hovercraft

English

A hovercraft can travel over water and flat terrain

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 hovercraft or (nonstandard) hovercrafts)

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^[1], 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.

Derived terms

• hovercrafter
• hovercraftful
• hovercraftlike

Related terms

• hoverport

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 (äwe negiz kemesi)
• Korean: 공기부양정(空氣浮揚艇) (gonggibuyangjeong), 호버크래프트 (hobeokeuraepeuteu)
• Luxembourgish: Loftkësseboot
• Macedonian: лебдилка f (lebdilka), ховеркрафт m (hoverkraft)
• Malay: hoverkraf
• Māori: 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

Etymology

Borrowed from English hovercraft.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.vɛʁ.kʁaft/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

hovercraft m (plural hovercrafts)

1. hovercraft

Italian

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.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʁo.veʁˈkɾɛ.fi.t͡ʃi/ [ˌho.vehˈkɾɛ.fi.t͡ʃi], /ˌʁo.veʁˈkɾɛft/ [ˌho.vehˈkɾɛft]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʁo.veʁˈkɾɛ.fi.t͡ʃi/ [ˌho.vehˈkɾɛ.fi.t͡ʃi], /ˌʁo.veʁˈkɾɛft/ [ˌho.vehˈkɾɛft]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌʁo.veɾˈkɾɛ.fi.t͡ʃi/ [ˌho.veɾˈkɾɛ.fi.t͡ʃi], /ˌʁo.veɾˈkɾɛft/ [ˌho.veɾˈkɾɛft]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌʁo.veʁˈkɾɛ.fi.t͡ʃi/ [ˌχo.veχˈkɾɛ.fi.t͡ʃi], /ˌʁo.veʁˈkɾɛft/ [ˌχo.veχˈkɾɛft]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˌʁo.veɻˈkɾɛ.fi.t͡ʃi/ [ˌho.veɻˈkɾɛ.fi.t͡ʃi], /ˌʁo.veɻˈkɾɛft/ [ˌho.veɻˈkɾɛft]

Noun

hovercraft m (plural hovercrafts)

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

   Synonyms: aerobarco, aerodeslizador

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

English hovercraftbor.

French hovercraftbor.

Romanian hovercraft

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