hovercraft

hovercraft

English

A hovercraft can travel over water and flat terrain

Etymology

From hover +‎ -craft. Originally a trademark by Saunders-Roe Limited, a British aero- and marine-engineering company.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒv.ə.kɹɑːft/, /ˈhɒv.ə.kɹæft/, /ˈhʌv.ə.kɹɑːft/, /ˈhʌv.ə.kɹæft/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌvɚ.kɹæft/, /ˈhɑvɚ.kɹæft/

Noun

hovercraft (plural hovercrafts or hovercraft)

1. (vehicles, genericized trademark) A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.

Synonyms

• ACV
• air-cushion vehicle

 

Hypernyms

• GEM
• ground-effect machine

 

Hyponyms

• LCAC

 

Coordinate terms

• AC

 

Translations

vehicle supported on a cushion of air

Arabic: حَوَّامَة‎ f (ḥawwāma) Basque: aerolabaingailu (eu) Catalan: aerolliscador (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 氣墊船／气垫船 (zh) (qìdiànchuán) Czech: vznášedlo (cs) n Danish: luftpudebåd c, svævebåd c Dutch: hovercraft (nl), luchtkussenvoertuig (nl) n Esperanto: teraplano Faroese: flogbátur m Finnish: ilmatyynyalus (fi), pintaliitäjä (dated, rare) French: aéroglisseur (fr) m German: Hovercraft, Luftkissenfahrzeug n, Luftkissenboot n Greek: αερόστρωμνο (el) n (aeróstromno) Hebrew: רַחֶפֶת / רחפת‎ (he) f (rakhefet) Hungarian: légpárnás Icelandic: svifnökkvi Italian: aeroscivolante m Japanese: ホバークラフト (hobākurafuto) Kazakh: әуе негіз кемесi (äue negız kemesi) Korean: 호버크래프트 (hobeokeuraepeuteu) Luxembourgish: Loftkësseboot Macedonian: ховеркрафт m (hoverkraft) Maori: waka topaki Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł dah nahaleʼí Norman: aérodrisseux m, aéroglisseux m Norwegian: Bokmål: luftputebåt, svevebåt Nynorsk: luftputebåt m, svevebåt Persian: هواناو‎ (fa) Polish: poduszkowiec (pl) m Portuguese: aerobarco (pt) m, aerodeslizador (pt), hovercraft (pt) (Brazil) Russian: су́дно на возду́шной поду́шке (ru) n (súdno na vozdúšnoj podúške), СВП n (SVP), хо́веркра́фт (ru) m (xóverkráft) Serbo-Croatian: хо̏веркрафт m, hȍverkraft (sh) m Spanish: aerodeslizador (es) m Swedish: svävare (sv) c Ukrainian: судно́ на пові́тряній поду́шці n (sudnó na povítrjanij podúšci) Vietnamese: ca nô đệm khí

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French

Etymology

From English hovercraft.

Noun

hovercraft m (plural hovercrafts)

1. hovercraft

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hovercraft.

Noun

hovercraft m (plural hovercrafts)

1. (Brazil) hovercraft (a vehicle supported on a cushion of air)

   Synonyms: aerobarco, aerodeslizador

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hovercraft.

Noun

hovercraft n (plural hovercrafturi)

1. hovercraft

Declension

Declension of hovercraft

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) hovercraft	hovercraftul	(niște) hovercrafturi	hovercrafturile
genitive/dative	(unui) hovercraft	hovercraftului	(unor) hovercrafturi	hovercrafturilor
vocative	hovercraftule		hovercrafturilor

References

• hovercraft in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN