foyer

See also: Foyer and foþer

English

A foyer in an opera house

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer (“hearth, lobby”), in turn from Vulgar Latin *focārium, from Late Latin focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”). Cognate with Spanish hogar (“home”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɪ.eɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɪɝ/; also IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɪ.eɪ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɪɘ/

• Audio (CA)

  (file)

Noun

foyer (plural foyers)

1. A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.

   We had a drink in the foyer waiting for the play to start.

2. The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
3. (UK) A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people.

Translations

lobby, corridor, or waiting room

• Arabic: بَهْو‎ m (bahw)
• Armenian: ճեմասրահ (hy) (čemasrah), ֆոյե (hy) (foye)
• Belarusian: фае́ n (fajé)
• Bulgarian: фоайе́ (bg) n (foajé)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門廳 (zh), 门厅 (zh) (méntīng), 休息室 (zh), 休息室 (zh) (xiūxishì)

• Czech: foyer (cs) m
• Danish: foyer c
• Dutch: foyer (nl) m
• Finnish: aula (fi), lämpiö (fi)
• French: foyer (fr) m
• Georgian: ფოიე (poie)
• German: Foyer (de) n
• Greek: φουαγιέ (el) n (fouagié)
• Icelandic: anddyri (is) n, forsalur m, forstofa (is) f, fordyri n, forbyrgi n
• Irish: forhalla m
• Macedonian: фоаје́ n (foajé)

• Maori: roro, tomokanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: foajé (no) m

  Nynorsk: foajé m

• Polish: foyer (pl) n
• Portuguese: saguão (pt) m
• Russian: фойе́ (ru) n (fojé)
• Rusyn: фойе́ n (fojé)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фоа̀је̄ n

  Roman: foàjē (sh) n

• Slovak: foyer m or n
• Slovene: foyer m
• Spanish: zaguán (es) m, foyer m
• Swedish: foajé (sv) c, entré (sv) c
• Tagalog: ulutan
• Ukrainian: фойє́ n (fojjé)

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer.

Noun

foyer m

1. theater lobby, foyer.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French foier, from Vulgar Latin *focārium, from Late Latin focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʋɑˈjeː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: foy‧er
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

foyer m (plural foyers, diminutive foyertje n)

1. foyer (lobby, waiting room or parlour)

Related terms

• focus

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French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *focārium, nominalization of the Late Latin adjective focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwa.je/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

foyer m (plural foyers)

1. hearth
2. lobby, foyer
3. home, domicile
4. household
5. source, centre, seat

Derived terms

• homme au foyer
• femme au foyer

Related terms

• feu

Descendants

• → Crimean Tatar: foye
• → Czech: foyer
• → English: foyer
• → German: Foyer
• → Norwegian Bokmål: foajé
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: foajé
• → Polish: foyer
• → Russian: фойе́ (fojé) (see there for further descendants)
• → Slovak: foyer
• → Spanish: foyer

Further reading

• “foyer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Polish

Etymology

From French foyer, from Vulgar Latin *focārium, nominalization of the Late Latin adjective focārius, from Latin focus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwaˈjɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fo‧yer
• Rhymes: -ajɛ

Noun

foyer n (indeclinable)

1. foyer (lobby, corridor, or waiting room)

Further reading

• foyer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• foyer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔajɛː/

Noun

foyer m (genitive singular foyeru, nominative plural foyery, genitive plural foyerov, declension pattern of dub)
foyer n

1. foyer

Declension

Declension of foyer

	singular	plural
nominative	foyer	foyery
genitive	foyeru	foyerov
dative	foyeru	foyerom
accusative	foyer	foyery
locative	foyeri	foyeroch
instrumental	foyerom	foyermi

Usage notes

• When used in the neuter gender, the word is indeclineable.

Further reading

• foyer in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English foyer or French foyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwaˈje/, [fwaˈje]

 

• IPA^(key): /foˈʝeɾ/, [foˈʝeɾ]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /foˈʝeɾ/, [foˈʝeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /foˈʃeɾ/, [foˈʃeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /foˈʒeɾ/, [foˈʒeɾ]

Noun

foyer m (plural foyers or foyer)

1. foyer