English
Etymology
Alteration of earlier barrester, ballester, corruptions of baluster.
Pronunciation
Noun
banister (plural banisters)
- The handrail on the side of a staircase.
- 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), 栏杆 (zh) (lángān)
- Dutch: baluster (nl), leuning (nl)
- Finnish: kaide (fi), kaidepuu
- French: rampe (fr)
- German: Geländer (de) n
- Greek: κιγκλίδωμα (el) n (kigklídoma)
- Hebrew: מעקה (he) m
- Hungarian: lépcsőkorlát
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- Icelandic: handrið (is) n, stigahandrið n
- Italian: ringhiera (it) f
- Japanese: 手摺 (てすり, tesuri), 手すり (てすり, tesuri), 欄干 (らんかん, rankan)
- Korean: 난간 (ko) (nan'gan), 란간 (ran'gan) (North Korea)
- Luxembourgish: Trapegelänner n
- Norwegian: gelender n
- Persian: طارمی (fa) (târamī)
- Portuguese: corrimão (pt) m
- Russian: пери́ла (ru) n pl (períla), по́ручень (ru) m (póručenʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: gelender (sh), rukohvat (sh)
- Spanish: barandilla (es) f
- Swedish: trappräcke n
- Tibetan: ལག་འཇུ (lag 'ju)
- Turkish: tırabzan (tr)
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one of the vertical supports of a handrail
See also
Verb
banister (third-person singular simple present banisters, present participle banistering, simple past and past participle banistered)
- To construct a banister
- To act as a banister
Anagrams