seaplane

English

Etymology

sea +‎ plane

Noun

seaplane (plural seaplanes)

1. (aircraft, nautical) Any aircraft capable of taking off from, and alighting on the surface of water.

Translations

an aircraft

• Basque: ur-hegazkin
• Catalan: hidroavió m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水上飛機／水上飞机 (zh) (shuǐshàng fēijī), 水上飞机 (zh) (shuǐshàng fēijī)

• Czech: hydroplán (cs) m
• Danish: vandfly
• Dutch: watervliegtuig (nl) n
• Esperanto: hidroplano
• Estonian: vesilennuk
• Finnish: vesitaso (fi)
• French: hydravion (fr) m
• German: Wasserflugzeug (de) n
• Hungarian: hidroplán (hu)
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• Italian: idrovolante (it) m
• Japanese: 水上機 (ja) (すいじょうき, suijōki)
• Macedonian: хидроавио́н m (hidroavión)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjøfly n

  Nynorsk: sjøfly n

• Polish: wodnosamolot m
• Portuguese: hidroavião (pt) m
• Russian: гидросамолёт (ru) m (gidrosamoljót), гидропла́н (ru) m (gidroplán)
• Slovene: hidroplan m
• Spanish: hidroavión (es) m
• Swedish: sjöflygplan (sv) n

See also

• floatplane, float plane
• flying boat

Anagrams

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