paper airplane

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English

Alternative forms

paper aeroplane (Commonwealth English)

Noun

paper airplane (plural paper airplanes)

(US) A toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper.
(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).

Synonyms

paper flier, paper flyer, paper plane

Translations

toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper

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)

See also

aerogami

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