detour

English

Etymology

From French détour, from détourner ‘turn away’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdiːtʊə/

Noun

detour (plural detours)

1. A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     On the third day I made a detour westward to avoid the country of the Band-lu, as I did not care to be detained by a meeting with To-jo.

Translations

a diversion or deviation from one's original route

• Bulgarian: отклонение (bg) n (otklonenie), заобикаляне (bg) n (zaobikaljane), обиколка (bg) f (obikolka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繞行 (cmn), 绕行 (cmn) (ràoxíng)

• Czech: zajížďka (cs) f
• Danish: omvej (da) c
• Dutch: omleiding (nl) f, omweg (nl) m
• Finnish: kiertotie (fi)
• German: Umleitung (de) f (diversion), Umweg (de) m (deviation)

• Hebrew: מעקף (he) (ma'akaf) m
• Hungarian: kerülőút, elkerülőút (hu), kerülő (hu)
• Irish: malairt slí (ga) f, athbhealach (ga) m
• Japanese: 迂回路 (ja) (うかいろ, ukairo)
• Russian: объезд (ru) (obʺjézd) m , (on foot) обход (ru) (obxód) m , окольный путь (ru) (okólʹnyj putʹ) m 
• Spanish: desvío (es) m
• Swedish: omväg (sv) c

Verb

detour (third-person singular simple present detours, present participle detouring, simple past and past participle detoured)

1. (intransitive) To make a detour.
2. (transitive) To direct or send on a detour.

Translations

intransitive: to make a detour

• Bulgarian: заобикалям (bg) (zaobikaljam)
• Dutch: omlopen (nl), omrijden (nl) etc.

• German: einen Umweg machen (de)
• Japanese: 迂回する (ukai-suru)

transitive: to direct or send on a detour

• Bulgarian: карам да заобиколи (bg) (karam da zaobikoli)
• Dutch: omleiden (nl)
• German: umleiten (de)

• Japanese: 迂回する (ukai-suru)
• Spanish: desviar (es)

Anagrams

• douȝter, routed, toured