wind turbine

English

Wind turbines in the North Sea off the coast of Belgium.

Noun

wind turbine (plural wind turbines)

1. A device for converting wind power into electricity.

Synonyms

• wind generator

Derived terms

• floating wind turbine

 

Translations

device

• Armenian: հողմաշարժիչ (hy) (hoġmašaržičʻ)
• Belarusian: ветрагенератар m (vjetrahjenjeratar), вятрак m (vjatrak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 風力發電機／风力发电机 (fēnglì fādiànjī)

• Danish: vindmølle (da) c
• Dutch: windturbine (nl) f
• Esperanto: ventoturbino
• Estonian: tuulegeneraator
• Finnish: tuuliturbiini (fi)
• French: éolienne (fr) f
• Fula:

  Adlam: 𞤧𞤫𞤯𞤢 𞤸𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤵

  Latin: seɗa hendu

• Galician: aeroxerador m, muíño de vento (gl) m, muíño eólico m
• Georgian: ქარის ტურბინა (karis ṭurbina)
• German: Windkraftanlage (de) f
• Greek: ανεμογεννήτρια (el) (anemogennítria)
• Hebrew: טורבינת רוח (he)
• Hungarian: szélturbina (hu)
• Icelandic: vindmylla (is) f
• Ido: ventoturbino
• Irish: tuirbín gaoithe m
• Italian: ventoturbino m
• Japanese: 風力タービン (fūryoku tābin)
• Latvian: vēja turbīnu
• Macedonian: ветротурбина f (vetroturbina)
• Maori: pūrere kapohau
• Navajo: béésh náábałí atsiniltłʼish ííłʼínígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vindmølle (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: vindmølle f

• Polish: turbina wiatrowa f
• Portuguese: aerogerador m, turbina eólica f
• Romanian: centrală electroeoliană f, turbină eoliană f
• Russian: ветрогенера́тор (ru) m (vetrogenerátor)
• Scottish Gaelic: crann-gaoithe m
• Spanish: aerogenerador m, molino eólico m, molino de viento m
• Swedish: vindkraftverk (sv), vindturbin (sv)
• Turkish: rüzgâr türbini
• Ukrainian: вітрогенератор m (vitrohenerator)
• Walloon: olyinne
• Welsh: tyrbin gwynt m

See also

• wind farm
• windmill

Further reading

• wind turbine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia