hangar

See also: Hangar and hangár

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing 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.

PronunciationEdit

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

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æŋə(ɹ)
• Homophone: hanger

NounEdit

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.

TranslationsEdit

a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept

• Bulgarian: хангар m (hangar)
• 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
• Esperanto: hangaro (eo), aeroplanejo
• Finnish: hangaari (fi), lentokonehalli (fi), lentokonesuoja
• French: hangar (fr) m
• German: Hangar (de) m
• Greek: υπόστεγο (el) n (ypóstego)
• Icelandic: flugskýli n
• Interlingua: hangar
• Italian: hangar (it)
• Japanese: 格納庫 (かくのうこ, kakunōko), ハンガー (hangā)

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

  Roman: hangar (sh) m

  Cyrillic: хангар m

• Spanish: hangar (es)
• Swedish: hangar (sv) c
• Turkish: hangar (tr)
• Volapük: garadaflitöm

Usage notesEdit

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

VerbEdit

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.

AnagramsEdit

• harang

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɑ̃ɡaʁ/

• Audio

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NounEdit

hangar m (plural hangars)

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

DescendantsEdit

• → Bulgarian: хангар (hangar)
• → Czech: hangár
• → English: hangar
  • → Japanese: ハンガー (hangā)
• → Finnish: hangaari
• → German: Hangar
• → Italian: hangar
• → Norwegian: hangar
• → Polish: hangar

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

Further readingEdit

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

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ItalianEdit

NounEdit

hangar m (invariable)

1. hangar

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NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from French hangar, from Frankish *haimgard.

NounEdit

hangar m (plural hangars)

1. (Jersey) shed

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

NounEdit

hangar m inan

1. hangar

DeclensionEdit

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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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

hangar m (plural hangares)

1. hangar (large structure where aircraft are kept)

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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

hangar m (plural hangares)

1. hangar

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SwedishEdit

NounEdit

hangar c

1. hangar, a garage like building for aircraft.

DeclensionEdit

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