Lufthansa

Borrowed from German Lufthansa, from a compound of Luft (“air”) +‎ Hansa (“guild; Hanseatic League”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lʊftˈhɑːnsə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lʊftˈhɑnsə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːnsə

Lufthansa

1. The national airline of Germany.

• Lufhansa on Wikidata.Wikidata
• Lufthansa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• LH, DLH (abbreviations)

Compound of Luft (“air”) +‎ Hansa, an archaic variant of Hanse (“hansa, merchants’ guild, Hanseatic League”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʊftˌhan.za/, (also) /ˈlʊft.hanˌzaː/

• Audio (Germany):

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• Hyphenation: Luft‧han‧sa

die Lufthansa f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Lufthansa)

1. Lufthansa (German national airline)

• When exceptionally not used with an article (e.g. in headlinese), the genitive Lufthansas is possible.

• Interflug

• “Lufthansa” in Duden online
• “Lufthansa”, in PONS (in German), Stuttgart: PONS GmbH, 2001–2025
• “Lufthansa” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon