hangar

See also: Hangar and hangár

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French hangar (“shed, hangar”), from Middle French hanghart (“enclosure near a house”), from Old French hangart, *hamgart, from Old Frankish *haimgard (“fence around a group of houses”), from *haim (“home, village, hamlet”) + *gard (“yard”). Cognate with Old High German heimgart (“forum”). More at home, yard.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhæŋə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhæŋɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æŋə(ɹ)
• Homophone: hanger

Noun

hangar (plural hangars)

1. A large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept.

   The plane taxied on over to the hangar for repairs.

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9

     By the side of it ran an open hangar upheld by a score of rough tarred posts.

2. (obsolete) A covered shed for carriages.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with “hanger” (a device for hanging).

Translations

a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: анга́р m (anhár)
• Bulgarian: хангар m (hangar)
• Catalan: hangar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛機庫 (zh), 飞机库 (zh) (fēijīkù), 飛機棚, 飞机棚 (fēijīpéng), 機庫 (zh), 机库 (zh) (jīkù)

• Czech: hangár (cs) m
• Danish: hangar (da) c
• Dutch: hangar (nl) m
• Esperanto: hangaro (eo), aeroplanejo
• Estonian: angaar (et)
• Finnish: hangaari (fi), lentokonehalli (fi), lentokonesuoja
• French: hangar (fr) m
• Georgian: ანგარი (angari)
• German: Hangar (de) m
• Greek: υπόστεγο (el) n (ypóstego)
• Hindi: विमानशाला f (vimānśālā)
• Hungarian: hangár (hu)
• Icelandic: flugskýli n
• Ido: hangaro (io)
• Interlingua: hangar
• Interlingue: hangare
• Italian: hangar (it)
• Japanese: 格納庫 (かくのうこ, kakunōko), ハンガー (hangā)

• Kazakh: ангар m (angar)
• Korean: 격납고 (gyeongnapgo)
• Kyrgyz: ангар (ky) (angar)
• Latvian: angārs m
• Lithuanian: angaras m
• Macedonian: хангар m (hangar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hangar m

  Nynorsk: hangar m

• Polish: hangar (pl) m
• Portuguese: hangar (pt) m
• Romanian: hangar (ro) n
• Russian: анга́р (ru) m (angár)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хангар m

  Roman: hangar (sh) m

• Slovak: hangár m
• Slovene: hangar (sl) m
• Spanish: hangar (es)
• Swedish: hangar (sv) c
• Turkish: hangar (tr)
• Ukrainian: анга́р (uk) m (anhár)
• Uzbek: angar (uz)
• Vietnamese: hang ga`
• Volapük: garadaflitöm

Verb

hangar (third-person singular simple present hangars, present participle hangaring, simple past and past participle hangared)

1. (transitive) To store (an aircraft) in a hangar.

Anagrams

• harang

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Danish

Etymology

From French hangar.

Noun

hangar c (singular definite hangaren, plural indefinite hangarer)

1. hangar, a garage-like building for aircraft

Declension

Declension of hangar

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hangar	hangaren	hangarer	hangarerne
genitive	hangars	hangarens	hangarers	hangarernes

References

• “hangar” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French hangar (“shed, hangar”), from Middle French hanghart (“enclosure near a house”), from Old French hangart, *hamgart, from Old Frankish *haimgard (“fence around a group of houses”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦɑŋˈɡaːr/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: han‧gar
• Rhymes: -aːr

Noun

hangar m (plural hangars, diminutive hangartje n)

1. hangar, a garage-like building for aircraft.

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French

Etymology

From Frankish *haimgard (“enclosure around a home”).

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ɡaʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

hangar m (plural hangars)

1. shed, barn, warehouse
2. hangar (aircraft)

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: хангар (hangar)
• → Czech: hangár
• → Danish: hangar
• → Dutch: hangar
• → English: hangar
• → Finnish: hangaari
• → German: Hangar
• → Hungarian: hangár
• → Ido: hangaro
• → Italian: hangar
• → Japanese: ハンガー (hangā)
• → Latvian: angārs
• → Lithuanian: angaras

• → Norwegian: hangar
• → Polish: hangar
• → Portuguese: hangar
• → Romanian: hangar
• → Russian: анга́р (angár)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • хангар
  • hangar
• → Spanish: hangar
• → Swedish: hangar
• → Turkish: hangar

Further reading

• “hangar” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Noun

hangar m (invariable)

1. hangar

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French hangar, from Frankish *haimgard.

Noun

hangar m (plural hangars)

1. (Jersey) shed

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French hangar via English hangar.

Noun

hangar m (definite singular hangaren, indefinite plural hangarer, definite plural hangarene)

1. (aviation) a hangar

Derived terms

• hangarskip

References

• “hangar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “hangar” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French hangar via English hangar.

Noun

hangar m (definite singular hangaren, indefinite plural hangarar, definite plural hangarane)

1. (aviation) a hangar

Derived terms

• hangarskip

References

• “hangar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxan.ɡar/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

hangar m inan

1. hangar

Declension

declension of hangar

	singular	plural
nominative	hangar	hangary
genitive	hangaru	hangarów
dative	hangarowi	hangarom
accusative	hangar	hangary
instrumental	hangarem	hangarami
locative	hangarze	hangarach
vocative	hangarze	hangary

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Portuguese

Etymology

From French hangar.

Noun

hangar m (plural hangares)

1. hangar (large structure where aircraft are kept)

Further reading

• “hangar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Spanish

Etymology

From French hangar.

Noun

hangar m (plural hangares)

1. hangar

Further reading

• “hangar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Swedish

Etymology

From French hangar.

Noun

hangar c

1. hangar, a garage-like building for aircraft.

Declension

Declension of hangar
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hangar	hangaren	hangarer	hangarerna
Genitive	hangars	hangarens	hangarers	hangarernas

Further reading

• hangar in Svensk ordbok.