Rowing terms in different languages

There are a number of useful resources on the www listing rowing terms in different languages.  This page aims to list some of these.  If you have any additions or corrections to these urls (including finding the lost links), please let me know.

• English-Dutch and Dutch-English Rowing Glossary
  has English/Dutch, plus links to other language pages, including:

  • "Rowing Glossary UK-US", Rachel Quarrell, Oxford and Conan L. Hom, lurker-in-chief, MIT.
    ( http://users.ox.ac.uk/~quarrell/glossary.html)
  • "Rowing Terms", The Coxswain's Locker, Inc.
    ( http://www.coxing.com/info/Terms.html) [now moved to http://www.coxing.com/info/RowingTerms.pdf ]
  • "Rowing-x.pert dictionary", Florian Caspari, Hanau, Germany.
    ( http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~fcaspari/row01a.htm) (no longer available, but see PDF version, and see DRV below, & now see  weRow.com)
  • Ozawa rowing information:
    • Japanese-English rowing glossary (? now replaced by http://www2.cc22.ne.jp/~ozwrow/ozr/r00all/term/rowterm1.html, but may need appropriate character set ?)
    • English-German-French-Dutch-Japanese-Kanji/JPN rowing glossary [, replacing previous English-German-French-Japanese-Kanji/JPN rowing glossary]
  • French, English, Spanish, German rowing dictionary
    ? no longer available at this url, but see:
    • http://www.avironfrance.asso.fr/infos/dico.htm
      Dictionnaire français / anglais / espagnol / allemand,
      based on FISA guide, though this has some errors (e.g. confusion between bow & stern!)

    • http://www.avironfrance.asso.fr/infos/petit-rameur-illustre.htm
      Le petit rameur illustré

  • Quinsigamond Rowing Association Rowing Glossary
  • New South Wales Rowing Glossary

• Ruder-Wörterbücher (rowing-x.pert) (based on Florian Caspari's work) [replacing previous url from the Deutscher Ruderverband]

  • German to English

  • German to French

  • English to French

• http://uni2a.unige.ch/~fall/glossaire.html (English/French)

• http://www.federemo.org/diccionario.htm
  Diccionario Español, Francés, Inglés, Alemán (again based on the FISA guide, & has the same errors, such as bow/stern)

• http://www.lexique-jo.org/liste4.cfm?rubrique=AVIR (English/ French) []

I have also been reminded that coxing terms in different languages are included in Tom Hooper's book "Coxing - Surviving the Wilderness Years" ISBN 0 9535185 0 7.
There are, of course, glossaries in numerous other books, and a beginner's guide to some of the strange rowing terms in English is in one of the books from Michael Jones.

• David Biddulph's rowing pages
• This link to send e-mail to me

This page created 25 Aug 2001, last updated 16 Feb 2008

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