• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/pɔːt/

• Audio(Received Pronunciation);“a port”:

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• (General American)IPA^(key):/pɔɹt/

• Audio(General American):

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• (rhotic,without thehorse–hoarse merger)IPA^(key):/po(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic,without thehorse–hoarse merger)IPA^(key):/poət/

• Audio(General Australian):

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• Rhymes:-ɔː(ɹ)t

FromOld Englishport, borrowed fromLatinportus(“port, harbour”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*pértus(“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet offord). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology ofstarboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf.Doublet offjard,fjord,firth,ford, andPortus.

port (countable anduncountable,pluralports)

2. A place on thecoast at which ships canshelter, ordock to load and unloadcargo orpassengers.

   Synonyms:harbour,haven

   • c.1596–1598 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene i]:

     peering in maps forports and piers and roads

   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8839, page52:

     From the ground, Colombo'sport 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 theport after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

4. A town or city containing such a place, aport city.

   Synonyms:harbourcity,harbourtown,port city

   • 2023 July 1, Mark Townsend, “‘We are seen as less human’: inside Marseille’s districts abandoned by the police”, inThe Observer‎^[1],→ISSN:

     More broadly, theport 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?

5. (nautical,aviation,uncountable) The left-hand side of avessel, 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

6. (rowing) Asweeprower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.

   Each eight has fourports and four starboards.

• cold-water port
• warm-water port

Nouns

Proper nouns

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

port (notcomparable)

2. (nautical) Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel when facing thebow.

   on theport side

• larboard,backboard,left

• starboard

port (third-person singular simple presentports,present participleporting,simple past and past participleported)

1. (nautical,transitive, chieflyimperative) To turn or put to theleft orlarboard side of aship; said of thehelm.

   Port your helm!

Inherited from theOld Englishport, from theLatinporta(“passage, gate”), reinforced by theOld Frenchporte.Doublet ofporta.

port (pluralports)

1. (nowScotland,historical) Anentryway orgate.
   • 1485,Thomas Malory,Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     And whan he cam to theporte 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 statelyport of Castle Joyeous[…].

   • 1623,Shakespeare,Coriolanus, V.vi:

     Him I accuse / The cityports by this hath enter'd

   • 1667,Milton,Paradise Lost, book IV:

     And from their ivoryport the Cherubim, / Forth issuing at the accustomed hour

2. An opening or doorway in the side of aship, especially for boarding or loading; anembrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; aporthole.
   • c.1615,Sir W. Raleigh,A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass[…]:

     […] herports being within sixteen inches of the water[…]

3. (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.
4. (curling,bowls) A space between twostones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.
5. Anopening where aconnection (such as a pipe) is made.
6. (computing):
   1. A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
   2. A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.
   3. (alsonetworking) A number that delimits a connection for specific processes or parts of a network service.

• air port
• backport
• porthole
• port forwarding
• unport

FromOld Frenchporter, fromLatinportāre(“carry”). Akin totransport,portable.

port (third-person singular simple presentports,present participleporting,simple past and past participleported)

2. To carry, bear, bring, ortransport. Seeporter.
   • 1567 February 8 (Gregorian calendar), John Pits, “The .100. Psalme”, inA 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 andpoꝛt, and guydes vs all our dayes.

   • a.1662 (date written),Thomas Fuller, “Shrop-shire”, inThe History of the Worthies of England, London:[…] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published1662,→OCLC,page 1:

     What one may callRiver orFreſh-water-Coale, digged out in this Country, at ſuch a diſtance fromSeverne, that they are eaſilyported by Boat into other Shires.

   • 2001,Steven Johnson, “The Myth of the Ant Queen”, inEmergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, New York, N.Y.:Scribner,→ISBN, part 1,page32:

     A handful of ants meander across each plank, someporting crumblike objects on their back, others apparently just out for a stroll.

3. (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 withported spears.

4. (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), page259:

     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 ofporting it to Nintendo.

5. (telephony,transitive) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one telephone service provider to another.
   • 2011, Stephen P. Olejniczak,Telecom For Dummies, page131:

     If you submit a request toport 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.

6. (US,government andlaw) To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.

port (pluralports)

1. Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame forwicks in candle-making.
2. (archaic) The manner in which a person carries himself;bearing;deportment;carriage. See alsoportance.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser,The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     Those same with stately grace, and princelyport / She taught to tread, when she her selfe would grace[…]

   • a.1717 (date written),Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, inFive Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume(please specify |volume=VII to XI), London:[…] Charles Bathurst, […], published1744,→OCLC:

     the necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitableport in the world

   • 1953,Samuel Beckett,Watt,[Paris]:Olympia Press,→OCLC:

     For theport, the voice, the smell, the hairdress, were seldom the same, from one day to the next,[…]

3. (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.
4. (computing) Aprogram that has beenadapted,modified, orrecoded so that it works on a differentplatform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.

   Gamers can't wait until aport of the title is released on the new system.

   The latestport of the database software is the worst since we made the changeover.

5. (computing, BSD) A set of files used tobuild andinstall abinary executablefile from thesource code of anapplication.

• at the high port

Named fromPortuguesePorto, a city inPortugal where the wines were originally shipped from.

port (countable anduncountable,pluralports)

1. A type of very sweetfortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made inPortugal.

• Porto,porto,port wine

• Madeira,madeira
• Marsala,marsala
• sherry

Clipping ofportmanteau.

port (pluralports)

1. (Queensland) Asuitcase orschoolbag.
   • 1964, George Johnston,My Brother Jack:

     No, she just paid up proper-like t' the end of the week, an' orf she went with 'erport, down t' the station, I suppose.

   • 2001, Sally de Dear,The House on Pig Island‎^[2], page 8:

     As they left the classroom, Jennifer pointed at the shelves lining the veranda. “Put yourport in there.”
     “What?” asked Penny.
     “Yourport - your school bag, silly. It goes in there.”

   • 2006,Alexis Wright,Carpentaria, Giramondo, published2012, page53:

     How do you think the cane toads got into this pristine environment? Joseph Midnight brought them in hisport from Townsville, smuggled them in, not that anyone was there to stop him.

Clipping ofportfolio.

port (pluralports)

1. (informal) Theportfolio of amodel orartist.
   • 2011, Debbie Rose Myers,The Graphic Designer's Guide to Portfolio Design, page53:

     This is a logical way to order your work, but use it only if you're confident the first piece in yourport is a strong one. Also note that this style of arrangement works best if all the pieces are in the same category.

• port de bras

• -trop-,Prot.,prot-,torp,trop,trop-,trop.

port m (pluralporte,definiteporti,definite pluralportet)

1. port,harbor

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[ˈpɔrt]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈpɔɾt]
• Rhymes:-ɔɾt

Inherited fromOld Catalanport, fromLatinportus, fromProto-Italic*portus, fromProto-Indo-European*pértus(“crossing”), from*per-(“to go forth, to cross”).

port m (pluralports)

1. port,harbour

• aeroport

• portuari

Fromportar.

port m (pluralports)

1. (rare orarchaic) theaction of carrying something from one place to another
2. (rare) the volume a boat or another vehicle can carry

• “port”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “port” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Clipping ofEnglishreport.

port

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese,transitive,informal) tofile acomplaint against; toreport
   • 1992,Fight Back to School II:

     有，你點放兩隻癲狗嚟打我呀？吓？你講呀！我要port你、port你，我要port埋你個死肥婆！[Cantonese,trad.]
     有，你点放两只癫狗嚟打我呀？吓？你讲呀！我要port你、port你，我要port埋你个死肥婆！[Cantonese,simp.]

     jau⁵, nei⁵ dim² fong³ loeng⁵ zek³ din¹ gau² lei⁴ daa² ngo⁵ aa³? haa²? nei⁵ gong² aa³! ngo⁵ jiu³pok¹ nei⁵,pok¹ nei⁵, ngo⁵ jiu³pok¹ maai⁴ nei⁵ go³ sei² fei⁴ po⁴![Jyutping]

     Yes! Why are you letting these two mad dogs to beat me up? Why, tell me! I'mreporting 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]):

     我唔撚食喇我呀！妖，我而家port你呀！我而家port你呀我！[Cantonese,trad. andsimp.]

     ngo⁵ m⁴ lan² sik⁶ laa³ ngo⁵ aa³! jiu², ngo⁵ ji⁴ gaa¹pot¹ nei⁵ aa³! ngo⁵ ji⁴ gaa¹pot¹ nei⁵ aa³ ngo⁵![Jyutping]

     I'm not fucking gonna eat this shit! Damn, I'm gonnareport you now! I'm gonnareport you now!

FromOld Norseportr m,port n, borrowed viaOld Englishport m(“gate”) fromLatinporta. Compare alsoGermanPforte.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpoːˀrt/,[ˈpʰoɐ̯ˀd̥]

port c (singular definiteporten,plural indefiniteporte)

1. gate
2. gateway

• IPA^(key):/pɔrt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation:port
• Rhymes:-ɔrt

Borrowed fromFrenchport.

port m orn (pluralporten)

1. postage

• porto

• briefport

• → Papiamentu:pòrt,port

Borrowed fromEnglishport, fromport wine. Named forPortuguesePorto, a city inPortugal where the wines were originally shipped from.

port m (uncountable,diminutiveportje n)

1. (a glass of) port,port wine,Porto

port

1. inflection ofporren:
   1. second/third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. (archaic)pluralimperative

• IPA^(key):/pɔʁ/

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• Homophones:porc,porcs,ports

Inherited fromOld Frenchport, borrowed fromLatinportus, fromProto-Italic*portus, fromProto-Indo-European*pértus(“crossing”), from*per-(“to go forth, to cross”).

port m (pluralports)

1. port,harbour
2. port, harbour city
3. refuge
4. transport
5. postage
6. poise,bearing, way of carrying oneself

• → Romanian:port

Deverbal ofporter. Ultimately from the same source as etymology 1 above.

port m (pluralports)

1. wearing (act of wearing something)
2. carrying (of an object)

• “port”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• trop

• IPA^(key):[ˈport]
• Hyphenation:port
• Rhymes:-ort

port (pluralportok)

1. (computing)port

por +‎-t

port

1. accusativesingular ofpor

Ultimately fromLatinporta.

• IPA^(key):/pʰɔr̥t/
• Rhymes:-ɔr̥t

port n (genitive singularports,nominative pluralport)

1. gate,gateway,entryway

   Synonym:hlið

FromOld Irishport(“tune, melody”).

port m (genitive singularpoirt,nominative pluralpoirt)

1. (music)tune

   Is buaineport ná glór na n-éan; is buaine focal ná toice an tsaoil.(proverb)

   Atune is more lasting than the song of birds; a word is more lasting than the wealth of the world.

2. jig(dance)

• portaireacht

• →⇒ Yola:portlaghrin

FromOld Irishport(“bank, shore”),^[1] borrowed fromLatinportus(“harbour”).

port m (genitive singularpoirt,nominative pluralpoirt)

1. landing-place
2. harbor,port
3. bank (of river, etc.)
4. mound,embankment
5. refuge,haven,resort
6. stopping-place
7. place,locality
8. fortified place,stronghold
9. occupied place,seat,centre

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

FromLatinportus.

port m (pluralporc)

1. port,harbour

Borrowed fromSicilianportu, fromLatinportus.

• IPA^(key):/pɔrt/

port m (pluralportijiet)

1. harbour,port

   Synonym:(archaic)marsa

port (pluralports)

1. behaviour,bearing
   • late 14th c.,Chaucer, “General Prologue”, inCanterbury Tales, line 69:

     And of hisport as meeke as is a mayde.

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

FromOld Frenchport, borrowed fromLatinportus(“port, harbour”).

port m (pluralports)

1. (Jersey)harbour,port

   Synonyms:caûchie,hâvre

FromMiddle Norwegianportr m, from lateOld Norseportr m,port n, ultimately fromLatinporta f.

• IPA^(key):/puʈ/
• Rhymes:-uʈ

port m (definite singularporten,indefinite pluralporter,definite pluralportene)

1. agate
2. (computing)port(logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
3. (computing)port(female connector of an electronic device)

• inngangsport

• “port” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

FromMiddle Norwegianportr m, from lateOld Norseport n, ultimately fromLatinporta f.

port m (definite singularporten,indefinite pluralportar,definite pluralportane)

1. agate
2. (computing)port(logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
3. (computing)port(female connector of an electronic device)

• inngangsport

• “port” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key):/port/,[porˠt]

Borrowed fromLatinportus(“harbour, port, haven, warehouse”).

port m

1. aport, ahaven(aharboror harbor-town)
2. atown,particularly one with special trading privileges
   • late 10th century,Ælfric,"The Seven Sleepers"

     ...he wolde gan ut of ðamporte...

     ...he desired to go out of thetown...

   • 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 þysumporte 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 thistown 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.

Stronga-stem:

• Middle English:port
  • English:port
  • Scots:port

Borrowed fromLatinporta(“gate, entrance, passage, door”).

port m

1. portal(a door or gate; an entrance)

Stronga-stem:

• Middle English:port
  • English:port
  • Scots:port

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

Borrowed fromLatinportus.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpɔɾt/
• Rhymes:-ɔrt

portoblique singular, m (oblique pluralporzorportz,nominative singularporzorportz,nominative pluralport)

1. port(for watercraft)
   • c.1150, Turoldus,La Chanson de Roland:

     Asporz d'Espaigne en est passet Rollant

     Roland went to the ports of Spain

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

Borrowed fromLatinportus.

• IPA^(key):[por͈t]

port m (genitivepuirt,nominative pluralpuirt)

1. place
2. shore

• Irish:port
• Manx:purt
• Scottish Gaelic:port

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

Learned borrowing fromLatinportus. First attested in 1471.

• IPA^(key):(10^th–15^th CE)/pɔrt/
• IPA^(key):(15^th CE)/pɔrt/

port m animacy unattested

1. port(a place on thecoast at which ships canshelter, ordock to load and unloadcargo orpassengers)
   • 1901 [1471],Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page135:

     Applicuimus przistalischmy kvportu (inde navigantes... applicuimus Samum Act 20, 15)

     [Applicuimus przystalismy kuportu (inde navigantes... applicuimus Samum Act 20, 15)]

• Polish:port
  • → Kashubian:pòrt

• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “port”, inEtymologiczny 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”, inSłownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków:IJP PAN,→ISBN

Inherited fromOld Polishport.Sense 4 andsense 5 aresemantic loans fromEnglishport.Doublet offiord(“fjord”).

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-ɔrt
• Syllabification:port

port m inan (diminutiveporcik,related adjectiveportowy)

1. port(a place on thecoast at which ships canshelter, ordock to load and unloadcargo orpassengers)
2. port(a town or city containing such a place, aport city)
3. harbor,haven(place of safety)

   Synonyms:azyl,przystań,schronienie

5. (computing)port(logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
7. (computing,networking)port(number that delimits a connection for specific processes or parts of a network service)
8. (Middle Polish)goal,aim(intent of one's actions)

   Synonym:cel

9. (Middle Polish)harbor,haven(one who gives a place of safety)
10. (Middle Polish)gate(place where one enters)

    Synonym:wrote

11. (Middle Polish)warehouse

    Synonyms:magazyn,skład

12. (Middle Polish)a type oftax
13. (Middle Polish)papalestate;Further details are uncertain.
    • 1560, M. Krowicki,Obrona nauki‎^[3], page75:

      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.]

• → Kashubian:pòrt

• port inWielki 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”, inSłownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “PORT”, inElektroniczny 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”, inSłownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “port”, inSłownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński,W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “port”, inSłownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page719

Borrowed fromFrenchport,Italianporto,Latinportus.

port n (pluralporturi)

1. port (town with port)

• portuar

• iman

port

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive ofpurta

• IPA^(key):/pʰɔrˠʃt̪/

FromOld Irishport(“tune, melody”).

port m (genitive singularpuirt,pluralpuirtorportan)

1. tune

• fonn
• mànran

• puirt à beul

FromOld Irishport(“bank, shore (of river or sea); landing-place, haven; bank, mound, entrenchment; place, spot, locality; stead, abode; stronghold, fortress”), ultimately fromLatinportus(“harbour, port; haven, refuge, asylum, retreat”).

port m (genitive singularpuirt,pluralpuirtorportan)

1. port,harbour

• acarsaid
• cala

• longphort
• port-adhair

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

From lateOld Norseport n,portr m, fromLatinporta f. Computing sense a semantic loan from English.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpʊʈ/

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port c

1. a largerentrance
   1. a (robust)door leading into a larger building, for example anapartment building

      Jag är vidporten, kan du öppna?

      I'm at thedoor, can you buzz me in?

   2. adoorway
   3. agate
   4. aportal
2. (computing) aport(logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)

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

• grind(“(non-solid) gate”)

Clipping ofportvin.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpoːʈ/

port ?

1. Clipping ofportvin(“port wine”).

   Synonym:porto(obsolete)

• port inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• port inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• port inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• torp

Borrowed fromEnglishport.

port (definite accusativeportu,pluralportlar)

1. (computerhardware,networking)port