airfield

English

Etymology

From air +‎ field.

Pronunciation

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Noun

airfield (plural airfields)

1. (aviation) An open field designated for the taking off and landing of aircraft, but which, unlike an airport, does not necessarily have terminals or paved runways.

Synonyms

• aerodrome, airdrome, landing field

Derived terms

• nonairfield

 

Translations

place where airplanes can take off and land

• Afrikaans: vliegveld
• Albanian: aerodrom (sq) m
• Arabic: مَهْبِط m (mahbiṭ), مَدْرَج m (madraj)
• Armenian: աերոդրոմ (hy) (aerodrom)
• Azerbaijani: aerodrom
• Basque: aerodromo sg
• Belarusian: аэрадро́м m (aeradróm)
• Bulgarian: аеродру́м (bg) m (aerodrúm), лети́ще (bg) n (letíšte)
• Catalan: aeròdrom m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛機場 / 飞机场 (zh) (fēijīchǎng), 機場 / 机场 (zh) (jīchǎng)

• Czech: letiště (cs) n
• Danish: landingsplads (da) c, flyveplads c
• Dutch: vliegveld (nl) n
• Estonian: lennuväli (et)
• Faroese: flogvøllur m
• Finnish: lentokenttä (fi)
• French: aérodrome (fr) m
• Galician: aeródromo m
• Georgian: აეროდრომი (aerodromi)
• German: Flugplatz (de) m
• Greek: αεροδρόμιο (el) n (aerodrómio)
• Hindi: हवाई मैदान m (havāī maidān)
• Icelandic: flugvöllur (is) m
• Indonesian: lapangan terbang (id)
• Irish: aerpháirc f
• Italian: aerodromo (it) m
• Japanese: 飛行場 (ja) (ひこうじょう, hikōjō)
• Kazakh: аэродром (aérodrom)
• Korean: 비행장(飛行場) (ko) (bihaengjang)
• Kyrgyz: аэродром (ky) (aerodrom)
• Latvian: aerodroms m
• Lithuanian: aerodromas m
• Macedonian: леталиште n (letalište), аеродро́м (mk) m (aerodróm)
• Malay: padang terbang, lapangan terbang (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: landingsstripe m or f, flyplass (no) m

• Persian: پروازگاه (fa) (parvâzgâh), فرودگاه (fa) (forudgâh)
• Polish: lądowisko (pl) n, lotnisko (pl) n, aerodrom (pl) m (dated)
• Portuguese: aeródromo (pt) m
• Romanian: aerodrom (ro) n
• Russian: аэродро́м (ru) m (aerodróm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аеро̀дром m

  Roman: aeròdrom (sh) m

• Slovak: letisko n
• Slovene: letališče (sl) n
• Spanish: aeródromo (es) m, aeroparque (es) m, campo de aviación m
• Swedish: flygfält (sv) n, flygplats (sv) c
• Tajik: аэродром (aerodrom), фурудгоҳ (tg) (furudgoh), парвозгоҳ (parvozgoh)
• Turkish: aerodrom
• Ukrainian: аеродро́м (uk) m (aerodróm), лето́вище n (letóvyšče)
• Urdu: ہوائی میدان (hawāī-medān), طیران گاہ (terān-gāh)
• Uzbek: aerodrom (uz)
• Vietnamese: sân bay (vi), trường bay (vi)
• Yiddish: אַעראָדראָם m (aerodrom), לופֿטפֿעלד n (luftfeld), פֿליפֿעלד n (flifeld)