English
Etymology
From air + mail.
Pronunciation
Noun
airmail (countable and uncountable, plural airmails)
- The system of conveying mail using aircraft.
to send a letter by airmail
- The items of mail so carried.
Translations
the system of conveying mail using aircraft
- Afrikaans: lugpos
- Arabic: بَرِيد جَوِّيّ m (barīd jawwiyy)
- Armenian: օդափոստ (hy) (ōdapʻost)
- Azerbaijani: aviapoçt, təyyarə poçtu
- Belarusian: ляту́чая по́шта f (ljatúčaja póšta), авіяпо́шта m (avijapóšta)
- Bulgarian: възду́шна по́ща f (vǎzdúšna póšta)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 航空郵件 / 航空邮件 (zh) (hángkōng yóujiàn)
- Czech: letecká pošta f
- Danish: luftpost c
- Dutch: luchtpost (nl) m or f, airmail (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: aerpoŝto
- Estonian: lennupost
- Faroese: flogpostur m
- Finnish: lentoposti (fi)
- French: poste aérienne (fr) f, Aéropostale f
- Georgian: ავიაფოსტა (ka) (aviaposṭa), საჰაერო ფოსტა (sahaero posṭa)
- German: Luftpost (de) f
- Hindi: हवाई डाक f (havāī ḍāk)
- Hungarian: légiposta (hu)
- Icelandic: flugpóstur (is) m
- Indonesian: pos udara (id)
- Irish: aerphost m
- Italian: posta aerea f
- Japanese: 航空便 (ja) (こうくうびん, kōkūbin)
- Kazakh: әуе поштасы (äue poştasy)
- Korean: 항공우편(航空郵便) (ko) (hanggong'upyeon), 항공편(航空便) (hanggongpyeon)
- Kyrgyz: авиапочта (ky) (aviapocta)
- Latvian: gaisa pasts m, lidpasts m, aviopasts m
- Lithuanian: oro paštas m
- Macedonian: воздушна пошта f (vozdušna pošta)
- Malay: mel udara
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: агаарын шуудан (agaaryn šuudan)
- Mongolian: ᠠᠭᠠᠷ ᠦᠨ
ᠰᠢᠤᠳᠠᠨ (aɣar-ün siudan)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: luftpost m
- Nynorsk: luftpost m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: پُسْتِ هَوَایی (post-e havâyi), پُسْتِ هَوائی (post-e havâ'i)
- Polish: poczta lotnicza f
- Portuguese: correio aéreo m
- Romanian: poștă aeriană f
- Russian: авиапо́чта (ru) f (aviapóčta)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: зрачна пошта f, ваздушна пошта f
- Roman: zračna pošta f, vazdušna pošta f
- Slovak: letecká pošta f
- Slovene: zračna pošta f
- Spanish: correo aéreo m
- Swedish: flygpost (sv) c
- Tajik: почтаи ҳавоӣ (počta-yi havoyi), авиапочта (tg) (aviapočta)
- Turkish: uçak postası
- Ukrainian: пові́тря́на по́шта f (povítrjána póšta), авіапо́шта (uk) f (aviapóšta)
- Urdu: ہَوائی ڈاک f (havāī ḍāk)
- Uzbek: aviatsiya pochtasi, aviapochta (uz)
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the items of mail carried using aircraft
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Verb
airmail (third-person singular simple present airmails, present participle airmailing, simple past and past participle airmailed)
- (transitive) To send mail by air.
- (baseball) To (unintentionally) throw the ball well over a fielder's head where that fielder is unable to make a play on the ball.
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