aircraft carrier

English

An aircraft carrier.

Noun

aircraft carrier (plural aircraft carriers)

A warship designed to carry aircraft, serving as a seagoing air base, with a deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed.

Synonyms

flat-top, flattop

Hyponyms

helicopter carrier
escort carrier
aviation cruiser
supercarrier
fleet carrier

Derived terms

commando carrier
escort carrier
fleet carrier
harrier carrier
light carrier
lightning carrier
merchant aircraft carrier
supercarrier

Translations

warship for launching aircraft

Afrikaans: vliegdekskip
Albanian: aeroplanmbajtëse (sq) f
Arabic: حَمَلَةُ طَائِرَات f (ḥamalatu ṭāʔirāt)
Armenian: ավիակիր (hy) (aviakir)
Azerbaijani: aviadaşıyıcı
Basque: hegazkin-ontzi
Belarusian: авіяно́сец m (avijanósjec)
Bengali: যুদ্ধবিমান পরিবাহক (juddhobiman poribahok)
Bulgarian: самолетоноса́ч (bg) m (samoletonosáč)
Catalan: portaavions (ca) m
Chinese:
Hokkien: please add this translation if you can

Mandarin: 航空母艦／航空母舰 (zh) (hángkōng mǔjiàn), (abbreviation) 航母 (zh) (hángmǔ)
Czech: letadlová loď (cs) f
Danish: hangarskib n
Dutch: vliegdekschip (nl) n
Esperanto: aviadila ŝipo, aviadilporta, aviporta ŝipo, aviadilŝipo
Estonian: lennukikandja
Faroese: flogberi m
Finnish: lentotukialus (fi)
French: porte-avions (fr) m
Galician: porta-avións m
Georgian: ავიამზიდი (aviamzidi), ავიამზიდი გემი (aviamzidi gemi), ავიამზიდი ხომალდი (aviamzidi xomaldi)
German: Flugzeugträger (de) m
Greek: αεροπλανοφόρο (el) n (aeroplanofóro)
Hebrew: נוֹשֵׂאת מְטוֹסִים (he) f (noset metosim)
Hindi: वायुयान वाहक पोत (vāyuyān vāhak pot)
Hungarian: repülőgép-hordozó (hu), repülőgép-anyahajó (hu) (colloquial)
Icelandic: lugmóðurskip n
Indonesian: kapal induk (id)
Irish: iompróir aerárthaí m
Italian: portaerei (it) f, portaeromobili f
Japanese: 航空母艦 (ja) (こうくうぼかん, kōkūbokan), (abbreviation) 空母 (ja) (くうぼ, kūbo)
Kazakh: ұшақ тасығыш (ūşaq tasyğyş)
Korean: 항공모함(航空母艦) (ko) (hanggongmoham), (abbreviation) 항모(航母) (hangmo)
Latin: navis aëroplanigera f
Latvian: aviācijas bāzeskuģis m
Lithuanian: lėktuvnešis m
Macedonian: носач на авио́ни m (nosač na avióni)
Malay: kapal pengangkut pesawat, kapal induk pesawat udara
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: нисэх онгоц тээвэрлэгч (nisex ongoc teeverlegč), нисгэлийн суурь онгоц (nisgeliin suurʹ ongoc) (China)

Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠰᠬᠦ
ᠣᠩᠭᠤᠴᠠ
ᠲᠡᠭᠡᠭᠡᠪᠦᠷᠢᠯᠡᠭᠴᠢ (niskü oŋɣuča tegegebürileɣči), ᠨᠢᠰᠬᠡᠯ ᠦᠨ
ᠰᠠᠭᠤᠷᠢ
ᠣᠩᠭᠤᠴᠠ (niskel-ün saɣuri oŋɣuča)
Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł chidí naatʼaʼí bee nágéhé
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hangarskip n

Nynorsk: hangarskip n
Pali: ākāsayānanāvā f
Persian: ناو هواپیمابر (fa) (nâv-e havâpeymâbar)
Polish: lotniskowiec (pl) m, awiomatka f
Portuguese: porta-aviões (pt) m
Romanian: portavion (ro) m
Russian: авиано́сец (ru) m (avianósec), авиама́тка (ru) f (aviamátka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: носач авиона m (Serbia), носач зракоплова m (Croatia)

Roman: nosač aviona m (Serbia), nosač zrakoplova m (Croatia)
Slovak: lietadlová loď f
Slovene: letalonosilka f
Spanish: portaaviones (es) m
Swedish: hangarfartyg (sv) n
Tamil: வானூர்தி தாங்கிக் கப்பல் (vāṉūrti tāṅkik kappal)
Thai: เรือบรรทุกอากาศยาน (rʉʉa-ban-túk-aa-gàat-sà-yaan)
Turkish: uçak gemisi (tr)
Ukrainian: авіано́сець (uk) m (avianósecʹ)
Vietnamese: tàu sân bay (vi); hàng không mẫu hạm (obsolete)

aircraft carrier

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