hovercraft

English

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hovercraft

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hovercraft

Etymology

From hover +‎ -craft. Originally a trademark by Saunders-Roe Limited, a British aero- and marine-engineering company.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒv.ə.kɹɑːft/, /ˈhɒv.ə.kɹæft/, /ˈhʌv.ə.kɹɑːft/, /ˈhʌv.ə.kɹæft/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌvɚ.kɹæft/, /ˈhɑvɚ.kɹæft/

Noun

hovercraft (plural hovercrafts or hovercraft)

2. (vehicles, genericized trademark) A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.

   Synonyms: ACV, air-cushion vehicle

   Hypernyms: GEM, ground-effect machine < craft, vehicle, machine

   Hyponym: LCAC

   Coordinate term: ionocraft

   • 2022 July 24, Morgan Krakow, “It began as a typical ferry ride in Kachemak Bay. Then a minke whale went airborne.”, in Anchorage Daily News‎, archived from the original on 27 March 2023:

     The snapshot shows the whale parallel above the water almost as if it’s competing in belly-flop contest, doing a midair plank or floating across the bay like a hovercraft.

Translations

vehicle supported on a cushion of air

Afrikaans: sweeftuig Arabic: حَوَّامَة f (ḥawwāma) Basque: aerolabaingailu (eu) Catalan: aerolliscador (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 氣墊船 / 气垫船 (zh) (qìdiànchuán) Czech: vznášedlo (cs) n Danish: luftpudebåd c, svævebåd c Dutch: hovercraft (nl), luchtkussenvoertuig (nl) n Esperanto: teraplano Faroese: flogbátur m Finnish: ilmatyynyalus (fi), pintaliitäjä (dated, rare) French: aéroglisseur (fr) m German: Hovercraft, Luftkissenfahrzeug (de) n, Luftkissenboot n Greek: αερόστρωμνο (el) n (aeróstromno) Hebrew: רַחֶפֶת / רחפת (he) f (rakhefet) Hungarian: légpárnás (hu) Icelandic: svifnökkvi Indonesian: kapal katung, kapal bantalan udara (id) Italian: aeroscafo (it) m, aeronave (it) f, aeroscivolante (it) m, aeroslittante (it) m, hovercraft (it) m Japanese: ホバークラフト (ja) (hobākurafuto) Kazakh: әуе негіз кемесi (äue negız kemesi) Korean: 공기부양정(空氣浮揚艇) (gonggibuyangjeong), 호버크래프트 (hobeokeuraepeuteu) Luxembourgish: Loftkësseboot Macedonian: лебдилка f (lebdilka), ховеркрафт m (hoverkraft) Malay: hoverkraf Maori: waka topaki Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł dah nahaleʼí Norman: aérodrisseux m, aéroglisseux m Norwegian: Bokmål: luftputebåt, svevebåt Nynorsk: luftputebåt m, svevebåt Persian: هواناو (fa) Polish: poduszkowiec (pl) m Portuguese: aerobarco (pt) m, aerodeslizador (pt), hovercraft (pt) (Brazil) Russian: су́дно на возду́шной поду́шке (ru) n (súdno na vozdúšnoj podúške), СВП n (SVP), хо́веркра́фт (ru) m (xóverkráft) Serbo-Croatian: хо̏веркрафт m, hȍverkraft (sh) m Spanish: aerodeslizador (es) m, hovercraft m (hóverkraft) (Spain) Swedish: svävare (sv) c Turkish: hava yastıklı tekne Ukrainian: судно́ на пові́тряній поду́шці n (sudnó na povítrjanij podúšci) Vietnamese: ca nô đệm khí

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English hovercraft.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɔ.vərˌkrɛft/, /ˈɦu-/, /-ˌkrɑft/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ho‧ver‧craft

Noun

hovercraft m or f (plural hovercrafts, diminutive hovercraftje n)

1. hovercraft

   Synonym: luchtkussenvoertuig

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

hovercraft

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from English hovercraft.

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

hovercraft m (plural hovercrafts)

1. hovercraft

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

hovercraft

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

Borrowed from English hovercraft.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

hovercraft m (invariable)

1. hovercraft

   Synonyms: aeroscafo, aeronave, aeroscivolante, aeroslittante

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hovercraft.

Noun

hovercraft m (plural hovercrafts)

1. (Brazil) hovercraft (a vehicle supported on a cushion of air)

   Synonyms: aerobarco, aerodeslizador

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hovercraft.

Noun

hovercraft n (plural hovercrafturi)

1. hovercraft

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	hovercraft	hovercraftul		hovercrafturi	hovercrafturile
genitive-dative	hovercraft	hovercraftului		hovercrafturi	hovercrafturilor
vocative	hovercraftule			hovercrafturilor

References

• hovercraft in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN