parking lot

English

Noun

parking lot (plural parking lots)

1. (Canada, US, Philippines, Malaysia) An open area, generally paved, where automobiles may be left when not in use.

   Should we park in that parking lot, or in the garage up the street?

   • 1970, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Big Yellow Taxi”:

     They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

2. (US, figuratively, humorous) A road blocked by stop-start traffic.

   The 101 was a parking lot again today.

Translations

open area, generally paved, where automobiles may be left when not in use

• Afrikaans: parkeerplek, parkering
• Albanian: autopark (sq) m, parking m
• Arabic: مَوْقِف سَيَّارَات m (mawqif sayyārāt), مَوْقِف m (mawqif)
• Armenian: ավտոկայանատեղի (hy) (avtokayanateġi)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܟܠܝܵܐ m (maklyā), ܡܲܟܠܝܵܐ ܕܪ̈ܲܕܵܝܵܬܹܐ m (maklyā d-raddāyātē), ܒܹܝܬ ܡܲܟܠܝܵܐ m (bēt maklyā)
• Basque: aparkaleku
• Belarusian: аўтастая́нка f (aŭtastajánka), стая́нка f (stajánka), парко́ўка f (parkóŭka), па́ркінг m (párkinh)
• Breton: parklec'h (br) m, park-kirri m
• Bulgarian: па́ркинг m (párking)
• Burmese: ယာဉ်ရပ် (my) (yanyrap)
• Catalan: aparcament m, pàrquing m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 停車場／停车场 (ting⁴ ce¹ coeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 停車場／停车场 (zh) (tíngchēchǎng)

• Cornish: park kerri m
• Corsican: parcheghju m
• Czech: parkoviště (cs) n
• Danish: parkeringsplads (da) c
• Dutch: parkeerplaats (nl) f, parkeerterrein (nl) n, parking (nl) f (Flanders)
• Esperanto: parkejo
• Estonian: parkla (et)
• Finnish: pysäköintialue (fi), parkkipaikka (fi)
• French: parking (fr) m, parc de stationnement (fr) m, (Canada) stationnement (fr) m
• Galician: aparcadoiro (gl) m, aparcamento (gl) m, estacionamento (gl) m
• Georgian: სადგომი (sadgomi), ავტოსადგომი (avṭosadgomi)
• German: Parkplatz (de) m (area), Parkhaus (de) n (building)
• Greek: χώρος στάθμευσης m (chóros státhmefsis), πάρκινγκ (el) n (párkingk), στάθμευση (el) f (státhmefsi)
• Greenlandic: biilinut uninngatitsivik
• Hebrew: חַנְיוֹן (he) m (khanyón)
• Hindi: कार पार्क m (kār pārk), पार्किंग f (pārkiṅg)
• Hungarian: parkolóhely (hu), parkoló (hu)
• Icelandic: bílastæði (is) f
• Irish: carrchlós m
• Italian: posteggio (it) m, parcheggio (it) m
• Japanese: 駐車場 (ja) (ちゅうしゃじょう, chūshajō), パーキング (ja) (pākingu), カーパーク (kāpāku)
• Kazakh: автотұрақ (avtotūraq)
• Khmer: ទីចតរថយន្ត (tii cɑɑt rŭət yŭən)
• Korean: 주차장(駐車場) (ko) (juchajang), 차마당 (chamadang) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: автотурук (avtoturuk)
• Lao: ບ່ອນໄວ້ລົດ (bǭn wai lot), ບ່ອນຈອດ (bǭn chǭt)
• Latvian: stāvvieta f, stāvlaukums m
• Lithuanian: stovėjimo aikštelė f
• Macedonian: паркиралиште n (parkiralište)
• Manx: carrlann f, pairk charr f, pairk ghleashtan f
• Maori: tūnga waka
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зогсоол (mn) (zogsool)

• Moore: yalsg zĩiga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: parkeringsplass m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: پارْکینْگ (fa) (pârking)

• Polish: parking (pl) m
• Portuguese: estacionamento (pt) m
• Romanian: parcare (ro) f, parking n, parcaj (ro) n
• Russian: автостоя́нка (ru) f (avtostojánka), стоя́нка (ru) f (stojánka), стоя́нка для маши́н f (stojánka dlja mašín), парко́вка (ru) f (parkóvka), па́ркинг (ru) m (párking)
• Scots: car pairk, pairkin lot
• Scottish Gaelic: pàirc-chàraichean f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: паркѝралӣште n

  Roman: parkìralīšte (sh) n

• Slovak: parkovisko n
• Slovene: parkirišče n
• Spanish: aparcamiento m, parking (es), estacionamiento m, parqueadero m, parqueo (es) m
• Swedish: parkeringsplats (sv) c, parkering (sv) c, bilparkering (sv)
• Thai: ที่จอดรถ (tîi-jɔ̀ɔt-rót), สถานที่จอดรถ (sà-tǎan-tîi jòt rót)
• Turkish: durguluk (tr), park yeri (tr), otopark (tr)
• Ukrainian: автостоя́нка f (avtostojánka), парко́вка f (parkóvka), па́ркінг m (párkinh), стоя́нка f (stojánka)
• Urdu: پارْکِن٘گ f (pārkiṅg)
• Uyghur: ماشىنا مەيدانى (mashina meydani)
• Uzbek: avtoturargoh
• Vietnamese: bãi giữ xe, bãi đậu xe, bãi đỗ xe
• Welsh: maes parcio m

See also

• car park (Britain, Ireland, Australia, Singaporean, Malaysian)
• garage
• parkade
• parking garage
• parking structure