helicopter

See also: helicòpter

English

A helicopter.

a samara or helicopter

Etymology

Borrowed from French hélicoptère, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἕλιξ (hélix, “spiral”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheliˌkɔptə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛl.iˌkɒp.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈhɛl.ɪˌkɒp.tə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlɨˌkɑptɚ/

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Noun

helicopter (plural helicopters)

1. An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail that stabilize the aircraft.

   We flew over the city in a helicopter.

2. A powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.
3. The winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple.
4. (slang) A dragonfly.
5. A whirling trick performed with devil sticks.

Synonyms

• (aircraft): chopper (informal), copter (informal), eggbeater (slang), helo (military, slang), rotary-wing aircraft (technical), whirlybird (slang)
• (trowelling device): power trowel, trowel machine
• (winged fruit): samara, whirlybird

Derived terms

• helicopter drop
• helicopter money
• helicopter parent

Translations

aircraft

• Afrikaans: helikopter
• Albanian: helikopter (sq) m
• Arabic: طَائِرَة عَامُودِيَّة f (ṭāʾira ʿāmūdiyya), هِلِيكُوبْتَر m (helikobtar), حَوَّامَة f (ḥawwāma)
• Armenian: ուղղաթիռ (hy) (uġġatʻiṙ)
• Asturian: helicópteru m
• Azerbaijani: vertolyot (az)
• Basque: helikoptero
• Belarusian: верталёт (be) m (vjertaljót)
• Bengali: হেলিকোপটার (helikōpoṭar)
• Bulgarian: хелико́птер (bg) m (helikópter), въртоле́т (bg) m (vǎrtolét)
• Burmese: ဟယ်လီကော့ပတာ (my) (hailikau.pa.ta), ရဟတ်ယာဉ် (my) (ra.hatyany)
• Catalan: helicòpter (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直升機 (zh) (zhíshēngjī) or 直昇機／直升机 (zh) (zhíshēngjī), 直升机 (zh) (zhíshēngjī)

• Cornish: askel dro f
• Czech: vrtulník (cs) m, helikoptéra f
• Danish: helikopter (da) c
• Dutch: helikopter (nl) m, wentelwiek (nl) f
• Elfdalian: elikopter m
• Esperanto: helikoptero
• Estonian: helikopter (et)
• Faroese: tyrla (fo) f
• Finnish: helikopteri (fi)
• French: hélicoptère (fr) m
• Galician: helicóptero (gl) m
• Georgian: ვერტმფრენი (verṭmpreni), შვეულმფრენი (šveulmpreni)
• German: Hubschrauber (de) m, Helikopter (de) m
• Greek: ελικόπτερο (el) n (elikóptero)
• Greenlandic: helikopteri, qulimiguulik
• Guaraní: vevehajere
• Hebrew: מַסּוֹק (he) m (masók)
• Hindi: हेलिकॉप्टर m (helikŏpṭar)
• Hungarian: helikopter (hu)
• Icelandic: þyrla (is) f, þyrilvængja f (obsolete), kofti m (obsolete)
• Ido: helikoptero (io)
• Indonesian: helikopter (id)
• Interlingua: helicoptero
• Irish: héileacaptar, ingearán m
• Italian: elicottero (it) m

  Sicilian: elicòttiru m

• Japanese: ヘリコプター (ja) (herikoputā), ヘリ (ja) (heri)
• Karakalpak: vertolyot
• Kazakh: тікұшақ (tıkūşaq)
• Khmer: អេលីកុបទែរ (ʼeeliikoptɛɛ), អេលីកូ (ʼeeliikou), ឧទ្ធម្ភាគចក្រ (ʼutthŏəmphiəkĕəʼcak)
• Korean: 헬리콥터 (ko) (hellikopteo), 헬기 (ko) (helgi)
• Kyrgyz: вертолёт (ky) (vertolyot)
• Lao: ເອລີກົບເທີ (ʼē lī kop thœ̄), ເຮລິຄອບແຕ (hē li khǭp tǣ), ເຮລີກົບແຕ (lo) (hē lī kop tǣ)
• Latin: helicopterum (la) n
• Latvian: helikopters f
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• Lithuanian: sraigtasparnis m, (rare) helikopteris m
• Livonian: helikoptõr
• Luxembourgish: Helikopter m
• Macedonian: хелико́птер (mk) m (helikópter)
• Malay: helikopter
• Maltese: ħelikopter m
• Maori: waka hurihuri, waka kōporo
• Mongolian: нисдэг тэрэг (nisdeg tereg)
• Navajo: bikááʼ náʼoobałí
• Newar: बुइँचाखः (buĩcākha:)
• Northern Sami: helekopter, helikopter
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: helikopter (no) n

  Nynorsk: helikopter n

• Pashto: چورلکه (ps) f (čurláka)
• Persian: بالگرد (fa) (bâlgard), هلیکوپتر (fa) (helikōpter)
• Polish: śmigłowiec (pl) m inan, helikopter (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: helicóptero (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਹੈਲੀਕਾਪਟਰ m (hailīkāpṭar)
• Quechua: pillwinkumpa
• Romanian: elicopter (ro) n
• Romansch: helicopter m
• Russian: вертолёт (ru) m (vertoljót), гелико́птер (ru) m (gelikópter) (dated)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хеликоптер m

  Roman: helikopter (sh) m

• Slovak: vrtuľník m
• Slovene: helikopter (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: helikopter m

• Sotho: helikopotare (st)
• Spanish: helicóptero (es) m, autogiro (es) m
• Swahili: helikopta (sw)
• Swedish: helikopter (sv) c
• Tagalog: helikopter
• Tajik: чархбол (čarxbol)
• Tamil: உலங்கு வானூர்தி (ulaṅku vāṉūrti)
• Tatar: боралак (boralaq)
• Thai: เฮลิคอปเตอร์ (th) (hee-lí-kɔ́p-dtə̂ə)
• Tibetan: ཐད་འཕུར་གནམ་གྲུ (thad 'phur gnam gru), ཧེ་ལེ་ཀོབ་ཊར (he le kob ṭar)
• Tok Pisin: helikopta
• Turkish: helikopter (tr)
• Turkmen: wertolýot
• Ukrainian: вертолі́т m (vertolít), геліко́птер m (helikópter)
• Urdu: بالگرد (bālgard), ہیلی کاپٹر m (heli-kopṭar)
• Uyghur: تىك ئۇچار ئايروپىلان (tik uchar ayropilan)
• Uzbek: tikuchar (uz), vertolyot (uz)
• Vietnamese: máy bay lên thẳng, máy bay trực thăng, trực thăng (vi)
• Volapük: tovaskrubian
• Welsh: hofrennydd (cy) m
• Yiddish: העליקאָפּטער m (helikopter)

machine for spreading concrete

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Verb

helicopter (third-person singular simple present helicopters, present participle helicoptering, simple past and past participle helicoptered)

1. (transitive) To transport by helicopter.
2. (intransitive) To travel by helicopter.
3. To rotate like a helicopter blade.

   helicoptering his jacket, helicoptering his arms

4. To overprotect one's children.

Translations

to transport by helicopter

• Finnish: kuljettaa helikopterilla
• French: héliporter (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: elitrasportare

to travel by helicopter

• Finnish: matkustaa helikopterilla
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