flight

Etymology 1
From, from , from , derived from , from , enlargement of. Analyzable as (variant of ).

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (etymology 2).

Noun

 * 1) The act of flying.
 * 2) An instance of flying.
 * 3) A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
 * 4) A series of stairs between landings.
 * 5) A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
 * 6) A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
 * 7) The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
 * 8) A paper airplane.
 * 9)  The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
 * 10) The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
 * 11) An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
 * 12) An air force unit.
 * 13)  A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
 * 14) Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
 * 15)  A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
 * 16)  The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
 * 17) An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
 * a flight of fancy; a flight of the imagination
 * 1) The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
 * 2) An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
 * 3) An air force unit.
 * 4)  A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
 * 5) Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
 * 6)  A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
 * 7)  The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
 * 8) An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
 * a flight of fancy; a flight of the imagination

Translations

 * Arabic: طَيَرَان, تَحْلِيق
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: палёт, лёт
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: flyvning
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: flugo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: svol
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გაფრენა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πτῆσις
 * Guaraní:
 * Hebrew:, עִיפָה, עוֹפְפוּת,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: volo
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: lidošana, lidojums
 * Lithuanian: skrydis, skridimas
 * Macedonian: лет
 * Maori: rerenga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: flyging, flyvning
 * Nynorsk: flyging
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ଉଡାଣ
 * Old English: flyht
 * Ottoman Turkish: پرواز
 * Papiamentu: buelo
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: vol, volà
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: sgol, svoul
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: bolu, volu
 * Scottish Gaelic: itealaich
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: letenje
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tetum: semo
 * Thai:
 * Tok Pisin:, flai
 * Tupinambá: bebé
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: полі́т
 * Urdu: اڑان, پرواز, طیران
 * Venetian: zólo
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: פֿלי
 * Zazaki: perayış


 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: палёт, лёт
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: lento
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:, fuga
 * Macedonian: лет, ле́тање
 * Maori: rerenga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: flyging, flyvning
 * Nynorsk: flyging
 * Ottoman Turkish: پرواز
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: itealaich
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:
 * Tok Pisin:, flai
 * Ukrainian: полі́т, перелі́т


 * Belarusian: згра́я
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: ,
 * Macedonian: јато
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ealt
 * Slovak: kŕdeľ
 * Slovene: jata ,
 * Ukrainian:


 * Arabic: طَيَرَان
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: палёт, рэйс
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ფრენა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: フライト, ,
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ការហោះហើរ
 * Korean:, 항공편(航空便)
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: lidojums
 * Lithuanian: skrydis
 * Macedonian: лет
 * Malay:
 * Maori: rerenga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: flyreise, flytur, flyvning
 * Nynorsk: flyreise, flytur
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: itealaich
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ле̑т
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lipaw
 * Tajik:
 * Thai: เที่ยวบิน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: полі́т, рейс
 * Urdu: پرواز
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: hediad
 * Yiddish: קורס


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: стъ́лбище
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, raput,
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German: Treppenlauf
 * Alemannic German: Schtäge
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: staidhre
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: прогі́н


 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: прогоно́ва будо́ва, прогі́н


 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: styrefjær,


 * Finnish: paperilennokki
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:


 * Finnish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Japanese: ,


 * French:


 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Slovene:

Adjective

 * 1)  Fast, swift, fleet.

Verb

 * 1)  To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
 * 2)  To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , derived from. Analyzable as (variant of ). Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (etymology 1).

Noun

 * 1) The act of fleeing.
 * take flight
 * the flight of a refugee

Translations

 * Arabic: فِرَار
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: fugã, fudziri
 * Asturian: fuga, fuxida
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: бя́гство
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: fuxida, fuga
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: φυγή
 * Gujarati: પલાયન
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: fuga, effugium
 * Macedonian: бегство
 * Maori: kaireretanga, taui
 * Occitan: fuga
 * Old English: flēam
 * Plautdietsch: Flucht
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਪਲਾਇਣ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sicilian:, fujitina
 * Slovak: útek
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: втеча
 * Urdu: فرار
 * Zazaki: firar

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  (act of flying)

Etymology
. Attested since 1967.

Noun

 * 1) a  ((regular) trip made by a passenger aircraft)