apartment

See also: Apartment

English

Alternative forms

• APT (The US Postal Service prefers this variant)
• apt.

Etymology

From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈpɑːt.mənt/
• (General American) enPR: ə-pärt'mənt, IPA^(key): /əˈpɑɹt.mənt/

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (US):

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Noun

apartment (plural apartments)

1. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.

   apartment dwellers

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.

2. (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Mildendo, the Metropolis of Lilliput, Described, together with the Emperor’s Palace. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 69:

     By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.

3. (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment.
   • 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,

     The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments, the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper apartment. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower apartment, which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....

4. (computing, COM) A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.

Synonyms

• (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium

Derived terms

• apartelle
• aparthotel
• apartmental
• apartment block
• apartment building
• apartment complex
• apartment hotel
• apartment house
• apartmentless
• apartmentlike
• apartmentmate
• apartment-sit
• apartment sit
• apartments to let
• apartotel
• bachelor apartment
• basement apartment
• efficiency apartment
• garage apartment
• garden apartment
• hotel-apartment
• microapartment
• mother-in-law apartment
• multiapartment
• nanoapartment
• studio apartment
• sub-apartment

Descendants

• → Japanese: アパートメント (apātomento), アパート (apāto)
  • → Hokkien: a-phá-tò
  • → Korean: 아파트 (apateu)
• → Malay: اڤرتمن (apartmen)
• → Thai: อพาร์ทเมนท์ (à-páat-mén)

Translations

domicile occupying part of a building

• Afrikaans: woonstel, appartement
• Albanian: apartament (sq) m
• Amharic: አፓርታማ (ʾäpartama)
• Arabic: شَقَّة f (šaqqa)

  Egyptian Arabic: شقة f (šaʔʔa)

  Gulf Arabic: شقة f (šaqqa)

  Moroccan Arabic: شقة f (šuqqa), برطمة f (barṭma, parṭma)

  South Levantine Arabic: شقة (šaʔʔa)

  Tunisian Arabic: برطمان m (barṭamān)

• Armenian: բնակարան (hy) (bnakaran)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܵܪܝܼܥܬܵܐ f (yārīˁtā), ܡܲܫܟܲܢܬܵܐ f (maškantā), ܐܲܦܲܪܬܡܵܢ m (appartmān)
• Asturian: pisu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: mənzil (az)
• Bashkir: фатир (fatir)
• Basque: etxebizitza, bizitza (eu)
• Belarusian: кватэ́ра f (kvatéra), апартамэ́нт m (apartamént)
• Bengali: কক্ষ (bn) (kokkho), কামরা (bn) (kamra), ফ্ল্যাট (bn) (phlêṭ)
• Breton: ranndi (br) f
• Bulgarian: апартаме́нт (bg) m (apartamént), кварти́ра (bg) f (kvartíra)
• Burmese: တိုက်ခန်း (my) (tuikhkan:)
• Catalan: pis (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 公寓 (gung¹ jyu⁶), 柏文 (paak³ man⁴), 雅柏文 (ngaa⁵ paak³ man⁴, aa⁶ paat¹ man⁴, aa⁶ paat¹ man^4-2)

  Hakka: 公寓 (kûng-ngi)

  Hokkien: 公寓 (zh-min-nan) (kong-gū, kong-gī, kong-ú), a-phá-tò

  Mandarin: 公寓 (zh) (gōngyù), 套間 / 套间 (zh) (tàojiān), 套房 (zh) (tàofáng)

  Wu: 公寓 (¹kon-gniu; ¹kon-yu)

• Chuvash: хваттер (hvatter)
• Crimean Tatar: kvartira
• Czech: byt (cs) m
• Danish: lejlighed (da) c
• Dutch: woning (nl) f, appartement (nl) n, flat (nl) m
• Elfdalian: lägeniet f
• Esperanto: apartamento (eo), ĉambraro
• Estonian: korter (et)
• Faroese: íbúð f
• Finnish: asunto (fi), huoneisto (fi)
• French: appartement (fr) m
• Galician: apartamento (gl) m, piso (gl) m
• Georgian: ოთახი (ka) (otaxi), ბინა (bina), საცხოვრებელი (sacxovrebeli), აპარტამენტი (aṗarṭamenṭi)
• German: Wohnung (de) f, Appartement (de) (rare)
• Greek: διαμέρισμα (el) n (diamérisma)
• Gujarati: ફ્લૅટ m (phlěṭ), ઘર (gu) n (ghar) (by extension)
• Hebrew: דִירָה (he) f (dirá)
• Hindi: अपार्टमेंट ? (apārṭamẽṭ), फ़्लैट m (flaiṭ)
• Hungarian: lakás (hu)
• Icelandic: íbúð (is) f
• Ido: apartamento (io)
• Indonesian: apartemen (id), flat (id), rumah pangsa (id)
• Ingrian: vatera
• Irish: árasán m
• Italian: appartamento (it) m, alloggio (it) m, quartierino m
• Japanese: アパート (ja) (apāto), マンション (ja) (manshon), 集合住宅 (ja) (しゅうごうじゅうたく, shūgō jūtaku), 共同住宅 (ja) (きょうどうじゅうたく, kyōdō jūtaku), 長屋 (ja) (ながや, nagaya)
• Kalmyk: патьр (patʹr)
• Kashubian: mieszkanié n
• Kazakh: пәтер (päter), квартира (kvartira)
• Khmer: ផ្ទះល្វែង (phtĕəh lvɛɛng)
• Korean: 아파트 (ko) (apateu), 맨션 (maensyeon), 아빠트 (ko) (appateu) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاپارتمان (apartman), شوقە (şuqe)

  Northern Kurdish: apartman (ku), lojman (ku)

• Kyrgyz: квартира (kvartira), батир (ky) (batir)
• Lao: ຄະຣຶຫະ (kha rư ha), ອາພາດເມັນ (ʼā phāt men)
• Latin: diaeta f
• Latvian: dzīvoklis m
• Lithuanian: butas (lt) m
• Macedonian: стан m (stan)
• Malay: rumah pangsa (ms), pangsapuri (ms), apartmen
• Maltese: appartament m
• Manx: arasane m
• Maori: wharetō
• Marathi: फ्लॅट m (phlĕṭ), अपार्ट्मेंट n (apārṭmeṇṭa)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: байр (mn) (bajr)

• Norman: appartément m (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: visti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: leilighet (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: husvære n, leilegheit f

• Occitan: apartament (oc) m
• Ossetian: фатер (fater)
• Pannonian Rusyn: квартель m (kvartelʹ)
• Pashto: اپارتمان (ps) m (apārtomān)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: آپارْتِمان (âpârtemân)

• Plautdietsch: Pensjoon f
• Polish: mieszkanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: apartamento (pt) m, flate (pt) f/flete (pt) f (Mozambique)
• Romanian: apartament (ro) n
• Russian: кварти́ра (ru) f (kvartíra), апартаме́нт (ru) m (apartamént)
• Sanskrit: आगार (sa) n (āgāra)
• Sardinian: apartamentu m
• Scottish Gaelic: lobhta m, flat m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ста̑н m

  Roman: stȃn (sh) m

• Sinhalese: අනුනිවස (anuniwasa), නිවස්කඩ (niwaskaḍa)
• Slovak: byt (sk) m
• Slovene: stanovanje (sl) n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: bydlenje n

  Upper Sorbian: bydlenje n

• Spanish: (Colombia, Caribbean Islands, Central America, Uruguay, Venezuela) apartamento (es) m, (Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru) departamento (es) m, (Spain) piso (es) m, vivienda (es) f, depa (es) m (Latin America)
• Swahili: fleti class 9
• Swedish: lägenhet (sv) c
• Tagalog: apartment
• Tajik: хонаи истиқоматӣ (xona-yi istiqomati), манзил (manzil), истиқоматгоҳ (istiqomatgoh), квартира (tg) (kvartira)
• Tatar: квартир (kwartir), фатир (tt) (fatir)
• Telugu: అంకణము (te) (aṅkaṇamu)
• Thai: อพาร์ทเมนท์ (à-páat-mén)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tigrinya: ክፍሊ-ገዛ (kəfli-gäza)
• Turkish: daire (tr), apartman dairesi (tr)
• Turkmen: kwartira
• Udmurt: кунокуа (kunokua), квартира (kvarťira)
• Ukrainian: кварти́ра f (kvartýra), апартаме́нт (uk) m (apartamént)
• Urdu: اَپارْٹْمِنْٹ ? (apārṭminṭ), فْلَیٹ m (flaiṭ)
• Uyghur: ئىچكىرى-تاشقىرى ئۆي (ichkiri-tashqiri öy), نېرىقى ئۆي (nëriqi öy), يان ئۆي (yan öy), يانداش ئۆيلەر (yandash öyler)
• Uzbek: kvartira (uz)
• Vietnamese: căn hộ (vi)
• Welsh: fflat (cy) f, rhandy m
• Yiddish: וווינונג f (voynung), דירה f (dire)
• Zhuang: ranzlaeuz

archaic: suite of rooms within a domicile

• Esperanto: ĉambraro
• Finnish: huoneisto (fi)
• French: appartements (fr) m pl
• Greek: ενδιαίτημα (el) n (endiaítima)
• Irish: seomraí cónaithe m pl
• Latin: diaeta f
• Macedonian: одаи f pl (odai)
• Swedish: våning (sv) c

obsolete: division of an enclosure

• Greek: διαμέρισμα (el) n (diamérisma)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} apartemen (id)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} appartament m
• Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} байр (mn) (bajr)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} апа̀ртма̄н m ^{(please verify)} apàrtmān (sh) m

See also

• tenement