oil tanker

English

The commercial oil tanker AbQaiq

Noun

oil tanker (plural oil tankers)

1. (nautical) A ship that transports oil (petroleum), such as crude oil or bunker oil.

   Synonym: oiler

   Hypernym: tanker

   Hyponym: supertanker

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141:

     Giant oil-tankers can often be seen easing up and down Milford Haven, where a vast new port has been developed since the late 1950s.

Translations

a ship that transports oil (petroleum)

• Afrikaans: olietenkskip
• Arabic: ناقلة نفط
• Azerbaijani: neft tankeri
• Basque: petrolio-ontz
• Burmese: ရေနံတင်သင်္ဘော (my) (renamtangsangbhau:)
• Catalan: petrolier (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 油輪 / 油轮 (jau⁴ leon⁴)

  Hokkien: 油輪 / 油轮 (iû-lûn)

  Mandarin: 油輪 / 油轮 (zh) (yóulún)

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} tanková loď f
• Danish: olietankskib
• Dutch: olietanker (nl) m
• Esperanto: naftoŝipo
• Finnish: öljytankkeri (fi)
• French: pétrolier (fr) m
• Galician: petroleiro (gl) m
• German: Öltanker (de) m
• Greek: πετρελαιοφόρο (el) n (petrelaiofóro)
• Hebrew: מכלית נפט (he) (mekhalit neft)
• Hungarian: tankhajó (hu), olajszállító hajó, tanker (hu), tartályhajó (hu)
• Icelandic: olíuskip (is)
• Indonesian: kapal tanker minyak
• Italian: petroliera (it) f
• Japanese: 石油タンカー (sekiyutanka)
• Korean: 유조선 (ko) (yujoseon)
• Latin: navis petrolearia f
• Luxembourgish: Pëtrolstanker
• Malay: kapal tangki
• Marathi: तेलवाहू जहाज n (telvāhū jahāj)
• Norman: navithe à pétrole m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oljetanker m

  Nynorsk: oljetankar m

• Occitan: petrolier m
• Persian: نفتکش (fa) (naft-keš)
• Polish: tankowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: petroleiro (pt) m
• Romanian: petrolier (ro) m, tanc petrolier (ro) n
• Russian: нефтяной танкер (neftjanoj tanker)
• Slovene: naftni tanker
• Spanish: petrolero m, carrotanque m
• Swedish: oljetanker (sv)
• Turkish: petrol tankeri
• Ukrainian: на́фто́вий та́нкер m (náftóvyj tánker)
• Welsh: tancer olew m

See also

• bunker
• bunker fuel