Noun
dirigible (plural dirigibles)
- (aviation) A self-propelled airship that can be steered.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 101:On the opposite wall, the R101 tragedy is recalled by the airship's tattered ensign in a glass case, a plaque from the Royal Airship Works and a photograph of the dirigible at her moorings.
2023 February 4, Katie Rogers, “Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a … Chinese Spy Balloon?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:People had time to think up some questions, including reporters who shouted “Are you going to shoot down the balloon?” at President Biden shortly before the dirigible came down.
Translations
a self-propelled airship that can be steered
- Afrikaans: lugskip (af)
- Arabic: سَفِينَة هَوَائِيَّة f (safīna(t) hawāʔiyya)
- Armenian: դիրիժաբլ (hy) (dirižabl)
- Asturian: dirixible (ast) m
- Basque: baloi gidatu
- Belarusian: дырыжа́бль m (dyryžáblʹ)
- Bulgarian: дирижа́бъл (bg) m (dirižábǎl)
- Burmese: လေသင်္ဘော (lesangbhau:)
- Catalan: dirigible m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 飛艇 / 飞艇 (zh) (fēitǐng), 飛船 / 飞船 (zh) (fēichuán)
- Chuvash: дирижабль (dirižablʹ)
- Czech: vzducholoď (cs) f
- Danish: luftskib (da) n
- Dutch: luchtschip (nl) n
- Esperanto: aerŝipo
- Estonian: õhulaev
- Faroese: luftskip n
- Finnish: ilmalaiva (fi)
- French: ballon dirigeable (fr) m, dirigeable (fr) m
- Galician: dirixible (gl) m
- Georgian: დირიჟაბლი (dirižabli)
- German: Luftschiff (de) n
- Hebrew: ספינת אוויר / סְפִינַת אֲוִיר (he) f (sfinát avír)
- Hungarian: kormányozható léghajó, léghajó (hu)
- Icelandic: loftskip (is) n
- Ido: aeronavo (io), direkteblo (io)
- Indonesian: kapal udara (id)
- Interlingua: dirigibile
- Irish: aerlong f
- Italian: aeronave (it) f, dirigibile (it) m
- Japanese: 飛行船 (ja) (ひこうせん, hikōsen), 軽気球 (ja) (けいききゅう, keikikyū)
- Javanese: palwa anggegana
- Kazakh: дирижабль (dirijabl)
- Korean: 기구 (ko) (gigu), 비행선 (bihaengseon)
- Kyrgyz: дирижабль (ky) (dirijabl)
- Latin: aëria navis f (New Latin)
- Latvian: dirižablis m
- Lithuanian: dirižablis m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Luftschipp n, Luchtschipp n
- Macedonian: дирижа́бл m (dirižábl)
- Malay: kapal udara
- Malayalam: ആകാശക്കപ്പൽ (ml) (ākāśakkappal)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: luftskip n
- Nynorsk: luftskip n
- Old English: lyftscip n
- Persian: کشتی هوایی (fa) (kašti-ye havâyi)
- Plautdietsch: Loftschepp n
- Polish: sterowiec (pl) m
- Portuguese: dirigível (pt) m
- Romanian: balon dirijabil n, dirijabil (ro) n
- Russian: дирижа́бль (ru) m (dirižáblʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дирижабл m, зрачни брод m
- Roman: dirižabl (sh) m, zračni brod m
- Slovak: vzducholoď f
- Slovene: zračna ladja f
- Spanish: dirigible (es) m, globo dirigible m
- Swahili: ndegeputo
- Swedish: luftskepp (sv) n
- Tagalog: barkong panghimpapawid
- Tamil: வான்கப்பல் (vāṉkappal)
- Thai: เรือเหาะ (th) (rʉʉa-hɔ̀)
- Tibetan: རླུང་གྲུ (rlung gru) (lit. air-ship)
- Turkish: hava gemisi (tr)
- Ukrainian: дирижа́бль m (dyryžáblʹ)
- Urdu: ہواکشتی
- Uzbek: dirijabl (uz)
- Vietnamese: điều khiển được, khí cầu điều khiển được
- Welsh: awyrlong
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