# port
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɔːt/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation); “a port”:(file)
* (General American) IPA: /pɔɹt/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /po(ː)ɹt/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /poət/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

### Etymology 1

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf. Doublet of fjard, fjord, firth, ford, and Portus.

#### Noun

port (countable and uncountable, plural ports)
* A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
    Synonyms: harbour, haven
** c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:peering in maps for ports and piers and roads
** 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:From the ground, Colombo's port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
* A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
    Synonyms: harbour city, harbour town, port city
** 2023 July 1, Mark Townsend, “‘We are seen as less human’: inside Marseille’s districts abandoned by the police”, in The Observer‎, →ISSN:More broadly, the port is seen as a litmus test for France; if its most multicultural city can foster vast Muslim enclaves viewed with broad suspicion or hostility by the police, then what hope is there elsewhere?
* (nautical, aviation, uncountable) The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
    Synonyms: backboard, larboard, leeboard, left
    Antonym: starboard
* (rowing) A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.
    Each eight has four ports and four starboards.

##### Hyponyms

* cold-water port
* warm-water port

##### Derived terms
###### Nouns

* airport
* any port in a storm
* carport
* container port
* dry port
* establishment of the port
* first port of call
* free port
* girl in every port
* half-port
* heliport
* helm-port
* helm port
* home port
* megaport
* outport
* port authority
* port knocking
* portlet
* port of call
* port of entry
* port of registry
* raft port
* river port
* seaport
* secondary port
* spaceport
* standard port
* static port
* treaty port

###### Proper nouns

* Burry Port
* Devonport
* Dudley Port
* East Cove Port
* Ellesmere Port
* Freeport
* Gulfport
* Lockport
* Logansport
* Masindi Port
* Newport
* North Port
* Old Port
* Pembrey and Burry Port Town
* Port Adelaide
* Port Allen
* Port Angeles
* Port Antonio
* Port Area
* Port Arthur
* Port Augusta
* Port Bell
* Port Blandford
* Port Canaveral
* Port Carlisle
* Port Chalmers
* Port Chicago
* Port Clarence
* Port Clinton
* Port Dickson
* Port Dundas
* Port Eglinton
* Port Elizabeth
* Port Ellen
* Port Erin
* Port Eynon
* Port Gibson
* Port Glasgow
* Portgordon, Port Gordon
* Port Hedland
* Port Hills
* Port Hope
* Port Huron
* Port Isaac
* Port Kembla
* Port Klang
* Port Lavaca
* Port Lincoln
* Port Lyautey
* Port Macquarie
* Port Melbourne
* Port Moody
* Port Nolloth
* Port of Menteith
* Port of Spain
* Port Orchard
* Portpatrick
* Port Pirie
* Port Providence
* Port Royal
* Port Salford
* Port Seton
* Port Soderick
* Port Stephens
* Port St. Joe
* Port St Mary
* Port Sudan
* Port Sunlight
* Port Swettenham
* Port Talbot
* Port Townsend
* Port Victoria
* Port Washington
* Port Weld
* Rock Port
* Searsport
* Tayport
* Teesport
* Westport

##### Descendants

* → Hindi: पोर्ट (porṭ)
* → Russian: порт (port)
* → Thai: พอร์ต (pɔ̂ɔt)

##### Translations
#### Adjective

port (not comparable)
* (nautical) Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel when facing the bow.
    on the port side

##### Synonyms

* larboard, backboard, left

##### Antonyms

* starboard

##### Translations
#### Verb

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)
* (nautical, transitive, chiefly imperative) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.
    Port your helm!

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Inherited from the Old English port, from the Latin porta (“passage, gate”), reinforced by the Old French porte. Doublet of porta.

#### Noun

port (plural ports)
* (now Scotland, historical) An entryway or gate.
** 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, book X:And whan he cam to the porte of the pavelon, Sir Palomydes seyde an hyghe, ‘Where art thou, Sir Trystram de Lyones?’
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:Long were it to describe the goodly frame, / And stately port of Castle Joyeous […] .
** 1623, Shakespeare, Coriolanus, V.vi:Him I accuse / The city ports by this hath enter'd
** 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, book IV:And from their ivory port the Cherubim, / Forth issuing at the accustomed hour
* An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
** c. 1615, Sir W. Raleigh, A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass […] :[…] her ports being within sixteen inches of the water […]
* (medicine) A small medical appliance installed beneath the skin, connected to a vein by a catheter, and used to inject drugs or to draw blood samples.
* (curling, bowls) A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.
* An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made.
* (computing):
** A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
** A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.
** (also networking) A number that delimits a connection for specific processes or parts of a network service.

##### Hyponyms

* accelerated graphics port
* chase port
* entry port
* game port
* graphics port
* parallel port
* port triggering
* sally port
* serial port
* two-port network
* USB port

##### Derived terms

* air port
* backport
* porthole
* port forwarding
* unport

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.

#### Verb

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)
* To carry, bear, bring, or transport. See porter.
** 1567 February 8 (Gregorian calendar), John Pits, “The .100. Psalme”, in A Poore Mannes Beneuolence to the Afflicted Church, London: […] Alexander Lacy, signature [B.iv.], recto:Dauid in this Pſalme doth exhoꝛt, to pꝛayſe the Loꝛde alwayes: Foꝛ that he did vs make and poꝛt, and guydes vs all our dayes.
** a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Shrop-shire”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 1:What one may call River or Freſh-water-Coale, digged out in this Country, at ſuch a diſtance from Severne, that they are eaſily ported by Boat into other Shires.
** 2001, Steven Johnson, “The Myth of the Ant Queen”, in Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, part 1, page 32:A handful of ants meander across each plank, some porting crumblike objects on their back, others apparently just out for a stroll.
* (military) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
    Port arms!
** 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book IV:[…] the angelic squadron...began to hem him round with ported spears.
* (computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform.
** 2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 259:By its tenth week of release, CPH was the best-selling PC game in America. PlayStation and Xbox ports were already in the works, and there was talk of porting it to Nintendo.
* (telephony, transitive) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one telephone service provider to another.
** 2011, Stephen P. Olejniczak, Telecom For Dummies, page 131:If you submit a request to port a number, and you list the name on the account as Bob Smith, but your local carrier has the number listed under your wife's name Mary Mahoney, the porting request is rejected.
* (US, government and law) To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.

##### Derived terms

* portage
* port arms
* porter
* portly
* port-o-john
* port-o-potty

##### Translations
#### Noun

port (plural ports)
* Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making.
* (archaic) The manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage. See also portance.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:Those same with stately grace, and princely port / She taught to tread, when she her selfe would grace […]
** a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:the necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world
** 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:For the port, the voice, the smell, the hairdress, were seldom the same, from one day to the next, […]
* (military) The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.
* (computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.
    Gamers can't wait until a port of the title is released on the new system.
    The latest port of the database software is the worst since we made the changeover.
* (computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.

##### Derived terms

* at the high port

##### Translations
### Etymology 4

Named from Portuguese Porto, a city in Portugal where the wines were originally shipped from.

#### Noun

port (countable and uncountable, plural ports)
* A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.

##### Synonyms

* Porto, porto, port wine

##### Coordinate terms

* Madeira, madeira
* Marsala, marsala
* sherry

##### Derived terms

* claret would be port if it could
* port flip
* port tong
* port-wine mark
* port-wine stain
* port-winey
* port-winy
* ruby port
* vintage port

##### Translations
### Etymology 5

Clipping of portmanteau.

#### Noun

port (plural ports)
* (Queensland) A suitcase or schoolbag.
** 1964, George Johnston, My Brother Jack:No, she just paid up proper-like t' the end of the week, an' orf she went with 'er port, down t' the station, I suppose.
** 2001, Sally de Dear, The House on Pig Island‎, page 8:As they left the classroom, Jennifer pointed at the shelves lining the veranda. “Put your port in there.” “What?” asked Penny. “Your port - your school bag, silly. It goes in there.”
** 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 53:How do you think the cane toads got into this pristine environment? Joseph Midnight brought them in his port from Townsville, smuggled them in, not that anyone was there to stop him.

##### Derived terms

* school port

### Etymology 6

Clipping of portfolio.

#### Noun

port (plural ports)
* (informal) The portfolio of a model or artist.
** 2011, Debbie Rose Myers, The Graphic Designer's Guide to Portfolio Design, page 53:This is a logical way to order your work, but use it only if you're confident the first piece in your port is a strong one. Also note that this style of arrangement works best if all the pieces are in the same category.

### See also

* port de bras

### Anagrams

* -trop-, Prot., prot-, torp, trop, trop-, trop.

## Albanian
### Noun

port m (plural porte, definite porti, definite plural portet)
* port, harbor

#### Declension
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɔrt]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpɔɾt]
* Rhymes: -ɔɾt

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan port, from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to go forth, to cross”).

#### Noun

port m (plural ports)
* port, harbour

##### Derived terms

* aeroport

##### Related terms

* portuari

### Etymology 2

From portar.

#### Noun

port m (plural ports)
* (rare or archaic) the action of carrying something from one place to another
* (rare) the volume a boat or another vehicle can carry

### References

* “port” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “port” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Chinese
### Etymology

Clipping of English report.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): pot$^1$ / pok$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: pot$^1$ / pok$^1$
*** Yale: pōt / pōk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pot$^7$ / pok$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: pod$^1$ / pog$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰɔːt̚⁵/, /pʰɔːk̚⁵/

### Verb

port
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive, informal) to file a complaint against; to report
** 1992, Fight Back to School II:
       jau$^5$, nei$^5$ dim$^2$ fong$^3$ loeng$^5$ zek$^3$ din$^1$ gau$^2$ lei$^4$ daa$^2$ ngo$^5$ aa$^3$? haa$^2$? nei$^5$ gong$^2$ aa$^3$! ngo$^5$ jiu$^3$ pok$^1$ nei$^5$, pok$^1$ nei$^5$, ngo$^5$ jiu$^3$ pok$^1$ maai$^4$ nei$^5$ go$^3$ sei$^2$ fei$^4$ po$^4$! [Jyutping]
       Yes! Why are you letting these two mad dogs to beat me up? Why, tell me! I'm reporting you, you, and you big fat woman!
** 2019, “聲音監獄 [Sonic Jail]”, in 理想國 [The Republic], spoken by 單立奇 [Sim Lap Ki] (黃秋生 [Anthony Wong]):
       ngo$^5$ m$^4$ lan$^2$ sik$^6$ laa$^3$ ngo$^5$ aa$^3$! jiu$^2$, ngo$^5$ ji$^4$ gaa$^1$ pot$^1$ nei$^5$ aa$^3$! ngo$^5$ ji$^4$ gaa$^1$ pot$^1$ nei$^5$ aa$^3$ ngo$^5$! [Jyutping]
       I'm not fucking gonna eat this shit! Damn, I'm gonna report you now! I'm gonna report you now!

#### Synonyms

* 出首 (chūshǒu) (literary)
* 告密 (gàomì)
* 告發 / 告发 (gàofā)
* 報水 / 报水 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
* 控 (literary, or in compounds)
* 檢舉 / 检举 (jiǎnjǔ)
* 舉報 / 举报 (jǔbào)

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse portr m, port n, borrowed via Old English port m (“gate”) from Latin porta. Compare also German Pforte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpoːˀrt/, [ˈpʰoɐ̯ˀd̥]

### Noun

port c (singular definite porten, plural indefinite porte)
* gate
* gateway

#### Declension
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔrt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: port
* Rhymes: -ɔrt

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French port.

#### Noun

port m or n (plural porten)
* postage

##### Alternative forms

* porto

##### Derived terms

* briefport

##### Descendants

* → Papiamentu: pòrt, port

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English port, from port wine. Named for Portuguese Porto, a city in Portugal where the wines were originally shipped from.

#### Noun

port m (uncountable, diminutive portje n)
* (a glass of) port, port wine, Porto

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

port
* inflection of porren:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** (archaic) plural imperative

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: porc, porcs, ports

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French port, borrowed from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to go forth, to cross”).

#### Noun

port m (plural ports)
* port, harbour
* port, harbour city
* refuge
* transport
* postage
* stature, way of carrying oneself

##### Derived terms

* arriver à bon port
* fille du port
* frais de port
* port de plaisance
* port d’attache

##### Descendants

* → Romanian: port

### Etymology 2

Deverbal of porter. Ultimately from the same source as etymology 1 above.

#### Noun

port m (plural ports)
* wearing (act of wearing something)

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* trop

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈport]
* Hyphenation: port
* Rhymes: -ort

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

port (plural portok)
* (computing) port

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

por +‎ -t

#### Noun

port
* accusative singular of por

## Icelandic
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin porta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʰɔr̥t/
* Rhymes: -ɔr̥t

### Noun

port n (genitive singular ports, nominative plural port)
* gate, gateway, entryway
    Synonym: hlið

#### Declension
## Irish
### Etymology 1

From Old Irish port (“tune, melody”).

#### Noun

port m (genitive singular poirt, nominative plural poirt)
* (music) tune
    Is buaine port ná glór na n-éan; is buaine focal ná toice an tsaoil. (proverb)A tune is more lasting than the song of birds; a word is more lasting than the wealth of the world.
* jig (dance)

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
port
poirt
vocative
a phoirt
a phorta
genitive
poirt
port
dative
port
poirt
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an port
na poirt
genitive
an phoirt
na bport
dative
leis an bport don phort
leis na poirt :

##### Derived terms

* portaireacht

##### Descendants

* →⇒ Yola: portlaghrin

### Etymology 2

From Old Irish port (“bank, shore”), borrowed from Latin portus (“harbour”).

#### Noun

port m (genitive singular poirt, nominative plural poirt)
* landing-place
* harbor, port
* bank (of river, etc.)
* mound, embankment
* refuge, haven, resort
* stopping-place
* place, locality
* fortified place, stronghold
* occupied place, seat, centre

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
port
poirt
vocative
a phoirt
a phorta
genitive
poirt
port
dative
port
poirt
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an port
na poirt
genitive
an phoirt
na bport
dative
leis an bport don phort
leis na poirt :

##### Derived terms

* aerfort
* Port Láirge
* Port Laoise
* portach
* taobhfort

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “port”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 port ‘tune’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Latin portus.

### Noun

port m (plural porc)
* port, harbour

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian portu, from Latin portus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔrt/

### Noun

port m (plural portijiet)
* harbour, port
    Synonym: (archaic) marsa

## Middle English
### Noun

port (plural ports)
* behaviour, bearing
** late 14th c., Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in Canterbury Tales, line 69:And of his port as meeke as is a mayde.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”).

### Noun

port m (plural ports)
* (Jersey) harbour, port
    Synonyms: caûchie, hâvre

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Middle Norwegian portr m, from late Old Norse portr m, port n, ultimately from Latin porta f.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puʈ/
* Rhymes: -uʈ

### Noun

port m (definite singular porten, indefinite plural porter, definite plural portene)
* a gate
* (computing) port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
* (computing) port (female connector of an electronic device)

#### Derived terms

* inngangsport

### References

* “port” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Middle Norwegian portr m, from late Old Norse port n, ultimately from Latin porta f.

### Noun

port m (definite singular porten, indefinite plural portar, definite plural portane)
* a gate
* (computing) port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
* (computing) port (female connector of an electronic device)

#### Derived terms

* inngangsport

### References

* “port” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /port/, [porˠt]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin portus (“harbour, port, haven, warehouse”).

#### Noun

port m
* a port, a haven (a harbor or harbor-town)
* a town, particularly one with special trading privileges
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
    ...he wolde gan ut of ðam porte......he desired to go out of the town...
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
    nu ic wæs of þam rihtan wege mines ingeþances ac betere hit bið þæt ic eft fare ut of þysum porte ðylæs þe ic to swiðe dwelige and for-þy þonne ne cume to minum geferum þe me ær hyder sendon; gewislice ic her ongyten hæbbe þæt me hæfð gelæht fæste mines modes oferstige þæt ic nat na forgeare hu ic hit þus macige.Now I was in the right way in my inward thought, but better will it be that I go out of this town again lest I be too greatly bewildered, and so may not come to my comrades who erewhile sent me here; certainly I have here perceived that the over anxiety of my mind hath here seized me, so that I know not very certainly why I thus act.

##### Declension

Strong a-stem:

##### Derived terms

* portcwēn f
* Portesmūþa m
* portgeat n
* portġerēfa m
* portgeriht n
* portherepaþ m
* portmann m
* portstrǣt f
* portwara m
* portweall m
* portweg m
* portwer m

##### Descendants

* Middle English: port
** English: port
** Scots: port

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin porta (“gate, entrance, passage, door”).

#### Noun

port m
* portal (a door or gate; an entrance)

##### Declension

Strong a-stem:

##### Descendants

* Middle English: port
** English: port
** Scots: port

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “port”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Old French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔɾt/
* Rhymes: -ɔrt

### Noun

port oblique singular, m (oblique plural porz or portz, nominative singular porz or portz, nominative plural port)
* port (for watercraft)
** c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:As porz d'Espaigne en est passet RollantRoland went to the ports of Spain

#### Descendants

* French: port
** → Romanian: port
* Norman: port
* → Middle High German: port
** German: Port
*** → Russian: порт (port)

## Old Irish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [por͈t]

### Noun

port m (genitive puirt, nominative plural puirt)
* place
* shore

#### Inflection

Masculine o-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | port | port$^L$ | puirt$^L$ |
| Vocative | puirt | port$^L$ | portu$^H$ |
| Accusative | port$^N$ | port$^L$ | portu$^H$ |
| Genitive | puirt$^L$ | port | port$^N$ |
| Dative | purt$^L$ | portaib | portaib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

#### Descendants

* Irish: port
* Manx: purt
* Scottish Gaelic: port

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin portus. First attested in 1471.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /pɔrt/
* IPA: (15th CE) /pɔrt/

### Noun

port m animacy unattested
* port (a place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers)
** 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 135:Applicuimus przistalischmy kv portu (inde navigantes... applicuimus Samum Act 20, 15)[Applicuimus przystalismy ku portu (inde navigantes... applicuimus Samum Act 20, 15)]

#### Descendants

* Polish: port
** → Kashubian: pòrt

### References

* Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “port”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “port”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish port. Sense 4 and sense 5 are semantic loans from English port. Doublet of fiord (“fjord”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔrt/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈpɔrt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrt
* Syllabification: port

### Noun

port m inan (diminutive porcik, related adjective portowy)
* port (a place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers)
* port (a town or city containing such a place, a port city)
* harbor, haven (place of safety)
    Synonyms: azyl, przystań, schronienie
* (computing) port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
* (computing, networking) port (number that delimits a connection for specific processes or parts of a network service)
* (Middle Polish) goal, aim (intent of one's actions)
    Synonym: cel
* (Middle Polish) harbor, haven (one who gives a place of safety)
* (Middle Polish) gate (place where one enters)
    Synonym: wrote
* (Middle Polish) warehouse
    Synonyms: magazyn, skład
* (Middle Polish) a type of tax
* (Middle Polish) papal estate; Further details are uncertain.
** 1560, M. Krowicki, Obrona nauki‎, page 75:izali Papieſz [...]/ niewymamił [...]/ na Ceſárzach/ [...]/ rozmáite Páńſtwá/ Kroleſthwá/ Kxięſtwá/ Powiáty/ Miáſtá/ Porty/ Zamki/ Wśi/ Cżyńſze/ Mytá/ Folwárki/ y inſze rozmáite płáty.[izali Papież [...]/ niewymamił [...]/ na Cesarzach/ [...]/ rozmaite Państwa/ Krolestwa/ Księstwa/ Powiaty/ Miastá/ Porty/ Zamki/ Wsi/ Czynsze/ Myta/ Folwarki/ y insze rozmaite płaty.]

#### Related terms

* aeroport
* awanport
* port lotniczy
* suchy port

#### Descendants

* → Kashubian: pòrt

### Further reading

* port in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* port in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “port”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* “PORT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 01.10.2019
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “port”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “port”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “port”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 719

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French port, Italian porto, Latin portus.

#### Noun

port n (plural porturi)
* port (town with port)

##### Related terms

* portuar

##### See also

* iman

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

port
* first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of purta

## Scottish Gaelic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʰɔrˠʃt̪/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish port (“tune, melody”).

#### Noun

port m (genitive singular puirt, plural puirt or portan)
* tune

##### Synonyms

* fonn
* mànran

##### Derived terms

* puirt à beul

### Etymology 2

From Old Irish port (“bank, shore (of river or sea); landing-place, haven; bank, mound, entrenchment; place, spot, locality; stead, abode; stronghold, fortress”), ultimately from Latin portus (“harbour, port; haven, refuge, asylum, retreat”).

#### Noun

port m (genitive singular puirt, plural puirt or portan)
* port, harbour

##### Synonyms

* acarsaid
* cala

##### Derived terms

* longphort
* port-adhair

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

From late Old Norse port n, portr m, from Latin porta f. Computing sense a semantic loan from English.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpʊʈ/
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

port c
* a larger entrance
** a (robust) door leading into a larger building, for example an apartment building
    Jag är vid porten, kan du öppna?I'm at the door, can you buzz me in?
** a doorway
** a gate
** a portal
* (computing) a port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)

##### Usage notes

A non-solid gate, like a grid or mesh gate, is a grind.

##### Derived terms

* Höga porten
* kyrkport
* porta
* portal
* Porten
* portförbjuda
* portförbud
* portföre
* portgång
* portier
* portik
* portingång
* portklapp
* portkod
* portlider
* portlås
* portnyckel
* porttelefon
* portuppgång
* portvakt
* portvalv
* portåder
* portöppning
* sista lorten stänger porten
* slottsport
* ytterport

##### See also

* grind (“(non-solid) gate”)

### Etymology 2

Clipping of portvin.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpoːʈ/

#### Noun

port ?
* Clipping of portvin (“port wine”).
    Synonym: porto (obsolete)

### References

* port in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* port in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* port in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* torp

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English port.

### Noun

port (definite accusative portu, plural portlar)
* (computer hardware, networking) port