aircraft

English

Etymology

From air +‎ craft.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛə.kɹɑː̩ft/, /ɛː.kɹɑː̩ft/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛəɹ.kɹæft/, /ɛːɹ.kɹæft/

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Noun

aircraft (plural aircraft)

1. A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift

Usage notes

• The nonstandard plural form aircrafts is in use among non-native speakers of English.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:aircraft

Derived terms

• aircraft carrier
• aircraft movement
• model aircraft
• rocket aircraft

 

Related terms

• spacecraft
• watercraft

 

Translations

machine capable of atmospheric flight

• Albanian: avion (sq) m
• Arabic: طَائِرَة‎ (ar) f (ṭāʾira)
• Armenian: օդանավ (hy) (ōdanav)
• Bashkir: осҡос (osqos)
• Basque: hegazkinen
• Bengali: বিমান (bn) (bimāna)
• Bulgarian: самолет (bg) m (samolet)
• Burmese: လေယာဉ်ပျံ (my) (leyanypyam)
• Catalan: aeronau (ca) f
• Chichewa: ndege
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 航空器 (zh) (hángkōngqì), 飛機 (zh), 飞机 (zh) (fēijī)

  Min Nan: 飞行器 (hui1-hing5-khi3)

• Czech: letadlo (cs) n
• Danish: luftfartøj (da) n
• Dutch: luchtvaartuig (nl) n
• Esperanto: aerveturilo
• Estonian: õhusõiduk
• Faroese: flogfar
• Finnish: lentokone (fi), ilma-alus (fi)
• French: aéronef (fr) m
• Galician: aeronaves m
• Georgian: თვითმფრინავი (ka) (tvitmprinavi)
• German: Luftfahrzeug (de) n; but when meaning "airplane" use Flugzeug (de) n
• Greek: αεροσκάφος (el) n (aeroskáfos)
• Hebrew: כְּלִי טַיִס‎ (he) m (kli-tayis)
• Hungarian: repülőgép (hu), repülő (hu) (colloquial)
• Ido: aviacilo (io)
• Indonesian: pesawat udara
• Interlingua: aeronave, avion
• Interlingue: aeronave, avion
• Irish: aerárthach m
• Italian: aeromobile (it) m
• Japanese: 航空機 (ja) (こうくうき, kōkūki), 飛行機 (ja) (ひこうき, hikōki)
• Javanese: ꦥꦭ꧀ꦮꦲꦁꦒꦼꦒꦤ (palwa anggegana)
• Kannada: ವಿಮಾನ (kn) (vimāna)
• Korean: 항공기 (ko) (hanggonggi) (航空器)

• Latvian: lidmašīna f, lidaparāts m
• Luhya: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: летало n (letalo), авион m (avion)
• Malay: pesawat
• Malayalam: ആകാശനൗക (ml) (ākāśanauka), വിമാനം (ml) (vimānaṃ)
• Maltese: ajruplan
• Navajo: chidí naatʼaʼí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luftfartøy (no) n

  Nynorsk: luftfartøy n

• Ojibwe: bemisemagak
• Papiamentu: aeroplanu
• Persian: هواپیما‎ (fa) (havâpeymâ)
• Polish: statek powietrzny m
• Portuguese: aeronave (pt) f
• Romanian: aeronavă (ro) f, aparat de zbor n, aparat zburător n
• Russian: лета́тельный аппара́т (ru) m (letátelʹnyj apparát), возду́шное су́дно n (vozdúšnoje súdno), самолёт (ru) m (samoljót)
• Serbo-Croatian: zrakoplov (sh) m

  Cyrillic: лѐтелица f / лѐтјелица f

  Roman: lètelica (sh) f / lètjelica (sh) f, vazduhoplov (sh), zrȁkoplōv (sh) m (Croatia)

• Slovak: lietadlo (sk) n
• Slovene: letal n
• Spanish: aeronave (es) f
• Tagalog: salipaw, eroplano (tl)
• Tajik: ҳавопаймоӣ (havopaymoyī)
• Tamil: விமானம் (ta) (vimāṉam)
• Telugu: విమానము (te) (vimānamu)
• Thai: อากาศยาน (aa-gàat-sà-yaan)
• Tok Pisin: balus (tpi)
• Turkish: hava taşıtı (tr)
• Ukrainian: літак (uk) m (litak)
• Uzbek: samolyot (uz)
• Vietnamese: phi cơ (vi), máy bay (vi)
• Võro: aeroplaan
• West Frisian: fleantúch n, fleanmasine

See also

• aeroplane (UK), airplane (US)