seaplane

English

Etymology

sea +‎ plane

Noun

seaplane (plural seaplanes)

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

Translations

an aircraft

Basque: ur-hegazkin
Catalan: hidroavió m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 水上飛機 (zh), 水上飞机 (zh) (shuǐshàng fēijī)
Czech: hydroplán (cs) m
Danish: vandfly
Dutch: watervliegtuig (nl) n
Estonian: vesilennuk
Finnish: vesitaso (fi)
French: hydravion (fr) m
German: Wasserflugzeug (de) n

Hungarian: hidroplán (hu)
Italian: idrovolante (it) m
Japanese: 水上機 (ja) (すいじょうき, suijōki)
Macedonian: хидроавион m (hidroavión)
Norwegian: sjøfly n
Polish: wodnosamolot m
Portuguese: hidroavião (pt) m
Russian: гидросамолёт (ru) m (gidrosamoljót), гидропла́н (ru) m (gidroplán)
Slovene: hidroplan m
Spanish: hidroavión (es) m
Swedish: sjöflygplan n

See also

floatplane, float plane
flying boat

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