shared taxi

English

A shared taxi in Maracaibo, Venezuela (2013)

A matatu shared taxi in Kenya

A songthaew shared taxi in Thailand

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

shared taxi (plural shared taxis)

1. A vehicle for hire, typically smaller than a bus, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables, departing when all seats are filled.
   • 1986, D. Coombe et al., “The Role of Paratransit”, in Moving People in Tomorrow's World..., page 115:

     In contrast to the mass transit role of the servis taxis in Amman, the shared taxis in Bahrain offered a specialised supplement to the main transport services. Only about 1.5% of all person trips per day were made in 1981 by shared taxi, and they carried only about a quarter as many passengers as the scheduled bus services...

Synonyms

• bush taxi (French Africa)
• colectivo (South America)
• daladala (Tanzania)
• danfo (Nigeria)
• dolmus (Turkey)
• jeepney (Philippines)
• jitney
• local taxi (South Africa)
• louage (Tunisia)
• savari (Iran)
• share taxi, share-taxi
• sherut (Israel)
• taxi (Iran, South Africa)

Hyponyms

• baht bus (pickup shared taxi in SE Asian contexts)
• dollar van (van or minibus shared taxi in US contexts)
• marshrutka (minibus shared taxi in former Soviet contexts)
• matatu, mathree (minivan shared gypsy cab in East African contexts)
• maxicab (minibus shared taxi in Hong Kong)
• songthaew (pickup shared taxi in SE Asian contexts)
• taxibus (minibus shared taxi)
• tro tro (minibus shared taxi in Ghanan contexts)
• UV Express (Philippine shared taxi service)

Translations

a vehicle for hire, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables — see also marshrutka,‎ matatu,‎ songthaew

• Arabic: سَيَّارَةُ أُجْرَةٍ مُشْتَرَكَة f (sayyāratu ʔujratin muštaraka), سَيَّارَةُ أُجْرَةٍ جَمَاعِيَّة f (sayyāratu ʔujratin jamāʕiyya), سِرْوِيس m (sirwīs, literally “service”) (Palestine, Jordan), سِيرْفِيس (sīrfīs, literally “service”) (Lebanon, Syria), مِيكْرُوبَاص (mīkrūbāṣ, literally “minibus”) (Egypt), طَاكْسِي جَمَاعِيّ m (ṭāksī jamāʕiyy) (Maghreb)
• Azerbaijani: taksibus
• Belarusian: маршру́тнае таксі́ n (maršrútnaje taksí), маршру́тка f (maršrútka) (informal)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 泥鯭的 (nai⁴ maang¹ dik¹) (illegal)

  Hokkien: 集尼車 / 集尼车 (chi̍p-nî-chhia) (Philippine contexts)

  Mandarin: 合乘計程車 / 合乘计程车 (héchéngjìchéngchē), 合乘出租车 (héchéngchūzūchē)

• Czech: sdílené taxi n
• Dutch: deeltaxi (nl) m
• Finnish: reittitaksi
• French: taxi collectif (fr) m; wôrô-wôrô (fr) (Ivorian contexts)
• German: Sammeltaxi (de) n
• Hebrew: שירות / שֵׁרוּת (he) m (sheirút, literally “service”), מונית שירות / מוֹנִית שֵׁרוּת (he) m (monít sherút)
• Hungarian: iránytaxi (hu)
• Indonesian: angkutan kota (literally “city transport”), angkot (id), angkutan desa (literally “village transport”), angdes, angkudes, mikrolet (id), oplet (id), taksi bersama
• Japanese: 乗合タクシー (のりあいタクシー, noriai takushī), ジープニー (Philippine contexts)
• Korean: 승합 택시 (seunghap taeksi)
• Lingala: taksíbísí
• Malay: dua baris (literally “two rows”), teksi kongsi
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تاکْسیِ شِراکَتی (tâksi-ye šerâkati), تاکْسیِ اِشْتِراکی (tâksi-ye ešterâki), سَواری (fa) (savâri) (has various meanings, including "passenger car", "ride")

• Polish: taksówka zbiorowa f, bus (pl) m (timetables possible), busik (pl) m (timetables possible)
• Portuguese: táxi-lotação m
• Romanian: rutieră f (Moldova), microbuz (ro) n (minibus, Romania)
• Russian: маршру́тное такси́ (ru) n (maršrútnoje taksí), маршру́тка (ru) f (maršrútka) (informal)
• Spanish: taxi colectivo (es) m, colectivo (es) m
• Sundanese: angkutan kota, angkot
• Swahili: matatu (sw), daladala (sw)
• Tagalog: dyipni, dyip (esp. Philippine contexts)
• Thai: สองแถว (sɔ̌ɔng-tɛ̌o)
• Turkish: dolmuş (tr)
• Ukrainian: маршру́тне таксі́ (uk) n (maršrútne taksí), маршру́тка (uk) f (maršrútka) (informal)
• Yoruba: dáńfó

See also

• rideshare