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English
Etymology
From air + -craft.
Pronunciation
Noun
aircraft (plural aircraft)
- A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift
- Hypernym: vehicle
- Hyponyms: airplane, helicopter
light aircraft
aircraft manufacturer
aircraft licence
Usage notes
- The nonstandard plural form aircrafts is in use among non-native speakers of English and colloquially.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
machine capable of atmospheric flight
- Afrikaans: lugvaartuig
- Albanian: avion (sq) m
- Arabic: طَائِرَة (ar) f (ṭāʔira)
- Armenian: օդանավ (hy) (ōdanav)
- Bashkir: осҡос (osqos)
- Basque: hegazkinen
- Bengali: বিমান (bn) (biman)
- Bulgarian: самолет (bg) m (samolet)
- Burmese: လေယာဉ်ပျံ (my) (leyanypyam)
- Catalan: aeronau (ca) f
- Chichewa: ndege
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 飛行器 / 飞行器 (hui-hêng-khì)
- Mandarin: 航空器 (zh) (hángkōngqì), 飛機 / 飞机 (zh) (fēijī)
- Czech: letadlo (cs) n
- Danish: luftfartøj (da) n
- Dutch: luchtvaartuig (nl) n
- Dzongkha: གནམ་གྲུ (gnam gru)
- Esperanto: aerveturilo
- Estonian: õhusõiduk
- Faroese: flogfar flúgvari
- Finnish: lentokone (fi), ilma-alus (fi)
- French: aéronef (fr) m
- Galician: aeronaves m
- Georgian: თვითმფრინავი (ka) (tvitmprinavi)
- German: Luftfahrzeug (de) n; (airplane) Flugzeug (de) n
- Greek: αεροσκάφος (el) n (aeroskáfos)
- Hebrew: כְּלִי טַיִס (he) m (kli-tayis)
- Hindi: विमान (hi) (vimān)
- Hungarian: légi jármű, repülőgép (hu) (airplane), repülő (hu) (colloquial)
- Icelandic: loftfar n
- Ido: aviacilo (io)
- Indonesian: pesawat udara
- Interlingua: 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)
- Kazakh: әуе көлігі (äue kölıgı)
- Korean: 항공기(航空器) (ko) (hanggonggi)
- Latin: aërium vehīculum n (New Latin)
- Latvian: lidmašīna f, lidaparāts m
- Luhya: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: летало n (letalo)
- Malay: pesawat (ms)
- Malayalam: ആകാശനൗക (ml) (ākāśanauka), വിമാനം (ml) (vimānaṁ)
- Maltese: ajruplan
- Marathi: विमान n (vimān)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: агаарын хөлөг (agaaryn xölög)
- Navajo: chidí naatʼaʼí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: luftfartøy (no) n
- Nynorsk: luftfartøy n
- Ojibwe: bemisemagak
- Papiamentu: aeroplanu
- Persian: هواپیما (fa) (havâpeymâ)
- Polish: statek powietrzny m, aerodyna (pl) f (dated)
- Portuguese: aeronave (pt) f
- Romanian: aeronavă (ro) f, aparat de zbor n, aparat zburător n
- Russian: лета́тельный аппара́т (ru) m (letátelʹnyj apparát), возду́шное су́дно (ru) n (vozdúšnoje súdno), самолёт (ru) m (samoljót)
- Sanskrit: विमान (sa) (vimāna)
- 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
- Swedish: luftfartyg (sv) n, luftfarkost (sv) c
- Tagalog: eroplano (tl)
- Tajik: ҳавопаймоӣ (havopaymoi)
- Tamil: விமானம் (ta) (vimāṉam)
- Telugu: విమానము (te) (vimānamu)
- Thai: อากาศยาน (th) (aa-gàat-sà-yaan)
- Tibetan: གནམ་གྲུ (gnam gru) (lit. sky-ship), ནམ་མཁར་འཕུར་སྐྱོད་ཐུབ་པའི་གྲུ (nam mkhar 'phur skyod thub pa'i gru) (lit. vessel that can fly in the heavens)
- Tok Pisin: balus (tpi)
- Turkish: hava taşıtı (tr), hava aracı (tr)
- Ukrainian: літа́льний апара́т m (litálʹnyj aparát), пові́тря́не судно́ n (povítrjáne sudnó); літак (uk) m (litak) (airplane)
- Urdu: طیارہ (teyāra), ہوائی جہاز (hawāī-jahāz), جہاز (jahāz), ہوا پیما (hawā-pemā)
- Uzbek: samolyot (uz)
- Vietnamese: phi cơ (vi) (飛機), máy bay (vi) (𣛠𩙻)
- Võro: aeroplaan
- West Frisian: fleantúch n, fleanmasine
- Yakut: самолет (samolet)
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