taxi

See also Taxi, and táxi

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Shortened from taxicab, a portmanteau of taximeter and cabriolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtæk.si/, SAMPA: /"t{k.si/

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• Rhymes: -æksi

Noun

taxi (plural taxis, irregular plural taxies)

1. A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver.

Synonyms

• cab
• taxicab (from taximeter cabriolet)

Related terms

• taxicab
• taxi driver
• taxiless
• taxilike
• taximeter
• taxi pole
• taxi stand

See also

• hackney cab

Translations

vehicle

Afrikaans: huurmotor Arabic: تاكسي (ar) (táksi) m. Armenian: տաքսի (hy) (tak'si) Bengali: ট্যাক্সি (bn) (ţêksi), ক্যাব (bn) (kêb) Bulgarian: такси (bg) Burmese: တက္ကစီ (my) (tetkăsi), တက်စီ (my) (tetsi) Catalan: taxi (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 的士 (dīksí) Mandarin: 出租汽車 (cmn), 出租汽车 (cmn) (chūzūqìchē) (PRC), 出租車 (cmn), 出租车 (cmn) (chūzūchē) (PRC), 計程車 (cmn), 计程车 (cmn) (jìchéngchē) (Taiwan), 的士 (cmn) (díshì) (loanword) Min Nan: 計程車 (kè-têng-chhia) Wu: 差头 Croatian: taksi (hr) m. Czech: taxík (cs) m. Danish: taxi (da), vogn (da), hyrevogn (da) Dutch: taxi (nl) Esperanto: taksio (eo), kabo (eo) Finnish: taksi (fi) French: taxi (fr) m. Georgian: ტაქსი (ka) (tak'si) German: Taxi (de) n. Greek: ταξί (el) (taxí) n. Greenlandic: taxa (kl) Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: מונית (he) (monít) f., מוֹנִית (he) f. Hindi: टैक्सी (hi) (ṭaiksī) Hungarian: taxi (hu) Icelandic: leigubíll (is) m., taxi (is) m. , leigubifreið (is) f. Indonesian: taksi (id) Irish: tacsaí (ga) m. Italian: taxi (it) m., tassì (it) m. Japanese: タクシー (ja) (takushī)

Kannada: please add this translation if you can Khmer: ជិះឡានតាក់ស៊ី (km) (cih laan taksii) Korean: 택시 (ko) (taeksi) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latvian: taksis (lv) Lithuanian: taksi (lt) Luxembourgish: Taxi (lb) Macedonian: такси (mk) (táksi) n. Malay: teksi (ms) Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Manx: taksee (gv) m. Norwegian: taxi (no)/taksi (no) m., drosje (no) c. Persian: تاکسی (fa) (tâksi) Polish: taxi (pl) m., taksówka (pl) f. Portuguese: táxi (pt) m. Punjabi: please add this translation if you can Romanian: taximetru (ro) Russian: такси (ru) (taksí) n. Scottish Gaelic: tagsaidh (gd) m. Serbian: такси (sr) Slovene: taksi (sl) Spanish: taxi (es) m., taxímetro m. (Uruguay), libre m. (Venezuela, colloquial) Swahili: teksi (sw) Swedish: taxi (sv) c. Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: แท็กซี่ (táeksêe) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: taksi (tr) Ukrainian: таксі (uk) Urdu: ٹیکسی (ur) (ṭaiksī) Vietnamese: taxi (vi), xe tắc xi (vi) Volapük: loatatood (vo), taxid (vo) Welsh: tacsi (cy) m.

Verb

taxi (third-person singular simple present taxies or sometimes taxis, present participle taxiing or sometimes taxying, simple past and past participle taxied)

1. To move an aircraft around an airport under its own power.

Related terms

• taxiway

Translations

move an aircraft

Danish: taxie (da) Georgian: მიწაზე თვითმფრინავის სრიალი (ka) (micaze t'vit'mp'rinavis sriali) German: rollen (de) Hungarian: gurul (hu) Icelandic: taxa (is)

Irish: innill (ga) Norwegian: takse (no) Portuguese: taxiar (pt) Spanish: carretear (es) Swedish: taxa (sv)

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Dutch

Noun

taxi m. (plural taxi's, diminutive taxietje)

1. taxi

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Pronunciation

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Noun

taxi m. (plural taxis)

1. taxi
2. (by extension) taxi driver
3. (by extension) helicopter or plane used for transport
4. (military) act of transporting troops

Anagrams

• ixât

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtaksi/
• IPA: [un ˈtaksi]
• Hyphenation: tà‧xi
• IPA: /takˈsi/ (from the French taxi)

Noun

taxi m. (plural taxi)

1. taxi

Synonyms

• tassì

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Latin

Noun

taxī

1. nominative plural of taxus
2. genitive singular of taxus
3. vocative plural of taxus

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Norwegian

Alternative forms

• taksi

Noun

taxi

1. taxi (only cars)

Synonyms

• drosje (also horse wagons, etc)

Inflection

    Inflection of taxi

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	taxi	taxien	taxier	taxiene
Nynorsk m	taxi	taxien	taxiar	taxiane

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Romanian

Etymology

Short form of taximetru

Noun

taxi

1. taxi

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Spanish

Noun

taxi m. (plural taxis)

1. taxi

Related terms

• taxista

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Swedish

Noun

taxi c.

1. a taxi

Declension

Declension of taxi

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	taxi	taxin	taxibilar	taxibilarna
genitive	taxis	taxins	taxibilars	taxibilarnas

Related terms

• taxameter