hangar

See also: Hangar and hangár

Contents

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)
• 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
• 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: hangar
• 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

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

Pronunciation

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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

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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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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxan.ɡar/

• Audio

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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

Noun

hangar m (plural hangares)

1. hangar (large structure where aircraft are kept)

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Spanish

Noun

hangar m (plural hangares)

1. hangar

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Swedish

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