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hang⋅ar

[hang-er]
–noun
1. a shed or shelter.
2. any relatively wide structure used for housing airplanes or airships.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
3. to keep (an aircraft) in a hangar: She spent a fortune hangaring her plane.

Origin:
1850–55; < F: shed, hangar, MF, prob. < Old Low Franconian *haimgard fence around a group of buildings, equiv. to haim small village (see hamlet ) + gard yard 2
han·gar   (hāng'ər, hāng'gər)   
n.  A shelter especially for housing or repairing aircraft.

[French, from Old French hangard, of Germanic origin; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.]

hangar 
1852, "shed for carriages," from Fr. hangar "shed," from M.Fr. hanghart, perhaps an alteration of M.Du. *ham-gaerd "enclosure near a house," or from M.L. angarium "shed in which horses are shod." Sense of "covered shed for airplanes" first recorded in Eng. 1902, from Fr. use in that sense.
Language Translation for : hangar
Spanish: hangar,
German: die Flugzeughalle,
Japanese: 格納庫
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