zeppelin

English

Alternative forms

• Zeppelin

Etymology

Named after Ferdinand, Count von Zeppelin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈzɛp.lɪn/ X-SAMPA: /"zEp.lIn/

Noun

zeppelin (plural zeppelins)

1. A type of large German dirigible airship of the early 20th century designed to carry passengers or bombs.

Synonyms

• rigid airship

Translations

A type of large German dirigible airship of the early 20th century

• Asturian: zepelín (ast) m
• Catalan: zepelí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 齊柏林飛船 (cmn), 齐柏林飞船 (cmn) (qíbólín fēichuán), 硬式飛船 (cmn), 硬式飞船 (cmn) (yìngshì fēichuán)

• Esperanto: zepelino (eo)
• Finnish: zeppeliini (fi)
• French: zeppelin (fr) m
• Galician: cepelín (gl) m
• German: Zeppelin (de) m

• Japanese: ツェッペリン (ja) (tsepperin)
• Korean: 체펠린 (ko) (chepellin)
• Macedonian: цепелин (mk) (cepelín) m
• Portuguese: zepelim (pt) m
• Russian: цеппелин (ru) (ceppelín) m , дирижабль (ru) (dirižáblʹ) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: дирижабл (sh) (dirižabl) m
• Spanish: dirigible (es) m, zepelín (es) m
• Swedish: zeppelinare c
• Turkish: zeplin (tr), hava gemisi (tr)

Hypernyms

• airship
• dirigible

See also

Wikipedia

• barrage balloon
• blimp
• hot air balloon

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /zɛplɛ̃/, X-SAMPA: /zEplE~/
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃
• Homophone: zeppelins

Noun

zeppelin m (plural zeppelins)

1. zeppelin