paper airplane

English

Alternative forms

• paper aeroplane (Commonwealth English)

Noun

paper airplane (plural paper airplanes)

1. (US) A toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper.
2. (US, aeronautics) An aircraft under development (so named because it remains only on paper to date; a tongue-in-cheek sense with acknowledgment of the original sense).

Synonyms

• paper flier, paper flyer, paper plane

Translations

toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper

• Arabic: طَائِرَة وَرَقِيَّة f (ṭāʔira(t) waraqiyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紙飛機／纸飞机 (zh) (zhǐfēijī)

• Czech: papírová vlaštovka f
• Dutch: papieren vliegtuig n
• Estonian: paberlennuk
• Faroese: pappírsflúgvari m
• Finnish: paperilennokki
• French: avion en papier (fr) m, avion de papier (fr) m
• German: Papierflieger (de) m
• Hebrew: מָטוֹס נְיָר (he) m (matós nyar)
• Icelandic: pappírsflugvél f
• Italian: aeroplanino di carta (it) m
• Japanese: 紙飛行機 (ja) (kamihikōki)
• Kazakh: қағаз ұшақ (qağaz ūşaq)
• Korean: 종이비행기 (ko) (jong'ibihaenggi)
• Navajo: naaltsoos bee chidí naatʼaʼí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: papirfly (no) n

  Nynorsk: papirfly n

• Polish: samolot papierowy
• Portuguese: avião de papel m, aviãozinho de papel
• Romanian: avion de hârtie n
• Russian: бума́жный самолётик m (bumážnyj samoljótik)
• Spanish: avión de papel m
• Swedish: pappersflygplan (sv) n, pappersplan (sv) n, papperssvala (sv) c (tailed plane)
• Thai: เครื่องบินกระดาษ (krʉ̂ʉang-bin-grà-dàat)
• Turkish: kağıt uçak
• Ukrainian: паперовий літачок m (paperovyj litačok)

See also

• aerogami