parking

English

Etymology

From park +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːkɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹkɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪŋ
• Hyphenation: park‧ing

Verb

parking

1. present participle and gerund of park

   Parking a car in a tight spot gave him some satisfaction. (as gerund)

   His parking skills needed improvement. (as participial adjective)

   They will be parking the aircraft in the desert for the next few months. (as progressive)

   Each one of his parkings of securities was a separate count on the indictment. (as gerundial noun)

Noun

parking (usually uncountable, plural parkings)

1. The action of the verb to park.

   Parking in central London can be very difficult.

   • 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715:

     Glasgow's car-parking problem is one of the worst in the country and the frequency of the new electrified rail service ought to attract a big clientele from the city's close-packed suburbs.

   • 1948, Report of the Charlotte Parking Survey: Downtown Business District:

     Table 6 represents an analysis of the parking usage in the Downtown Business District, in terms of the number of parkings, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., according to Type of Facility used, and the Purposes of the Trips […]

2. Space in which to park a car or other vehicle.

   It can be difficult to find parking in central London.

Usage notes

• Often used attributively, as an adjective.

Hyponyms

• angle parking
• parallel parking

Derived terms

• double-parking
• echelon parking
• glass parking lot
• no parking
• no parking whitebeam
• parking area
• parking attendant
• parking brake
• parking coupon
• parking crater
• parking disc
• parking disk
• parking garage
• parking light
• parking lot
• parking meter
• parking orbit
• parking permit
• parking place
• parking ramp
• parking space
• parking spot
• parking ticket
• parking violation
• parking warden
• season parking
• theme parking
• workplace parking levy

 

Translations

action

• Armenian: կայանում (hy) (kayanum)
• Azerbaijani: parklanma
• Belarusian: паркава́нне n (parkavánnje), парко́ўка f (parkóŭka)
• Bulgarian: парки́ране n (parkírane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 停車 / 停车 (zh) (tíngchē), 泊車 / 泊车 (zh) (bóchē)

• Finnish: pysäköinti (fi)
• French: stationnement (fr) m
• Galician: aparcamento (gl) m, estacionamento (gl) m
• German: Parken (de) n, Parkieren n
• Hungarian: parkolás (hu), várakozás (hu)
• Japanese: 駐車 (ja) (ちゅうしゃ, chūsha)
• Korean: 주차(駐車) (ko) (jucha)
• Macedonian: парки́рање n (parkíranje)
• Malay: parkir (ms)​
• Norman: parqu'thie f (Jersey), parc'rie f (Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: parkering m or f

  Nynorsk: parkering f

• Polish: parkowanie (pl) n, zaparkowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: estacionamento (pt) m
• Russian: парко́вка (ru) f (parkóvka), паркова́ние (ru) n (parkovánije), стоя́нка (ru) f (stojánka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: парки́ра̄ње n

  Roman: parkírānje (sh) n

• Spanish: aparcamiento m, estacionamiento (es) m, parqueo (es) m
• Swedish: parkering (sv) c
• Ukrainian: паркува́ння n (parkuvánnja), парко́вка f (parkóvka)

space

• Arabic: مَوْقِف m (mawqif), مَوْقِف سَيَّارَات m (mawqif sayyārāt)

  Hijazi Arabic: موقف m (mawgif)

• Armenian: կայանատեղի (hy) (kayanateġi), ավտոկայանատեղի (hy) (avtokayanateġi)
• Belarusian: парко́ўка f (parkóŭka), стая́нка f (stajánka), па́ркінг m (párkinh)
• Bulgarian: па́ркинг m (párking)
• Burmese: ယာဉ်ရပ် (my) (yanyrap)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 停車處 / 停车处 (zh) (tíngchēchù)

• Czech: parkoviště (cs) n
• Danish: parkeringsplads (da) c
• Dutch: parkeergelegenheid (nl) f
• Estonian: parkla (et)
• Finnish: pysäköintipaikka (fi)
• French: parking (fr) m, stationnement (fr) m
• Galician: aparcadoiro (gl) m, estacionamento (gl)
• German: Parkplatz (de) m
• Hungarian: parkoló (hu), parkolóhely (hu)
• Italian: parcheggio (it) m
• Japanese: 駐車場 (ja) (ちゅうしゃじょう, chūshajō), パーキング (ja) (pākingu)
• Korean: 주차장(駐車場) (ko) (juchajang), 차마당 (chamadang) (North Korea)
• Lao: ບ່ອນໄວ້ລົດ (bǭn wai lot), ບ່ອນຈອດ (bǭn chǭt)
• Latin: area stativa, statio autocinetorum f
• Macedonian: паркиралиште n (parkiralište)
• Malay: tempat parkir,​ tempat letak kereta
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: parkeringsplass m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: پارْکینْگ (pârking)

• Polish: parking (pl) m
• Portuguese: estacionamento (pt) m
• Romanian: parcare (ro) f
• Russian: парко́вка (ru) f (parkóvka), автостоя́нка (ru) f (avtostojánka), стоя́нка (ru) f (stojánka), па́ркинг (ru) m (párking)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: паркѝралӣште n

  Roman: parkìralīšte (sh) n

• Slovak: parkovisko n
• Slovene: parkirišče n
• Spanish: plaza de estacionamiento f, estacionamiento (es) m, plaza de aparcamiento f, aparcamiento m
• Swedish: parkeringsplats (sv) c, parkering (sv) c, p-plats c
• Tajik: таваққуфгоҳ (tavaqqufgoh)
• Thai: ที่จอดรถ (tîi-jɔ̀ɔt-rót)
• Ukrainian: парко́вка f (parkóvka), стоя́нка f (stojánka), па́ркінг m (párkinh)
• Urdu: پارْکِن٘گ f (pārkiṅg)
• Vietnamese: bãi đỗ xe

Cebuano

Etymology

From English parking, from park (“to park”), from Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: par‧king

Verb

parking

1. to park; to bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:parking.

Derived terms

• parkinganan

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English parking or from French parking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑr.kɪŋ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: par‧king

Noun

parking f (plural parkings)

1. (Belgium) car park, parking lot

   Synonyms: parkeerplaats, parkeerterrein

Derived terms

• stadsparking

French

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from parking.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /paʁ.kiŋ/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /paʁ.kiɲ/, /paɹkɪnɡ/

Noun

parking m (plural parkings)

1. car park, parking lot

   Synonyms: stationnement, aire de parcage

Further reading

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

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from parking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑːkiŋ/

Noun

parking

1. area where cars or other vehicles are parked; car park

   Synonym: stasionnman

Polish

parking

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from parking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpar.kiŋk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arkiŋk
• Syllabification: par‧king

Noun

parking m inan (related adjective parkingowy)

1. car park, parking lot (outdoor area or a building where cars may be parked)

Declension

Declension of parking

	singular	plural
nominative	parking	parkingi
genitive	parkingu	parkingów
dative	parkingowi	parkingom
accusative	parking	parkingi
instrumental	parkingiem	parkingami
locative	parkingu	parkingach
vocative	parkingu	parkingi

Derived terms

noun

• parkingoza

 

Related terms

verbs

• parkować impf
• zaparkować pf

 

Further reading

• parking in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• parking in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French parking, from English parking.

Noun

parking n (plural parkinguri)

1. parking lot

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	parking	parkingul		parkinguri	parkingurile
genitive-dative	parking	parkingului		parkinguri	parkingurilor
vocative	parkingule			parkingurilor

Spanish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from parking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾkin/ [ˈpaɾ.kĩn]
• Rhymes: -aɾkin

Noun

parking m (plural parkings)

1. car park (UK), parking lot (North America) (an area where cars may be parked), parking garage

   Synonyms: aparcamiento, estacionamiento

Further reading

• “parking”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10