nautical mile

English

Noun

nautical mile (plural nautical miles)

1. (nautical) A unit of length corresponding approximately to one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian. By international agreement it is exactly 1,852 metres (approximately 6,076 feet or 1.151 statute mile).

Synonyms

• M, NM, Nm, nmi

Translations

nautical: a unit of measure equal to 1852 metres

• Arabic: مِيل بَحْرِيّ m (mīl baḥriyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海里 (zh) (hǎilǐ), 海浬 (zh) (hǎilǐ)

• Czech: námořní míle f
• Danish: sømil c
• Dutch: zeemijl (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: marmejlo
• Estonian: meremiil
• Finnish: meripeninkulma (fi), merimaili (fi) (slang)
• French: nautique (fr), mille marin (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Seemeile (de) f
• Hungarian: tengeri mérföld (hu)
• Indonesian: mil laut (id)
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• Italian: miglio nautico m (miglia nautiche f pl), miglio marino m (miglia marine f pl)
• Japanese: 海里 (kairi)
• Korean: 해리 (haeri) (海里)
• Latvian: jūras jūdze (JJ)
• Malay: batu nautika
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nautisk mil m or f, sjømil m or f

  Nynorsk: nautisk mil f, sjømil f

• Portuguese: milha náutica f
• Russian: морска́я ми́ля (ru) f (morskája mílja)
• Spanish: milla náutica f
• Swedish: sjömil (sv) c, nautisk mil (sv) c, distansminut (sv) c
• Thai: ไมล์ทะเล (mai-tá-lee)
• Turkish: deniz mili (tr)
• Vietnamese: hải lý (vi) (海里), hải lí (vi)