English
Etymology
From rocket + launcher.
Pronunciation
Noun
rocket launcher (plural rocket launchers)
- A hand-held tube-like device for launching a rocket-propelled explosive device (a missile).
- A truck for carrying and launching a missile.
- (informal) A rack on a boat or a vehicle, for holding or storing fishing rods.
Derived terms
Translations
device for launching a missile
- Arabic: قَاذِفَة صَوَارِيخ f (qāḏifa(t) ṣawārīḵ)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: llançamíssils m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 火箭筒 (zh) (huǒjiàntǒng)
- Czech: raketomet (cs) m
- Danish: raketkaster
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: sinko (fi)
- French: lance-roquettes (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Raketenwerfer (de) m, Raketenabschussgerät n
- Greek: ρουκετοβόλο m (rouketovólo)
- Hungarian: rakétavető (hu)
- Irish: teilgeoir roicéad m
- Italian: lanciarazzi (it) m
- Japanese: ロケット発射器 (roketto-hasshaki), ロケットランチャー (rokettoranchā), ロケラン (rokeran)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: pelancar roket
- Mongolian: пуужин харвагч (puužin xarvagč)
- Polish: wyrzutnia rakietowa f
- Portuguese: lançador de foguetes/foguete m
- Romanian: lansator de rachete n
- Russian: раке́тная устано́вка f (rakétnaja ustanóvka), реакти́вный гранатомёт m (reaktívnyj granatomjót), реакти́вная систе́ма за́лпового огня́ (ru) f (reaktívnaja sistéma zálpovovo ognjá), ракетомёт m (raketomjót)
- Slovak: raketomet m
- Spanish: lanzamisiles m
- Swedish: raketgevär (sv) n, raketkastare c (informal, video games)
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: раке́тна устано́вка f (rakétna ustanóvka), реакти́вний гранатоме́т m (reaktývnyj hranatomét), реактив́на систе́ма за́лпового вогню́ f (reaktyv́na systéma zálpovoho vohnjú)
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