taxi

taxi

See also: Taxi, táxi, and taxi-

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæk.si/

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• Rhymes: -æksi

Noun

taxi (plural taxis or taxies)

1. 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:

     [Sobbing uncontrollably] I thought I could make it work between us because you looked a bit like a man.
     TAXI!

2. (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.

3. (South Africa) A share taxi.

Synonyms

• (vehicle hired for single journeys): cab, taxicab, yellow cab

Derived terms

• robotaxi
• share taxi
• taxibus
• taxicab
• taxi-cabman
• taxicam
• taxi dance
• taxi dancer
• taxi distance
• taxi driver
• taxi fare
• Taxigate
• taxi-girl
• taxiless
• taxilike
• taximan
• taxiphone
• taxi pole
• taxi rank
• taxi squad
• taxi stand
• taxi uncle
• taxiway
• taxi yellow

 

Descendants

• → Burmese: တက္ကစီ (takka.ci)
• → Cantonese: 的士 (dik¹ si^6-2)
  • → Mandarin: 的士 (dīshì, díshì)
• → 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 ʾujra) Hijazi Arabic: تَكسي‎ m (taksi) Armenian: տաքսի (hy) (takʿsi) Assamese: টেক্সী (teksi) Asturian: taxi m, tasi m Azerbaijani: taksi (az) Basque: taxi (eu) Belarusian: таксі́ n (taksí), таксо́ўка f (taksóŭka) Bengali: ট্যাক্সি (bn) (ṭẏaksi), ক্যাব (kẏabô) 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) Dungan: такси (taksi) Hakka: 計程車, 计程车 (kie-chhàng-chhâ, ki-chhàng-chhâ), 他庫西, 他库西 (thà-khu-sí) Mandarin: 出租汽車／出租汽车 (zh) (chūzūqìchē) (PRC), 出租車／出租车 (zh) (chūzūchē) (PRC), 計程車／计程车 (zh) (jìchéngchē) (Taiwan), 的士 (zh) (díshì) (loanword), 德士 (zh) (déshì) (Singapore, Malaysia) Min Nan: 計程車, 计程车 (kè-têng-chhia) Wu: 差頭, 差头 (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 Japanese: タクシー (ja) (takushī), 辻自動車 (つじじどうしゃ, tsujijidōsha) Kannada: ಟ್ಯಾಕ್ಸಿ (ṭyāksi) Kazakh: такси (kk) (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 Luxembourgish: Taxi Lü: ᦷᦟᧆᦋᧁᧈ (lodtsaw¹) Macedonian: такси n (taksi) Malay: teksi (ms) Malayalam: ടാക്സി (ml) (ṭāksi) Manx: taksee m Maori: takihī Marathi: टॅक्सी f (ṭĕksī) Marshallese: tāākji Mongolian: Cyrillic: такси (mn) (taksi) Mongolian: ᠲ᠋ᠠᠻᠰᠢ (takhsi) Nepali: ट्याक्सी (ṭyāksī) Norwegian: Bokmål: taxi (no) m, drosje (no) m or f Nynorsk: drosje (no) m or f, taxi (no) m, taksi m Oriya: ଟ୍ୟାକ୍ସି (ṭyaksi) Oromo: taaksii Pashto: ټکسي‎ (ps) m (ṭaksi) Persian: تاکسی‎ (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) (rare) Scottish Gaelic: tagsaidh m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: та̀кси m Roman: tàksi (sh) m Sinhalese: ටැක්සිය (ṭæksiya) Sicilian: tassì (scn) m 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) (taksi) 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: ٹیکسی‎ (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

See also

• hackney cab

Verb

taxi (third-person singular simple present taxies or taxis, present participle taxiing or taxying, simple past and past participle taxied)

1. To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power.

   taxi down the runway

2. 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[.]

Related terms

• taxicab
• taxiway

Translations

move an aircraft

Bulgarian: рулирам (ruliram) Chinese: Mandarin: 滑行 (zh) (huáxíng) Czech: rolovat Danish: taxie Dutch: taxiën (nl) Finnish: rullata (fi) French: faire taxi (fr) Georgian: მიწაზე თვითმფრინავის სრიალი (mic̣aze tvitmprinavis sriali) German: rollen (de) Greek: τροχοδρομώ (el) (trochodromó) Hungarian: gurul (hu) Icelandic: taxa Irish: innill Norwegian: takse Polish: kołować (pl) Portuguese: taxiar Spanish: carretear (es) Swedish: taxa (sv)

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “taxi”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Asturian

Alternative forms

• tasi

Noun

taxi m (plural taxis)

1. taxi (vehicle)

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Basque

Noun

taxi ?

1. taxi

Declension

Declension of taxi (inanimate, ending in vowel)
	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	taxi	taxia	taxiak
ergative	taxik	taxiak	taxiek
dative	taxiri	taxiari	taxiei
genitive	taxiren	taxiaren	taxien
comitative	taxirekin	taxiarekin	taxiekin
causative	taxirengatik	taxiarengatik	taxiengatik
benefactive	taxirentzat	taxiarentzat	taxientzat
instrumental	taxiz	taxiaz	taxiez
inessive	taxitan	taxian	taxietan
locative	taxitako	taxiko	taxietako
allative	taxitara	taxira	taxietara
terminative	taxitaraino	taxiraino	taxietaraino
directive	taxitarantz	taxirantz	taxietarantz
destinative	taxitarako	taxirako	taxietarako
ablative	taxitatik	taxitik	taxietatik
partitive	taxirik	—	—
prolative	taxitzat	—	—

Derived terms

• taxilari
• taximetro

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtak.si/

Etymology 1

Clipping of taxímetre.

Noun

taxi m (plural taxis)

1. taxi

Derived terms

• taxista

Noun

taxi f (plural taxis)

1. (biology) taxis

Further reading

• “taxi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Czech

Noun

taxi n

1. taxi

Synonyms

• taxík

Further reading

• taxi in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• taxi in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Noun

taxi c (definite singular taxien, indefinite plural taxier, definite plural taxierne)

1. taxi

Synonyms

• taxa

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxi, from German Taxameter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑk.si/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ta‧xi
• Rhymes: -ɑksi

Noun

taxi m (plural taxi's, diminutive taxietje n)

1. A taxi.

Derived terms

• taxichauffeur

Related terms

• taxi-auto
• taximeter

Descendants

• → Aukan: takisi
• → Caribbean Hindustani: taxi
• → Indonesian: taksi

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French

Etymology

Shortening of taximètre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tak.si/

• Audio

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Noun

taxi m (plural taxis)

1. taxi
2. (by extension) taxi driver
   • 1987, Étienne Roda-Gil (lyrics), Franck Langolff (music), “Joe le taxi”, performed by Vanessa Paradis:

     Joe le taxi / C'est sa vie

     Joe the taxi driver / This is his life

3. (by extension) helicopter or plane used for transport
4. (military) act of transporting troops

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ixât

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Hungarian

Etymology

From German Taxi.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒksi]
• Hyphenation: ta‧xi
• Rhymes: -si

Noun

taxi (plural taxik)

1. taxi (a vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	taxi	taxik
accusative	taxit	taxikat
dative	taxinak	taxiknak
instrumental	taxival	taxikkal
causal-final	taxiért	taxikért
translative	taxivá	taxikká
terminative	taxiig	taxikig
essive-formal	taxiként	taxikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	taxiban	taxikban
superessive	taxin	taxikon
adessive	taxinál	taxiknál
illative	taxiba	taxikba
sublative	taxira	taxikra
allative	taxihoz	taxikhoz
elative	taxiból	taxikból
delative	taxiról	taxikról
ablative	taxitól	taxiktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	taxié	taxiké
non-attributive possessive - plural	taxiéi	taxikéi

Possessive forms of taxi
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	taxim	taxijaim
2nd person sing.	taxid	taxijaid
3rd person sing.	taxija	taxijai
1st person plural	taxink	taxijaink
2nd person plural	taxitok	taxijaitok
3rd person plural	taxijuk	taxijaik

Derived terms

• taxis
• taxizik

 

Compound words

• taxiállomás
• taxióra
• taxisofőr

 

Expressions

• taxira van szükségem

 

References

1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

• taxi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtak.si/, /tasˈsi/^*[1]

• Audio ("un tàxi")

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• Rhymes: -aksi, -i
• Hyphenation: tà‧xi

Noun

taxi m

1. taxi

   Synonym: tassì

References

1. taxi in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Latin

Noun

taxī

1. inflection of taxus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English taxi.

Noun

taxi m (plural taxis)

1. (Jersey) taxi

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English taxi.

Noun

taxi m (definite singular taxien, indefinite plural taxier, definite plural taxiene)

1. a taxi (only cars)

Synonyms

• drosje (also horse-drawn vehicles, etc.)

Derived terms

• taxibåt
• taxipris
• taxitur

References

• “taxi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• taksi

Etymology

From English taxi.

Noun

taxi m (definite singular taxien, indefinite plural taxiar, definite plural taxiane)

1. a taxi (cars only)

Synonyms

• drosje (also horse-drawn vehicles, etc.)

Derived terms

• taxibåt
• taxipris
• taxitur

References

• “taxi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtak.si/

Noun

taxi n (plural taxiuri)

1. taxi

Declension

Declension of taxi

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) taxi	taxiul	(niște) taxiuri	taxiurile
genitive/dative	(unui) taxi	taxiului	(unor) taxiuri	taxiurilor
vocative	taxiule		taxiurilor

Synonyms

• taximetru (rare)

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Spanish

Etymology

Clipping of taxímetro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɡsi/ [ˈt̪aɣ̞.si]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -aɡsi
• Syllabification: ta‧xi

Noun

taxi m (plural taxis)

1. taxi

Derived terms

• taxi colectivo
• taxista

Further reading

• “taxi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Noun

taxi c

1. taxi

Declension

Declension of taxi
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	taxi	taxin	taxibilar	taxibilarna
Genitive	taxis	taxins	taxibilars	taxibilarnas

Related terms

• taxameter

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Walloon

Noun

taxi m

1. (nonstandard) taxi