Bumboot
A bumboat in the new settlement Changi Village in northeast Singapore waits for passengers to the island of Ubin
As bumboat (from English :. Bumboat ) refers to a small boat dealer to supply larger, on roads lying ships. The name originally referred to a skinner's boat . The name possibly comes from the Dutch word " boomschuit " ("tree boat") for a dugout canoe , which later also named Dutch fishing vessels.
In Singapore , bumboat refers to small water taxis and boats for short tourist tours.
In the middle of the 19th century, the Arabic dance music style Bambutiyya was derived from the term bumboot , which was created in Port Said and other port cities on the Suez Canal for the entertainment of seafarers and whose leading melodic instrument is still the lyre Simsimiyya .
literature
- Duden . The big foreign dictionary. 4th edition. Dudenverlag, Mannheim, Leipzig, Vienna, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-90063-3 .
- Meyer's Konversationslexikon on zeno.org. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. 1905, p. 212 , accessed March 20, 2011 .
- Pierer's Universal Lexicon at zeno.org. In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon. 1857, p. 451 , accessed March 20, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Stokes: La Simsimiyya de Port-Said. Ensemble Al-Tanburah. Discussion of the CD of the Institut du Monde Arab, Paris 1999