banister

See also: Banister

English

A banister in the Natural History Museum of Helsinki

Alternative forms

• bannister

Etymology

Alteration of earlier barrester, ballester, corruptions of baluster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbænɪstɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ænɪstɚ

Noun

banister (plural banisters)

Curved banister; by David Lally

1. The handrail on the side of a staircase.

   wooden banister

   polished banister

   lean on the banister

   She slid down the wooden banister like a child.

   He grasped the banister as he climbed the stairs.

2. One of the vertical supports of a handrail; a baluster.

Translations

the handrail on the side of a staircase

• Arabic: دَرَابْزُون m (darābzūn)

  Hijazi Arabic: دَرَبْزين m (darabzīn)

• Bulgarian: парапет (bg) (parapet)
• Catalan: arrambador (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 欄杆 (zh) (lángān)

• Czech: zábradlí n
• Dutch: baluster (nl), leuning (nl)
• Finnish: kaide (fi), kaidepuu, porraskaide (more specific)
• French: rampe (fr)
• German: Geländer (de) n
• Greek: κιγκλίδωμα (el) n (kigklídoma)
• Hebrew: מעקה (he) m
• Hungarian: lépcsőkorlát (hu)
• Icelandic: handrið (is) n, stigahandrið n
• Irish: banastar m
• Italian: ringhiera (it) f
• Japanese: 手摺 (ja) (てすり, tesuri), 手すり (てすり, tesuri), 欄干 (ja) (らんかん, rankan)
• Korean: 난간 (ko) (nan'gan), 란간 (ran'gan) (North Korea)
• Luxembourgish: Trapegelänner n
• Macedonian: геле́ндер m (gelénder), парапе́т m (parapét)
• Norwegian: gelender n
• Ottoman Turkish: پرمقلق (parmaklık)
• Persian: طارمی (fa) (târami)
• Plautdietsch: Wolm m
• Polish: poręcz (pl) f
• Portuguese: corrimão (pt) m
• Russian: пери́ла (ru) n pl (períla), по́ручень (ru) m (póručenʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: gelender (sh), rukohvat (sh)
• Spanish: barandal m, pasamano m, barandilla (es) f
• Swedish: trappräcke (sv) n
• Tibetan: ལག་འཇུ (lag 'ju)
• Turkish: tırabzan (tr), küpeşte (tr)

one of the vertical supports of a handrail

• Catalan: balustre m
• Czech: sloupek zábradlí
• Finnish: kaidepinna (fi)
• French: balustre (fr) m
• German: Geländerpfosten m
• Greek: κάγκελο (el) n (kágkelo)
• Hungarian: korlátbáb, mellvédbáb, baluszter
• Icelandic: rimill m, pílári í handriði m, brjóstriðssúla f, speli m, spæll m
• Irish: banastar m, runga 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. (transitive) To construct a banister.
2. (transitive) To act as a banister.

Anagrams

• Bainters, barniest