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).

Derived terms

• hangarage
• hangarkeeper
• hangarless
• hangarlike

Translations

a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept

Albanian: hangar (sq) m Arabic: حَظِيرَة f (ḥaẓīra), سَقِيفَة f (saqīfa), عَنْبَر (ar) m (ʕanbar) Armenian: անգար (hy) (angar) Azerbaijani: anqar Belarusian: анга́р m (anhár) Bulgarian: ханга́р m (hangár) Catalan: hangar (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 飛機庫 / 飞机库 (zh) (fēijīkù), 飛機棚 / 飞机棚 (fēijīpéng), 機庫 / 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), हैंगर (hi) m (haiṅgar) Hungarian: hangár (hu) Icelandic: flugskýli n Ido: hangaro (io) Indonesian: hanggar (id) Interlingua: hangar Italian: hangar (it) m, aviorimessa (it) f, aerorimessa (it) f Japanese: 格納庫 (ja) (かくのうこ, kakunōko), ハンガー (ja) (hangā) Kazakh: ұшақжай (ūşaqjai), ұшақтұрақ (ūşaqtūraq), ангар (añar) Korean: 격납고(格納庫) (gyeongnapgo), 행어 (haeng'eo) Kyrgyz: ангар (ky) (angar) Latvian: angārs m Lithuanian: angaras m Macedonian: хангар m (hangar) Norwegian: Bokmål: hangar m Nynorsk: hangar m Persian: هنگار (fa) (hangâr) Polish: hangar (pl) m Portuguese: hangar (pt) m Romanian: hangar (ro) n Russian: анга́р (ru) m (angár) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ха̏нга̄р m Roman: hȁngār (sh) m Slovak: hangár m Slovene: hangar (sl) m Spanish: hangar (es) Swedish: hangar (sv) c Tajik: ангар (angar) Turkish: hangar (tr) Ukrainian: анга́р (uk) m (anhár) Urdu: ہینگر m (haiṅgar) Uzbek: angar (uz) Vietnamese: hăng ga, nhà chứa máy bay 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

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

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

Descendants

• → Indonesian: hanggar

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: ханга́р (hangár)
• → Czech: hangár
• → Danish: hangar
• → Dutch: hangar
  • → Indonesian: hanggar
• → English: hangar

  → Hindi: हैंगर (haiṅgar)

  → Japanese: ハンガー (hangā)

  → Korean: 행어 (haeng'eo)

  → Urdu: ہینگر (haiṅgar)

• → Finnish: hangaari
• → German: Hangar
• → Hungarian: hangár
• → Ido: hangaro
• → Italian: hangar
• → Latvian: angārs
• → Lithuanian: angaras
• → Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: hangar

  Norwegian Nynorsk: hangar

• → Persian: هنگار (hangâr)
• → Polish: hangar
• → Portuguese: hangar
• → Romanian: hangar
• → Russian: анга́р (angár), анга́ръ (angár) — pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Abkhaz: ангар (angar)
  • → Armenian: անգար (angar)
  • → Azerbaijani: anqar
  • → Georgian: ანგარი (angari)
  • → Kazakh: ангар (añar)
  • → Kyrgyz: ангар (angar)
  • → Ossetian: ангар (angar)
  • → Tajik: ангар (angar)
  • → Uzbek: angar
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ха̏нга̄р

  Latin script: hȁngār

• → Slovak: hangár
• → Slovene: hangar
• → Spanish: hangar
• → Swedish: hangar
• → Turkish: hangar

Further reading

• “hangar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ɡar/
• Rhymes: -anɡar
• Hyphenation: hàn‧gar

Noun

hangar m (invariable)

1. hangar

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French hangar, from Frankish *haimgard.

Noun

hangar m (plural hangars)

1. (Jersey) shed

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

hangar

Wikipedia ^no

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).

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.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

hangar

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from French hangar, from Middle French hangart, hangard, hanghart, hangar, from Old French *hamgart, hangart, hangard, from Frankish *haimgard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxaŋ.ɡar/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aŋɡar
• Syllabification: han‧gar

Noun

hangar m inan

1. hangar (large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept)
2. hangar (port building for short-term storage of cargo)

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

Derived terms

verb

• hangarować impf

Further reading

• hangar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hangar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

hangar

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

Borrowed from French hangar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈɡaʁ/ [ɐ̃ˈɡah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈɡaʁ/ [ɐ̃ˈɡah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈɡaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈɡaʁ/ [ɐ̃ˈɡaχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈɡaɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈɡaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈɡaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈɡa.ɾi/

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: han‧gar

Noun

hangar m (plural hangares)

1. hangar (large structure where aircraft are kept)

Further reading

• “hangar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “hangar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “hangar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “hangar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hangar.

Noun

hangar n (plural hangare)

1. hangar

Declension

Declension of hangar

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	hangar	hangarul		hangare	hangarele
genitive-dative	hangar	hangarului		hangare	hangarelor
vocative	hangarule			hangarelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French hangar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈɡaɾ/ [ãŋˈɡaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: han‧gar

Noun

hangar m (plural hangares)

1. hangar

Further reading

• “hangar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Swedish

Etymology

From French hangar.

Noun

hangar c

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

Declension

Declension of hangar

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hangar	hangars
	definite	hangaren	hangarens
plural	indefinite	hangarer	hangarers
	definite	hangarerna	hangarernas

Further reading

• hangar in Svensk ordbok.