transport

From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”). By surface analysis, trans- (“beyond, across, through”) +‎ port (“to carry, bear, or convey; to bring”).

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/

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• 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/

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• Rhymes: -ænspɔː(ɹ)t
• Hyphenation: trans‧port

transport (third-person singular simple present transports, present participle transporting, simple past and past participle transported)

1. 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.

2. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
3. (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, volume (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

transport (countable and uncountable, plural transports)

1. An act of transporting; conveyance.

   The transport of goods is not included in the price given on the website.

2. 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.

3. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
4. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
5. 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.

6. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
7. (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

From transportar (“to transport”).

transport m (plural transports)

1. transport

• “transport”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “transport”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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”).

• IPA^(key): /trɑnˈspɔrt/, /trɑnsˈpɔrt/

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• Hyphenation: trans‧port
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

transport n (plural transporten, diminutive transportje n)

1. transport

• vervoer

• Afrikaans: transport
• → Guyanese Creole English: transport
• → Indonesian: transpor

Internationalism ultimately from Latin trānsportō.

• Hyphenation: trans‧port

transport (genitive transpordi, partitive transporti)

1. transport

   Synonym: veondus

Declension of transport (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
		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

• ühistransport

• “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/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁ
• Homophone: transports

transport m (plural transports)

1. transport

• “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)

1. transport, transportation

• “transport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Medieval Latin transportus, from Latin transportare.

transport m (definite singular transporten, indefinite plural transportar, definite plural transportane)

1. transport, transportation

• “transport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French transport.^[1][2] First attested in 1661.^[3] Compare Silesian transport.

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• Rhymes: -anspɔrt
• Syllabification: tran‧sport

transport m inan

1. (uncountable) transport (act of transporting)

   Synonyms: przewóz, transfer

2. (countable) transport (vehicle used to transport passengers, mail or freight)
3. (countable) load, cargo (that which is transported)

   Synonyms: fracht, ładunek

4. (countable) transport (system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region)
5. (uncountable) transport (branch of the economy dealing with transport)
6. (uncountable) transport (subject of study dealing with transport)
7. (uncountable) transport (all means and activities related to the transport of people and cargo)
8. (countable) transportees (escorted group of people)
9. (uncountable, geology) transport (relocation of rock weathering products by water, wind and ice)
10. (uncountable, finances) transfer (relocation of a sum from one side of an account or ledger to another)
11. (uncountable, engineering) transfer (relocation of energy)

• → Kashubian: transpòrt

• 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.

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transport n (plural transporturi)

1. transport

trànsport m inan (Cyrillic spelling тра̀нспорт)

1. transport, conveyance
2. transport (vehicle)

Borrowed from German Transport.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtran.spɔrt/

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• Rhymes: -anspɔrt
• Syllabification: tran‧sport

transport m inan

1. transport

• transport in silling.org
• Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “transport”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 144

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transport c

1. a transport, something to be moved
2. a transport, a preliminary sum to be carried to the next page
3. a transport, promotion to a new job or task

• transportera

• befordran
• export
• import
• kommunikation
• minnessiffra
• spedition
• trafik
• åkeri

From Ottoman Turkish ترانسپورط (transport), from French transport.

• IPA^(key): /tɾɑns.pɔɾt/

transport (definite accusative transportu, plural transportlar)

1. transport