airmail

See also: air mail

English

Airmail postage stamp

Alternative forms

• air mail

Etymology

From air +‎ mail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛə.meɪl/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

airmail (countable and uncountable, plural airmails)

1. The system of conveying mail using aircraft.

   to send a letter by airmail

2. The items of mail so carried.

Translations

the system of conveying mail using aircraft

• Arabic: بَرِيد جَوِّيّ m (barīd jawwiyy)
• Belarusian: ляту́чая по́шта f (ljatúčaja póšta), авіяпо́шта m (avijapóšta)
• Bulgarian: възду́шна по́ща f (vǎzdúšna póšta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 航空郵件 / 航空邮件 (zh) (hángkōng yóujiàn)

• Czech: letecká pošta f
• Danish: luftpost
• Dutch: luchtpost (nl) m or f, airmail (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: aerpoŝto
• Faroese: flogpostur m
• Finnish: lentoposti (fi)
• French: poste aérienne (fr) f, Aéropostale f
• German: Luftpost (de) f
• Hindi: हवाई डाक f (havāī ḍāk)
• Hungarian: légiposta (hu)
• Icelandic: flugpóstur (is) m
• Indonesian: pos udara (id)
• Irish: aerphost m
• Japanese: 航空便 (ja) (こうくうびん, kōkūbin)
• Korean: 항공우편(航空郵便) (ko) (hanggong'upyeon), 항공편(航空便) (hanggongpyeon)
• Latvian: gaisa pasts m, lidpasts m
• Malay: mel udara
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: агаарын шуудан (agaaryn šuudan)

  Mongolian: ᠠᠭᠠᠷ ᠦᠨ
  ᠰᠢᠤᠳᠠᠨ (aɣar-ün siudan)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luftpost m

  Nynorsk: luftpost m

• Persian: پُستِ هَوائی (post-e havâyi)
• Polish: poczta lotnicza f
• Portuguese: correio aéreo m
• Russian: авиапо́чта (ru) f (aviapóčta)
• Spanish: correo aéreo m
• Ukrainian: пові́тря́на по́шта f (povítrjána póšta), авіапо́шта (uk) f (aviapóšta)
• Urdu: ہوائی ڈاک f (havā'ī ḍāk)

the items of mail carried using aircraft

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 航空信 (zh) (hángkōngxìn)

• Cyrillic: агаарын шуудангийн захиа (agaaryn šuudangiin zaxia) агаарын захидал (agaaryn zaxidal) (China)
• Dutch: luchtpost (nl) m or f, airmail (nl) m or f
• Finnish: lentoposti (fi)
• French: poste aérienne (fr) m, courrier aérien m, aérogramme (fr) m
• German: Luftpost (de) f
• Hungarian: légiposta (hu)
• Japanese: 航空便 (ja) (こうくうびん, kōkūbin)
• Mongolian:
• Mongolian: ᠠᠭᠠᠷ ᠦᠨ
  ᠰᠢᠤᠳᠠᠨ ᠦᠨ
  ᠵᠠᠬᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ (aɣar-ün siudan-ün ǰakiy-a), ᠠᠭᠠᠷ ᠦᠨ
  ᠵᠠᠬᠢᠳᠠᠯ (aɣar-ün ǰakidal)
• Portuguese: postagem aérea f
• Russian: авиапо́чта (ru) f (aviapóčta)
• Spanish: correo aéreo m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Gujarati: વિમાનટપાલ f (vimānaṭpāl)
• Indonesian: pos udara (id)
• Italian: posta aerea f
• Javanese: pos anggegana

Verb

airmail (third-person singular simple present airmails, present participle airmailing, simple past and past participle airmailed)

1. (transitive) To send mail by air.
2. (baseball) To (unintentionally) throw the ball well over a fielder's head where that fielder is unable to make a play on the ball.

Translations

to send mail by air

• Finnish: lähettää lentopostina
• German: per Luftpost schicken