parking lot (plural parking lots )
( Canada , US , Philippines , Malaysia ) An open area, generally paved, where automobiles may be left when not in use.
Should we park in that parking lot , or in the garage up the street?
( US , figuratively , humorous ) A road blocked by stop-start traffic .
The 101 was a parking lot again today.
( US , figuratively ) A place in a state of complete destruction , especially one achieved through military means.
1992 April 15, Dore Gold , “The U.S.-Israel Relationship: Mounting Misperceptions in Washington”, in Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs [1] :America believed it had smashed Israel’s greatest enemy and turned Iraq into a parking lot , so now Israel could take risks it had never been able to take before.
2005 , John Grevstad, Red State, Blue State: Defending the Liberal Jesus and Blue State Morality from Red State Religion and Hypocrisy , →ISBN , page 182 :I was one of the people understanding the need to turn Afghanistan into a parking lot on the way to finding Bin Laden and bringing him to justice.
2018 , Norman G. Finkelstein , Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom , →ISBN , page 56 :Eager for “round two,” a member of Israel’s regional council adjoining Gaza exhorted the military that next time they should “flatten Gaza into a parking lot , destroy them.”
open area, generally paved, where automobiles may be left when not in use
Afrikaans: parkeerplek , parkering
Albanian: autopark (sq) m , parking m
Arabic: مَوْقِف سَيَّارَات m ( mawqif sayyārāt ) , مَوْقِف m ( mawqif )
Armenian: ավտոկայանատեղի (hy) ( avtokayanateġi )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܟܠܝܵܐ m ( maklyā ) , ܡܲܟܠܝܵܐ ܕܪ̈ܲܕܵܝܵܬܹܐ m ( maklyā d-raddāyātē ) , ܒܹܝܬ ܡܲܟܠܝܵܐ m ( bēt maklyā )
Basque: aparkaleku
Belarusian: аўтастая́нка f ( aŭtastajánka ) , стая́нка f ( stajánka ) , парко́ўка f ( parkóŭka ) , па́ркінг m ( párkinh )
Breton: parklec'h (br) m , park-kirri m
Bulgarian: па́ркинг m ( párking )
Burmese: ယာဉ်ရပ် (my) ( yanyrap )
Catalan: aparcament m , pàrquing m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 停車場 / 停车场 ( ting4 ce1 coeng4 )
Mandarin: 停車場 / 停车场 (zh) ( tíngchēchǎng )
Cornish: park kerri m
Corsican: parcheghju m
Czech: parkoviště (cs) n
Danish: parkeringsplads (da) c
Dutch: parkeerplaats (nl) f , parkeerterrein (nl) n , parking (nl) f ( Flanders )
Esperanto: parkejo
Estonian: parkla (et)
Finnish: pysäköintialue (fi) , parkkipaikka (fi)
French: parking (fr) m , parc de stationnement (fr) m , ( Canada ) stationnement (fr) m
Galician: aparcadoiro (gl) m , aparcamento (gl) m , estacionamento (gl) m
Georgian: სადგომი ( sadgomi ) , ავტოსადგომი ( avṭosadgomi )
German: Parkplatz (de) m ( area ) , Parkhaus (de) n ( building )
Greek: χώρος στάθμευσης m ( chóros státhmefsis ) , πάρκινγκ (el) n ( párkingk ) , στάθμευση (el) f ( státhmefsi )
Greenlandic: biilinut uninngatitsivik
Hebrew: חַנְיוֹן (he) m ( khanyón )
Hindi: कार पार्क m ( kār pārk ) , पार्किंग f ( pārkiṅg )
Hungarian: parkolóhely (hu) , parkoló (hu)
Icelandic: bílastæði (is) f
Irish: carrchlós m
Italian: posteggio (it) m , parcheggio (it) m
Japanese: 駐車場 (ja) ( ちゅうしゃじょう, chūshajō ) , パーキング (ja) ( pākingu ) , カーパーク ( kāpāku )
Kazakh: автотұрақ ( avtotūraq )
Khmer: ទីចតរថយន្ត ( tii cɑɑt rŭət yŭən )
Korean: 주차장(駐車場) (ko) ( juchajang ) , 차마당 ( chamadang ) ( North Korea )
Kyrgyz: автотурук ( avtoturuk )
Lao: ບ່ອນໄວ້ລົດ ( bǭn wai lot ) , ບ່ອນຈອດ ( bǭn chǭt )
Latvian: stāvvieta f , stāvlaukums m
Lithuanian: stovėjimo aikštelė f
Macedonian: паркиралиште n ( parkiralište )
Manx: carrlann f , pairk charr f , pairk ghleashtan f
Maori: tūnga waka
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: зогсоол (mn) ( zogsool )
Moore: yalsg zĩiga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: parkeringsplass m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: پارْکینْگ (fa) ( pârking )
Polish: parking (pl) m
Portuguese: estacionamento (pt) m
Romanian: parcare (ro) f , parking n , parcaj (ro) n
Russian: автостоя́нка (ru) f ( avtostojánka ) , стоя́нка (ru) f ( stojánka ) , стоя́нка для маши́н f ( stojánka dlja mašín ) , парко́вка (ru) f ( parkóvka ) , па́ркинг (ru) m ( párking )
Scots: car pairk , pairkin lot
Scottish Gaelic: pàirc-chàraichean f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: паркѝралӣште n
Roman: parkìralīšte (sh) n
Slovak: parkovisko n
Slovene: parkirišče n
Spanish: aparcamiento m , parking (es) , estacionamiento m , parqueadero m , parqueo (es) m
Swedish: parkeringsplats (sv) c , parkering (sv) c , bilparkering (sv)
Thai: ที่จอดรถ ( tîi-jɔ̀ɔt-rót ) , สถานที่ จอด รถ ( sà-tǎan-tîi jòt rót )
Turkish: durguluk (tr) , park yeri (tr) , otopark (tr)
Ukrainian: автостоя́нка f ( avtostojánka ) , парко́вка f ( parkóvka ) , па́ркінг m ( párkinh ) , стоя́нка f ( stojánka )
Urdu: پارْکِن٘گ f ( pārkiṅg )
Uyghur: ماشىنا مەيدانى ( mashina meydani )
Uzbek: avtoturargoh
Vietnamese: bãi giữ xe , bãi đậu xe , bãi đỗ xe
Welsh: maes parcio m