verandah

WOTD - 15 October 2009    

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Alternative forms

• veranda

Etymology

From Hindi बरामदा (barāmdā) m. or बरण्डा (baraṇḍā) m., from Portuguese varanda (“balustrade; balcony”) (Spanish baranda).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /vəˈɹæn.də/

Noun

verandah (plural verandahs)

1. A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. [from 18th c.]
   • 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion:

     [...] and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping, and comfortless verandah, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart.

Translations

roofed open gallery

Arabic: شرفة (ar) (shúrfa) f. Bosnian: veranda (bs) f. Burmese: ဝရန်တာ (my) (wa-ràn-dà) Chinese: Mandarin: 陽台 (cmn), 阳台 (cmn) (yángtái) Croatian: veranda (hr) f. Czech: veranda (cs) f. Danish: veranda (da) c. Esperanto: verando (eo) Finnish: kuisti (fi), veranta (fi) French: véranda (fr) f. German: Veranda (de) f. Hindi: बरामदा (hi) (barāmdā) m., बरण्डा (hi) (baraṇḍā) m. Hungarian: veranda (hu) Icelandic: verönd (is) f. Italian: veranda (it) f.

Japanese: ベランダ (ja) (beranda) Korean: 베란다 (ko) (beranda) Norwegian: veranda (no) m. Persian: برآمده (fa) (bar-āmadeh) Polish: weranda (pl) f. Portuguese: varanda (pt) f. Romani: baramda f. Russian: веранда (ru) (veránda) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: веранда f. Roman: veranda f. Slovak: veranda (sk) f. Spanish: porche (es) m., galería (es) f. Swedish: veranda (sv) c. Turkish: veranda (tr) Urdu: برامدہ (ur) (barāmdā) m., برنڈا (ur) (baraṇḍā) m.

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Indonesian: beranda