airmail

See also: air mail

English

Airmail postage stamp

Alternative forms

air mail

Etymology

air +‎ mail

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛə.meɪl/
Audio (AU) (file)

Noun

airmail (countable and uncountable, plural airmails)

The system of conveying mail using aircraft.
send a letter by airmail
The items of mail so carried.

Translations

the system of conveying mail using aircraft

Arabic: بَرِيد جَوِّيّ‎ m (barīd jawwiyy)
Belarusian: ляту́чая по́шта f (ljatúčaja póšta), авіяпо́шта m (avijapóšta)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 航空郵件／航空邮件 (zh) (hángkōng yóujiàn)
Czech: letecká pošta f
Danish: luftpost
Dutch: luchtpost (nl) m or f, airmail (nl) m or f
Esperanto: aerpoŝto
Faroese: flogpostur m
Finnish: lentoposti (fi)
French: poste aérienne (fr) f, aérogramme (fr) m, Aéropostale f
German: Luftpost (de) f
Hindi: हवाई डाक f (havāī ḍāk)
Hungarian: légiposta (hu)
Icelandic: flugpóstur (is) m
Irish: aerphost m
Japanese: 航空便 (こうくうびん, kōkūbin)
Korean: 항공우편 (ko) (hanggong'upyeon)
Latvian: gaisa pasts, lidpasts
Norwegian:
Bokmål: luftpost m
Nynorsk: luftpost m
Persian: پست هوائی‎ (post havâyi)
Polish: poczta lotnicza f
Portuguese: correio aéreo m
Russian: авиапо́чта (ru) f (aviapóčta)
Spanish: correo aéreo m
Ukrainian: пові́тря́на по́шта f (povítrjána póšta), авіапо́шта (uk) f (aviapóšta)
Urdu: ہوائی ڈاک‎ f (havā'ī ḍāk)

the items of mail carried using aircraft

Chinese:
Mandarin: 航空信 (zh) (hángkōngxìn)
Dutch: luchtpost (nl) m or f, airmail (nl) m or f
Finnish: lentoposti (fi)
French: poste aérienne (fr) m, courrier aérien m
German: Luftpost (de) f
Hungarian: légiposta (hu)
Japanese: 航空便 (こうくうびん, kōkūbin)
Portuguese: postagem aérea f
Russian: авиапо́чта (ru) f (aviapóčta)
Spanish: correo aéreo m

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Translations to be checked

Gujarati: વિમાનટપાલ f (vimānaṭpāl)
Indonesian: pos udara (id)
Italian: posta aerea f
Javanese: pos anggegana (pos anggegana)

Verb

airmail (third-person singular simple present airmails, present participle airmailing, simple past and past participle airmailed)

(transitive) To send mail by air.
(baseball) To (unintentionally) throw the ball well over a fielder's head where that fielder is unable to make a play on the ball.

Translations

to send mail by air

Finnish: lähettää lentopostina
German: per Luftpost schicken