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porter meaning in Punjabi

ਪੋਰਟਰ

/ˈpɔːtə/US/ˈpɔɹtɚ/

porter in Punjabi: ਪੋਰਟਰ, ਪੋਰ੍ਟਰ. In English, porter means a person who carries luggage and related objects; (historically) one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.

Punjabi words for porter

ਪੋਰਟਰ, ਪੋਰ੍ਟਰ

English meaning of porter

  1. noun A person who carries luggage and related objects; (historically) one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.
  2. noun An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
  3. noun One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
  4. noun A person in control of the entrance to a building.

Full definition of porter

porter in a sentence

  • By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.

porter in other languages

Questions about porter in Punjabi

What is the meaning of porter in Punjabi?
Porter in Punjabi is ਪੋਰਟਰ, ਪੋਰ੍ਟਰ.
porter ਦਾ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੀ ਅਰਥ ਹੈ?
Porter: ਪੋਰਟਰ, ਪੋਰ੍ਟਰ.
What does porter mean in English?
Porter means a person who carries luggage and related objects; (historically) one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.

Source and license

Punjabi words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “porter”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: porter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Punjabi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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