drone

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɹəʊn/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• General-American: /dɹoʊn/
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• rhymes with -əʊn
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• CMU ARPABET: D R OW1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As a German surname, spelling variant of Drohne, a city in Westphalia. * As an English surname, spelling variant of Drane. * As an Irish surname, spelling variant of Drohan; as a Scottish Gaelic surname, spelling variant of Dron in Perthshire.

From Middle English drane, dron, drone, from Old English drān, drǣn, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drenô, *drēnuz (“drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhreh1n- (“bee, drone, hornet”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Droane (“drone”), Dutch dar (“drone”), German Drohne (“drone”), Limburgish dreen, Droon (“drone”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk drone (“drone”), Swedish drönare (“drone”); also Belarusian тру́цень (trúcjenʹ, “drone”), Bulgarian търтей (tǎrtej, “drone”), Czech trubec (“drone”), Macedonian трут (trut, “drone”), Polish trąd, trut, truteń (“drone”), Russian and Ukrainian тру́тень (trútenʹ, “drone”), Serbo-Croatian тру̑т, trȗt (“drone”), Slovak trúd (“drone”), Slovene trot (“drone”). The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.

From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dher- (“to roar, hum, drone”). Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).

279 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: dar — male bee
• Albanian: brumbull — male bee
• Albanian: djerraditëz — male bee
• Albanian: trëntor — male bee
• Arabic: يَعْسُوب (yaʕsūb) — male bee
• Asturian: bázcaru — male bee
• Asturian: abeyón — male bee
• Asturian: zánganu — male bee
• Azerbaijani: erkək arı — male bee
• Belarusian: тру́цень (trúcjenʹ) — male bee
• Bulgarian: тъ́ртей (tǎ́rtej) — male bee
• Burmese: ပျားထီး (pya:hti:) — male bee
• Catalan: abellot — male bee
• Chinese Mandarin: 雄蜂 (xióngfēng) — male bee
• Czech: trubec — male bee
• Danish: drone — male bee
• Dutch: dar — male bee
• Dutch: drone — male bee
• Esperanto: virabelo — male bee
• Estonian: lesk — male bee
• Finnish: kuhnuri — male bee
• French: faux bourdon — male bee
• Galician: abázcaro — male bee
• Galician: abáboro — male bee
• Galician: abellón — male bee
• Galician: franco — male bee
• Georgian: მამალი ფუტკარი (mamali puṭḳari) — male bee
• German: Drohne — male bee
• Greek: κηφήνας (kifínas) — male bee
• Ancient Greek: κηφήν (kēphḗn) — male bee
• Ancient Greek: θρῶναξ (thrônax) — male bee
• Hungarian: here — male bee
• Indonesian: lebah jantan — male bee
• Interlingua: ape mascule — male bee
• Irish: ladrann — male bee
• Irish: crónán — male bee
• Italian: fuco — male bee
• Japanese: 雄蜂 (obachi) — male bee
• Korean: 숫벌 (sutbeol) — male bee
• Korean: 수벌 (subeol) — male bee
• Northern Kurdish: nêrehing — male bee
• Northern Kurdish: pîrox — male bee
• Latvian: trans — male bee
• Lithuanian: tranas — male bee
• Lithuanian: trãnas — male bee
• Macedonian: трут (trut) — male bee
• Malayalam: ആൺതേനീച്ച (āṇtēnīcca) — male bee
• Middle English: drane — male bee
• Norwegian Bokmål: drone — male bee
• Norwegian Nynorsk: drone — male bee
• Old English: drān — male bee
• Polish: truteń — male bee
• Portuguese: zangão — male bee
• Portuguese: zângão — male bee
• Romanian: trântor — male bee
• Russian: тру́тень (trútenʹ) — male bee
• Serbo-Croatian: тру̑т — male bee
• Serbo-Croatian: trȗt — male bee
• Slovak: trúd — male bee
• Slovene: trọ̑t — male bee
• Spanish: zángano — male bee
• Spanish: abejón — male bee
• Swedish: drönare — male bee
• Tibetan: སྦྲང་མ་ཕོ (sbrang ma pho) — male bee
• Tibetan: ཕོ་སྦྲང (pho sbrang) — male bee
• Turkish: saka — male bee
• Turkish: bodat — male bee
• Turkish: hordan — male bee
• Turkish: haradan — male bee
• Turkish: boruzan — male bee
• Turkish: puları — male bee
• Ukrainian: тру́тень (trútenʹ) — male bee
• Welsh: gwenynen segur — male bee
• Afrikaans: hommeltuig — unmanned aircraft
• Arabic: مُسَيَّرَة (musayyara) — unmanned aircraft
• Arabic: طَائِرَة بِدُونِ طَيَّار — unmanned aircraft
• Arabic: درون (drōn) — unmanned aircraft
• Arabic: زنانة (zannāne) — unmanned aircraft
• Armenian: անօդաչու (anōdačʻu) — unmanned aircraft
• Azerbaijani: pilotsuz uçuş aparatı — unmanned aircraft
• Azerbaijani: PUA — unmanned aircraft
• Azerbaijani: dron — unmanned aircraft
• Bashkir: дрон (dron) — unmanned aircraft
• Belarusian: беспіло́тны лята́льны апара́т (bjespilótny ljatálʹny aparát) — unmanned aircraft
• Belarusian: беспіло́тнік (bjespilótnik) — unmanned aircraft
• Belarusian: бесьпілётнік (bjesʹpiljótnik) — unmanned aircraft
• Belarusian: дрон (dron) — unmanned aircraft
• Bulgarian: дрон (dron) — unmanned aircraft
• Burmese: ဒရုန်း (da.run:) — unmanned aircraft
• Catalan: VANT — unmanned aircraft
• Catalan: dron — unmanned aircraft
• Chinese Mandarin: 無人航空載具 /无人航空载具 (wúrén hángkōng zàijù) — unmanned aircraft
• Chinese Mandarin: 無人飛機 /无人飞机 (wúrén fēijī) — unmanned aircraft
• Chinese Mandarin: 無人機 /无人机 (wúrénjī) — unmanned aircraft
• Chinese Mandarin: 無人駕駛飛機 /无人驾驶飞机 (wúrén jiàshǐ fēijī) — unmanned aircraft
• Czech: bezpilotní letoun — unmanned aircraft
• Czech: dron — unmanned aircraft
• Danish: drone — unmanned aircraft
• Danish: dronefly — unmanned aircraft
• Dutch: drone — unmanned aircraft
• Esperanto: droneo — unmanned aircraft
• Esperanto: spavo — unmanned aircraft
• Esperanto: flugroboto — unmanned aircraft
• Esperanto: senpilota aviadilo — unmanned aircraft
• Estonian: droon — unmanned aircraft
• Finnish: lennokki — unmanned aircraft
• Finnish: drooni — unmanned aircraft
• Finnish: drone — unmanned aircraft
• French: drone — unmanned aircraft
• Georgian: დრონი (droni) — unmanned aircraft
• German: Drohne — unmanned aircraft
• Hebrew: מָלָ״ט (MaLá"T) — unmanned aircraft
• Hebrew: מַזְלָ״ט (MaZLá"T) — unmanned aircraft
• Hindi: मानव रहित विमान (mānav rahit vimān) — unmanned aircraft
• Hungarian: drón — unmanned aircraft
• Indonesian: dron — unmanned aircraft
• Irish: drón — unmanned aircraft
• Italian: drone — unmanned aircraft
• Japanese: 無人航空機 (mujin kōkūki) — unmanned aircraft
• Japanese: ドローン (dorōn) — unmanned aircraft
• Japanese: 無人飛行機 (mujin hikōki) — unmanned aircraft
• Kazakh: ұшқышсыз ұшу аппараты (ūşqyşsyz ūşu apparaty) — unmanned aircraft
• Kazakh: дрон (dron) — unmanned aircraft
• Khmer: ដ្រូន (droun) — unmanned aircraft
• Korean: 드론 (deuron) — unmanned aircraft
• Korean: 무인항공기 (mu'inhanggonggi) — unmanned aircraft
• Korean: 무인기 (mu'in'gi) — unmanned aircraft
• Kyrgyz: учкучсуз учуучу аппарат (uckucsuz ucuucu apparat) — unmanned aircraft
• Kyrgyz: дрон (dron) — unmanned aircraft
• Latin: fucus — unmanned aircraft
• Latvian: bezpilota lidaparāts — unmanned aircraft
• Lithuanian: bepilotis orlaivis — unmanned aircraft
• Lithuanian: dronas — unmanned aircraft
• Macedonian: беспи́лотник (bespílotnik) — unmanned aircraft
• Macedonian: беспи́лотно ле́тало (bespílotno létalo) — unmanned aircraft
• Macedonian: дрон (dron) — unmanned aircraft
• Māori: matatopa — unmanned aircraft
• Marathi: ड्रोन (ḍron) — unmanned aircraft
• Norwegian Bokmål: drone — unmanned aircraft
• Norwegian Bokmål: dronefly — unmanned aircraft
• Norwegian Nynorsk: drone — unmanned aircraft
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dronefly — unmanned aircraft
• Iranian Persian: پَهْپاد (pahpâd) — unmanned aircraft
• Polish: samolot bezzałogowy — unmanned aircraft
• Polish: dron — unmanned aircraft
• Polish: bezzałogowiec — unmanned aircraft
• Polish: bezpilotowiec — unmanned aircraft
• Portuguese: drone — unmanned aircraft
• Romanian: dronă — unmanned aircraft
• Russian: беспило́тный лета́тельный аппара́т (bespilótnyj letátelʹnyj apparát) — unmanned aircraft
• Russian: БПЛА (BPLA) — unmanned aircraft
• Russian: дрон (dron) — unmanned aircraft
• Russian: беспило́тник (bespilótnik) — unmanned aircraft
• Scottish Gaelic: dròn — unmanned aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: беспилотна летелица — unmanned aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: беспилотна летјелица — unmanned aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: БПЛ — unmanned aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: дрон — unmanned aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: bespilotna letelica — unmanned aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: bespilotna letjelica — unmanned aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: BPL — unmanned aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: dron — unmanned aircraft
• Slovak: bezpilotné lietadlo — unmanned aircraft
• Slovene: brezpilotno letalo — unmanned aircraft
• Slovene: dron — unmanned aircraft
• Spanish: dron — unmanned aircraft
• Spanish: drone — unmanned aircraft
• Swahili: ndege nyuki — unmanned aircraft
• Swahili: droni — unmanned aircraft
• Swedish: drönare — unmanned aircraft
• Tajik: паҳпод (pahpod) — unmanned aircraft
• Tajik: дрон (dron) — unmanned aircraft
• Thai: อากาศยานไร้คนขับ (aa-gàat-sà-yaan-rái-kon-kàp) — unmanned aircraft
• Thai: โดรน (droon) — unmanned aircraft
• Tibetan: མི་མེད་འཕུར་གྲུ (mi med 'phur gru) — unmanned aircraft
• Turkish: dron — unmanned aircraft
• Turkish: insansız uçak — unmanned aircraft
• Turkish: çamcarı — unmanned aircraft
• Turkish: insansız hava aracı (İHA) — unmanned aircraft
• Ukrainian: безпіло́тний літа́льний апара́т (bezpilótnyj litálʹnyj aparát) — unmanned aircraft
• Ukrainian: безпіло́тник (bezpilótnyk) — unmanned aircraft
• Ukrainian: дрон (dron) — unmanned aircraft
• Urdu: بَغَیْر پائِلَٹ کی فَضائی گاڑی (baġayr pāilaṭ kī fazāī gāṛī) — unmanned aircraft
• Urdu: ڈْرون (ḍron) — unmanned aircraft
• Urdu: بَعِید مُنْضَبِط طَیَّارَہ (ba'īd munzabit tayyāra) — unmanned aircraft
• Uzbek: uchuvchisiz uchish apparati — unmanned aircraft
• Uzbek: dron — unmanned aircraft
• Vietnamese: máy bay không người lái — unmanned aircraft
• Welsh: drôn — unmanned aircraft
• Bulgarian: бръмчене (brǎmčene) — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Dutch: brommen — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Dutch: dreunen — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Esperanto: zumo — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Finnish: hymistä — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Finnish: hyristä — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Finnish: surista — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Finnish: hurista — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Galician: zunir — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Galician: zoar — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Galician: rombar — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Galician: retrovexar — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Galician: zonzonear — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• German: Brummen — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Interlingua: susurrar — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Irish: andord — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Macedonian: брчи (brči) — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Macedonian: брмчи (brmči) — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Māori: rōria — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Polish: buczeć — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Polish: brzęczeć — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Portuguese: zumbir — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Spanish: zumbar — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Spanish: zumbido — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Tibetan: ཟིར་སྒྲ (zir sgra) — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Tibetan: ཟིར་ཟིར (zir zir) — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Turkish: vızıldamak — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Turkish: cızırdamak — a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Bulgarian: бръмчене (brǎmčene) — hum or buzz
• Dutch: gebrom — hum or buzz
• Finnish: humina — hum or buzz
• Finnish: surina — hum or buzz
• French: bourdonnement — hum or buzz
• German: Dröhnen — hum or buzz
• Interlingua: susurro — hum or buzz
• Irish: drantán — hum or buzz
• Italian: ronzio — hum or buzz
• Italian: brusio — hum or buzz
• Japanese: ブンブン (bunbun) — hum or buzz
• Macedonian: брчење (brčenje) — hum or buzz
• Macedonian: брмчење (brmčenje) — hum or buzz
• Māori: rōria — hum or buzz
• Polish: buczenie — hum or buzz
• Polish: brzęczenie — hum or buzz
• Portuguese: zumbido — hum or buzz
• Russian: жужжа́ние (žužžánije) — hum or buzz
• Spanish: zumbido — hum or buzz
• Spanish: murmullo — hum or buzz
• Spanish: soniquete — hum or buzz
• Tibetan: ཟིར་སྒྲ (zir sgra) — hum or buzz
• Tibetan: ཟིར་ཟིར (zir zir) — hum or buzz
• Turkish: vızıltı — hum or buzz
• Turkish: cızırtı — hum or buzz
• Albanian: buçallë — fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe
• Bulgarian: ручило (ručilo) — fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe
• Dutch: bourdon — fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe
• Finnish: bordunapilli — fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe
• Galician: roncón — fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe
• German: Basspfeife — fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe
• Macedonian: брчало (brčalo) — fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe
• Polish: piszczałka burdonowa — fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe
• Polish: burdon — fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe
• Polish: bąk — fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe
• Swedish: bordun — fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe
• Finnish: työläinen — drudge
• French: idiot utile — drudge
• French: dupe — drudge
• Indonesian: dengung — drudge
• Italian: gonzo — drudge
• Italian: zimbello — drudge
• Spanish: timado — drudge
• Turkish: köle — drudge
• Spanish: dronar — Translations
• Finnish: hurista — to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz
• French: bourdonner — to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz
• French: vrombir — to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz
• German: brummen — to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Ingrian: pörissä — to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Māori: rōria — to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Portuguese: zunir — to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Tibetan: ཟིར་སྒྲ་རྒྱག (zir sgra rgyag) — to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz
• Dutch: brommen — to speak in a monotone way
• Dutch: eentonig spreken — to speak in a monotone way
• Interlingua: parlar monotonemente — to speak in a monotone way
• Italian: parlare monotonamente — to speak in a monotone way
• Polish: mówić monotonnie — to speak in a monotone way
• Portuguese: falar monotonamente — to speak in a monotone way
• Sicilian: murmurijari — to speak in a monotone way
• Sicilian: ciarmulijari — to speak in a monotone way
• Tibetan: ཟིར་ཟིར་ཟེར (zir zir zer) — to speak in a monotone way