dirigible

English

A dirigible in flight.

Etymology

From French dirigeable, from ballon dirigeable (“steerable balloon”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪɹɪdʒəbəɫ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪɹ.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/

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Noun

dirigible (plural dirigibles)

1. (aviation) A self-propelled airship that can be steered.
   • 2023 February 4, Katie Rogers, “Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a … Chinese Spy Balloon?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     People had time to think up some questions, including reporters who shouted “Are you going to shoot down the balloon?” at President Biden shortly before the dirigible came down.

Hyponyms

• blimp
• nonrigid
• rigid
• semirigid
• Zeppelin

Translations

a self-propelled airship that can be steered

• Arabic: سَفِينَة هَوَائِيَّة‎ f (safīna(t) hawāʔiyya)
• Armenian: դիրիժաբլ (hy) (dirižabl)
• Belarusian: дырыжа́бль m (dyryžáblʹ)
• Bulgarian: дирижа́бъл (bg) m (dirižábǎl)
• Catalan: dirigible m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛艇／飞艇 (zh) (fēitǐng), 飛船／飞船 (zh) (fēichuán)

• Czech: vzducholoď (cs) f
• Danish: luftskib (da) n
• Dutch: luchtschip (nl) n
• Esperanto: aerŝipo
• Faroese: luftskip n
• Finnish: ilmalaiva (fi)
• French: ballon dirigeable (fr) m, dirigeable (fr) m
• German: Luftschiff (de) n
• Hebrew: ספינת אוויר / סְפִינַת אֲוִיר‎ (he) f (sfinát avír)
• Hungarian: kormányozható léghajó
• Icelandic: loftskip (is) n
• Ido: aeronavo (io)
• Irish: aerlong f
• Italian: aeronave (it) f
• Japanese: 飛行船 (ja) (ひこうせん, hikōsen), 軽気球 (けいききゅう, keikikyū)
• Javanese: palwa anggegana
• Kazakh: дирижабль (dirijabl)
• Korean: 기구 (ko) (gigu), 비행선 (bihaengseon)
• Latvian: dirižablis m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Luftschipp n, Luchtschipp n

• Macedonian: дирижа́бл m (dirižábl)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luftskip n

  Nynorsk: luftskip n

• Old English: lyftscip n
• Persian: کشتی هوایی‎ (fa) (kašti-ye havâyi)
• Plautdietsch: Loftschepp n
• Polish: sterowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: dirigível (pt) m
• Romanian: balon dirijabil n, dirijabil (ro) n
• Russian: дирижа́бль (ru) m (dirižáblʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дирижабл m, зрачни брод m

  Roman: dirižabl (sh) m, zračni brod m

• Slovak: vzducholoď f
• Spanish: dirigible (es) m
• Swedish: luftskepp (sv) n
• Thai: เรือเหาะ (rʉʉa-hɔ̀)
• Tibetan: རླུང་གྲུ (rlung gru) (lit. air-ship)
• Ukrainian: дирижа́бль m (dyryžáblʹ)
• Vietnamese: điều khiển được

Adjective

dirigible (comparative more dirigible, superlative most dirigible)

1. steerable

Derived terms

• dirigibility
• indirigible

Translations

steerable

• Bulgarian: направляем (napravljaem)
• French: dirigeable (fr)
• Ido: direktebla (io)
• Italian: dirigibile (it)
• Manx: yn-stiurey
• Romanian: dirijabil (ro) n
• Russian: управля́емый (ru) (upravljájemyj)

See also

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

Spanish

Noun

dirigible m (plural dirigibles)

1. dirigible

Further reading

• “dirigible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014