aircraft

English

Etymology

From air +‎ -craft.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛə.kɹɑːft/, /ˈɛː.kɹɑːft/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛəɹ.kɹæft/, /ˈɛːɹ.kɹæft/

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• Rhymes: -ɛəkɹɑːft, -ɛːkɹɑːft, -ɛəɹkɹæft, -ɛːɹkɹæft

Noun

aircraft (plural aircraft)

1. 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

• See also Thesaurus:aircraft

Derived terms

• aircraft attitude
• aircraft carrier
• aircraft engine
• aircraft graveyard
• aircrafthand
• aircraftlike
• aircraftman
• aircraft movement
• aircraftsman
• aircraft station
• aircraftswoman
• aircraftwoman
• airprox
• anti-aircraft
• attack aircraft
• fighter aircraft
• liaison aircraft
• model aircraft
• nuclear aircraft
• rocket aircraft
• tanker aircraft

 

Related terms

• spacecraft
• watercraft

 

Translations

machine capable of atmospheric flight

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 (havopaymoyī)
• 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)

See also

• aeroplane (UK), airplane (US)