English
Noun
paper airplane (plural paper airplanes)
- (US) A toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper.
- Alternative form: paper aeroplane (Commonwealth English)
- Synonyms: paper plane, paper flier, paper flyer, paper dart, dart
- Coordinate term: rubber band airplane
- (US, aeronautics) An aircraft under development (so named because it remains only on paper to date; a tongue-in-cheek sense with acknowledgment of the original sense).
- Alternative form: paper aeroplane (Commonwealth English)
- Synonym: paper plane
Translations
toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper
- Afrikaans: papiervliegtuig
- Arabic: طَائِرَة وَرَقِيَّة f (ṭāʔira(t) waraqiyya)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 紙飛機 / 纸飞机 (zh) (zhǐfēijī)
- Czech: papírová vlaštovka f
- Dutch: papieren vliegtuig n
- Estonian: paberlennuk
- Faroese: pappírsflúgvari m
- Finnish: paperilennokki
- French: avion en papier (fr) m, avion de papier (fr) m
- German: Papierflieger (de) m
- Hebrew: מָטוֹס נְיָר (he) m (matós nyar)
- Icelandic: pappírsflugvél f
- Italian: aeroplanino di carta (it) m
- Japanese: 紙飛行機 (ja) (kamihikōki)
- Kazakh: қағаз ұшақ (qağaz ūşaq)
- Korean: 종이비행기 (ko) (jong'ibihaenggi)
- Navajo: naaltsoos bee chidí naatʼaʼí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: papirfly (no) n
- Nynorsk: papirfly n
- Polish: samolot papierowy
- Portuguese: avião de papel m, aviãozinho de papel
- Romanian: avion de hârtie n
- Russian: бума́жный самолётик m (bumážnyj samoljótik)
- Spanish: avión de papel m
- Swedish: pappersflygplan (sv) n, pappersplan (sv) n, papperssvala (sv) c (tailed plane)
- Thai: เครื่องบินกระดาษ (krʉ̂ʉang-bin-grà-dàat)
- Turkish: kağıt uçak
- Ukrainian: паперовий літачок m (paperovyj litačok)
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