dirigible

English

Wikipedia

A dirigible in flight.

Etymology

The term arose from attempts in the late 1800s to make a balloon steerable. In French, dirigeable means steerable. Over time the phrase “dirigible balloon” was shortened to just dirigible. In modern parlance, the term has been replaced by airship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: [ˈdɪɹɪdʒəbəɫ], X-SAMPA: /"dI.rIdZ.@.b@l/
• (US) IPA: /ˈdɪɹ.ə.dʒə.bəl/, X-SAMPA: /"dIr.@.dZ@.b@l/

Noun

dirigible (plural dirigibles)

1. A self-propelled airship that can be steered

Translations

a self-propelled airship that can be steered

• Arabic: سفينة هوائية (ar) (safīna hawaʾíyya) f
• Armenian: դիրիժաբլ (hy) (dirižabl)
• Belarusian: дырыжабль (be) (dyryžáblʹ) m
• Bulgarian: дирижабъл (bg) (dirižábǎl) m
• Catalan: dirigible (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛艇 (cmn), 飞艇 (cmn) (fēitǐng), 飛船 (cmn), 飞船 (cmn) (fēichuán)

• Czech: vzducholoď (cs) f
• Danish: luftskib (da)
• Dutch: luchtschip (nl) n
• Faroese: luftskip (fo) n
• Finnish: ilmalaiva (fi)
• French: ballon dirigeable (fr), dirigeable (fr) m
• German: Luftschiff (de)
• Hebrew: ספינת אוויר (he)
• Hungarian: kormányozható léghajó (hu)
• Italian: aeronave (it)
• Japanese: 飛行船 (ja) (ひこうせん, hikōsen), 軽気球 (ja) (けいききゅう, keikikyū)

• Korean: 기구 (ko) (gigu), 비행선 (ko) (bihaengseon)
• Macedonian: дирижабл (mk) (dirižábl) m
• Norwegian: luftskip (no)
• Old English: lyftscip (ang) n
• Persian: کشتی هوایی (fa) (kašti-ye havâyi)
• Polish: sterowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: dirigível (pt) m
• Romanian: balon dirijabil (ro) n
• Russian: дирижабль (ru) (dirižáblʹ) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дирижабл (sh) m

  Roman: dirižabl (sh) m

• Slovak: vzducholoď (sk) f
• Spanish: dirigible (es) m
• Swedish: luftskepp (sv)
• Ukrainian: дирижабль (uk) (dyryžáblʹ) m
• Vietnamese: điều khiển được (vi)

Adjective

dirigible (comparative more dirigible, superlative most dirigible)

1. steerable

Translations

steerable

• French: dirigeable (fr)
• Italian: dirigibile (it)

• Manx: yn-stiurey (gv)

See also

• airship
• balloon
• barrage balloon
• blimp
• zeppelin, Zeppelin
• Wikipedia article on dirigibles

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Spanish

Noun

dirigible m (plural dirigibles)

1. dirigible