banister

English

Alternative forms

• bannister

Etymology

Corruption of baluster.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbænɪstə(ɹ)/

Noun

banister (plural banisters)

1. The handrail on the side of a staircase.
2. One of the vertical supports of a handrail; a baluster.

Translations

the handrail on the side of a staircase

• Bulgarian: парапет (bg) (parapet)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 欄杆 (cmn), 栏杆 (cmn) (lángān)

• Dutch: baluster (nl), leuning (nl)
• Finnish: kaide (fi)
• French: rampe (fr)
• German: Geländer (de) n
• Hebrew: מעקה (he) m

• Icelandic: handrið (is) n, stigahandrið (is) n
• Italian: ringhiera (it) f
• Japanese: 手すり (ja) (てすり, tesuri)
• Luxembourgish: Trapegelänner (lb) n
• Norwegian: gelender (no) n
• Russian: перила (ru) (períla) n pl , поручень (ru) (póručen') m 
• Spanish: barandilla f
• Swedish: trappräcke n

one of the vertical supports of a handrail

• French: balustre (fr) m
• Icelandic: rimill (is) m, pílári í handriði (is) m, brjóstriðssúla (is) f, speli (is) m, spæll (is) m

• Russian: балясина (ru) f (baljasina)

See also

• newel
• balustrade