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Popemobile
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popemobile
English
thumb|right|Pope Benedict XVI tours São Paulo in a Popemobile.
Etymology
From en pope mobile. en it papamobile.
Pronunciation
en
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Popemobile.wav Southern England
Noun
en informal Any of various vehicles with bulletproof glass sides used to transport the Pope through crowds safely while allowing an open view.
Usage notes
Pope John Paul II requested in 2002 that people avoid referring to the vehicle by that name because it sounded “undignified.”
Translations
any of various vehicles with bulletproof glass sides used to transport the Pope
Afrikaans: af pousmobiel
Armenian: hy պապամոբիլ
Belarusian: be папамабіль
Catalan: ca papamòbil
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 教宗座驾
Czech: cs papamobil
Danish: da pavemobil c
Dutch: nl pausmobiel m
Esperanto: eo papamobilo
Finnish: fi paavimobiili
French: fr papamobile f
German: de Papamobil n
Greek: el παποκίνητο, el παπικό όχημα, el ειδικό όχημα μεταφοράς του πάπα
Hebrew: he פופמוביל
Indonesian: id Mobil Paus
Italian: it papamobile f
Japanese: ja パパモビル Papamobiru
Korean: ko 교황 전용차
Latin: la papocinetum
Lithuanian: lt papamobilis
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb popemobile
Polish: pl papamobile n
Portuguese: pt papamóvel m
Romanian: ro papamobil
Russian: ru папамоби́ль m
Serbo-Croatian: sh papamobil
Slovene: sl papeževo vozilo n
Spanish: es papamóvil m
Swedish: sv popemobile c, sv påvemobil
Ukrainian: uk папамобіль
Waray-Waray: war papamobil
en 3-syllable words
en Vehicles