English
Etymology
From propel + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
propeller (plural propellers)
- One who, or that which, propels.
- A mechanical device with evenly-shaped blades that turn on a shaft to push against air or water, especially one used to propel an aircraft or boat.
- A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
- (fishing) A spinnerbait.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
mechanical device used to propel
- Afrikaans: skroef
- Albanian: helikë (sq) f
- Arabic: مِرْوَحَة (ar) f (mirwaḥa), مِدْسَرَة f (midsara)
- Armenian: պտուտակ (hy) (ptutak), պրոպելեր (propeler)
- Azerbaijani: pervane (az), propeller
- Basque: helize
- Belarusian: пропе́лер m (propjéljer), вінт m (vint)
- Bulgarian: пе́рка (bg) f (pérka), пропе́лер m (propéler)
- Burmese: ငါးမန်းတောင် (my) (nga:man:taung) (ship), ပန်ကာ (my) (panka)
- Catalan: hèlice f
- Chechen: бер (ber)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 螺旋槳 / 螺旋桨 (zh) (luóxuánjiǎng)
- Czech: vrtule (cs) f
- Danish: propel (da) c
- Dutch: schroef (nl) f, propeller (nl) m
- Esperanto: helico (eo)
- Estonian: propeller (et)
- Faroese: skrúva f
- Finnish: potkuri (fi)
- French: hélice (fr) f
- Galician: hélice (gl) f
- Georgian: პროპელერი (ṗroṗeleri)
- German: Propeller (de) m, Luftschraube (de) f (aircraft), Schiffschraube f (ship), Schraube (de) f
- Greek: έλικας (el) m (élikas), προπέλα (el) f (propéla)
- Hebrew: מַדְחֵף (he) m (madkhéf)
- Hindi: नोदक m (nodak), प्रोपेलर (propelar)
- Hungarian: légcsavar (hu)
- Icelandic: loftskrúfa f
- Ido: helico (io)
- Indonesian: baling-baling (id)
- Italian: elica (it) f, propulsore (ad elica) m
- Japanese: プロペラ (ja) (puropera), 推進器 (すいしんき, suishinki)
- Kapampangan: elesi, elisi
- Kazakh: пропеллер (propeller), ауа винті (aua vintı) (aircraft)
- Khmer: កង្ហារ (km) (kɑnghaa)
- Korean: 프로펠러 (peuropelleo)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: perwane (ku)
- Kyrgyz: пропеллер (propeller)
- Lao: ໃບພັດ (bai phat)
- Latin: helix f
- Latvian: propelleris m
- Lithuanian: propeleris m
- Macedonian: пропеле́р m (propelér)
- Malay: baling-baling (ms), bebaling
- Maori: hurirere
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: сэнс (mn) (sens)
- Mongolian: ᠰᠡᠩᠰᠡ (sengse)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: propell m
- Pashto: پروانه (ps) f (parwāna)
- Persian: پروانه (fa) (parvâne)
- Plautdietsch: Loftschruw f
- Polish: śmigło (pl) n, śruba (pl) f
- Portuguese: propulsor (pt), hélice (pt) f
- Quechua: pillinku
- Romanian: elice (ro) f
- Russian: пропе́ллер (ru) m (propéller) (of an aircraft), винт (ru) m (vint) (of a ship), возду́шный винт (ru) m (vozdúšnyj vint) (aircraft)
- Scots: sparrair
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пропѐле̄р m, елѝса f
- Roman: propèlēr (sh) m, elìsa (sh) f
- Slovak: skrutka f (of a ship), vrtuľa f (of an aircraft)
- Slovene: propeller m
- Spanish: propulsor m, hélice (es) f, propela (es) f
- Swahili: rafardha
- Swedish: propeller (sv) c
- Tagalog: elise (tl), elesi
- Tajik: пропеллер (propeller)
- Thai: ใบพัด (th) (bai-pát)
- Tibetan: འབུད་འཁོར ('bud 'khor), འཕུལ་འདེད་རླུང་འཁོར ('phul 'ded rlung 'khor)
- Turkish: pervane (tr)
- Ukrainian: пропе́лер m (propéler), гвинт m (hvynt)
- Urdu: پروپیلر (propelar)
- Uyghur: پروپېللېر (propëllër)
- Uzbek: propeller (uz), parrak (uz)
- Vietnamese: cánh quạt (vi), chân vịt
- Welsh: gwthiedydd m
- Zulu: kulufu
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Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English propeller.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /propɛlər/, [pʰʁ̥oˈpɛlˀɐ]
Noun
propeller c (singular definite propelleren, plural indefinite propellere)
- propeller (mechanical device used to propel)
Inflection
Noun
propeller c
- indefinite plural of propel
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English propeller.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌproːˈpɛ.lər/
- Hyphenation: pro‧pel‧ler
- Rhymes: -ɛlər
Noun
propeller m (plural propellers, diminutive propellertje n)
- a propeller
- Synonym: aandrijfschroef
Hyponyms
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
propeller m
- indefinite plural of propell
Swedish
Etymology
From English propeller.
Noun
propeller c
- propeller
Declension
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