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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French aviation, from Latin avis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *awi- (“bird”).
Pronunciation
Noun
aviation (usually uncountable, plural aviations)
- The art or science of making and flying aircraft.
- Flying, operating, or operation of aircraft.
- Industry that produces aircraft.
- (collectively, military) aircraft
- A cocktail made with gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette and lemon juice
Derived terms
Translations
art or science of flying
- Albanian: aviacion (sq)
- Arabic: طَيَرَان m (ṭayarān), مِلَاحَة جَوِّيَّة f (milāḥa(t) jawwiyya)
- Armenian: ավիացիա (hy) (aviacʻia)
- Azerbaijani: aviasiya
- Bashkir: авиация (aviatsiya)
- Belarusian: лётніцтва n (ljótnictva), авія́цыя f (avijácyja), паветрапла́ванне n (pavjetraplávannje)
- Bulgarian: въздухопла́ване (bg) n (vǎzduhoplávane), авиа́ция (bg) f (aviácija)
- Burmese: လေကြောင်း (my) (le-kraung:)
- Catalan: aviació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 航空 (zh) (hángkōng), 飛行／飞行 (zh) (fēixíng)
- Czech: letectví (cs) n
- Danish: luftfart (da) c
- Dutch: luchtvaart (nl) f
- Esperanto: aerveturado
- Estonian: lennundus
- Finnish: ilmailu (fi)
- French: aviation (fr) f
- Galician: aviación (gl) f
- Georgian: ავიაცია (aviacia)
- German: Luftfahrt (de) f, Fliegerei (de) f
- Greek: αεροπορία (el) f (aeroporía)
- Hebrew: תעופה (he) f (t'ufá)
- Hindi: विमानन m (vimānan), हवाबाज़ी f (havābāzī)
- Hungarian: légi közlekedés (hu)
- Ido: aviaco (io)
- Irish: eitlíocht f
- Italian: aviazione (it) f
- Japanese: 航空 (ja) (こうくう, kōkū), 飛行 (ja) (ひこう, hikō)
- Kazakh: авиация (aviasiä)
- Khmer: អាកាសចរ (ʼaakaasaʼcɑɑ)
- Korean: 항공(航空) (ko) (hanggong), 비행(飛行) (ko) (bihaeng)
- Kyrgyz: авиация (ky) (aviatsiya)
- Lao: ການບິນ (lo) (kān bin)
- Latvian: aviācija f
- Lithuanian: aviacija f
- Macedonian: воздухопло́вство n (vozduhoplóvstvo), авијација f (avijacija)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: luftfart (no) m
- Nynorsk: luftfart m
- Persian: هواپیمایی (fa) (havâpeymâyi)
- Polish: lotnictwo (pl) n, awiacja (pl) f (archaic), awiatyka f (archaic)
- Portuguese: aviação (pt) f
- Romanian: aviație (ro) f
- Russian: авиа́ция (ru) f (aviácija), воздухопла́вание (ru) n (vozduxoplávanije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: авијација f, ваздухопловство n, зракопловство n
- Roman: avijacija (sh) f, vazduhoplovstvo n, zrakoplovstvo (sh) n
- Slovak: letectvo n
- Slovene: letalstvo (sl) n
- Spanish: aviación (es) f
- Swahili: elimu ya rubani
- Swedish: flyg (sv) n, luftfart (sv) c, flygväsen
- Tajik: ҳавонавардӣ (havonavardī), авиатсия (tg) (aviatsiya)
- Thai: การบิน (th) (gaan-bin)
- Turkish: havacılık (tr)
- Turkmen: awiasiýa (tk)
- Ukrainian: авіа́ція (uk) f (aviácija), повітропла́вання n (povitroplávannja)
- Urdu: ہوا بازی f (havā bāzī)
- Uzbek: aviatsiya (uz)
- Vietnamese: hàng không (vi) (航空)
- Walloon: aviåcion (wa) f
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French
Etymology
Coined by G. de la Landelle together with aviateur; from Latin avis (“bird”) + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
aviation f (plural aviations)
- aviation
Descendants
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