Popemobile

See also: popemobile

English

Pope Benedict XVI tours São Paulo in a Popemobile.

Etymology

pope +‎ -mobile. Calque of Italian papamobile.

Noun

Popemobile (plural Popemobiles)

1. (informal) Any of various vehicles with bulletproof glass sides used to transport the Pope through crowds safely while allowing an open view.

Usage notes

• Pope John Paul II requested in 2002 that people avoid referring to the vehicle by that name because it sounded “undignified.”

Translations

any of various vehicles with bulletproof glass sides used to transport the Pope

• Afrikaans: pousmobiel
• Armenian: պապամոբիլ (hy) (papamobil)
• Belarusian: папамабіль (papamabilʹ)
• Catalan: papamòbil
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教宗座驾 (jiàozōng zuòjià)

• Czech: papamobil (cs)
• Danish: pavemobil c
• Dutch: pausmobiel m
• Esperanto: papamobilo
• Finnish: paavimobiili
• French: papamobile (fr) f
• German: Papamobil (de) n
• Greek: παποκίνητο (papokínito), παπικό όχημα (papikó óchima), ειδικό όχημα μεταφοράς του πάπα (eidikó óchima metaforás tou pápa)
• Hebrew: פופמוביל
• Indonesian: Mobil Paus
• Italian: papamobile (it) f
• Japanese: パパモビル (Papamobiru)
• Korean: 교황 전용차 (gyohwang jeonyongcha)
• Latin: papocinetum
• Lithuanian: papamobilis
• Norwegian Bokmål: popemobile (no)
• Polish: papamobile (pl) n
• Portuguese: papamóvel (pt) m
• Romanian: papamobil
• Russian: папамоби́ль (ru) m (papamobílʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: papamobil (sh)
• Slovene: papeževo vozilo n
• Spanish: papamóvil (es) m
• Swedish: popemobile c, påvemobil
• Ukrainian: папамобіль (uk) (papamobilʹ)
• Waray-Waray: papamobil