helicopter

Etymology
Borrowed from, from. . . The dragonfly sense is from a dragonfly's ability to hover and fly in any direction, like the flying machine.

Noun

 * 1)  An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail to stabilize the aircraft.
 * 2) A powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.
 * 3)  The winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple.
 * 4)  A dragonfly; so named due to its resemblance to a helicopter (sense 1).
 * 5) A whirling trick performed with devil sticks.
 * 6) A breakdance move in which the dancer spins on the floor while extending the legs to resemble the blades of a helicopter.
 * 1) A whirling trick performed with devil sticks.
 * 2) A breakdance move in which the dancer spins on the floor while extending the legs to resemble the blades of a helicopter.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: helikopter
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሄሊኮፕተር
 * Arabic:, طَائِرَة عَامُودِيَّة, هِلِيكُوبْتَر, حَوَّامَة, طَوَّافَة
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: ilicupter, elicupter
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: dikuçar, ,
 * Basque: helikoptero
 * Belarusian:, гелікаптэ́р, геліко́птэр
 * Bengali: হেলিকোপটার
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: беркема
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 直升機//直昇機//直升机
 * Hakka: 直升機//直昇機//直升机
 * Hokkien: 直升機//直昇機//直升机
 * Mandarin: 直升機//直昇機//直升机
 * Wu: 直升機//直昇機//直升机
 * Cornish: askel dro
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Elfdalian: elikopter
 * Esperanto: helikoptero
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ვერტმფრენი, შვეულმფრენი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: helikopteri, qulimiguulik
 * Guaraní: vevehajere
 * Hawaiian: helekopa
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: हेलिकॉप्टर
 * Hungarian:
 * Iban: bilun engkabang
 * Icelandic:, þyrilvængja , kofti
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: helicoptero
 * Irish: héileacaptar, ingearán
 * Italian:
 * Sicilian: elicòttiru
 * Japanese:, , 螺旋翼機
 * Jarawa: čokogere, ŋeŋeŋe
 * Karakalpak: vertolyot, tikushar
 * Kazakh: тікұшақ
 * Khmer: អេលីកុបទែរ, អេលីកូ, ឧទ្ធម្ភាគចក្រ
 * Korean: 헬리콥터, 헬기(헬機), 직승비행기(直昇飛行機) ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: тик учак
 * Lao: ເອລີກົບເທີ, ເຮລິຄອບແຕ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: helikopters
 * Lithuanian: sraigtasparnis, helikopteris
 * Livonian: helikoptõr
 * Luxembourgish: Helikopter
 * Macedonian: вр́толет,
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: ħelikopter
 * Maori: waka hurihuri, waka kōporo,
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: нисдэг тэрэг, эгч нисгэл
 * Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠰᠳᠡᠭ ᠲᠡᠷᠭᠡ, ᠡᠭᠴᠡ ᠨᠢᠰᠬᠡᠯ
 * Navajo: bikááʼ náʼoobałí
 * Newar: बुइँचाखः
 * Northern Sami: helekopter, helikopter
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: helikopter
 * Occitan:
 * Pali: vyoma-yānavisesa
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਹੈਲੀਕਾਪਟਰ
 * Quechua: pillwinkumpa
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: helicopter
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хелико̀птер, у̀вртња̄к, вр̀тложња̄к
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: vrtuľník,
 * Slovene:, vijakar
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: helikopter
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: helikopter, elikoptero
 * Tajik: чархбол, вертолёт
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: боралак
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཐད་འཕུར་གནམ་གྲུ, ཧེ་ལེ་ཀོབ་ཊར
 * Tigrinya: ሄሊኮፕተር
 * Tok Pisin: helikopta
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: wertolýot
 * Ukrainian:, гелікопте́р
 * Urdu: ہیلی کاپْٹَر
 * Uyghur: تىك ئۇچار ئايروپىلان, ۋېرتاليوت, تىك ئۇچار
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: máy bay lên thẳng (𣛠𠖤𨖲𣦎), (𣛠𠖤直昇),  (直昇)
 * Volapük: tovaskrubian
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: העליקאָפּטער

Verb

 * 1)  To transport by helicopter.
 * 2)  To travel by helicopter.
 * 3) To rotate like a helicopter blade.
 * 4) To overprotect one's children, as a helicopter parent does.
 * 1) To overprotect one's children, as a helicopter parent does.
 * 1) To overprotect one's children, as a helicopter parent does.

Translations

 * Finnish: kuljettaa helikopterilla
 * French:
 * Italian: elitrasportare


 * Finnish: matkustaa helikopterilla


 * Spanish: helicopterear