awning

English

Awnings (roof-like covers) over windows on a building.

Etymology

1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn +‎ -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans ‘sloping roof’, from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)banno (“eaves”) (compare Provençal ambans ‘parapet’), compound of ande ‘intensive prefix’ (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) and banno ‘horn’ (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɔːnɪŋ/
• (US) IPA: /ˈɑːnɪŋ/, /ˈɔːnɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ

Noun

awning (plural awnings)

1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
2. (nautical) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

Translations

a rooflike cover

• Bulgarian: навес (bg) (navés) m, тента (bg) (ténta) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遮篷 (cmn) (zhēpeng), 雨篷 (cmn) (yǔpéng), 天幕 (cmn) (tiānmù)

• Dutch: luifel (nl)
• Finnish: markiisi (fi)
• French: marquise (fr) f, auvent (fr) m
• Georgian: ტენტი (ka) (ťenťi)

• German: Markise (de) f
• Japanese: 日よけ (ja) (ひよけ, hiyoke), 天幕 (ja) (てんまく, tenmaku)
• Polish: markiza (pl) f
• Russian: навес (ru) (navés) m, тент (ru) (tɛnt) m
• Spanish: toldo (es) m
• Swedish: markis (sv) c
• Turkish: tente (tr)

that part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin

• Dutch: luifel (nl)
• German: Sonnenschutz (de) m

• Russian: навес (ru) (navés) m
• Turkish: tente (tr)

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