funicular

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fūniculus (“cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“cord”) + -culus.

Adjective

funicular (comparative more funicular, superlative most funicular)

1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
2. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
3. (botany) Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.

Translations

powered by a rope or cable

• Bulgarian: въжен (vǎžen)
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• Danish: kabeldrevet
• Portuguese: funicular

Noun

funicular (plural funiculars)

1. A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.

Translations

rail transit system

• Arabic: سِكَّة حَدِيد مُعَلَّقَة f (sikkat ḥadīd muʿallaqa), سِكَّة حَدِيد وَتَرِيَّة f (sikkat ḥadīd watariyya)
• Armenian: ֆունիկուլյոր (hy) (funikulyor)
• Basque: funikular
• Belarusian: фуникулѐр m
• Bulgarian: въжена линия (vǎžena linija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 纜索鐵路／缆索铁路, 缆索铁路 (lǎnsuǒ tiělù)

• Chuvash: фуникулёр (funik̬uljor)
• Czech: pozemní lanovka f
• Danish: kabelbane
• Dutch: funiculaire (nl), kabelbaan (nl) c, kabelspoorbaan c
• Esperanto: funikularo
• Finnish: funikulaari (fi)
• French: funiculaire (fr) m
• Georgian: ფუნიკულიორი (puniḳuliori)
• German: Drahtseilbahn f, Seilbahn (de) f
• Hindi: रज्जुरेल m (rajjurel)
• Hungarian: siklóvasút
• Icelandic: fjallatoglest
• Italian: funicolare (it) f
• Japanese: 鋼索鉄道 (こうさくてつどう, kōsaku tetsudō)
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• Korean: 강삭철도 (gangsakcheoldo)
• Latvian: funikulers m, funikulieris m
• Ligurian: funicolâre f
• Lithuanian: funikulierius m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kabelbane

  Nynorsk: kabelbane

• Portuguese: funicular m
• Romanian: funicular (ro) n
• Russian: фуникулёр (ru) m (funikuljór)
• Samogitian: fonėkolierios
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: успѝњача f

  Roman: uspìnjača (sh) f

• Slovak: pozemná lanovka f
• Slovene: funikular m, tirna vzpenjača f
• Spanish: ferrocarril funicular m
• Swedish: bergbana (sv) c
• Turkish: füniküler (tr)
• Ukrainian: фунікуле́р m (funikulér)

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Portuguese

Adjective

1. funicular (powered by a rope or cable)

Noun

funicular m (plural funiculares)

1. funicular (rail transit system which ascends an incline)

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Romanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fūniculus (“cord”), diminutive of fūnis (“cord”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fu.ni.kuˈlaʳ]

Noun

funicular n

1. rope railway

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Spanish

Noun

funicular m (plural funiculares)

1. funicular, cable car