banister

English

Alternative forms

• bannister

Etymology

Corruption of baluster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: دَرَبْزين m ‎(darabzīn)

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

  Mandarin: 欄杆, 栏杆 (zh) ‎(lángān)

• Dutch: baluster (nl), leuning (nl)
• Finnish: kaide (fi), kaidepuu
• French: rampe (fr)
• German: Geländer (de) n
• Greek: κιγκλίδωμα (el) n ‎(kinklídoma)
• Hebrew: מעקה m

• Icelandic: handrið (is) n, stigahandrið n
• Italian: ringhiera (it) f
• Japanese: 手摺 ‎(てすり, tesuri), 手すり ‎(てすり, tesuri)
• Luxembourgish: Trapegelänner n
• Norwegian: gelender n
• Portuguese: corrimão (pt) m
• Russian: пери́ла (ru) n pl ‎(períla), по́ручень (ru) m ‎(póručenʹ)
• Spanish: barandilla (es) f
• Swedish: trappräcke n

one of the vertical supports of a handrail

• Finnish: kaidepinna
• French: balustre (fr) m
• Greek: κάγκελο (el) n ‎(kánkelo)
• Icelandic: rimill m, pílári í handriði m, brjóstriðssúla f, speli m, spæll m

• Portuguese: balaústre (pt) m
• Russian: баля́сина (ru) f ‎(baljásina)

See also

• newel
• balustrade

Verb

banister ‎(third-person singular simple present banisters, present participle banistering, simple past and past participle banistered)

1. To construct a banister
2. To act as a banister