Zeppelin

See also: zeppelin

English

Alternative forms

• zeppelin

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zeppelin. Named after Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛp.lɪn/
• Hyphenation: zep‧pe‧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

Hypernyms

• airship
• dirigible

Translations

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

• Asturian: zepelín m
• Catalan: zepelí m
• Cherokee: ᎠᎳᏫᏗᏍᎩ (alawidisgi)
• Chinese:

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

• Esperanto: zepelino
• Estonian: tsepeliin
• Finnish: zeppeliini (fi)
• French: zeppelin (fr) m
• Galician: cepelín m
• German: Zeppelin (de) m
• Greek: αερόπλοιο (el) n (aeróploio)
• Hungarian: zeppelin (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ツェッペリン (tsepperin)
• Korean: 체펠린 (chepellin)
• Macedonian: цепели́н m (cepelín)
• Portuguese: zepelim (pt) m
• Romanian: zepelin n
• Russian: цеппели́н (ru) m (ceppelín), дирижа́бль (ru) m (dirižáblʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дирижа̀бл m

  Roman: dirižàbl (sh) m

• Spanish: dirigible (es) m, zepelín (es) m
• Swedish: zeppelinare (sv) c
• Turkish: zeplin (tr), hava gemisi (tr)

Proper noun

Zeppelin

1. A German manufacturing company, famed for building the zeppelin airships.
2. Abbreviation of Led Zeppelin.

See also

• airship
• balloon
• barrage balloon
• blimp
• dirigible
• hot air balloon

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German

Etymology

Named after Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛpəliːn/

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Noun

Zeppelin m (genitive Zeppelins, plural Zeppeline)

1. zeppelin