different between air vs port

English

Alternative forms

• aire, ayre, eyr (obsolete)
• ayr (especially when referring to the form of music)

Etymology

From Middle English air, eir (“gas, atmosphere”), from Anglo-Norman aeir, eyer, Old French aire, eir, from Latin ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r, “wind, atmosphere”). Displaced native Middle English luft, lift (“air”) (from Old English lyft (“air, atmosphere”)), Middle English loft (“air, upper region”) (from Old Norse lopt (“air, sky, loft”)). More at lift, loft.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/, /???/
• (General American) enPR: âr, IPA^(key): /????/, /???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: Ayr, ere, eyre, heir, are (unit of measurement); err (one pronunciation); e'er (US)

Noun

air (countable and uncountable, plural airs)

1. (uncountable, meteorology) The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly:
   1. (historical, philosophy, alchemy) understood as one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
   2. (historical, medicine) understood as a particular local substance with supposed effects on human health.
      • 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:

        Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
        B. Wooster: Hm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
        Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.

   3. (physics) understood as a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
2. (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near vacuum of outer space.

3. A breeze; a gentle wind.
4. A feeling or sense.
   • November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk

     Smalling’s quick one-two of yellow cards towards the end of the first half had left an air of inevitability about what would follow and, if anything, it was probably a surprise that City restricted themselves to Sergio Agüero’s goal bearing in mind another of United’s defenders, Marcos Rojo, was taken off on a stretcher early in the second half with a dislocated shoulder.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. She held the flower to her face with a long-drawn inhalation, then went up the steps, crossed the piazza, opened the door without knocking, and entered the house with the air of one thoroughly at home.

5. A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume I, Chapter 4:

     "He is very plain, undoubtedly—remarkably plain:—but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."

6. (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
7. (music) A song, especially a solo; an aria.
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 18:

     "If I," said Mr. Collins, "were so fortunate as to be able to sing, I should have great pleasure, I am sure, in obliging the company with an air; for I consider music as a very innocent diversion, and perfectly compatible with the profession of a clergyman […] "

8. (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
9. (countable, uncountable) An air conditioner or the processed air it produces.

10. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific gas.
11. (snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) A jump in which one becomes airborne.
12. A television or radio signal.
13. (uncountable) Publicity.

Synonyms

• atmosphere
• aura
• lift
• nimbus
• gas

Derived terms

Pages starting with “air”.

Related terms

• aerate
• aero-
• aria

Translations

See air/translations § Noun.

Verb

air (third-person singular simple present airs, present participle airing, simple past and past participle aired)

1. To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
2. To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.

   It's getting quite stuffy in this room: let's open the windows and air it.

3. To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
   • 1917, National Geographic, v.31, March 1917:

     Thus, in spite of all opposition, the rural and urban assemblies retained the germ of local government, and in spite of the dual control, as the result of which much of their influence was nullified, they did have a certain value in airing abuses and suggesting improvements.

4. (transitive) To broadcast (a television show etc.).
5. (intransitive) To be broadcast.

   This game show first aired in the 1990s and is still going today.

6. (Britain, MLE, slang) To ignore (a person).

   Why is this girl airing me?

Derived terms

• air out
• aired
• aired-out

Translations

Anagrams

• ARI, Ari, IAR, IRA, Ira, RIA, Rai, rai, raï, ria

Cornish

Alternative forms

• ayr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e??]

Noun

air m

1. air

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French air, from Middle French air, from Old French air, from Latin ??r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r/
• Hyphenation: aie
• Rhymes: -??r

Noun

air m (plural airs, diminutive airtje n)

1. air, pretension or pretentious attitude
2. tune, melody

Descendants

• Afrikaans: air

French

Etymology

From Old French air, aire, from Latin ??r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/
• Homophones: aire, airent, aires, airs, ère, ères, erre, errent, erres, ers, haire, haires, hère, hères

Noun

air m (plural airs)

1. air (gases of the atmosphere)
2. tune, aria
3. appearance
4. air (pretension)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “air” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ira
• rai

Gothic

Romanization

air

1. Romanization of ????????????

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay air, from Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.??r/

Noun

air (first-person possessive airku, second-person possessive airmu, third-person possessive airnya)

1. water
   1. clear liquid H?O
   2. mineral water
   3. one of the four elements in alchemy
   4. one of the five basic elements in some other theories
2. (colloquial) a cockfight round which started by spraying water to the cock.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “air” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish airid (“ploughs, tills”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??/

Verb

air (present analytic aireann, future analytic airfidh, verbal noun ar, past participle airthe)

1. (literary, transitive, intransitive) plough

Conjugation

Noun

air m

1. genitive singular of ar

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (stressed) /???/, (unstressed) /???/

Pronoun

air (emphatic airsean)

1. third-person singular masculine of ar (on him, on it m)

Mutation

References

• "air" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “3 airid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Kedah Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ä.jäq/

Noun

air

1. water.

   Air manis

   Sweet water

Kein

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?/

Noun

air

1. woman

Further reading

• Bemal Organized Phonology Data

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *airo.

Noun

air

1. oar

Malay

Alternative forms

• ?^????

Etymology

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684AD. From Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ae(r)/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /a?(r)/
• Rhymes: -ae(r), -e(r)

Noun

air (Jawi spelling ?????, informal 1st possessive airku, impolite 2nd possessive airmu, 3rd possessive airnya)

1. water (liquid H₂O)
   • 2012, Faridah Abdul Rashid, Research on the Early Malay Doctors : 1900-1957 : Malaya and Singapore [2]

     loji rawatan air

     water treatment plant

Derived terms

• air bah / ?^??? ???
• air mata / ?^??? ????

Descendants

• Indonesian: air

References

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Norman

Etymology

From Latin ??r.

Noun

air m (plural airs)

1. air (mixture of gases that make up the earth's atmosphere)

Related terms

• atmosphère, atmosphéthe

Old French

Alternative forms

• aer, aïr, ar, eir, aeir, eyer, aire

Etymology

From Latin ??r.

Noun

air m (oblique plural airs, nominative singular airs, nominative plural air)

1. air (mixture of gases that make up the earth's atmosphere)

Descendants

• French: air
• Norman: air
• ? Middle English: air, eir
  • English: air
  • Scots: air

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ar

Etymology

From the same root as ar (“for”, preposition).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar?/

Conjunction

air

1. for (because, since)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^d11

   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159^a2

   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159^a3

Pohnpeian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jir/

Verb

air

1. (transitive) to strip off, as when stripping insulation off a wire
2. (transitive) to wipe off a ropelike object by drawing it through one's hand or fingers

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish ar and Manx er.

Preposition

air (+ dative)

1. on, upon

2. of, concerning

3. for, on account of

4. by

Inflection

Usage notes

• The word air and its derivates are used in many idioms:

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish air and Manx er.

Pronoun

air

1. third-person singular masculine of air: on him, on it

Inflection

References

• “air” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *airo.

Noun

air

1. oar

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ai?r/

Noun

air

1. Soft mutation of gair.

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus distantly cognate with ford). The directional sense derived from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf.

Noun

port (countable and uncountable, plural ports)

1. A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
2. A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
3. (nautical, uncountable) The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
4. (rowing) A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.

Synonyms

• (place where ships dock): harbour, haven
• (town or city containing such a place): harbour city, harbour town, port city
• (left-hand side of a vessel): backboard, larboard, left

Antonyms

• (right-hand side of a vessel): starboard

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (por?)
• ? Russian: ???? (port)
• ? Thai: ????? (p???t)

Translations

Adjective

port (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel when facing the bow.

Synonyms

• larboard, backboard, left

Antonyms

• starboard

Translations

Verb

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

1. (nautical, transitive, chiefly imperative) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.

Translations

Etymology 2

Inherited from the Old English port, from the Latin porta (“passage, gate”), reinforced by the Old French porte. Doublet of porta.

Noun

port (plural ports)

1. (now Scotland, historical) An entryway or gate.
2. An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
3. (curling, bowls) A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.
4. An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made.
5. (computing) A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port (hardware) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
6. (computing) A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• backport
• porthole
• (computing): port forwarding

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old French porter, from Latin port?re (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.

Verb

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

1. To carry, bear, or transport. See porter.
2. (military) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
3. (computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform. Porting (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
4. (telephony) To carry or transfer an existing telephone number from one telephone service provider to another.
5. (US, government and law) To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

port (plural ports)

1. Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making.
2. (archaic) The manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage. See also portance.
   • 1744 (first published), Robert South, Five additional volumes of sermons preached upon several occasions

     the necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world

3. (military) The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.
4. (computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.

5. (computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.

Derived terms

• (military): at the high port

Translations

Etymology 4

Named from Portuguese Porto, a city in Portugal where the wines were originally shipped from.

Noun

port (countable and uncountable, plural ports)

1. A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.

Synonyms

• (fortified wine): porto, port wine

Translations

Etymology 5

Abbreviation of portmanteau.

Noun

port (plural ports)

1. (Australia) A suitcase or schoolbag.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 53:

     How do you think the cane toads got into this pristine environment? Joseph Midnight brought them in his port from Townsville, smuggled them in, not that anyone was there to stop him.

Anagrams

• -trop-, Prot., prot-, torp, trop, trop-, trop.

Albanian

Noun

port m (indefinite plural porte, definite singular porti, definite plural portet)

1. port, harbor

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?p??t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?p?rt/
• Rhymes: -??t

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan port, from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to go forth, to cross”).

Noun

port m (plural ports)

1. port, harbour

Related terms

• portuari

Etymology 2

From portar.

Noun

port m (plural ports)

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Further reading

• “port” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English report.

Pronunciation

Verb

port

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive, colloquial) to file a complaint against

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse portr m, port n, borrowed via Old English port m (“gate”) from Latin porta. Compare also German Pforte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po??rt/, [?p?o???d?]

Noun

port c (singular definite porten, plural indefinite porte)

1. gate
2. gateway

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?rt/
• Hyphenation: port
• Rhymes: -?rt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French port.

Noun

port m or n (plural porten)

1. postage

Alternative forms

• porto

Derived terms

• briefport

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English port, from port wine. Named for Portuguese Porto, a city in Portugal where the wines were originally shipped from.

Noun

port m (uncountable, diminutive portje n)

1. (a glass of) port, port wine, Porto

Etymology 3

Verb

port

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of porren
2. (archaic) plural imperative of porren

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??/

Etymology 1

From Old French port, borrowed from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to go forth, to cross”).

Noun

port m (plural ports)

1. port, harbour
2. port, harbour city
3. refuge
4. transport
5. postage
6. stature, way of carrying oneself

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Romanian: port

Etymology 2

Deverbal of porter. Ultimately from the same source as etymology 1 above.

Noun

port m (plural ports)

1. wearing (act of wearing something)

Anagrams

• trop

Further reading

• “port” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?port]
• Hyphenation: port
• Rhymes: -ort

Etymology 1

Noun

port (plural portok)

1. (computing) port

Declension

Etymology 2

por +? -t

Noun

port

1. accusative singular of por

Icelandic

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin porta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??r?t/
• Rhymes: -?r?t

Noun

port n (genitive singular ports, nominative plural port)

1. gate, gateway, entryway

Declension

Synonyms

• (gate): hlið

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish port (“tune, melody”).

Noun

port m (genitive singular poirt, nominative plural poirt)

1. (music) tune

   Proverb:

2. jig (dance)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Irish port (“bank, shore (of river or sea); landing-place, haven; bank, mound, entrenchment; place, spot, locality; stead, abode; stronghold, fortress”), borrowed from Latin portus (“harbour, port; haven, refuge, asylum, retreat”).

Noun

port m (genitive singular poirt, nominative plural poirt)

1. landing-place
2. harbor, port
3. bank (of river, etc.)
4. mound, embankment
5. refuge, haven, resort
6. stopping-place
7. place, locality
8. fortified place, stronghold
9. occupied place, seat, centre

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• "port" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin portus.

Noun

port m (plural porc)

1. port, harbour

Maltese

Etymology

From Sicilian portu, from Latin portus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?rt/

Noun

port m (plural portijiet)

1. harbour, port

   Synonym: (archaic) marsa

Norman

Etymology

From Old French port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”).

Noun

port m (plural ports)

1. (Jersey) harbour, port

   Synonyms: caûchie, hâvre

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian portr m, from late Old Norse port n, ultimately from Latin porta f.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

port m (definite singular porten, indefinite plural porter, definite plural portene)

1. a gate
2. (computing) port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
3. (computing) port (female connector of an electronic device)

Derived terms

• inngangsport

References

• “port” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian portr m, from late Old Norse port n, ultimately from Latin porta f.

Noun

port m (definite singular porten, indefinite plural portar, definite plural portane)

1. a gate
2. (computing) port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
3. (computing) port (female connector of an electronic device)

Derived terms

• inngangsport

References

• “port” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /port/, [por?t]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin portus (“harbour, port, haven, warehouse”).

Noun

port m

1. a port, a haven (a harbor or harbor-town)
2. a town, particularly one with special trading privileges

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: port
  • English: port
  • Scots: port

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin porta (“gate, entrance, passage, door”).

Noun

port m

1. portal (a door or gate; an entrance)

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: port
  • English: port
  • Scots: port

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “port”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?rt/
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

port m (oblique plural porz or portz, nominative singular porz or portz, nominative plural port)

1. port (for watercraft)

Descendants

• French: port
  • ? Romanian: port
• Norman: port
• ? Middle High German: port
  • German: Port
    • ? Russian: ???? (port)

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portus.

Noun

port m (genitive puirt, nominative plural puirt)

1. place
2. shore

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Etymology

Ultimately borrowed from Latin portus. Compare French and English port.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?rt/

Noun

port m inan

1. port, harbour (area for ships)
2. port, a town or city containing such a place

Declension

Derived terms

• portowy (adjective)

Further reading

• port in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French port, Italian porto, Latin portus.

Noun

port n (plural porturi)

1. port (town with port)

Declension

Related terms

• portuar

See also

• iman

Etymology 2

Verb

port

1. first-person singular present indicative of purta
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of purta

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish port (“tune, melody”).

Noun

port m (genitive singular puirt, plural puirt or portan)

1. tune

Synonyms

• fonn
• mànran

Etymology 2

From Old Irish port (“bank, shore (of river or sea); landing-place, haven; bank, mound, entrenchment; place, spot, locality; stead, abode; stronghold, fortress”), ultimately from Latin portus (“harbour, port; haven, refuge, asylum, retreat”).

Noun

port m (genitive singular puirt, plural puirt or portan)

1. port, harbour

Synonyms

• acarsaid
• cala

Derived terms

• longphort
• port-adhair

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Etymology

From late Old Norse port n, portr m, from Latin porta f. Computing sense a semantic loan from English.

Pronunciation

Noun

port c

1. an entrance (into a building), a gate, a portal, a door, a doorway
2. (computing) a port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)

Declension

Related terms

See also

• portvin

References

• port in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• torp

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English port.

Noun

port (definite accusative portu, plural portlar)

1. (computer hardware, networking) port

Declension