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English
Etymology
Shortened from taximeter cab , taximeter ( “ automatic meter that records distance and fare ” ) from French taximètre , from German Taxameter (whence also English taxameter ), coined from Medieval Latin taxa ( “ tax, charge ” ) .[ 1] More at tax , task .
Pronunciation
Noun
taxi (plural taxis or taxies )
A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver .
1932 , Delos W. Lovelace , King Kong , published 1965 , page 12 :"Taxi ," he called. And when one pulled up to the curb with screeching brakes he ordered, "The nearest restaurant."
2007 August 24 , Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd , Season 2, Episode 1:
I thought I could make it work between us because you looked a bit like a man.TAXI !
( aviation ) The movement of an aircraft across an airport 's surface under its own power; a phase of aircraft operation involving this movement.
During taxi , the flaps and slats are extended and the second engine (if not already running) is started.
Seat belts must be kept fastened during taxi , takeoff, turbulence, and landing.
( South Africa ) A share taxi .
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Burmese: တက္ကစီ ( takka.ci )
→ Cantonese: 的士 ( dik1 si6-2 )
→ Mandarin: 的士 ( dīshì, díshì )
→ Cantonese: 德士 ( dak1 si6-2 )
→ Irish: tacsaí
→ Japanese: タクシー ( takushī )
→ Korean: 택시 ( taeksi )
→ Malay: teksi
→ Welsh: tacsi
→ Yiddish: טאַקסי ( taksi )
→ Yoruba: takisí ; tasín
Translations
vehicle
Afrikaans: huurmotor , taxi
Albanian: taksi (sq) f
Amharic: ታክሲ ( taksi )
Arabic: تَاكْسِي m ( taksī ) , سَيَّارَةْ أُجْرَة f ( sayyārat ʔujra )
Hijazi Arabic: تَكسي m ( taksi )
Armenian: տաքսի (hy) ( takʻsi )
Assamese: টেক্সী ( teksi )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܵܟ݂ܣܝܼ f ( ṭāḵsī ) , ܪܲܕܵܝܬܵܐ ܕܐܲܓ݂ܪܵܐ f ( raddāytā d-aḡrā )
Asturian: taxi (ast) m , tasi m
Azerbaijani: taksi (az)
Basque: taxi (eu)
Belarusian: таксі́ n ( taksí ) , таксо́ўка f ( taksóŭka )
Bengali: ট্যাক্সি (bn) ( ṭêkśi ) , ক্যাব ( kêb )
Bulgarian: такси́ (bg) f ( taksí )
Burmese: တက္ကစီ (my) ( takka.ci ) , တက်စီ ( takci )
Catalan: taxi (ca) m
Cherokee: ᏴᏫ ᎤᎾᏦᏙᏗ ( yvwi unatsododi )
Chichewa: takisi
Chinese:
Cantonese: 的士 (yue) ( dik1 si6-2 ) , 計程車 / 计程车 ( gai3 cing4 ce1 ) , 出租車 / 出租车 ( ceot1 zou1 ce1 ) , 老的 ( lou5 dik1 )
Dungan: такси ( taksi )
Eastern Min: 的士 ( dék→dĭk -sê̤ṳ )
Hakka: 計程車 / 计程车 ( kie-chhàng-chhâ, ki-chhàng-chhâ ) , 他庫西 / 他库西 ( thà-khu-sí )
Hokkien: 計程車 / 计程车 ( kè-têng-chhia )
Mandarin: 出租汽車 / 出租汽车 (zh) ( chūzū qìchē ) ( PRC ) , 出租車 / 出租车 (zh) ( chūzūchē ) ( PRC ) , 計程車 / 计程车 (zh) ( jìchéngchē ) ( Taiwan ) , 的士 (zh) ( dīshì ) ( loanword ) , 德士 (zh) ( déshì ) ( Singapore, Malaysia )
Wu: 差頭 / 差头 ( 1 tsha-deu)
Cornish: taksi m
Czech: taxík (cs) m , taxi (cs) n
Danish: taxa (da) c , taxi (da) c , vogn (da) c , hyrevogn c
Dhivehi: ޓެކްސީ (dv) ( ṭek̊sī )
Dutch: taxi (nl) m
Esperanto: taksio (eo) , kabo
Estonian: takso
Finnish: taksi (fi)
French: taxi (fr) m , taxi-auto (fr) m ( dated )
Galician: taxi (gl) m
Georgian: ტაქსი (ka) ( ṭaksi )
German: Taxi (de) n , Taxe (de) f
Greek: ταξί (el) n ( taxí )
Greenlandic: taxa
Gujarati: ટેક્સી m ( ṭeksī ) , ભાડૂતી ગાડી ( bhāḍūtī gāḍī )
Hausa: tā̀sî f
Hebrew: מוֹנִית (he) f ( monít )
Hindi: टैक्सी (hi) f ( ṭaiksī ) , टेक्सी f ( ṭeksī )
Hungarian: taxi (hu)
Icelandic: leigubíll (is) m , taxi (is) m , leigubifreið (is) f
Ido: taxio (io) , fiakro (io)
Indonesian: taksi (id)
Irish: tacsaí m
Italian: taxi (it) m , tassì (it) m , taxì m
Japanese: タクシー (ja) ( takushī ) , 辻自動車 (ja) ( つじじどうしゃ, tsujijidōsha )
Kannada: ಟ್ಯಾಕ್ಸಿ ( ṭyāksi )
Kazakh: такси ( taksi ) , тәксі ( täksı )
Khmer: តាក់ស៊ី ( taksii )
Korean: 택시 (ko) ( taeksi ) , 딱씨 (ko) ( ttakssi ) ( Koryo-mar )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: texsî (ku) , taksî (ku)
Kyrgyz: такси (ky) ( taksi )
Lao: ຕັກຊີ (lo) ( tak sī ) , ລົດຮັບຈ້າງ ( lot hap chāng ) , ລົດຕັກຊີ ( lot tak sī ) , ລົດເຊົ່າ ( lot sao )
Latin: ( New ) taxiraeda f
Latvian: taksis m
Lithuanian: taksi m
Lü: ᦷᦟᧆᦋᧁᧈ ( lodtsaw¹ )
Luxembourgish: Taxi
Macedonian: такси n ( taksi )
Malay: teksi (ms)
Malayalam: ടാക്സി (ml) ( ṭāksi )
Manx: taksee m
Maori: takihī
Marathi: टॅक्सी (mr) f ( ṭĕksī )
Marshallese: tāākji
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: такси (mn) ( taksi )
Mongolian: ᠲ᠋ᠠᠻᠰᠢ ( taksi )
Nepali: ट्याक्सी ( ṭyāksī )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: taxi (no) m , drosje (no) m or f
Nynorsk: drosje (no) m or f , taxi (no) m , taksi m
Odia: ଟ୍ୟାକ୍ସି ( ṭyāksi )
Oromo: taaksii
Pashto: ټکسي (ps) m ( ṭaksi )
Persian:
Iranian Persian: تاکْسی (fa) ( tâksi )
Plautdietsch: Taksie m
Polish: taxi (pl) m , taksówka (pl) f
Portuguese: táxi (pt) m
Punjabi: ਟੈਕਸੀ f ( ṭaiksī )
Romanian: taximetru (ro) , taxi (ro) n
Russian: такси́ (ru) n ( taksí ) , таксомото́р (ru) m ( taksomotór ) ( dated )
Scottish Gaelic: tagsaidh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: та̀кси m
Roman: tàksi (sh) m
Sicilian: tassì (scn) m
Sinhalese: ටැක්සිය ( ṭæksiya )
Slovak: taxi n
Slovene: taksi m
Spanish: taxi (es) m , taxímetro (es) m ( Uruguay ) , libre (es) m ( Venezuela, colloquial )
Swahili: teksi (sw)
Swedish: taxi (sv) c
Tagalog: taxi (tl)
Tajik: такси (tg) ( taks-i )
Tamil: டாக்ஸி ( ṭāksi )
Telugu: టాక్సీ ( ṭāksī )
Thai: แท็กซี่ (th) ( tɛ́k-sîi ) , รถแท็กซี่ ( rót tɛ́k-sîi )
Tibetan: གླ་རྒྱུག་མོ་ཊ ( gla rgyug mo ṭa ) , ཊེག་སི ( ṭeg si )
Tigrinya: ታክሲ ( taksi )
Turkish: taksi (tr)
Turkmen: taksi
Ukrainian: таксі́ n ( taksí ) , таксі́вка f ( taksívka ) ( colloquial )
Urdu: ٹَیکْسِی (ur) f ( ṭaiksī )
Uyghur: تاكسى ( taksi )
Uzbek: taksi (uz)
Vietnamese: xe tắc xi (vi) , tắc xi (vi)
Volapük: loatatood , taxid
Walloon: taxi m
Welsh: tacsi m
White Hmong: tav xij
Yiddish: טאַקסי m ( taksi )
Yoruba: takisí , tasín
Zhuang: cuzcuhceh , ciokco
See also
Verb
taxi (third-person singular simple present taxies or taxis , present participle taxiing or taxying , simple past and past participle taxied )
To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power.
taxi down the runway
To travel by taxicab.
1932 , Delos W. Lovelace , King Kong , published 1965 , page 1:[H]e had taxied to the waterfront bent upon a business in which nostalgia had no part[.]
Translations
References
Asturian
Noun
taxi m (plural taxis )
taxi ( vehicle )
Basque
Noun
taxi ?
taxi
Declension
Declension of taxi (inanimate, ending in vowel)
Derived terms
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Clipping of taxímetre .
Noun
taxi m (plural taxis )
taxi
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
taxi f (plural taxis )
( biology ) taxis
Further reading
Czech
Noun
taxi n (indeclinable )
taxi
Synonym: taxík
Further reading
“taxi ”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
“taxi ”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Noun
taxi c (definite singular taxien , indefinite plural taxier , definite plural taxierne )
taxi
Synonyms
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French taxi , from German Taxameter .
Pronunciation
Noun
taxi m (plural taxi's , diminutive taxietje n )
a taxi
Derived terms
Descendants
French
Etymology
Shortening of taximètre .
Pronunciation
Noun
taxi m (plural taxis )
taxi
( by extension ) taxi driver
( by extension ) helicopter or plane used for transport
( military ) act of transporting troops
Descendants
Further reading
Anagrams
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Taxi .[ 1]
Pronunciation
Noun
taxi (plural taxik )
taxi ( a vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver )
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
taxi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh . A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz. ). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
taxi m
taxi
Synonym: tassì
References
Latin
Noun
taxī
inflection of taxus :
nominative / vocative plural
genitive singular
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English taxi .
Noun
taxi m (plural taxis )
( Jersey ) taxi
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English taxi .
Noun
taxi m (definite singular taxien , indefinite plural taxier , definite plural taxiene )
a taxi (only cars )
Synonyms
drosje (also horse-drawn vehicles, etc. )
Derived terms
References
“taxi” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English taxi .
Noun
taxi m (definite singular taxien , indefinite plural taxiar , definite plural taxiane )
a taxi (cars only )
Synonyms
drosje (also horse-drawn vehicles, etc. )
Derived terms
References
“taxi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French taxi .[ 1] [ 2] First attested in the 20th century.[ 3]
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈtak.si/
Rhymes: -aksi
Syllabification: ta‧xi
Noun
taxi n (indeclinable )
( colloquial ) taxi ( vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver )
Synonym: taksówka
Derived terms
References
^ Mirosław Bańko , Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021 ) “taxi ”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych , →ISBN
^ Stanisław Dubisz , editor (2003 ), “taxi ”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language ] (in Polish), volumes 1-4 , Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
^ Witold Doroszewski , editor (1958–1969 ), “taxi ”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
Further reading
taxi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
taxi in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French taxi .
Pronunciation
Noun
taxi n (plural taxiuri )
taxi
Synonym: ( rare ) taximetru
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Clipping of taxímetro .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈtaɡsi/
Rhymes: -aɡsi
Syllabification: ta‧xi
Noun
taxi m (plural taxis )
taxi
Synonyms: remise ( Argentina ) , concho ( Dominican Republic )
Derived terms
Further reading
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
taxi c
taxi
Declension
Walloon
Pronunciation
Noun
taxi m
( nonstandard ) taxi