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English
Etymology
From air + line.
Noun
airline (plural airlines)
- A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.
1932, Amelia Earhart, “Air Trails of the Future”, in The Fun of It, page 205:But already there are some commercial airlines in the United States which use airplanes capable of more than 200 miles an hour.
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Derived terms
- See "derived terms" at air.
Translations
company that flies airplanes
- Afrikaans: lugdiens
- Arabic: شَرِكَة طَيَرَان f (šarikat ṭayarān), خُطُوط جَوِيَّة m pl (ḵuṭūṭ jawiyya)
- Armenian: ավիաընկերություն (hy) (aviaənkerutʻyun)
- Belarusian: авіякампа́нія f (avijakampánija)
- Bengali: এয়ারলাইন (eẏarlain)
- Bulgarian: авиокомпа́ния f (aviokompánija)
- Burmese: လေကြောင်း (my) (le-kraung:)
- Catalan: aerolínia f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 航空公司 (zh) (hángkōng gōngsī)
- Czech: letecká společnost f, aerolinie (cs) f pl, aerolinka (cs) f
- Danish: flyselskab n
- Dutch: luchtvaartmaatschappij (nl) f
- Esperanto: flugkompanio
- Faroese: flogfelag n
- Finnish: lentoyhtiö (fi)
- French: compagnie aérienne (fr) f, ligne aérienne (fr) f
- Galician: aeroliña f, compañía aérea
- Georgian: ავიაკომპანია (aviaḳomṗania), ავიახაზები (aviaxazebi)
- German: Fluggesellschaft (de) f, Airline (de) f
- Greek: αερογραμμή (el) f (aerogrammí)
- Hebrew: חֶבְרַת תְּעוּפָה (he) (hevrat t'ufa)
- Hindi: एयरलाइन (eyarlāin), हवाई कम्पनी (havāī kampanī)
- Hungarian: légitársaság (hu)
- Icelandic: flugfélag (is) n
- Indonesian: maskapai penerbangan
- Irish: aerlíne f
- Italian: linea aerea f, compagnia aerea f, aviolinea (it) f, aerolinea (it) f
- Japanese: 航空会社 (ja) (こうくうがいしゃ, kōkū-gaisha), エアライン (earain)
- Kazakh: әуекомпания (äuekompaniä)
- Khmer: អាកាសចរ (ʔaakaascɑɑ)
- Korean: 항공 회사(航空會社) (hanggong hoesa), 항공사(航空社) (ko) (hanggongsa)
- Lao: ສາຍການບິນ (lo) (sāi kān bin)
- Latvian: lidsabiedrība f
- Lithuanian: oro linija f
- Macedonian: авиоли́нија f (aviolínija), авиокомпа́нија f (aviokompánija)
- Malay: syarikat penerbangan
- Mongolian: агаарын зам (agaaryn zam)
- Norwegian: flyselskap n
- Persian: شرکت هواپیمایی (šerkat-e havâpeymâyi)
- Polish: linie lotnicze (pl) f pl
- Portuguese: linha aérea (pt) f, companhia aérea f
- Romanian: companie aeriană f, linie aeriană (ro) f
- Russian: авиакомпа́ния (ru) f (aviakompánija), авиапредприя́тие (ru) n (aviapredprijátije) (USSR), авиали́нии (ru) f pl (avialínii) (normally used in airline names)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: авиокомпа̀нија f
- Roman: aviokompànija (sh) f
- Slovak: letečká spoločnosť f, aerolínie f pl
- Slovene: letalska družba f
- Spanish: aerolínea (es) f, compañía aérea f
- Swahili: kampuni ya ndege
- Swedish: flygbolag (sv) n flygföretag n
- Tagalog: kompanyang panghimpapawid
- Thai: สายการบิน (th) (săai gaan bin)
- Turkish: hava yolu (tr)
- Ukrainian: авіакомпа́нія f (aviakompánija), авіалі́нії f pl (avialíniji) (normally used in airline names)
- Urdu: فضائی ادارہ (fizāī idāra)
- Vietnamese: công ty hàng không (公司航空), hàng không (vi) (航空), hãng hàng không
- Yiddish: לופֿטליניע f (luftlinye)
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