helicopter

English

A helicopter.

a samara or helicopter

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) hélicoptère, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) ἕλιξ (hélix) + (deprecated template usage) πτερόν (pterón).

Pronunciation

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Noun

helicopter (plural helicopters)

1. An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and having a smaller set of blades on its tail that stabilize the aircraft.

   We flew over the city in a helicopter.

2. a powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.
3. a winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple

Synonyms

• (aircraft): chopper (informal), copter (informal), eggbeater (slang), rotary-wing aircraft (technical), whirlybird (slang)
• (trowelling device): power trowel, trowel machine
• (winged fruit): samara, whirlybird

Translations

aircraft

• Afrikaans: helikopter
• Albanian: helikopter
• Arabic: طائرة عامودية f (ṭāʾira ʿāmūdíyya), هليكوبتر m (hilikubtar), حوامة f (ḥawwāma)
• Armenian: ուղղաթիռ (uġġatʻiṙ)
• Asturian: helicópteru m
• Azeri: vertolyot
• Belarusian: верталёт m (vjertaljót)
• Bulgarian: хеликоптер m (helikópter), въртолет m (vǎrtolét)
• Burmese: ဟယ်လီကော့ပတာ (hailikau.pa.ta)
• Catalan: helicòpter (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直升機 (zhíshēngjī) or 直昇機／直升机 (zhíshēngjī), 直升机 (zhíshēngjī)

• Czech: vrtulník m, helikoptéra f
• Danish: helikopter (da)
• Dutch: helikopter (nl) m
• Esperanto: helikoptero
• Estonian: helikopter
• Faroese: tyrla (fo) f
• Finnish: helikopteri (fi)
• French: hélicoptère (fr) m
• Galician: helicóptero m
• Georgian: ვერტმფრენი (verṭmpreni)
• German: Helikopter (de) m, Hubschrauber (de) m
• Greek: ελικόπτερο (el) n (elikóptero)
• Hebrew: מסוק (he) m (masók)
• Hindi: हेलिकॉप्टर (helikopṭar)
• Hungarian: helikopter (hu)
• Icelandic: þyrla (is) f, þyrilvængja f (obsolete), kofti m (obsolete)
• Indonesian: helikopter (id)
• Interlingua: helicoptero
• Irish: héileacaptar
• Italian: elicottero (it) m
• Japanese: ヘリコプター (herikoputā)
• Kazakh: тікұшақ (tikuşaq)
• Khmer: អេលីកុបទែរ (eeliikoptɛɛ)
• Korean: 헬리콥터 (ko) (helikopteo)
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• Kyrgyz: вертолёт (vertolyot)
• Lao: ເອລີກົບເທີ (eː líː kóp tʰə́ː), ເຮລິຄອບແຕ (héː lī kʰɔ̑ːp tɛː)
• Latin: helicopterus m
• Latvian: helikopters f
• Lithuanian: sraigtasparnis m, (rare) helikopteris m
• Macedonian: хеликоптер (mk) m (helikópter)
• Malay: helikopter
• Maltese: ħelikopter m
• Mongolian: нисдэг тэрэг (nisdeg tereg)
• Navajo: Template:tø
• Northern Sami: helekopter
• Norwegian: helikopter (no) n
• Persian: بالگرد (fa) (bâlgard), هلیکوپتر (helikōpter)
• Polish: śmigłowiec m, helikopter (pl) m
• Portuguese: helicóptero (pt) m
• Romanian: elicopter
• Russian: вертолёт (ru) m (vertoljót), геликоптер m (gelikópter) (dated)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хеликоптер m

  Roman: helikopter m

• Slovak: vrtuľník m
• Slovene: helikopter (sl) m
• Sotho: helikopotare (st)
• Spanish: helicóptero (es) m, autogiro (es) m
• Swahili: helikopta
• Swedish: helikopter (sv) c
• Tagalog: helikopter
• Tajik: чархбол (čarxbol)
• Tatar: боралак (boralaq)
• Thai: เฮลิคอบเตอ (helikhoptoe)
• Turkish: helikopter (tr), dikuçar (tr)
• Turkmen: wertolýot
• Ukrainian: вертоліт m (vertolít), гелікоптер m (helikópter)
• Urdu: بالگرد (bālgard), ہیلی کاپٹر (heli-kopṭar)
• Uzbek: tikuchar
• Vietnamese: máy bay lên thẳng, máy bay trực thăng, trực thăng (vi)
• Volapük: tovaskrubian

machine for spreading concrete

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Verb

helicopter (third-person singular simple present helicopters, present participle helicoptering, simple past and past participle helicoptered)

1. Template:transitive To transport by helicopter.
2. Template:intransitive To travel by helicopter.

Derived terms

• helicopter parent

Translations

to transport by helicopter

• Finnish: kuljettaa (fi) helikopterilla (fi)
• French: héliporter (fr)
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• Italian: elitrasportare

to travel by helicopter

• Finnish: matkustaa (fi) helikopterilla (fi)
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