doorway

English

Etymology

door +‎ way

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɹweɪ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːweɪ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈdo(ː)ɹweɪ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈdoəweɪ/

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Noun

doorway (plural doorways)

1. The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.

Translations

passage of a door

• Bulgarian: вход (bg) m (vhod)
• Cebuano: pulta
• Cherokee: ᎦᎶᎯᏍᏗ (galohisdi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 門口, 门口 (mun⁴ hau²)

  Mandarin: 門口 (zh), 门口 (zh) (ménkǒu)

• Danish: døråbning c
• Dutch: deurgat (nl) n, deuropening (nl) f
• Finnish: oviaukko (fi), ovensuu (fi)
• French: embrasure de la porte f
• Galician: porta (gl) f, entrada (gl) f, portal m
• German: Türöffnung f
• Greek: άνοιγμα πόρτας n (ánoigma pórtas)
• Irish: doras (ga) m
• Italian: uscio (it) m, via di accesso f
• Japanese: 戸口 (ja) (とぐち, toguchi)
• Korean: 출입구 (ko) (churipgu), 문간 (ko) (mun'gan)

• Latin: ostium n, ianua (la) f
• Macedonian: влез m (vlez)
• Navajo: chʼéʼétiin
• Norman: uss'sie
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: døråpning m or f

  Nynorsk: døropning f

• Old English: wāgþȳrel n
• Polish: wejście (pl)
• Portuguese: vão da porta m, porta (pt) f
• Russian: дверно́й проём m (dvernój projóm)
• Spanish: entrada (es)
• Swedish: dörröppning (sv) c
• Telugu: గుమ్మం (te) (gummaṁ)
• Walloon: poice (wa) m, tchapå (wa) m (entrance way)
• Welsh: drws (cy) m

Derived terms

• doorwayed
• doorway state

Anagrams

• Yarwood