tram

See also Tram, trám, tràm, trăm, and trẫm

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Probably from Middle Dutch trame. The popular derivation from tramway builder Benjamin Outram is false: the term pre-dated him.

Pronunciation

• enPR: trăm, IPA: /træm/, X-SAMPA: /tr{m/
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

Wikipedia tram (plural trams)

1. A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road.
2. A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
   • 1789, John Brand, History of Newcastle Upon Tyne, volume II, page 681. (Quoted in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, centenary edition, 1971, ISBN 304-93570-0.)

     Trams are a kind of sledge on which coals are brought from the place where they are hewn to the shaft. A tram has four wheels but a sledge is without wheels.

Synonyms

• (passenger vehicle): streetcar

Derived terms

• shoot through like a Bondi tram
• tramline
• tramway

Translations

passenger vehicle

• Afrikaans: tram (af)
• Albanian: tramvaj (sq)
• Arabic: ترام (ar) (trām, tram) m
• Armenian: տրամվայ (hy) (tramvay)
• Azeri: tramvay (az)
• Belarusian: трамвай (be) (tramváj) m
• Bengali: ট্রাম (bn) (ţram)
• Bulgarian: трамвай (bg) (tramváj) m
• Burmese: သံလမ်းရထား (my) (than lan: jahta:)
• Catalan: tramvia (ca) m
• Central Melanau: trem
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有軌電車 (cmn), 有轨电车 (cmn) (yǒuguǐ diànchē), 電車 (cmn), 电车 (cmn) (diànchē)

• Czech: tramvaj (cs) f
• Danish: sporvogn (da)
• Dutch: tram (nl) m
• Esperanto: tramo (eo)
• Estonian: tramm (et)
• Finnish: raitiovaunu (fi)
• French: tramway (fr) m, tram (fr) m
• Georgian: ტრამვაი (ka) (tramvai)
• German: Straßenbahn (de) f, S-bahn (de) f, (Austrian) Tram (de), Trambahn (de) f
• Greek: τραμ (el) (tram) n
• Hebrew: חשמליה (he) (khashmalya) f
• Hindi: ट्राम (hi) (ṭrām) f
• Hungarian: villamos (hu)
• Icelandic: sporvagn (is) m
• Indonesian: trem (id)
• Italian: tram (it) m
• Japanese: 市内電車 (ja) (shinai-densha), 市電 (ja) (shiden), トラム (ja) (toramu), 電車 (ja) (densha), 路面電車 (ja) (ろめんでんしゃ, romendensha)
• Jèrriais: tram m
• Kazakh: трамвай (kk) (tramvay)
• Khmer: រថអគ្គិសនី (km) (rʊət akki’ sɑɑ nii)

• Korean: 전차 (ko) (jeoncha) (電車 (ko)), 트램 (ko) (teuraem)
• Kyrgyz: трамвай (ky) (tramvay)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew: טראמבאיי m

  Roman: tramvay m

• Latvian: tramvajs (lv)
• Lithuanian: tramvajus (lt)
• Macedonian: трамвај (mk) (tramváj) m
• Malay: trem (ms)
• Mongolian: трамвай (mn) (tramvaj)
• Norwegian: trikk (no), sporvogn (no) f
• Persian: تراموای (fa) (trâmvây)
• Polish: tramwaj (pl)
• Portuguese: elétrico (pt) (European Portuguese), bonde (pt) (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Romanian: tramvai (ro)
• Russian: трамвай (ru) (tramváj) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трамвај (sh) m

  Roman: tramvaj (sh) m

• Slovak: električka (sk) f
• Slovene: tramvaj (sl) m
• Spanish: tranvía (es) m
• Swedish: spårvagn (sv)
• Tagalog: trambya (tl)
• Tajik: трамвай (tg) (tramvay)
• Tatar: трамвай (tt) (tramway)
• Thai: รถราง (th) (rót raang)
• Turkish: tramvay (tr)
• Turkmen: tramwaý (tk)
• Ukrainian: трамвай (uk) (tramváj) m
• Urdu: ٹرام (ur) (ṭrām) f
• Uzbek: tramvay (uz)
• Vietnamese: tàu điện (vi)

vehicle for material

• Dutch: wagen (nl) m, spoorwagen (nl) m, mijnwagen (nl) m

• Russian: вагонетка (ru) (vagonétka) f

See also

• cablecar
• light rail
• streetcar
• trolley car

Verb

tram (third-person singular simple present trams, present participle tramming, simple past and past participle trammed)

1. (transitive) To transport (material) by tram.

Etymology 2

Spanish trama weft, or French trame.

Noun

tram (plural trams)

1. A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

Anagrams

• mart, RATM

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin trama.

Noun

tram m (plural trams)

1. segment (of road etc.)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑm
• (Netherlands) IPA: /trɛm/
• (Belgium) IPA: /trɑm/, /trɛm/

• Audio

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Etymology

From English tram.

Noun

tram m (plural trams or trammen, diminutive trammetje)

1. A tram, vehicle on rails for passenger transport in cities.

Anagrams

• ramt

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Italian

Noun

tram m (invariable)

1. tram, streetcar

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From English tram.

Noun

tram m (plural trams)

1. tram