ekranoplan
ekranoplan · ekranoplans
экраноплан
Ekranoplan
A ground-effect vehicleA ground-effect vehicle
Meaning
1 sensesA ground-effect vehicle
Ekranoplan
экранопла́нekranoplán
Translations
7 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
ground-effect vehicle:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
ground-effect vehicle:
Origin
Borrowed from Russian экранопла́н (ekranoplán), itself derived from экра́н (ekrán, “screenBorrowed from Russian экранопла́н (ekranoplán), itself derived from экра́н (ekrán, “screen”) as used in экранный эффе́кт (ekrannyj effékt, “ground effect”), from French écran, + the root of French planer (“to glide, to hover”).
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