garage

See also: Garage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French garir, warir (from Old (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *warjan); and partly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, protect”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse varask (“to defend oneself”), reflexive of vara (“to ware, watch out, defend”); both ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, ward off”), *warōną (“to watch, protect”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæɹɑː(d)ʒ/

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæɹɪdʒ/

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• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈɹɑː(d)ʒ/

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• IPA^(key): /ɡ(ə)ɹæ(d)ʒ/
• Rhymes: -æɹɪdʒ

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• Hyphenation: ga‧rage

Noun

garage (countable and uncountable, plural garages)

1. A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
   • 1931, Francis Beeding, “2/2”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps‎^[1]:

     A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.

2. (chiefly British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess‎^[2]:

     The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.

3. (chiefly British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A petrol filling station.
4. (dated, 20th century, Canada, US) An independent automobile repair shop.
5. (aviation) A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane; a hangar.
6. A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
7. (attributive, music) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
8. (British, music) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.

Usage notes

Historically a commercial garage would offer storage, refueling, servicing, and repair of vehicles. Since the mid-late 20th Century, storage has become uncommon at premises having the other functions. Now refueling, servicing, and repair are becoming increasingly separated from each other. Few repair garages still sell petrol; it is very uncommon for a new filling station to have a mechanic or any facilities for servicing beyond inflating tires; and a new kind of business exists to provide servicing: the oil/lube change shop.

Synonyms

• (a petrol filling station): filling station, gas station (North America), petrol station (UK), service station

Derived terms

terms derived from garage (noun)

• garage band
• garage punk
• garage rock
• garage sale

• garage startup
• parking garage
• speed garage
• UK garage

Translations

building or section of building to store a car, tools etc.

• Albanian: garazh (sq) m
• Arabic: كَرَاج m (karāj), قَرَاج m (garāj), جَرَاج m (garāž) (Egyptian spelling)

  Hijazi Arabic: قَرَاج m (garāj), مَوْقِف m (mawgif)

• Armenian: ավտոտնակ (hy) (avtotnak), (colloquial) գարաժ (hy) (garaž)
• Assamese: গেৰেজ (gerez)
• Asturian: garaxe (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: qaraj
• Belarusian: гара́ж m (haráž)
• Bengali: গ্যারেজ (gêrej)
• Bulgarian: гара́ж (bg) m (garáž)
• Burmese: ကားရုံ (my) (ka:rum)
• Catalan: garatge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 車庫／车库 (ce¹ fu³), 车库 (ce¹ fu³), 車房／车房 (ce¹ fong⁴), 车房 (ce¹ fong⁴)

  Mandarin: 車庫／车库 (zh) (chēkù), 车库 (zh) (chēkù)

• Cornish: karrji m
• Czech: garáž (cs) f
• Danish: garage (da) c
• Dutch: garage (nl) f
• Esperanto: garaĝo
• Estonian: garaaž
• Faroese: bilhús n, bilskúr n, bilskúrur m
• Finnish: autotalli (fi)
• French: garage (fr) m
• Galician: garaxe m
• Georgian: გარაჟი (garaži)
• German: Garage (de) f
• Greek: γκαράζ (el) (gkaráz)
• Hebrew: מוּסָךְ (he) m (musakh)
• Hindi: गेराज (gerāj)
• Hungarian: garázs (hu)
• Icelandic: bílskúr (is) m
• Ido: gareyo (io)
• Indonesian: garasi (id)
• Irish: garáiste m
• Italian: garage (it) m
• Japanese: 車庫 (ja) (しゃこ, shako), ガレージ (ja) (garēji)
• Kazakh: гараж (kk) (garaj)
• Korean: 차고 (ko) (chago) (車庫 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: гараж (ky) (garaj)
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• Lao: ອູ່ລົດ (ʼū lot), ເຮືອນລົດ (hư̄an lot), ໂຮງມ້ຽນລົດ (hōng mīan lot), ໂຮງໄວ້ລົດ (hōng wai lot)
• Latvian: garāža f
• Lithuanian: garažas m
• Macedonian: гаража f (garaža)
• Malay: garaj
• Maltese: garaxx m
• Mongolian: гарааш (mn) (garaaš)
• Norman: garage m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: garasje (no) m

  Nynorsk: garasje m

• Ojibwe: odaabaaniiwigamig
• Persian: گاراژ (fa) (gârâž)
• Polish: garaż (pl) m
• Portuguese: garagem (pt) f
• Quechua: awtu jallch'ana wasi
• Romanian: garaj (ro) n
• Russian: гара́ж (ru) m (garáž)
• Scottish Gaelic: garaids f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гаража f

  Roman: garaža (sh) f

• Sinhalese: ගරාජ් (garāj)
• Skolt Sami: auttstä´llj
• Slovak: garáž (sk) f
• Slovene: garaža (sl) f
• Spanish: garaje (es) m
• Swedish: garage (sv) n
• Tagalog: garahe (tl)
• Tajik: гараж (tg) (garaž)
• Thai: โรงรถ (roong-rót)
• Tibetan: མོ་ཊ་འཇོག་སའི་ཁང་པ (mo ṭa 'jog sa'i khang pa)
• Turkish: garaj (tr), arabalık (tr), kurluk (tr), kaylık
• Turkmen: garaj, garaž
• Ukrainian: гара́ж m (haráž)
• Urdu: گیراج (gerāj)
• Uzbek: garaj (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhà để xe hơi, nhà để xe, nhà xe (vi), ga ra (vi)
• Volapük: garad
• Welsh: garej (cy) f
• Yiddish: גאַראַזש (garazh)

place where cars are serviced and repaired

• Bulgarian: серви́з (bg) m (servíz)
• Czech: servis (cs) m, autoservis m, opravna f, autoopravna f
• Finnish: autokorjaamo, korjaamo (fi)
• French: garage (fr)
• Galician: taller mecánico m
• Georgian: ავტოსერვისი (avṭoservisi)
• Hungarian: szerviz (hu), autószerviz (hu), autójavító (hu), autószerelő műhely, járműjavító (hu)
• Irish: garáiste m
• Italian: officina meccanica
• Japanese: 整備工場 (せいびこうじょう, seibi kōjō)
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• Korean: 정비소 (jeongbiso)
• Norman: garage m (Jersey)
• Portuguese: oficina mecânica, mecânica (pt) f, oficina (pt) f
• Romanian: autoservice (ro) n
• Russian: автосе́рвис (ru) m (avtosɛ́rvis), мастерска́я (ru) f (masterskája)
• Scottish Gaelic: garaids f
• Spanish: taller mecánico, garaje (es) m, taller (es) m
• Swedish: verkstad (sv) c, bilverkstad (sv) c
• Turkish: servis (tr)
• Vietnamese: nhà sửa xe

petrol filling station — see gas station

independent automobile repair shop

• Finnish: autokorjaamo, korjaamo (fi)
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aviation: shed for housing an aircraft — see hangar

space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other — see siding

music genre: type of guitar rock music

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music genre: type of electronic dance music

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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} garaje (es) m

Verb

1. To store in a garage.

   We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     I garaged the car and went to Aunt Dahlia's sanctum to ascertain whether she had cooled off at all since I had left her, for I was still anxious about that blood pressure of hers.

Translations

to store in a garage

• Bulgarian: гарирам (gariram)
• Georgian: გარაჟში მოთავსება (garažši motavseba)
• Hungarian: garazsíroz
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• Ido: garar (io)

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage.

Noun

garage c (singular definite garagen, plural indefinite garager)

1. garage (building (or section of a building) used to store a car, tools and other miscellaneous items.)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɣaːˈraː.ʒə/
• Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

garage m (plural garages)

1. A garage (repair shop for motorised vehicles).
2. A garage (building or room for storing and modifying motorised vehicles).

Derived terms

• garagedeur
• garagehouder
• parkeergarage

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French

Etymology

garer +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʁaʒ/

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Noun

garage m (plural garages)

1. garage

Descendants

• → Catalan: garatge
• → Danish: garage
• → Dutch: garage
• → English: garage
• → German: Garage
• → Italian: garage
• → Norman: garage
• → Portuguese: garagem
• → Romanian: garaj
• → Russian: гара́ж (garáž) (see there for further descendants)
• → Spanish: garaje
• → Swedish: garage
• → Turkish: garaj

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• gagera

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage.

Noun

garage m (uncountable)

1. garage (domestic storage for a car; motor repair facility)

Synonyms

• autorimessa (motor repair facility)

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage.

Noun

garage m (plural garages)

1. (Jersey) garage

Derived terms

• garagiste (“garage-keeper”)

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Spanish

Noun

garage m (uncountable)

1. garage (music genre)

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈrɑːɕ/, (south Sweden) /ɡaˈrɑːɧ/

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Noun

garage n

1. garage; a building (or section of a building) used to store a car

Declension

Declension of garage
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	garage	garaget	garage	garagen
Genitive	garages	garagets	garages	garagens

Related terms

• garagedörr
• garageplats