drone

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , , , from.

Cognate with:
 * 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬,, ,
 * 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬,, ,
 * 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬,, ,

The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.

Noun

 * 1) A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.
 * 2)  Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
 * 3)  One who performs menial or tedious work.
 * 4) A remotely operated vehicle:
 * 5)  An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
 * 6)   Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), such as a tank or boat, especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
 * 7)  A  or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
 * 8)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1) A remotely operated vehicle:
 * 2)  An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
 * 3)   Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), such as a tank or boat, especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
 * 4)  A  or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
 * 5)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1)   Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), such as a tank or boat, especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
 * 2)  A  or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
 * 3)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1)   Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), such as a tank or boat, especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
 * 2)  A  or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
 * 3)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1)   Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), such as a tank or boat, especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
 * 2)  A  or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
 * 3)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1)  A  or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
 * 2)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1)  A  or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
 * 2)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1)  A  or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
 * 2)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
 * 1)  A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.

Usage notes

 * In sense “unmanned aircraft”, primarily used informally of military aircraft or consumer radio controlled quadcopters, without precise definition. The application of the term drone to unmanned aircraft, (and subsequently to other unmanned vehicles) has been traced to British military jargon of the mid 1930s. The most common aircraft used for British naval gunnery target practice at that time was a pilotless, radio controlled biplane produced by the de Havilland Aircraft Company named the DH.82 Queen Bee. Despite being called the Queen Bee, which, of course, is a female bee, by its maker, these aircraft came to be known as "drones", a particular name in entomology for a male bee or wasp, in reference to the fact that, in a manner similar to the fact of a drone honeybee dying after performing its essential function during a nuptial flight, the DH.82 was expected to "give its life" (that is, to be destroyed) as a result of the performance of its own essential function as a gunnery target.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, , trëntor
 * Azerbaijani: erkək arı
 * Belarusian: тру́цень
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: virabelo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, , ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κηφήν, θρῶναξ
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: lebah jantan
 * Interlingua: ape mascule
 * Irish: ladrann, crónán
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 雄蜂
 * Korean: 숫벌, 수벌
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: nêrehing, pîrox
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: tranas, trãnas
 * Macedonian: трут
 * Malayalam: ആൺതേനീച്ച
 * Middle English: drane
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: drone
 * Nynorsk: drone
 * Old English: drān
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тру̑т
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tibetan: སྦྲང་མ་ཕོ, ཕོ་སྦྲང
 * Turkish:, bodat, hordan, , boruzan, puları
 * Ukrainian: тру́тень
 * Welsh: gwenynen segur


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: طَائِرَة بِدُونِ طَيَّار
 * Hijazi Arabic: درون
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: pilotsuz uçuş aparatı, PUA, dron
 * Belarusian:, беспіло́тнік, бесьпілётнік, дрон
 * Bulgarian: дрон
 * Burmese: ဒရုန်း
 * Catalan: VANT,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 無人航空載具, 無人飛機,, 無人駕駛飛機
 * Czech: bezpilotní letoun,
 * Danish:, dronefly
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: droneo, spavo, flugroboto, senpilota aviadilo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: დრონი
 * German:
 * Hebrew: מל״ט, מזל״ט, כטב״ם, כטמ״ם רחפן
 * Hindi: मानव रहित विमान
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: dron
 * Irish: drón
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 無人航空機, ドローン, 無人飛行機
 * Kazakh: ұшқышсыз ұшу аппараты, дрон
 * Khmer: ដ្រូន
 * Korean:, 무인항공기(無人航空機), 무인기(無人機)
 * Kyrgyz: учкучсуз учуучу аппарат, дрон
 * Latvian: bezpilota lidaparāts
 * Lithuanian: bepilotis orlaivis
 * Macedonian: беспи́лотник, беспи́лотно ле́тало,
 * Maori: matatopa
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: drone, dronefly
 * Nynorsk: drone, dronefly
 * Persian:
 * Polish: samolot bezzałogowy,, bezzałogowiec, bezpilotowiec
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: dronă
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dròn
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: беспилотна летелица, беспилотна летјелица, БПЛ, дрон
 * Roman: bespilotna letelica, bespilotna letjelica, BPL, dron
 * Slovak: bezpilotné lietadlo
 * Slovene: brezpilotno letalo,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ndege nyuki, droni
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: паҳпод, дрон
 * Thai: อากาศยานไร้คนขับ, โดรน
 * Tibetan: མི་མེད་འཕུར་གྲུ
 * Turkish: dron, insansız uçak, çamcarı
 * Ukrainian: безпіло́тний літа́льний апара́т, безпіло́тник, дрон
 * Urdu:
 * Uzbek: uchuvchisiz uchish apparati, dron
 * Vietnamese: máy bay không người lái
 * Welsh: drôn

Verb

 * 1)  To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
 * 2) To speak in a monotone.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Ingrian: pörissä
 * Maori: rōria
 * Tibetan: ཟིར་སྒྲ་རྒྱག


 * Dutch: ,
 * German: ,
 * Interlingua: parlar monotonemente
 * Italian: parlare monotonamente
 * Japanese:
 * Polish: mówić monotonnie
 * Portuguese: falar monotonamente
 * Sicilian: murmurijari, ciarmulijari
 * Tibetan: ཟིར་ཟིར་ཟེར

Noun

 * 1) A low-pitched hum or buzz.
 * 2)  One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
 * 3)  A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
 * 4) A humming or deep murmuring sound.
 * 1) A humming or deep murmuring sound.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: бръмчене
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: hymistä,, ,
 * Galician: zunir,, rombar, retrovexar, zonzonear
 * German:
 * Interlingua: susurrar
 * Irish: andord
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: брчи, брмчи
 * Maori: rōria
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tibetan: ཟིར་སྒྲ, ཟིར་ཟིར
 * Turkish: ,


 * Bulgarian: бръмчене
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, surina
 * French:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: susurro
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ブンブン
 * Macedonian: брчење, брмчење
 * Maori: rōria
 * Polish: buczenie,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , soniquete
 * Tibetan: ཟིར་སྒྲ, ཟིར་ཟིར
 * Turkish: ,


 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: roncón
 * German: Basspfeife
 * Macedonian: брчало
 * Polish: piszczałka burdonowa, burdon,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * 1)  The drug mephedrone.

Etymology
From (sense 1), and  (sense 2).

Noun

 * 1) a
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Etymology
Borrowed from. Doublet with, which descended from Middle Dutch, cf. 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) a remotely controlled aircraft; a drone

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  drone type of unmanned aircraft

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  (unmanned aircraft)

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  (unmanned aircraft)

Etymology
From (sense 1), and  (sense 2).

Noun

 * 1) a
 * 2) a

Etymology
From (sense 1), and  (sense 2).

Noun

 * 1)  (male bee)
 * 2)  (unmanned aircraft)

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  unmanned aircraft

Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  An unmanned aerial vehicle; drone.