# airbag
## English
### Alternative forms

* air-bag, air bag

### Etymology

From air +‎ bag.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

airbag (plural airbags)
* (automotive) A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.
** 1997, “Airbag”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead:In a fast German car / I'm amazed that I survived / An airbag saved my life
** 2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32:However, the challenges for the railway world are much greater than for automotive as we generally have more occupants, higher speeds, greater masses, higher energies, and an absence of seatbelts or airbags to contend with.
* A similar inflated bag used in performing stunts, etc.
** 2005, Alan Tussy, R. Gustafson, Developmental Mathematics for College Students, page 1030:As part of a scene in a movie, a stuntman falls from the top of a 95-foot-tall building into a large airbag directly below him on the ground, as shown in Figure 15-3.
* (slang) A person who talks too much; a windbag or gossip.

#### Derived terms

* airbagged
* airbagless

#### Translations
## Dutch
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.

### Pronunciation

* (Netherlands) IPA: /ˈɛːr.bɛk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: air‧bag

### Noun

airbag m (plural airbags, diminutive airbagje n)
* an airbag
    Synonym: botsballon

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English airbag.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛʁ.baɡ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

airbag m (plural airbags)
* airbag
* (in the plural, slang) knockers, tits

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /erˈbɛɡ/, /ˈɛr.beɡ/
* Rhymes: -ɛɡ, -ɛrbeɡ

### Noun

airbag m (invariable)
* airbag (protective system)

### References

* ↑ airbag in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* bragia, garbai

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* air bag

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌɛʁˈbɛ.ɡi/ [ˌɛhˈbɛ.ɡi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌɛʁˈbɛ.ɡi/ [ˌɛhˈbɛ.ɡi]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˌɛɾˈbɛ.ɡi/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˌɛʁˈbɛ.ɡi/ [ˌɛχˈbɛ.ɡi]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˌɛɻˈbɛ.ɡe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˌɛɾˈbɛ.ɡɨ/ [ˌɛɾˈβɛ.ɣɨ]

### Noun

airbag m (plural airbags)
* (automotive) airbag (a protective system in automobiles)

### Further reading

* airbag on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{pt}$

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.

### Noun

airbag n (plural airbaguri)
* airbag

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* (nonstandard) air bag

### Etymology

Borrowed from English airbag.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aiɾˈbaɡ/ [ai̯ɾˈβ̞aɣ̞]
* IPA: (nonstandard) /eɾˈbaɡ/ [eɾˈβ̞aɣ̞]
* Rhymes: -aɡ
* Syllabification: air‧bag

### Noun

airbag m (plural airbags)
* airbag
** 1997, Jesús Calvo Martín, Mecánica del automóvil actual, Reverte, →ISBN, page 218:En un futuro el sistema de control del airbag podrá determinar las características del ocupante e incluso ya se piensa en un airbag que proteja a los peatones en caso de atropello.In the future, the airbag control system will be able to determine the characteristics of the occupant, and they're already thinking about an airbag that could protect pedestrians in case of accident.

### Further reading

* “airbag”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English airbag, attested since the 1970s.

### Noun

airbag c
* an airbag
    Synonym: krockkudde

#### Derived terms

* airbaghjälm (“airbag helmet”)

### References

* airbag in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* airbag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

### Anagrams

* braiga

## Turkish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /e.iɾ.beɟ/

### Noun

airbag (definite accusative airbagi, plural airbagler)
* airbag