port city

English

Noun

port city (plural port cities)

1. A city built around a port, for its defence, to provide infrastructural support, or as parasitic urban sprawl.

Translations

city built around a port

• Armenian: նավահանգիստ (hy) (navahangist)
• Catalan: port (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 港市 (zh) (gǎngshì)

• Czech: přístav (cs) m, přístavní město n
• Danish: havneby (da) c
• Dutch: havenstad (nl) f
• Estonian: sadamalinn
• Finnish: satamakaupunki (fi), satama (fi)
• French: port (fr) m, ville portuaire f
• Galician: porto (gl) m
• German: Hafenstadt (de) f
• Greek: λιμάνι (el) n (limáni)
• Hebrew: עִיר נָמֵל‎ (he) f
• Hungarian: kikötőváros (hu)
• Icelandic: hafnarborg f
• Ido: portuo (io)

• Italian: città portuale f
• Latvian: ostas pilsēta f
• Lithuanian: uostamiestis m
• Norwegian: havneby (no) m

  Nynorsk: hamneby m

• Polish: miasto portowe n
• Portuguese: porto (pt) m, cidade portuária f
• Romanian: port (ro) n
• Russian: порт (ru) m (port), порто́вый го́род m (portóvyj górod)
• Scottish Gaelic: port m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лука f

  Roman: luka (sh) f

• Spanish: puerto (es) m
• Swahili: bandari (sw)
• Swedish: hamnstad (sv) c
• Turkish: liman kenti (tr), şehri (tr)
• Yiddish: האַוונשטאָט‎ f (havnshtot)