airport

See also: Airport

English

An airport.

Etymology

air +‎ port

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛə.pɔːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.pɔɹt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːt

Noun

airport (plural airports)

1. An airfield (an area designated for the takeoff and landing of aircraft), including one or more runways and (for commercial airports) one or more passenger terminals.
   • 23 June 2018, “Heathrow expansion to mainly benefit wealthy frequent fliers, research finds”, in The Independent:

     Because of this, and contrary to popular belief, British airports primarily act as giant wealth extractors, transporting our richest citizens out of the country as often as possible to take their money overseas.

Coordinate terms

• aerodrome
• airbase
• airfield
• airstrip
• landing field
• landing strip

Derived terms

• airportable
• airport book
• airporter
• airport fiction
• airportless
• airportlike
• airport lounge
• airport malaria
• airport novel
• airport system
• antiairport
• heliport
• how do I get to the airport
• international airport
• jetport
• multiairport
• nonairport
• STOLport
• vertiport

 

Descendants

• → German: Airport m
• → Irish: aerfort (calque)

Translations

place designated for airplanes

• Afrikaans: lughawe (af)
• Aklanon: paeuparang
• Albanian: aeroport (sq) m, aerodrom (sq) m
• Amharic: የአየር ማረፊያ (yäʾäyär maräfiya)
• Antillean Creole: layopò
• Apache:

  Western Apache: naʼiniihí náńdąąhyú

• Arabic: مَطَار (ar) m (maṭār)

  Egyptian Arabic: مطار m (maṭār)

• Armenian: օդանավակայան (hy) (ōdanavakayan)
• Assamese: বিমানবন্দৰ (bimanbondor)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ݂ ܛܵܘܣܵܐ m (bēṯ ṭāwsā), ܠܡܹܐܢܵܐ ܐܵܐܲܪܵܝܵܐ m (lmēnā āˀarrāyā)
• Asturian: aeropuertu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: aeroport, hava limanı
• Balinese: ᬮᬧᬗᬦ᭄ ᬢᭂᬃᬩᬗᬾ (lapangan terbangé)
• Basque: aireportu (eu)
• Bavarian: Flughofn m
• Belarusian: аэрапо́рт (be) m (aerapórt), лётнішча n (ljótnišča)
• Bengali: বিমানবন্দর (bn) (bimanbondor)
• Bikol Central: palayogan
• Breton: aerborzh (br) m
• Bulgarian: лети́ще (bg) n (letíšte), аерога́ра f (aerogára), аеродру́м (bg) m (aerodrúm)
• Burmese: လေဆိပ် (my) (lehcip)
• Catalan: aeroport (ca) m
• Cebuano: tugpahanan
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵣⴰⴳⴳⵯⵣ (azaggʷz)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 機場／机场 (gei¹ coeng⁴), 飛機場／飞机场 (fei¹ gei¹ coeng⁴), 航空站 (hong⁴ hung¹ zaam⁶) (formal)

  Dungan: фиҗичон (fižičon)

  Eastern Min: 機場／机场 (gĭ-diòng)

  Hakka: 機場／机场 (kî-chhòng), 飛機場／飞机场 (fî-kî-chhòng)

  Hokkien: 機場／机场 (zh-min-nan) (ki-tiûⁿ), 飛機場／飞机场 (hui-ki-tiûⁿ)

  Mandarin: 機場／机场 (zh) (jīchǎng), 飛機場／飞机场 (zh) (fēijīchǎng), 航空站 (zh) (hángkōngzhàn) (formal)

  Wu: 機場／机场 (¹ji-zan)

• Czech: letiště (cs) n
• Danish: lufthavn (da) c
• Dhivehi: ވައިގެބަނދަރު (vaigebaⁿdaru), އެއާޕޯޓް (eāpōṭ)
• Dutch: luchthaven (nl) f, vlieghaven (nl) f
• Esperanto: flughaveno (eo), aerodromo (eo), aerohaveno
• Estonian: lennujaam (et)
• Faroese: floghavn (fo) n, flogvøllur m
• Finnish: lentoasema (fi), lentokenttä (fi)
• French: aéroport (fr) m
• Galician: aeroporto (gl) m
• Georgian: აეროპორტი (aeroṗorṭi)
• German: Flughafen (de) m, (colloquial) Flugplatz (de) m, Lufthafen (de) m
• Greek: αεροδρόμιο (el) n (aerodrómio), αερολιμένας (el) m (aeroliménas)
• Greenlandic: mittarfik
• Guaraní: pepo'atãrupa, aviõrupa
• Haitian Creole: ayeropò
• Hausa: filin jirgin sama (ha)
• Hawaiian: kahua mokulele
• Hebrew: נְמַל תְּעוּפָה (he) m (n'mál t'ufá)
• Hiligaynon: hulugpaan
• Hindi: विमानक्षेत्र m (vimānakṣetra), विमानतल m (vimāntal), हवाई अड्डा m (havāī aḍḍā), विमान-पत्तन m (vimān-pattan), विमानबंदर (vimānbandar), विमानस्थल m (vimānasthal), विमानाश्रय m (vimānāśray)
• Hungarian: repülőtér (hu), reptér (hu)
• Iban: padang bilun
• Icelandic: flugvöllur (is) m, flughöfn f, flugstöð (is) f
• Ido: aeroportuo (io)
• Ilocano: pagtayaban
• Inari Sami: girdingieddi
• Indonesian: bandar udara (id), pelabuhan udara (id)
• Interlingua: aeroporto
• Inuktitut: ᖃᖓᑕᓲᒃᑯᕕᒃ (qangatasookkofik)
• Irish: aerfort m
• Italian: aeroporto (it) m, aerodromo (it) m
• Itawit: pakkayabban
• Japanese: 空港 (ja) (くうこう, kūkō)
• Javanese: ꦥꦥꦤꦔ꧀ꦒꦼꦒꦤ (papan anggegana)
• Kabuverdianu: aeroportu, aeroporte
• Kannada: ವಿಮಾನ ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ (kn) (vimāna nildāṇa)
• Kashubian: latawiskò (csb) n
• Kazakh: әуежай (kk) (äuejai)
• Khmer: អាកាសយានដ្ឋាន (ʼaakaasaʼyiənaʼthaan), វាលកប៉ាល់ហោះ (viəl kaʼpal hɑh)
• Komi-Zyrian: аэропорт (aeroport)
• Korean: 공항(空港) (ko) (gonghang), 항공역(港空驛) (ko) (hanggong'yeok) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: فڕۆکەخانە (frrokexane)

  Northern Kurdish: balafirgeh (ku), firgeh (ku), firxane (ku)

• Kyrgyz: аэропорт (ky) (aeroport), аеропорт (ayeroport)
• Ladino: aeroporto
• Lao: ເດີ່ນຍົນ (lo) (dœ̄n nyon), ສນາມບິນ (sa nām bin), ເດີ່ນບິນ (dœ̄n bin)
• Latin: āëriportus m
• Latvian: lidosta (lv) f
• Lingala: libándá-mpɛ́pɔ, libándá lya mpɛ́pɔ
• Lithuanian: oro uostas m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Flegerhaven m

• Luxembourgish: Fluchhafen (lb)
• Macedonian: аеродро́м m (aerodróm), а́еродром m (áerodrom) (nonstandard)
• Malay: lapangan terbang (ms)
• Malayalam: വിമാനത്താവളം (vimānattāvaḷaṁ)
• Maltese: ajruport, mitjar
• Maori: taunga rererangi
• Marathi: विमानतळ (vimāntaḷ)
• Masbatenyo: palupadan
• Mizo: ţumhmun, thlawhna-ţumhmun
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: нисэх онгоцны буудал (nisex ongocny buudal), аэропорт (aeroport), нисэх буудал (mn) (nisex buudal)

• Nahuatl: ehēcalquixohuayān, tepoztotoquixohuayan
• Navajo: chidí naatʼaʼí ńdinibįįhígi
• Nepali: विमानस्थल (vimānasthal)
• Norman: aéroport m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flyplass (no) m, lufthavn m or f

  Nynorsk: flyplass m, lufthamn f

• Occitan: aeropòrt (oc) m
• Odia: ବିମାନ ବନ୍ଦର (bimanô bôndôrô)
• Ojibwe: endazhi-booniimagak
• Ossetian: аэропорт (aèroport)
• Pashto: هوایی ډګر m (hawāyi ḍagar)
• Persian: فُرودْگاه (fa) (forudgâh), مَیْدانِ طَیّارَه (maydān-e tayyāra) (Dari), مَیْدانِ هَوایِی (maydān-e hawāyi) (Dari)
• Plautdietsch: Loftstazion f
• Polish: lotnisko (pl) n, port lotniczy (pl) m, aerodrom (pl) m (dated), aeroport (pl) (dated)
• Portuguese: aeroporto (pt) m
• Romanian: aeroport (ro) n
• Romblomanon: paluparan
• Russian: аэропо́рт (ru) m (aeropórt), аэродро́м (ru) m (aerodróm), аэровокза́л (ru) m (aerovokzál)
• Sanskrit: विमान-पत्तन (vimāna-pattana)
• Scottish Gaelic: port-adhair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аеро̀дром m, летелиште n, зра́чна лу́ка f

  Roman: aeròdrom (sh) m, letelište n, zráčna lúka (sh) f

• Shan: တႃႈႁိူဝ်းမိၼ် (tāa hóe mǐn)
• Sicilian: ariuportu (scn) m
• Sinhalese: ගුවන්තොට (guwantoṭa)
• Slovak: letisko n
• Slovene: letališče (sl) n
• Somali: gego diyaarad
• Spanish: aeropuerto (es) m
• Swahili: uwanja wa ndege class u
• Swedish: flygplats (sv), flygfält (sv) n (in Finland), lufthamn (sv) c
• Tagalog: paliparan (tl)
• Tajik: фурудгоҳ (tg) (furudgoh), аэропорт (aeroport)
• Tamil: வானூர்தி நிலையம் (vāṉūrti nilaiyam), விமான நிலையம் (ta) (vimāṉa nilaiyam)
• Tatar: аэропорт (a'roport)
• Telugu: విమానాశ్రయం (te) (vimānāśrayaṁ)
• Thai: ท่าอากาศยาน (th) (tâa-aa-gàat-sà-yaan) (formal), สนามบิน (th) (sà-nǎam-bin) (common)
• Tibetan: གནམ་ཐང (gnam thang), གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང (gnam gru thang), གནམ་གྲུ་འབབ་ཐང (gnam gru 'bab thang)
• Tigrinya: መዓርፎ ነፈርቲ (mäʿarfo näfärti)
• Tok Pisin: ples balus
• Tokelauan: malae vakalele
• Tongan: malaʻe vakapuna
• Turkish: havalimanı (tr), havaalanı (tr)
• Turkmen: aeroport (tk), howa menzili
• Tuvan: аэропорт (aeroport)
• Ukrainian: аеропо́рт (uk) m (aeropórt), лето́вище n (letóvyšče)
• Urdu: ہَوائی اَڈّا m (havāī aḍḍā), ہَوائی اَڈَّہ m (havāī aḍḍa), ہَوائی مُسْتَقَر m (havāī mustaqar), مَطار (ur) m (matār), فَرُود گاہ m (farūd gāh), طَیران گاہ m (tairān gāh), وِمانْتَل m (vimāntal)
• Uyghur: ئايروپورت (ayroport)
• Uzbek: aeroport (uz), tayеragoh
• Vietnamese: sân bay (vi) (North, standard), phi trường (vi) (飛場) (South, dated in the North), cảng hàng không (vi) (港航空) (usually large)
• Volapük: lutapof
• Wallisian: mala'e vakalele
• Waray-Waray: paluparan
• Welsh: maes awyr (cy)
• Yiddish: אַעראָפּאָרט m (aeroport), פֿליפֿעלד n (flifeld)
• Yucatec Maya: maskab ch'iich' kaah
• Zulu: inkundla yezindiza (zu)

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