hovercraft

English

A hovercraft can travel over water and flat terrain

Etymology

hover +‎ -craft

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒv.ə(ɹ)ˌkɹæft/

Noun

hovercraft (plural hovercrafts or hovercraft)

1. A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.
2. plural form of hovercraft

Synonyms

• ACV, air-cushion vehicle, GEM, ground-effect machine

Translations

a vehicle supported on a cushion of air

• Arabic: حوامة f (Hawwaama)
• Basque: aerolabaingailu (eu)
• Catalan: aerolliscador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣墊船, 气垫船 (zh) (qìdiànchuán)

• Czech: vznášedlo n
• Dutch: hovercraft (nl), luchtkussenvoertuig (nl) n
• Esperanto: teraplano
• Finnish: ilmatyynyalus (fi)
• French: aéroglisseur (fr) m
• German: Hovercraft, Luftkissenfahrzeug n, Luftkissenboot n
• Greek: χόβερκραφτ (el) (chóverkraft)
• Hungarian: légpárnás
• Italian: aeroscivolante m
• Japanese: ホバークラフト (hobākurafuto)

• Jèrriais: aérodrisseux m, aéroglisseux m
• Korean: 호버크래프트 (hobeokeuraepeuteu)
• Luxembourgish: Loftkësseboot
• Macedonian: ховеркрафт m (hóverkraft)
• Persian: هواناو
• Polish: poduszkowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: aerobarco m, aerodeslizador, hovercraft (Brazil)
• Russian: судно на воздушной подушке (ru) n (súdno na vozdúšnoj podúške), СВП n (es-ve-pé), ховеркрафт (ru) m (xóverkraft, xoverkráft)
• Serbo-Croatian: хо̏веркрафт m, hȍverkraft m
• Spanish: aerodeslizador m
• Swedish: svävare (sv) c

References

Hovercraft on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Noun

Wikipedia ^fr

hovercraft m (plural hovercrafts)

1. hovercraft

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Portuguese

Noun

hovercraft m (plural hovercrafts)

1. (Brazil) hovercraft (a vehicle supported on a cushion of air)

Synonyms

• aerobarco, aerodeslizador