propeller

propeller

See also: Propeller

English

Alternative forms

• propellor (rare, nonstandard)

Etymology

From propel +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

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

Derived terms

• propeller beanie
• propellerhead

Related terms

• prop
• propulsion

Descendants

• → Dutch: propeller
• → German: Propeller
• → Swedish: propeller

Translations

mechanical device used to propel

Afrikaans: skroef Albanian: helikë (sq) f Arabic: مِرْوَحَة‎ (ar) f (mirwaḥa), مِدْسَرَة‎ f (midsara) Armenian: պտուտակ (hy) (ptutak), պրոպելեր (propeler) Azerbaijani: pervane (az), propeller Basque: please add this translation if you can 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), propelli (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: hreyfill (is) m 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 (lo) (bai phat) Latin: helix f Latvian: propelleris m Lithuanian: propeleris m Macedonian: пропеле́р m (propelér) Malay: baling-baling, bebaling Maori: uruuru Mongolian: Cyrillic: сэнс (mn) (sens) 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 Roman: 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 Swahili: rafardha Swedish: propeller (sv) c Tagalog: elise (tl), elesi Tajik: пропеллер (propeller) Thai: ใบพัด (th) (bai-pát) Tibetan: རླུང་འཁོར (rlung 'khor) Turkish: pervane (tr) 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

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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

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English propeller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːˈpɛ.lər/

• Audio

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• 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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

propeller m

1. indefinite plural of propell

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Swedish

Etymology

From English propeller.

Noun

propeller c

1. propeller

Declension

Declension of propeller
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	propeller	propellern	propellrar	propellrarna
Genitive	propellers	propellerns	propellrars	propellrarnas

Further reading

• propeller in Svensk ordbok.