navigation

See also: Navigation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French navigation, from Latin nāvigātiōnem, accusative singular of nāvigātiō (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigātus, perfect passive participle of nāvigō (“sail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

navigation (usually uncountable, plural navigations)

1. (uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship or (colloquially) road vehicle.
2. (uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
3. (countable) A canal.

Derived terms

• navigation light

Translations

theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship

• Afrikaans: navigasie
• Arabic: مِلَاحَة f (milāḥa)
• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: նաւաստութիւն (nawastutʻiwn)

• Catalan: navegació (ca) f, nàutica f
• Coptic: ⲕⲉⲙⲧϫⲟⲓ (kemtčoi)
• Czech: navigace (cs) f
• Danish: navigering c
• Dutch: navigatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: navigado
• French: navigation (fr) f
• German: Navigation (de) f
• Greek: ναυσιπλοΐα (el) f (nafsiploḯa)
• Ido: navigo (io)
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• Irish: loingseoireacht f
• Italian: nautica (it) f
• Macedonian: навигација f (navigacija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: navigering m or f

  Nynorsk: navigering f

• Persian: ناوبری (fa) (nâvbari)
• Portuguese: navegação (pt) f, náutica (pt) f
• Romanian: navigație (ro) f
• Russian: навига́ция (ru) f (navigácija)
• Spanish: navegación (es) f, náutica (es) f
• Swedish: navigation (sv) c, navigering c
• Turkish: yolbul (tr)

traffic or travel by vessel

• Danish: skibsfart (da) c, søfart (da) c
• Dutch: scheepvaart (nl) f
• Esperanto: navigado
• German: Schifffahrt (de) f
• Irish: loingseoireacht f
• Italian: navigazione (it) f
• Latin: nāvigātiō f
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• Macedonian: пловидба f (plovidba)
• Portuguese: navegação (pt) f
• Romanian: navigație (ro) f
• Russian: пла́вание (ru) n (plávanije), морепла́вание (ru) n (moreplávanije)
• Serbo-Croatian: moreplovstvo (sh) n
• Spanish: navegación (es) f
• Swedish: sjöfart (sv) c, sjötrafik (sv) c, luftfart c, lufttrafik c

canal — see canal

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• Kashubian: ^{(please verify)} nawigacëjô
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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nāvigātiōnem, accusative singular of nāvigātiō (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigātus, perfect passive participle of nāvigō (“sail”). Surface etymology is naviguer +‎ -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.vi.ɡa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

navigation f (plural navigations)

1. navigation

Related terms

• naviguer

Further reading

• “navigation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Swedish

Noun

navigation c (uncountable)

1. navigation

Declension

Declension of navigation
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	navigation	navigationen	—	—
Genitive	navigations	navigationens	—	—