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)bannā ‎(“eaves”) (compare Occitan ambans ‎(“parapet”)), from of *ande- ‎(intensive prefix) (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) + *bandā ‎(“horn; peak”) (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːnɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔnɪŋ/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑnɪŋ/
• 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: наве́с (bg) m ‎(navés), те́нта f ‎(ténta), козирка (bg) f ‎(kozirká)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遮篷 ‎(zhēpeng), 雨篷 ‎(yǔpéng), 天幕 (zh) ‎(tiānmù), 天棚 (zh) ‎(tiānpéng)

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

• Hungarian: ponyvatető
• Japanese: 日よけ ‎(ひよけ, hiyoke), 天幕 ‎(てんまく, tenmaku)
• Polish: markiza (pl) f
• Portuguese: toldo (pt)
• Russian: наве́с (ru) m ‎(navés), тент (ru) m ‎(tɛnt), козырёк (ru) m ‎(kozyrjók) (colloquial)
• Spanish: toldo (es) m
• Swedish: markis (sv) c
• Turkish: tente (tr)
• Ukrainian: наві́с m ‎(navís), козиро́к ‎(kozyrók) (colloquial)

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

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

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

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