fuselage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fuselage, from fuselé (“spindle-shaped”), from Old French *fus (“spindle”), from Latin fusus (“spindle”). So named for its shape; in English since 1909.

Fuselage of a Boeing 737 shown in brown

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːzəˌlɑːʒ/, /ˈfjuːsəˌlɑːʒ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

fuselage (plural fuselages)

1. (aeronautical) The main body of an aerospace vehicle; the long central structure of an aircraft to which the wings (or rotors), tail, and engines are attached, and which accommodates crew and cargo.

Translations

main body of aerospace vehicle

• Arabic: جِسْم طَائِرَة m (jism ṭāʔira), جِسْم (ar) m (jism)
• Armenian: ֆյուզելաժ (hy) (fyuzelaž)
• Azerbaijani: füzelyaj, təyyarənin gövdəsi
• Belarusian: фюзеля́ж m (fjuzjeljáž), фюзэля́ж m (fjuzeljáž)
• Bulgarian: фюзела́ж m (fjuzeláž)
• Catalan: buc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 機身／机身 (gei¹ san¹)

  Mandarin: 機身／机身 (zh) (jīshēn)

• Czech: trup (cs) m
• Danish: fuselage (da) c, skrog (da) n, flykrop c
• Dutch: vliegtuigromp m, romp (nl) m
• Finnish: runko (fi)
• French: fuselage (fr) m
• Galician: fuselaxe f
• Georgian: ფიუზელაჟი (piuzelaži)
• German: Flugzeugrumpf (de) m, Rumpf (de) m
• Greek: άτρακτος (el) m (átraktos)
• Hungarian: törzs (hu), repülőgéptörzs (hu)
• Indonesian: badan (id)
• Italian: fusoliera (it) f
• Japanese: 胴体 (ja) (どうたい, dōtai), 機体 (ja) (きたい, kitai)
• Kazakh: фюзеляж (füzeläj)
• Korean: 동체(胴體) (ko) (dongche), 기체(機體) (ko) (giche)
• Kyrgyz: фюзеляж (ky) (fyuzelyaj)
• Latvian: fizelāža (lv) f
• Lithuanian: fiuzeliažas m
• Macedonian: труп m (trup)
• Malay: fiuslaj
• Maori: tīwai, kōhiwi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: их бие (ix bije)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flykropp m

  Nynorsk: flykropp m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: بَدَنِه (fa) (badane)

• Polish: kadłub (pl) m
• Portuguese: fuselagem (pt) f
• Romanian: fuzelaj (ro) n
• Russian: фюзеля́ж (ru) m (fjuzeljáž)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тру̑п m

  Roman: trȗp (sh) m

• Slovak: trup (sk) m
• Slovene: trup (sl) m
• Spanish: fuselaje (es) m
• Swedish: flygkropp (sv) c, flygplanskropp (sv) c
• Tagalog: puselahe
• Tajik: фюзеляж (fyuzelyaž)
• Turkish: füzelaj
• Ukrainian: фюзеля́ж m (fjuzeljáž)
• Uzbek: fyuzelyaj (uz)
• Vietnamese: thân (vi)

See also

• hull (“the body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane”)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fyz.laʒ/

• Audio (France):

  (file)

Noun

fuselage m (plural fuselages)

1. fuselage

Descendants

• → Catalan: fuselatge
• → English: fuselage
• → Portuguese: fuselagem
• → Russian: фюзеля́ж (fjuzeljáž)
  • → Kazakh: фюзеляж (füzeläj)
• → Spanish: fuselaje
• → Ukrainian: фюзеля́ж (fjuzeljáž)

Further reading

• “fuselage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.