propeller

See also: Propeller

English

Alternative forms

• propellor (rare, nonstandard)

Etymology

From propel +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpɛl.ə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpɛl.ɚ/

  • Audio (California):

    (file)

• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpel.ə/

Noun

propeller (plural propellers)

1. One who, or that which, propels.
2. A mechanical device with evenly-shaped blades that turn on a shaft to push against air or water, especially one used to propel an aircraft or boat.

   The plane’s propeller spun rapidly before takeoff.

   The boat is powered by a single propeller.

   He repaired the damaged propeller after the storm.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 361:

     "No motor," Tranny says. "It snag bad."
     Right. The spiderweb would get wrapped around the propeller.

3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
4. (fishing) A spinnerbait.

Derived terms

• constant-speed propeller
• fishtail propeller
• P-factor
• propeller beanie
• propeller cap
• propellered
• propellerhead
• propeller head
• propellerless
• propellerlike
• propeller shaft
• propliner

Related terms

• prop
• propulsion

Descendants

• → Dutch: propeller
• → German: Propeller
• → Swedish: propeller
• → Ukrainian: пропе́лер (propéler)

Translations

mechanical device used to propel

• Afrikaans: skroef (af)
• Albanian: helikë (sq) f
• Arabic: مِرْوَحَة (ar) f (mirwaḥa), مِدْسَرَة f (midsara)
• Armenian: պտուտակ (hy) (ptutak), պրոպելեր (propeler)
• Azerbaijani: pervane (az), propeller
• Basque: helize
• Belarusian: пропе́лер m (propjéljer), вінт m (vint)
• Bulgarian: пе́рка (bg) f (pérka), пропе́лер m (propéler)
• Burmese: ငါးမန်းတောင် (my) (nga:man:taung) (ship), ပန်ကာ (my) (panka)
• Catalan: hèlice f
• Chechen: бер (ber)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 螺旋槳 / 螺旋桨 (zh) (luóxuánjiǎng)

• Czech: vrtule (cs) f
• Danish: propel (da) c
• Dutch: schroef (nl) f, propeller (nl) m
• Esperanto: helico (eo)
• Estonian: propeller (et)
• Faroese: skrúva f
• Finnish: potkuri (fi)
• French: hélice (fr) f
• Galician: hélice (gl) f
• Georgian: პროპელერი (ṗroṗeleri)
• German: Propeller (de) m, Luftschraube (de) f (aircraft), Schiffschraube f (ship), Schraube (de) f
• Greek: έλικας (el) m (élikas), προπέλα (el) f (propéla)
• Hebrew: מַדְחֵף (he) m (madkhéf)
• Hindi: नोदक m (nodak), प्रोपेलर (propelar)
• Hungarian: légcsavar (hu)
• Icelandic: loftskrúfa f
• Ido: helico (io)
• Indonesian: baling-baling (id)
• Italian: elica (it) f, propulsore (ad elica) m
• Japanese: プロペラ (ja) (puropera), 推進器 (すいしんき, suishinki)
• Kapampangan: elesi, elisi
• Kazakh: пропеллер (propeller), ауа винті (aua vintı) (aircraft)
• Khmer: កង្ហារ (km) (kɑnghaa)
• Korean: 프로펠러 (peuropelleo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: perwane (ku)

• Kyrgyz: пропеллер (propeller)
• Lao: ໃບພັດ (bai phat)
• Latin: helix f
• Latvian: propelleris m
• Lithuanian: propeleris m
• Macedonian: пропеле́р m (propelér)
• Malay: baling-baling, bebaling
• Māori: hurirere
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сэнс (mn) (sens)

  Mongolian script: ᠰᠡᠩᠰᠡ (sengse)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: propell m

• Pashto: پروانه (ps) f (parwāna)
• Persian: پروانه (fa) (parvâne)
• Plautdietsch: Loftschruw f
• Polish: śmigło (pl) n, śruba (pl) f
• Portuguese: propulsor (pt), hélice (pt) f
• Quechua: pillinku
• Romanian: elice (ro) f
• Russian: пропе́ллер (ru) m (propéller) (of an aircraft), винт (ru) m (vint) (of a ship), возду́шный винт (ru) m (vozdúšnyj vint) (aircraft)
• Scots: sparrair
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пропѐле̄р m, елѝса f

  Latin: propèlēr (sh) m, elìsa (sh) f

• Slovak: skrutka f (of a ship), vrtuľa f (of an aircraft)
• Slovene: propeller m
• Spanish: propulsor m, hélice (es) f, propela (es) f
• Swahili: rafardha
• Swedish: propeller (sv) c
• Tagalog: elise (tl), elesi
• Tajik: пропеллер (propeller)
• Thai: ใบพัด (th) (bai-pát)
• Tibetan: འབུད་འཁོར ('bud 'khor), འཕུལ་འདེད་རླུང་འཁོར ('phul 'ded rlung 'khor)
• Turkish: pervane (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: پروانه (pervane)

• Ukrainian: пропе́лер m (propéler), гвинт m (hvynt)
• Urdu: پروپیلر (propelar)
• Uyghur: پروپېللېر (propëllër)
• Uzbek: propeller (uz), parrak (uz)
• Vietnamese: cánh quạt (vi), chân vịt
• Welsh: gwthiedydd m
• Zulu: kulufu

Danish

Alternative forms

• propel

Etymology

Borrowed from English propeller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /propɛlər/, [pʰʁ̥oˈpɛlˀɐ]

Noun

propeller c (singular definite propelleren, plural indefinite propellere)

1. propeller (mechanical device used to propel)

Inflection

Declension of propeller

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	propeller	propelleren	propellere	propellerne
genitive	propellers	propellerens	propelleres	propellernes

Noun

propeller c

1. indefinite plural of propel

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English propeller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːˈpɛ.lər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pro‧pel‧ler
• Rhymes: -ɛlər

Noun

propeller m (plural propellers, diminutive propellertje n)

1. a propeller

   Synonym: aandrijfschroef

Hyponyms

• bootschroef
• luchtschroef
• scheepsschroef
• vliegtuigschroef
• wiek

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

propeller m

1. indefinite plural of propell

Swedish

Etymology

From English propeller.

Noun

propeller c

1. propeller

Declension

Declension of propeller

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	propeller	propellers
	definite	propellern	propellerns
plural	indefinite	propellrar	propellrars
	definite	propellrarna	propellrarnas

Further reading

• “propeller”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)