A large, open, flat-bottomed Slavic boat used for transport, similar to a baidak.
From Russian baidár, related to Turkic roots; the term refers to shallow-draft boats designed for river and coastal navigation in Eastern Europe.
Baidars and their variants show how vocabulary spreads—the Turkic word traveled into Russian, then into English, as traders and explorers from different cultures met on shared waterways.
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