helicopter

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• Australian: /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/
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• Australian: /ˈheləˌkɔptə(ɹ)/
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• UK: /ˈhɛl.iˌkɒp.tə(ɹ)/
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• UK: /ˈhɛl.ɪˌkɒp.tə(ɹ)/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈhɛlɪjˌkɔptə(ɹ)/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈhɛlɪˌkɔptə(ɹ)/
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• General-American: /ˈhɛlɪˌkɑptɜɹ/
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• General-American, dated, rare: /ˈhilɪˌkɑptɜɹ/
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Borrowed from French hélicoptère, from Ancient Greek ἕλιξ (hélix, “spiral”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”). Doublet of helicopteron. By surface analysis, helico- + -pter. The dragonfly sense is from a dragonfly's ability to hover and fly in any direction, like the flying machine.

186 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: helikopter — aircraft
• Albanian: helikopter — aircraft
• Amharic: ሄሊኮፕተር (helikoptär) — aircraft
• Arabic: طَائِرَةٌ مِرْوَحِيَّة (ṭāʔiratun mirwaḥiyya) — aircraft
• Arabic: طَائِرَة عَامُودِيَّة (ṭāʔira ʕāmūdiyya) — aircraft
• Arabic: هِلِيكُوبْتَر (helikobtar) — aircraft
• Arabic: حَوَّامَة (ḥawwāma) — aircraft
• Arabic: طَوَّافَة (ṭawwāfa) — aircraft
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܪܵܚܘܿܦܬܵܐ (rāḥōptā) — aircraft
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܲܝܵܣܬܵܐ ܪܵܚܘܿܦܬܵܐ (ṭayyāstā rāḥōptā) — aircraft
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܹܝܠܝܼܟܘܿܦܬܲܪ (hēlīkōptar) — aircraft
• Armenian: ուղղաթիռ (uġġatʻiṙ) — aircraft
• Aromanian: ilicupter — aircraft
• Aromanian: elicupter — aircraft
• Asturian: helicópteru — aircraft
• Azerbaijani: dikuçar — aircraft
• Azerbaijani: helikopter — aircraft
• Azerbaijani: vertolyot — aircraft
• Basque: helikoptero — aircraft
• Belarusian: верталёт (vjertaljót) — aircraft
• Belarusian: гелікаптэ́р (hjelikaptér) — aircraft
• Belarusian: геліко́птэр (hjelikópter) — aircraft
• Bengali: হেলিকোপটার (helikōpoṭar) — aircraft
• Breton: biñsaskell — aircraft
• Bulgarian: хелико́птер (helikópter) — aircraft
• Bulgarian: вертоле́т (vertolét) — aircraft
• Burmese: ဟယ်လီကော့ပတာ (hailikau.pa.ta) — aircraft
• Burmese: ရဟတ်ယာဉ် (ra.hatyany) — aircraft
• Catalan: helicòpter — aircraft
• Chechen: беркема (berkema) — aircraft
• Chinese Cantonese: 直升機 /直昇機 /直升机 (zik6 sing1 gei1) — aircraft
• Hakka Chinese: 直升機 /直昇機 /直升机 (chhṳ̍t-sṳ̂n-kî) — aircraft
• Chinese: 直升機 /直昇機 /直升机 (ti̍t-seng-ki) — aircraft
• Chinese Mandarin: 直升機 /直昇機 /直升机 (zhíshēngjī) — aircraft
• Wu Chinese: 直升機 /直昇機 /直升机 (8zeq-sen-ci) — aircraft
• Cornish: askel dro — aircraft
• Czech: vrtulník — aircraft
• Czech: helikoptéra — aircraft
• Danish: helikopter — aircraft
• Dutch: helikopter — aircraft
• Dutch: wentelwiek — aircraft
• Elfdalian: elikopter — aircraft
• Esperanto: helikoptero — aircraft
• Estonian: helikopter — aircraft
• Faroese: tyrla — aircraft
• Finnish: helikopteri — aircraft
• French: hélicoptère — aircraft
• Galician: helicóptero — aircraft
• Georgian: ვერტმფრენი (verṭmpreni) — aircraft
• Georgian: შვეულმფრენი (šveulmpreni) — aircraft
• German: Hubschrauber — aircraft
• German: Helikopter — aircraft
• Greek: ελικόπτερο (elikóptero) — aircraft
• Greenlandic: helikopteri — aircraft
• Greenlandic: qulimiguulik — aircraft
• Hawaiian: helekopa — aircraft
• Hebrew: מַסּוֹק (masók) — aircraft
• Hindi: हेलिकॉप्टर (helikŏpṭar) — aircraft
• Hungarian: helikopter — aircraft
• Iban: bilun engkabang — aircraft
• Icelandic: þyrla — aircraft
• Icelandic: þyrilvængja — aircraft
• Icelandic: kofti — aircraft
• Ido: helikoptero — aircraft
• Indonesian: helikopter — aircraft
• Interlingua: helicoptero — aircraft
• Irish: héileacaptar — aircraft
• Irish: ingearán — aircraft
• Italian: elicottero — aircraft
• Sicilian: elicòttiru — aircraft
• Japanese: ヘリコプター (herikoputā) — aircraft
• Japanese: ヘリ (heri) — aircraft
• Japanese: 螺旋翼機 (rasen'yokuki) — aircraft
• Jarawa: čokogere — aircraft
• Jarawa: ŋeŋeŋe — aircraft
• Karakalpak: vertolyot — aircraft
• Karakalpak: tikushar — aircraft
• Kazakh: тікұшақ (tıkūşaq) — aircraft
• Khmer: អេលីកុបទែរ (ʼeeliikoptɛɛ) — aircraft
• Khmer: អេលីកូ (ʼeeliikou) — aircraft
• Khmer: ឧទ្ធម្ភាគចក្រ (ʼutthŏəmphiəkĕəʼcak) — aircraft
• Korean: 헬리콥터 (hellikopteo) — aircraft
• Korean: 헬기 (helgi) — aircraft
• Korean: 직승비행기 (jikseungbihaenggi) — aircraft
• Korean: 직승기 (jikseunggi) — aircraft
• Northern Kurdish: helîkopter — aircraft
• Kyrgyz: тик учак (tik ucak) — aircraft
• Lao: ເອລີກົບເທີ (ʼē lī kop thœ̄) — aircraft
• Lao: ເຮລິຄອບແຕ (hē li khǭp tǣ) — aircraft
• Lao: ເຮລີກົບແຕ (hē lī kop tǣ) — aircraft
• Latin: helicopterum — aircraft
• Latvian: helikopters — aircraft
• Lithuanian: sraigtasparnis — aircraft
• Lithuanian: helikopteris — aircraft
• Livonian: helikoptõr — aircraft
• German Low German: helikopter — aircraft
• German Low German: dwarsmöäle — aircraft
• Dutch Low Saxon: helikopter — aircraft
• Dutch Low Saxon: hefskruuvvleegtüüg — aircraft
• Luxembourgish: Helikopter — aircraft
• Macedonian: вр́толет (vŕtolet) — aircraft
• Macedonian: хелико́птер (helikópter) — aircraft
• Malay: helikopter — aircraft
• Malay: kapal baling — aircraft
• Maltese: ħelikopter — aircraft
• Māori: waka āwhiowhio — aircraft
• Māori: waka hurihuri — aircraft
• Māori: waka kōporo — aircraft
• Māori: waka topatopa — aircraft
• Mongolian: нисдэг тэрэг (nisdeg tereg) — aircraft
• Mongolian: эгч нисгэл (egč nisgel) — aircraft
• Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠰᠳᠡᠭ ᠲᠡᠷᠭᠡ (nisdeg terge) — aircraft
• Mongolian: ᠡᠭᠴᠡ ᠨᠢᠰᠬᠡᠯ (egče niskel) — aircraft
• Navajo: bikááʼ náʼoobałí — aircraft
• Newar: बुइँचाखः (buĩcākha:) — aircraft
• Norwegian Bokmål: helikopter — aircraft
• Norwegian Nynorsk: helikopter — aircraft
• Occitan: elicoptèr — aircraft
• Pali: vyoma-yānavisesa — aircraft
• Pashto: چورلکه (čurláka) — aircraft
• Dari: چَرْخبَال (čarx-bāl) — aircraft
• Dari: هِلِیکُوپْتِر (hilī-kūptir) — aircraft
• Iranian Persian: بالْگَرْد (bâlgard) — aircraft
• Iranian Persian: هِلیکوپْتَر (heli-kuptar) — aircraft
• Polish: śmigłowiec — aircraft
• Polish: helikopter — aircraft
• Portuguese: helicóptero — aircraft
• Punjabi: ਹੈਲੀਕਾਪਟਰ (hailīkāpṭar) — aircraft
• Quechua: pillwinkumpa — aircraft
• Romanian: elicopter — aircraft
• Romansh: helicopter — aircraft
• Russian: вертолёт (vertoljót) — aircraft
• Russian: геликопте́р (gelikoptɛ́r) — aircraft
• Russian: гелико́птер (gelikóptɛr) — aircraft
• Northern Sami: helekopter — aircraft
• Northern Sami: helikopter — aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: хелико̀птер — aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: у̀вртња̄к — aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: вр̀тложња̄к — aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: helikòpter — aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: ùvrtnjāk — aircraft
• Serbo-Croatian: vr̀tložnjāk — aircraft
• Slovak: vrtuľník — aircraft
• Slovak: helikoptéra — aircraft
• Slovene: helikopter — aircraft
• Slovene: vijakar — aircraft
• Upper Sorbian: helikopter — aircraft
• Sotho: helikopotare — aircraft
• Southern Altai: вертолёт (vertolyot) — aircraft
• Spanish: helicóptero — aircraft
• Spanish: autogiro — aircraft
• Swahili: helikopta — aircraft
• Swedish: helikopter — aircraft
• Tagalog: helikopter — aircraft
• Tagalog: elikoptero — aircraft
• Tajik: чархбол (čarxbol) — aircraft
• Tajik: вертолёт (vertolyot) — aircraft
• Tamil: உலங்கு வானூர்தி (ulaṅku vāṉūrti) — aircraft
• Tatar: боралак (boralaq) — aircraft
• Thai: เฮลิคอปเตอร์ (hee-lí-kɔ́p-dtə̂ə) — aircraft
• Tibetan: ཐད་འཕུར་གནམ་གྲུ (thad 'phur gnam gru) — aircraft
• Tibetan: ཧེ་ལེ་ཀོབ་ཊར (he le kob ṭar) — aircraft
• Tigrinya: ሄሊኮፕተር (helikoptär) — aircraft
• Tok Pisin: helikopta — aircraft
• Turkish: helikopter — aircraft
• Turkmen: wertolýot — aircraft
• Ukrainian: вертолі́т (vertolít) — aircraft
• Ukrainian: гелікопте́р (helikoptér) — aircraft
• Urdu: ہیلی کاپْٹَر (helī kāpṭar) — aircraft
• Urdu: دوار سطح طیارہ (duvvār satah taiyāra) — aircraft
• Urdu: پنکھ دار طیارہ (pankh-dār taiyāra) — aircraft
• Uyghur: تىك ئۇچار ئايروپىلان (tik uchar ayropilan) — aircraft
• Uyghur: ۋېرتاليوت (wërtalyot) — aircraft
• Uyghur: تىك ئۇچار (tik uchar) — aircraft
• Uzbek: tikuchar — aircraft
• Uzbek: vertolyot — aircraft
• Vietnamese: máy bay lên thẳng — aircraft
• Vietnamese: máy bay trực thăng — aircraft
• Vietnamese: trực thăng — aircraft
• Volapük: tovaskrubian — aircraft
• Welsh: hofrennydd — aircraft
• Yiddish: העליקאָפּטער (helikopter) — aircraft
• Finnish: kuljettaa helikopterilla — to transport by helicopter
• French: héliporter — to transport by helicopter
• Italian: elitrasportare — to transport by helicopter
• Finnish: matkustaa helikopterilla — to travel by helicopter