hangar

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhæŋə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhæŋɚ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋə(ɹ)
• Homophone: hanger

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.

• Not to be confused with “hanger” (a device for hanging).

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.

• harang

From French hangar.

hangar c (singular definite hangaren, plural indefinite hangarer)

1. hangar, a garage-like building for aircraft

• “hangar” in Den Danske Ordbog

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ɦɑŋˈɡaːr/

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• Hyphenation: han‧gar
• Rhymes: -aːr

hangar m (plural hangars, diminutive hangartje n)

1. hangar, a garage-like building for aircraft

• → Indonesian: hanggar

From Frankish *haimgard (“enclosure around a home”).

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ɡaʁ/

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hangar m (plural hangars)

1. shed, barn, warehouse
2. hangar (aircraft)

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

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

hangar m (invariable)

1. hangar

Borrowed from French hangar, from Frankish *haimgard.

hangar m (plural hangars)

1. (Jersey) shed

From French hangar via English hangar.

hangar m (definite singular hangaren, indefinite plural hangarer, definite plural hangarene)

1. (aviation) a hangar

• hangarskip

• “hangar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “hangar” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From French hangar via English hangar.

hangar m (definite singular hangaren, indefinite plural hangarar, definite plural hangarane)

1. (aviation) a hangar

• hangarskip

• “hangar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈxaŋ.ɡar/

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• Rhymes: -aŋɡar
• Syllabification: han‧gar

hangar m inan

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

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

Borrowed from French hangar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: han‧gar

hangar m (plural hangares)

1. hangar (large structure where aircraft are kept)

• “hangar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “hangar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua 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

Borrowed from French hangar.

hangar n (plural hangare)

1. hangar

Borrowed from French hangar.

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

hangar m (plural hangares)

1. hangar

• “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

From French hangar.

hangar c

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

• hangar in Svensk ordbok.