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Webster 1913 Edition

Dirigible

Dir′i-gi-ble

,

Adj.

Capable of being directed; steerable;

as, a

dirigible

balloon

.

Definition 2024

dirigible

dirigible

English

A dirigible in flight.

Noun

dirigible ‎(plural dirigibles)

A self-propelled airship that can be steered

Translations

a self-propelled airship that can be steered

Arabic: سَفِينَة هَوَائِيَّة f ‎(safīna hawāʾiyya)
Armenian: դիրիժաբլ (hy) ‎(dirižabl)
Belarusian: дырыжабль m ‎(dyryžáblʹ)
Bulgarian: дирижабъл (bg) m ‎(dirižábǎl)
Catalan: dirigible m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 飛艇 (zh), 飞艇 (zh) ‎(fēitǐng), 飛船 (zh), 飞船 (zh) ‎(fēichuán)
Czech: vzducholoď (cs) f
Danish: luftskib (da) n
Dutch: luchtschip n
Esperanto: aerŝipo
Faroese: luftskip n
Finnish: ilmalaiva (fi)
French: ballon dirigeable (fr), dirigeable (fr) m
German: Luftschiff (de)
Hebrew: ספינת אוויר (he)
Hungarian: kormányozható léghajó
Ido: aeronavo (io)
Irish: aerlong f
Italian: aeronave (it)
Japanese: 飛行船 (ja) ‎(ひこうせん, hikōsen), 軽気球 ‎(けいききゅう, keikikyū)

Javanese: palwa anggegana
Korean: 기구 (ko) ‎(gigu), 비행선 ‎(bihaengseon)
Macedonian: дирижабл m ‎(dirižábl)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: luftskip n

Nynorsk: luftskip n
Old English: lyftscip n
Persian: کشتی هوایی (fa) ‎(kašti-ye havâyi)
Polish: sterowiec (pl) m
Portuguese: dirigível (pt) m
Romanian: balon dirijabil n, dirijabil (ro) n
Russian: дирижа́бль (ru) m ‎(dirižáblʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: дирижабл m, зрачни брод m

Roman: dirižabl (sh) m, zračni brod m
Slovak: vzducholoď f
Spanish: dirigible (es) m
Swedish: luftskepp (sv) n
Ukrainian: дирижабль m ‎(dyryžáblʹ)
Vietnamese: điều khiển được

Adjective

dirigible ‎(comparative more dirigible, superlative most dirigible)

steerable

Derived terms

Translations

steerable

French: dirigeable (fr)
Ido: direktebla (io)
Italian: dirigibile (it)

Manx: yn-stiurey
Romanian: dirijabil (ro) n

See also

Spanish

Noun

dirigible m ‎(plural dirigibles)

dirigible