English
Etymology
Calque from Japanese 弾丸列車 (dangan ressha).
Noun
bullet train (plural bullet trains)
- A Shinkansen train; a Japanese high-speed rail train.
- Any high-speed train which resembles such a train.
Translations
Japanese high-speed train
- Arabic: شِينْكَانْسِن m (šinkansen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 新幹線 / 新干线 (zh) (xīngànxiàn), 子彈火車 / 子弹火车 (zh) (zǐdàn huǒchē)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Esperanto: ŝinkanseno
- Finnish: luotijuna (fi), shinkansen
- French: shinkansen (fr) m
- Georgian: სინკასენი (sinḳaseni), იაპონური ზეჩქარი მატარებელი (iaṗonuri zečkari maṭarebeli)
- German: Shinkansen m, Hochgeschwindigkeitszug (de) m
- Hebrew: שינקנסן m (shinkansen)
- Hindi: शिनकानसेन (śinkānsen)
- Japanese: 新幹線 (ja) (しんかんせん, shinkansen)
- Korean: 신칸센 (sinkansen)
- Marathi: बुलेट ट्रेन f (buleṭ ṭren), शिनकानसेन f (śinkānsen)
- Mongolian: шинкансэн (šinkansen), суман галт тэрэг (suman galt tereg)
- Portuguese: (Brazil) trem-bala (pt) m, (Portugal) comboio-bala m
- Russian: синкансэ́н m (sinkansɛ́n), высокоскоростно́й по́езд m (vysokoskorostnój pójezd)
- Spanish: tren de alta / gran velocidad m, shinkansen m
- Swedish: shinkansen
- Vietnamese: shinkansen
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high-speed train
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 子彈火車 / 子弹火车 (zh) (zǐdàn huǒchē), 高鐵 / 高铁 (zh) (gāotiě)
- Danish: højhastighedstog n
- Esperanto: (please verify) ŝinkanseno
- Finnish: luotijuna (fi)
- French: train à grande vitesse (TGV) m
- Georgian: ზეჩქარული მატარებელი (zečkaruli maṭarebeli), ზეჩქარული სამგზავრო მატარებელი (zečkaruli samgzavro maṭarebeli)
- German: Hochgeschwindigkeitszug (de) m, Superexpress m
- Hindi: बुलेट ट्रेन f (buleṭ ṭren)
- Hungarian: nagysebességű/szupergyors/szupersebességű vonat/vasút
- Japanese: 超特急 (ja) (ちょうとっきゅう, chōtokkyū), 弾丸列車 (ja) (だんがんれっしゃ, dangan ressha)
- Korean: 초특급 (ko) (choteukgeup), 탄환열차 (tanhwanyeolcha), 총알열차 (chong'aryeolcha), 총알고속열차 (chong'algosogyeolcha)
- Marathi: बुलेट ट्रेन f (buleṭ ṭren)
- Portuguese: (Brazil) trem-bala (pt) m, (Portugal) comboio-bala m
- Romanian: tren de mare viteză n
- Russian: высокоскоростно́й по́езд m (vysokoskorostnój pójezd), суперэкспре́сс (ru) m (superɛkspréss)
- Spanish: tren de alta / gran velocidad m, tren bala m, AVE (es) m
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