seaplane

English

A de Havilland Otter floatplane

A Grumman G-111 Albatross amphibious flying boat landing

Etymology

sea +‎ plane

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

seaplane (plural seaplanes)

(aircraft, nautical) Any aircraft capable of taking off from, and alighting on the surface of water.
Synonym: hydroplane

Hyponyms

floatplane, float plane
flying boat

Derived terms

Translations

an aircraft

Afrikaans: vliegboot
Basque: ur-hegazkin
Bulgarian: хидроплан (bg) m (hidroplan)
Catalan: hidroavió m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 水上飛機／水上飞机 (zh) (shuǐshàng fēijī)
Czech: hydroplán (cs) m
Danish: vandfly n
Dutch: watervliegtuig (nl) n
Esperanto: hidroplano
Estonian: vesilennuk
Faroese: sjóflogfar n
Finnish: vesitaso (fi), vesilentokone
French: hydravion (fr) m
Galician: hidroavión (gl) m
German: Wasserflugzeug (de) n
Greek: υδροπλάνο (el) n (ydropláno)
Hungarian: hidroplán (hu)
Icelandic: sjóflugvél f
Italian: idrovolante (it) m
Japanese: 水上機 (ja) (すいじょうき, suijōki)
Macedonian: хидроавио́н m (hidroavión)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sjøfly n

Nynorsk: sjøfly n
Polish: wodnosamolot (pl) m, hydroplan (pl) m
Portuguese: hidroavião (pt) m
Romanian: hidroavion (ro) n
Russian: гидросамолёт (ru) m (gidrosamoljót), гидропла́н (ru) m (gidroplán)
Slovene: hidroplan m
Spanish: hidroavión (es) m
Swedish: sjöflygplan (sv) n
Vietnamese: thủy phi cơ (vi)

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