share taxi

English

Noun

share taxi (plural share taxis)

1. A vehicle for hire, typically smaller than a bus, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables, departing when all seats are filled.

Synonyms

• bush taxi (Africa)
• daladala (Tanzania)
• danfo (Nigeria)
• dollar van (United States)
• dolmus (Turkey)
• jeepney (Philippines)
• jitney
• local taxi (South Africa)
• louage (Tunisia)
• matatu (Kenya)
• savari (Iran)
• sherut (Israel)
• songthaew (Thailand)
• taxi (South Africa)
• taxibus
• tro tro (Ghana)

Translations

a vehicle for hire, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合乘計程車／合乘计程车 (héchéngjìchéngchē), 合乘出租车 (héchéngchūzūchē)

• Czech: sdílené taxi n
• Dutch: deeltaxi (nl) m
• Finnish: reittitaksi
• French: taxi collectif (fr) m
• German: Sammeltaxi (de) n
• Hebrew: שירות (he) m
• Hungarian: iránytaxi (hu)
• Indonesian: angkutan kota
• Japanese: 乗合タクシー
• Korean: 승합 택시 (seunghap taeksi)
• Lingala: taksíbísí
• Persian: تاکسی شراکتی
• Polish: taksówka zbiorowa f
• Portuguese: táxi-lotação m
• Spanish: taxi colectivo (es) m, colectivo (es) m
• Sundanese: angkot
• Swahili: matatu (sw), daladala (sw)
• Thai: สองแถว (sɔ̌ɔng-tɛ̌o)
• Ukrainian: маршрутка (uk) f (maršrutka)
• Yoruba: dáńfó

See also

• ridesharing