ankare
See also: aṅkāre
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse akkeri. Cognate with Icelandic akkeri.
Noun
ankare n
- (nautical) an anchor (tool to hook a vessel into sea bottom)
- (Internet) anchor; an HTML/XHTML mark-up tag to define a position in a file, or a link to a URL.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | ankare | ankares |
| definite | ankaret | ankarets | |
| plural | indefinite | ankare | ankares |
| definite | ankarna | ankarnas |
Synonyms
- ankar (in certain expressions)
Derived terms
- ankarblock
- ankarbult
- ankarfäste
- ankargrund
- ankarkätting
- ankarlina
- ankarplats
- ankarspel
- ankarstock
- ankartross
- bogankare
- drivankare
- moringsankare
- murankare
- nyhetsankare
- stockankare
- varpankare
Related terms
Further reading
- “ankare”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- ankare in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- ankare in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)