) is ramer, which also means to stake, although if you&#8217;re rowing as a sport then it&#8217;s faire de l&#8217;aviron. A barque is a small boat or rowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}