A dirigible in flight. From French dirigeable ballon dirigeable ( “ steerable balloon ” ) .
dirigible (plural dirigibles
( aviation ) self-propelled airship that can be steered .
1980 AA Book of British Villages , Drive Publications Ltd, page 101 :On the opposite wall, the R101 tragedy is recalled by the airship's tattered ensign in a glass case, a plaque from the Royal Airship Works and a photograph of the dirigible at her moorings.
2023 February 4, Katie Rogers, “Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a … Chinese Spy Balloon?”, in The New York Times [1] →ISSN People had time to think up some questions, including reporters who shouted “Are you going to shoot down the balloon?” at President Biden shortly before the dirigible came down.
a self-propelled airship that can be steered
Afrikaans: lugskip (af)
Arabic: سَفِينَة هَوَائِيَّة f ( safīna(t) hawāʔiyya )
Armenian: դիրիժաբլ (hy) ( dirižabl )
Asturian: dirixible (ast) m
Basque: baloi gidatu
Belarusian: дырыжа́бль m ( dyryžáblʹ )
Bulgarian: дирижа́бъл (bg) m ( dirižábǎl )
Burmese: လေသင်္ဘော ( lesangbhau: )
Catalan: dirigible m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 飛艇 ／ 飞艇 (zh) ( fēitǐng ) , 飛船 ／ 飞船 (zh) ( fēichuán )
Chuvash: дирижабль ( dirižablʹ )
Czech: vzducholoď (cs) f
Danish: luftskib (da) n
Dutch: luchtschip (nl) n
Esperanto: aerŝipo
Estonian: õhulaev
Faroese: luftskip n
Finnish: ilmalaiva (fi)
French: ballon dirigeable (fr) m dirigeable (fr) m
Galician: dirixible (gl) m
Georgian: დირიჟაბლი ( dirižabli )
German: Luftschiff (de) n
Hebrew: ספינת אוויר / סְפִינַת אֲוִיר (he) f ( sfinát avír )
Hungarian: kormányozható léghajó léghajó (hu)
Icelandic: loftskip (is) n
Ido: aeronavo (io) , direkteblo (io)
Indonesian: kapal udara (id)
Interlingua: dirigibile
Irish: aerlong f
Italian: aeronave (it) f dirigibile (it) m
Japanese: 飛行船 (ja) ( ひこうせん, hikōsen ) , 軽気球 (ja) ( けいききゅう, keikikyū )
Javanese: palwa anggegana
Kazakh: дирижабль ( dirijabl )
Korean: 기구 (ko) ( gigu ) , 비행선 ( bihaengseon )
Kyrgyz: дирижабль (ky) ( dirijabl )
Latvian: dirižablis m
Lithuanian: dirižablis m
Low German:
German Low German: Luftschipp n Luchtschipp n
Macedonian: дирижа́бл m ( dirižábl )
Malay: kapal udara
Malayalam: ആകാശക്കപ്പൽ (ml) ( ākāśakkappal )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: luftskip n
Nynorsk: luftskip n
Old English: lyftscip n
Persian: کشتی هوایی (fa) ( kašti-ye havâyi )
Plautdietsch: Loftschepp n
Polish: sterowiec (pl) m
Portuguese: dirigível (pt) m
Romanian: balon dirijabil n dirijabil (ro) n
Russian: дирижа́бль (ru) m ( dirižáblʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дирижабл m зрачни брод m
Roman: dirižabl (sh) m zračni brod m
Slovak: vzducholoď f
Slovene: zračna ladja f
Spanish: dirigible (es) m
Swahili: ndegeputo
Swedish: luftskepp (sv) n
Tagalog: barkong panghimpapawid
Tamil: வான்கப்பல் ( vāṉkappal )
Thai: เรือเหาะ (th) ( rʉʉa-hɔ̀ )
Tibetan: རླུང་གྲུ ( rlung gru ) ( lit. air-ship )
Turkish: hava gemisi (tr)
Ukrainian: дирижа́бль m ( dyryžáblʹ )
Urdu: ہواکشتی
Uzbek: dirijabl (uz)
Vietnamese: điều khiển được khí cầu điều khiển được
Welsh: awyrlong
dirigible (comparative more dirigible , superlative most dirigible )
steerable 
