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From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”).
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: trănspôrtʹ, tränspôrtʹ, IPA(key): /tɹænsˈpɔːt/, /tɹɑːnˈspɔːt/
- (General American) enPR: trănspôrtʹ, IPA(key): /tɹænsˈpɔɹt/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /tɹænsˈpo(ː)ɹt/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /tɹænsˈpoət/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
- Hyphenation: trans‧port
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: trănsʹpôrt, tränsʹpôrt, IPA(key): /ˈtɹæns.pɔːt/, /ˈtɹɑːnspɔːt/
- (General American) enPR: trănsʹpôrt, IPA(key): /ˈtɹæns.pɔɹt/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˈtɹæns.po(ː)ɹt/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˈtɹæns.poət/
- Rhymes: -ænspɔː(ɹ)t
- Hyphenation: trans‧port
transport (third-person singular simple present transports, present participle transporting, simple past and past participle transported)
- To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
to transport goods; to transport troops
2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53:
But the village's growth was curbed by the cliffs that restricted onward exploration for visitors, while goods such as coal and lime, which had arrived by water, were being transported up the severe incline to the town of Lynton by horse and cart.
- (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
- (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
Music transports the soul.
1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
Thes. Pray you kneele not,
I was transported with your Speech, and suffer'd
Your knees to wrong themselves; I have heard the fortunes
Of your dead Lords, which gives me such lamenting
As wakes my vengeance, and revenge for 'em.
1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
[They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
We shall then be transported with a nobler […] wonder.
- (carry or bear from one place to another): convey, ferry, move, relocate, shift, ship
- (historical: deport to a penal colony): banish, deport, exile, expatriate, extradite
- (move someone to strong emotion): carry away, enrapture
carry or bear from one place to another
- Arabic: نَقَلَ (naqala)
- Asturian: tresportar (ast)
- Bulgarian: пренасям (bg) (prenasjam), превозвам (bg) (prevozvam), транспортирам (bg) (transportiram)
- Catalan: transportar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: dopravit
- Danish: transportere
- Dutch: overbrengen (nl), voeren (nl), vervoeren (nl), transporteren (nl)
- Esperanto: transporti
- Finnish: kuljettaa (fi), siirtää (fi), kantaa (fi), rahdata (fi), liikuttaa (fi), viedä (fi)
- French: reporter (fr), transporter (fr)
- Galician: transportar (gl)
- German: transportieren (de), befördern (de)
- Greek: μετακινώ (el) (metakinó), οχούμαι (ochoúmai)
- Ancient: μετακομίζω (metakomízō), ὀχοῦμαι (okhoûmai)
- Hungarian: szállít (hu), fuvaroz (hu)
- Irish: iompair
- Italian: trasportare (it)
- Japanese: (please verify) 運送する (ja) (うんそうする, unsō surú) , (please verify) 輸送する (ja) (ゆそうする, yusō-suru)
- Kannada: ರವಾನೆ (kn) (ravāne)
- Kavalan: saqut
- Korean: 수송하다 (susonghada)
- Lao: ຂົນສົ່ງ (khon song)
- Latin: vectō, trānsportō
- Latvian: transportēt, pārvest
- Malay: angkut (ms)
- Norwegian: føre (no)
- Bokmål: transportere
- Nynorsk: transportere, føre
- Occitan: transportar (oc)
- Paiwan: sakuc
- Persian: ترابری کردن (tarâbari kardan), ترانسپورت کردن (trânsport kardan), ترابردن (fa) (tarābordan)
- Polish: przewozić (pl) impf
- Portuguese: transportar (pt)
- Puyuma: akutr
- Quechua: astay
- Romanian: transporta (ro), căra (ro)
- Russian: перевози́ть (ru) impf (perevozítʹ), перевезти́ (ru) pf (pereveztí)
- Sanskrit: वहति (sa) (vahati)
- Shan: တေႃႉသူင်ႇ (tâ̰u sùung)
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: transportar (es)
- Swahili: safirisha (sw)
- Swedish: befordra (sv), forsla (sv), frakta (sv), transportera (sv)
- Telugu: రవాణా (te) (ravāṇā)
- Thai: ขนส่ง (th) (kǒn-sòng)
- Welsh: cludo (cy), transbortio
historical: deport to a penal colony
- Bulgarian: изпращам на каторга (izpraštam na katorga)
- Catalan: deportar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Danish: deportere
- Dutch: deporteren (nl), wegvoeren (nl)
- Finnish: karkottaa (fi)
- Galician: deportar
- Greek: εξορίζω (el) (exorízo), εκπατρίζω (ekpatrízo)
- Italian: deportare (it)
- Japanese: 追放する (tsuihō-suru)
- Latvian: izsūtīt
- Norwegian:
- Polish: zsyłać impf
- Portuguese: exilar (pt)
- Russian: ссыла́ть (ru) impf (ssylátʹ), сосла́ть (ru) pf (soslátʹ)
- Spanish: exiliar (es)
- Swedish: deportera (sv)
- Tamil: நாடு கடத்தல் (nāṭu kaṭattal)
move someone to strong emotion
transport (countable and uncountable, plural transports)
- An act of transporting; conveyance.
The transport of goods is not included in the price given on the website.
- The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
- 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyri, page 53:
- In her transport at finding such treasures, Heidi even forgot Peter and his goats.
- 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyri, page 53:
- A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
- (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
- The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
The local transport received a big boost as part of the mayor's infrastructural plans.
- A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
- (historical) A deported convict.
- (act of transporting): conveyance, ferrying, moving, relocation, shifting, shipping
- (state of being transported by emotion): rapture
- ((military) vehicle used to transport troops):
- (vehicle used to transport passengers, mail or freight):
- (system of transporting people): See public transport
- (device that moves recording tape across the heads of a recorder):
- (historical: deported convict): deportee, exile, expatriate
act of transporting
- Bulgarian: пренасяне (bg) n (prenasjane), превозване (bg) n (prevozvane), транспорт (bg) m (transport)
- Catalan: transport (ca) m
- Czech: doprava (cs) f
- Danish: transport (da) c, befordring c
- Dutch: vervoer (nl) n, transport (nl) n
- Finnish: kuljettaminen (fi), kuljetus (fi), siirtäminen (fi), siirto (fi)
- French: transport (fr) m
- Galician: transporte (gl) m
- Greek: μεταφορά (el) f (metaforá), Greek: μετακίνηση (el) f (metakínisi)
- Ido: transporto (io)
- Italian: trasporto (it) m, porto (it) m
- Japanese: 運送 (ja) (unsō), 輸送 (ja) (yusō)
- Latvian: transports m, pārvešana f
- Macedonian: превоз m (prevoz)
- Malay: pengangkutan (ms), transpor
- Norwegian:
- Persian: ترابری (fa) (tarâbari)
- Polish: transport (pl) m, przewóz (pl) m
- Portuguese: transporte (pt) m
- Romanian: transportare (ro)
- Russian: перево́зка (ru) f (perevózka), транспортиро́вка (ru) f (transportiróvka)
- Scottish Gaelic: còmhdhail f, giùlan m
- Spanish: transporte (es) m
- Swedish: befordran (sv) c, frakt (sv) c, förflyttning (sv) c, transport (sv) c
- Tamil: போக்குவரத்து (ta) (pōkkuvarattu)
- Telugu: రవాణా (te) (ravāṇā)
vehicle used to transport passengers, mail or freight
- Armenian: փոխադրամիջոց (hy) (pʻoxadramiǰocʻ), տրանսպորտ (hy) (transport)
- Azerbaijani: nəqliyyat (az), nəqliyyat vasitəsi, minik (az)
- Bulgarian: транспорт (bg) m (transport)
- Danish: køretøj (da) (on land), fartøj (da), transportskib, transportfly
- Dutch: transport (nl) n, vrachtvoertuig
- Finnish: kulkuväline (fi), kulkuneuvo (fi), kuljetusväline
- French: transport (fr) m
- German: Beförderung (de) f
- Greek: όχημα (el) n (óchima)
- Japanese: 輸送機関 (ゆそうきかん, yusō-kikan)
- Kazakh: көлік (kölık)
- Latvian: transportlīdzeklis m
- Polish: transport (pl) m
- Romanian: mijloc de transport
- Russian: тра́нспорт (ru) m (tránsport), тра́нспортное сре́дство (ru) n (tránsportnoje srédstvo)
- Spanish: transporte (es) m
- Swedish: transportfartyg n, transportflygplan (sv) n, transportfordon (sv) n
military: vehicle used to transport troops
device that moves recording tape across the heads of a recorder
Translations to be checked
- Arabic: (please verify) نَقْل (naql)
- Hungarian: (please verify) szállítás (hu), (please verify) fuvarozás (hu), (please verify) közlekedés (hu)
- Italian: (please verify) trasporto (it) m
- Korean: (please verify) 수송 (ko) (susong) (susong)
- Mandarin: (please verify) 運輸/运输 (zh) (yùnshū), (please verify) 运输 (zh) (yùnshū) (yùnshū)
- active transport
- air transport
- auto transport truck
- copper transport disease
- cyber transport
- cyber transport system
- cyber transport systems
- means of transport
- Metropolis light transport
- mode of transport
- parallel transport
- public transport
- rail transport
- transport café
- transport interchange
- transport poverty
- transport protein
- transport rider
- transport safety board
- transport ship
- transport stage
- transport vesicle
From transportar (“to transport”).
transport m (plural transports)
- “transport” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “transport”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “transport” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “transport” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
From Middle Dutch transport, from Middle French transport, from Old French transport, from transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin transporto, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”).
transport n (plural transporten, diminutive transportje n)
Internationalism ultimately from Latin trānsportō.
- Hyphenation: trans‧port
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transport (genitive transpordi, partitive transporti)
Declension of transport (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | transport | transpordid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | transpordi | ||
genitive | transportide | ||
partitive | transporti | transporte transportisid | |
illative | transporti transpordisse |
transportidesse transpordesse | |
inessive | transpordis | transportides transpordes | |
elative | transpordist | transportidest transpordest | |
allative | transpordile | transportidele transpordele | |
adessive | transpordil | transportidel transpordel | |
ablative | transpordilt | transportidelt transpordelt | |
translative | transpordiks | transportideks transpordeks | |
terminative | transpordini | transportideni | |
essive | transpordina | transportidena | |
abessive | transpordita | transportideta | |
comitative | transpordiga | transportidega |
- “transport”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “transport”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “transport”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- transport in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ/
- Rhymes: -ɔʁ
- Homophone: transports
transport m (plural transports)
- “transport”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
From Medieval Latin transportus, from Latin transportare.
transport m (definite singular transporten, indefinite plural transporter, definite plural transportene)
- “transport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
From Medieval Latin transportus, from Latin transportare.
transport m (definite singular transporten, indefinite plural transportar, definite plural transportane)
- “transport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Borrowed from French transport.[1][2] First attested in 1661.[3] Compare Silesian transport.
- IPA(key): /ˈtran.spɔrt/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈtran.spɔrt/
- Rhymes: -anspɔrt
- Syllabification: tran‧sport
transport m inan
- (uncountable) transport (act of transporting)
- (countable) transport (vehicle used to transport passengers, mail or freight)
- (countable) load, cargo (that which is transported)
- (countable) transport (system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region)
- (uncountable) transport (branch of the economy dealing with transport)
- (uncountable) transport (subject of study dealing with transport)
- (uncountable) transport (all means and activities related to the transport of people and cargo)
- (countable) transportees (escorted group of people)
- (uncountable, geology) transport (relocation of rock weathering products by water, wind and ice)
- (uncountable, finances) transfer (relocation of a sum from one side of an account or ledger to another)
- (uncountable, engineering) transfer (relocation of energy)
- → Kashubian: transpòrt
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “transport”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “transport”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
- ^ Merkuriusz polski ordynaryjny[2], 1661, page 16
- transport in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- transport in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “transport”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “transport”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 98
Borrowed from French transport.
transport n (plural transporturi)
trànsport m (Cyrillic spelling тра̀нспорт)
- transport, conveyance
- transport (vehicle)
Borrowed from German Transport.
transport m inan
- transport in silling.org
- Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “transport”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 144
transport c
- a transport, something to be moved
- a transport, a preliminary sum to be carried to the next page
- a transport, promotion to a new job or task
Declension of transport | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | transport | transporten | transporter | transporterna |
Genitive | transports | transportens | transporters | transporternas |
From Ottoman Turkish ترانسپورط (transport), from French transport.
transport (definite accusative transportu, plural transportlar)
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | transport | |
Definite accusative | transportu | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | transport | transportlar |
Definite accusative | transportu | transportları |
Dative | transporta | transportlara |
Locative | transportta | transportlarda |
Ablative | transporttan | transportlardan |
Genitive | transportun | transportların |