cargo

See also: Cargo and cargó

English

Etymology

From Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
• Hyphenation: car‧go

Noun

cargo (countable and uncountable, plural cargos or cargoes)

1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
   • 1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson:

     " […] her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe, […] "

   • 1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence:

     " […] but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."

   • 2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Five”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 34:

     How will heaven be filled if the earth ceases to send its cargoes?

2. (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.
   • 1964, Peter Lawrence, Road Belong Cargo:

     The principal change was that two of the 'satans', Kilibob and Manup, were now identified by different groups as God and Jesus Christ, as cargo deities. This expressed the return to hostility towards Europeans and a reassessment of native rights to the cargo.

   • 1995, Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult:

     In this study of colonial and postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search for cargo, nor as a cult.

   • 1998, Jared M. Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, page 22:

     Why is it that Europeans, despite their likely genetic disadvantage and (in modern times) their undoubted developmental disadvantage, ended up with much more of the cargo?·

   • 2002, Dorothy K. Billings, Cargo Cult as Theater: Political Performance in the Pacific, page 60:

     He was the only one to tell me that he thought it was possible that cargo was made by the ancestors. One or two others were noncommittal, but most clearly denied it.

   • 2004, Lamont Lindstrom, “Cargo Cult at the Third Millennium”, in Holger Jebens, editor, Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique:

     People turned to traditional or innovative religious ritual to obtain "cargo."

   • 2019, Lamont Lindstrom ·, Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond, page 5:

     And beyond antrhopologists and Islanders, others have been enchanted by cargo as well.

Derived terms

• air cargo
• all-cargo
• bulk cargo
• cargo-200
• cargo aircraft
• cargo bicycle
• cargo bike
• cargo bin
• cargo cult
• cargo culting
• cargo cult science
• Cargo Fleet
• cargo hold
• cargoism
• cargo jack
• cargoless
• cargo liner
• cargo net
• cargo pallet
• cargo pants
• cargo plane
• cargoplane
• cargo ship
• cargo shorts
• cargo vessel
• general cargo
• hot cargo
• wanted cargo

 

Translations

freight carried by a ship

• Albanian: ngarkesë (sq) f
• Arabic: حُمُولَة f (ḥumūla), شَحْنَة f (šaḥna), حِمْل (ar) m (ḥiml)

  Egyptian Arabic: حمولة f (ḥmula, ḥumula, ḥemula)

• Armenian: բեռ (hy) (beṙ)
• Azerbaijani: yük (az)
• Bashkir: йөк (yök)
• Belarusian: груз m (hruz), цяжа́р m (cjažár)
• Bulgarian: това́р (bg) m (továr), ко́рабен това́р m (kóraben továr)
• Catalan: càrrega (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貨物 / 货物 (zh) (huòwù), 貨 / 货 (zh) (huò)

• Coptic: ⲁⲃⲓⲛ m (ɑouin) (Bohairic), ⲁⲟⲩⲓⲛ m (ɑouin) (Bohairic), ⲁⲩⲉⲓⲛ m (ɑuain) (Sahidic)
• Czech: náklad (cs) m
• Danish: gods n, fragt c, last (da) c
• Dutch: vracht (nl) f, lading (nl) f
• Egyptian: (jnw)
• Esperanto: kargo
• Estonian: last (et), praht, laadung
• Finnish: lasti (fi), kuorma (fi), taakka (fi), rahti (fi)
• French: cargaison (fr) f
• Galician: carga (gl) f, frete m
• Georgian: ტვირთი (ṭvirti), კარგო (ḳargo), გემის ტვირთი (gemis ṭvirti), ფრახტი (ka) (praxṭi)
• German: Fracht (de) f, Ladung (de) f, Cargo (de) m
• Greek: φορτίο (el) n (fortío)

  Ancient: φορτίον n (phortíon), γόμος m (gómos)

• Hebrew: מִטְעָן (he) m (mit'án)
• Hindi: पोतभार m (potbhār), नौभार m (naubhār), माल (hi) m (māl), बोझ (hi) m (bojh), खेप (hi) f (khep)
• Hungarian: rakomány (hu), fuvar (hu)
• Icelandic: farmur m
• Ido: kargo (io), kargajo (io)
• Indonesian: kargo (id)
• Ingrian: rahti
• Italian: carico (it) m
• Japanese: 積荷 (ja) (つみに, tsumini), 貨物 (ja) (かもつ, kamotsu)
• Kazakh: жүк (jük)
• Khmer: ទំនិញ (km) (tumnɨñ), បន្ទុក (km) (bɑntuk)
• Korean: 짐 (ko) (jim), 화물(貨物) (ko) (hwamul), 바리 (ko) (bari)
• Kyrgyz: жүк (ky) (jük)
• Lao: ສິນຄ້າຂົນສົ່ງ (sin khā khon song)
• Latin: onus n
• Latvian: krava (lv) f
• Lithuanian: krovinys m
• Macedonian: товар m (tovar), карго n (kargo)
• Malay: kargo
• Maori: utanga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ачаа (mn) (ačaa)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frakt m or f, last (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: frakt f, last m or f

• Old English: hlæst n
• Persian: محموله (fa) (mahmule), بار (fa) (bâr)
• Polish: ładunek (pl) m
• Portuguese: carga (pt) f
• Romanian: marfă (ro) f
• Russian: груз (ru) m (gruz), това́р (ru) m (továr), ка́рго (ru) n (kárgo) (rare)
• Scottish Gaelic: carago m, (dated) luchd m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тѐрет m, то̀вар m, ка̏рго m

  Roman: tèret (sh) m, tòvar (sh) m, kȁrgo (sh) m

• Slovak: náklad m
• Slovene: tovor m
• Spanish: carga (es) f
• Swahili: shehena (sw)
• Swedish: frakt (sv) c, last (sv) c
• Tajik: бор (tg) (bor)
• Tatar: йөк (tt) (yök)
• Thai: สินค้า (th) (sǐn-káa)
• Turkish: yük (tr)
• Turkmen: ýük
• Ukrainian: ванта́ж (uk) m (vantáž)
• Uyghur: يۈك (yük)
• Uzbek: yuk (uz)
• Vietnamese: hàng hóa (vi)
• Welsh: cargo m
• Yiddish: פֿראַכט (frakht), לאַסט (last)

Verb

cargo (third-person singular simple present cargos, present participle cargoing, simple past and past participle cargoed)

1. (transitive) To load with freight.

Anagrams

• Cogar, Crago

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cargo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.ɡo/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. ship designed to carry a cargo

Further reading

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

Galician

Verb

cargo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cargar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -arɡo
• Hyphenation: càr‧go

Noun

cargo m (plural carghi)

1. cargo boat
2. freighter (boat or plane)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʁ.ɡu/ [ˈkaɦ.ɡu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʁ.ɡu/ [ˈkaɦ.ɡu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾ.ɡu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʁ.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɻ.ɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾ.ɡu/ [ˈkaɾ.ɣu]

• Hyphenation: car‧go

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. post, occupation, profession
2. office; responsibility

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cargo m (genitive singular cargo, plural cargothan)

1. Alternative form of carago.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾɡo/ [ˈkaɾ.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -aɾɡo
• Syllabification: car‧go

Etymology 1

Deverbal from cargar.

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. charge, burden
2. position, post
3. (finance) debit
4. (heraldry) charge

Derived terms

• a cargo
• a cargo de
• alto cargo
• cargo de conciencia
• cargo público
• con cargo a
• hacerse cargo
• pasar el cargo
• pliego de cargos
• testigo de cargo

 

Related terms

• carga
• cargante

 

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos, feminine carga, feminine plural cargas)

1. higher-up

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cargo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cargar

Further reading

• “cargo”, 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

Venetan

Adjective

cargo (feminine singular carga, masculine plural cargi, feminine plural carge)

1. loaded, laden
2. charged
3. full