From Lombardic skif (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“boat, ship”).

• Hyphenation: es‧qui‧fe

esquife m (plural esquifes)

1. (nautical) skiff
2. tomb

   Synonym: tumba

• “esquife”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “esquife”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Catalan esquif. Doublet of equipo.

• IPA^(key): /esˈkife/ [esˈki.fe]
• Rhymes: -ife
• Syllabification: es‧qui‧fe

esquife m (plural esquifes)

1. (nautical) skiff
2. (architcture) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• “esquife”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025