fuselage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fuselage, from fuselé (“spindle-shaped”), from Old French *fus (“spindle”), from Latin fusus (“spindle”). So named for its shape; in English since 1909.

Fuselage of a Boeing 737 shown in brown

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːzəˌlɑːʒ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

fuselage (plural fuselages)

1. (aeronautical) The main body of an aerospace vehicle; the long central structure of an aircraft to which the wings (or rotors), tail, and engines are attached, and which accommodates crew and cargo.

Translations

main body of aerospace vehicle

• Azerbaijani: füzelyaj, təyyarənin gövdəsi
• Catalan: buc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 機身 (zh), 机身 (zh) (jīshēn)

• Danish: fuselage c, skrog (da) n
• Finnish: runko (fi)
• French: fuselage (fr) m
• Galician: fuselaxe f
• German: Flugzeugrumpf (de) m; Rumpf (de) m
• Greek: άτρακτος (el) m (átraktos)
• Hungarian: törzs (hu), repülőgéptörzs (hu)
• Italian: fusoliera (it) f
• Japanese: 胴体 (どうたい, dōtai), 機体 (ja) (きたい, kitai)

• Kazakh: фюзеляж (fywzelyaj)
• Kyrgyz: фюзеляж (ky) (fyuzelyac)
• Latvian: fizelāža (lv) f
• Malay: fiuslaj
• Maori: tīwai, kōhiwi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flykropp m

  Nynorsk: flykropp m

• Polish: kadłub (pl)
• Portuguese: fuselagem (pt) f
• Russian: фюзеля́ж (ru) m (fjuzeljáž)
• Spanish: fuselaje (es) m
• Swedish: flygkropp (sv) c, flygplanskropp (sv)
• Tagalog: puselahe

See also

• hull (“the body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane”)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fyz.laʒ/

• Audio (FR)

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Noun

fuselage m (plural fuselages)

1. fuselage

Descendants

• → Catalan: fuselatge
• → English: fuselage
• → Portuguese: fuselagem
• → Spanish: fuselaje

Further reading

• “fuselage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).