Fly

Table of contents

1 Pronunciation 2 Intransitive verb 2.1 Translations 3 Transitive verb 3.2 Translations 4 Noun 4.3 Scientific name 4.4 Related terms 4.5 Translations 5 Adjective

Pronunciation

to fly (flew, flown)

1. (of a bird, a plane, a projectile, etc) to travel through the air
2. (of a person) to travel in an aircraft
3. to flee, escape
4. to be accepted

   See if that idea flies.

• Chinese Characters: 飛, 飞 (1)
• Chinese: 飛 (1)
• Dutch: vliegen (1)
• Finnish: lentää
• French: voler (1), s'enfuir (3)
• Frisian: fleane (1)
• German: fliegen (1)
• Guarani: veve (1)
• Hebrew: טס
• Indonesian: terbang (1), layang (1), melayang (1), menerbangkan (1)
• Interlingua: volar (1)
• Italian: volare (1), fuggire (3)
• Japanese: 飛ぶ (とぶ, tobu) (1), 飛ばす (とばす, tobasu) (1)
• Polish: latać (1)
• Portuguese: voar (1)
• Romanian: zbura (1)
• Russian: летать (1), лететь (1)
• Spanish: volar (1)
• Tok Pisin: flai (1), ranawe (2)
• Tupinambá: bebé (1)

1. to operate (an aircraft, a kite, etc'') through the air

• Dutch: besturen, navigeren
• Finnish: lentää, lennättää
• German: fliegen
• Tok Pisin: ranim

1. any two-winged insect of the order \Diptera
2. (also in plural flies) the opening at the front of a tent or a pair of trousers
3. a lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect
4. (Baseball) a ball hit up into the air by the batter

• dragonfly
• mayfly
• blow fly
• fruit fly
• house fly
• march fly

• Albanian: mizë f (1)
• Arabic: ذبابة (dubāba) f (1)
• Armenian: ճանճ (čanč) (1)
• Aymara: chichillanka (1)
• Basque: euli (1)
• Catalan: mosca (1)
• Chichewa: ntchenche (1)
• Chinese Characters: 蝿, 蠅
• Dutch: vlieg m (1), (of trousers) gulp f (2)
• Esperanto: muŝo (1)
• Finnish: kärpänen (1), (of trousers) sepalus (2), perho (3)
• French: mouche f (1), (of trousers) braguette f (2)
• Frisian: mich (1)
• German: Fliege f (1)
• Greek: μύγα (mýga) f (1)
• Guarani: mberu (1)
• Ibo: ijiji (1)
• Indonesian: lalat (1)
• Interlingua: musca (1)
• Italian: mosca f (1)
• Japanese: 蝿 (はえ, hae) (1)
• Javanese: laler (1)
• Latin: musca f (1)
• Mandarin: 苍蝇 / 蒼蠅 (Pīnyīn: cāng yíng) (1)
• Mongolian: ялаа (1, yalaa)
• Nahuatl: zayolin
• Polish: mucha (1)
• Portuguese: mosca f (1)
• Quechua: chuspi (1)
• Romanian: muscă f (1)
• Russian: муха, f (1)
• Spanish: mosca f (1, 3), (of trousers) bragueta f (2)
• Tamil: ஈ (ī) (1)
• Tok Pisin: lang (1)
• Tupinambá: mberu (1)
• Turkish: sinek (1)