girder

English

A decorated girder in a house.

Etymology

Etymology tree

English gird

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English girder

From gird + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɜːdə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɝdɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

girder (plural girders)

1. A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
2. One who girds; a satirist.

Derived terms

• box girder
• fishbelly girder
• fish belly girder
• girderage
• girdered
• girder fork
• girdering
• girderless
• girderlike
• girderwork
• I-girder
• lattice girder
• plate girder
• regirder
• sandwich girder
• tubular girder

Translations

main horizontal support in a building

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: tra (sq) m
• Bulgarian: трегер m (treger)
• Czech: nosník (cs) m, trám (cs) m
• Dutch: dwarsbalk (nl) m, draagbalk (nl) m
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kannatinpalkki, niskapalkki, palkki (fi)
• French: poutrelle (fr) f
• Galician: trabe (gl) f, viga f
• Georgian: კოჭი (ka) (ḳoč̣i), დირე (dire), წამწე (c̣amc̣e)
• German: Träger (de) m, Balken (de) m, Unterzug m, Tragbalken m, Binder (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: στρωτήρ m (strōtḗr)

• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: penopang (id), gelagar (id), girder
• Irish: cearchaill f, giarsa m
• Italian: trave (it) f, putrella (it) f
• Japanese: 桁 (ja) (keta), 梁 (ja) (hari)
• Lao: ສະດົມ (sa dom)
• Latin: trabs (la) f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Livonian: zīedõz
• Macedonian: носач m (nosač)
• Malay: galang (ms), gelegar (ms)
• Māori: kurupae
• Norwegian: bærebjelke m, drager (no) m
• Persian: شاه‌تیر (šâh-tir), فرسب (farasb)
• Polish: dźwigar m, belka (pl) f
• Portuguese: trave (pt) f, viga (pt) f
• Romanian: grindă (ro) f, bârnă (ro) f
• Romansh: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ба́лка (ru) (bálka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: греда f

  Latin: greda (sh) f

• Slovak: nosník m
• Slovene: nosilec m, tram (sl) m
• Spanish: viga (es) f, jácena (es)
• Swedish: bärbjälke, balk (sv), bindbjälke
• Tagalog: kahab-an
• Turkish: kiriş (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: مرتك (mertek), دیرك (direk)

• Volapük: stütabem

See also

• truss

Anagrams

• Grider, gerrid

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English girder.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡirdər/ [ˈɡir.dər]
• Rhymes: -irdər
• Syllabification: gir‧der

Noun

girder (plural girder-girder)

1. (construction) girder (a beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure)

   Synonyms: gelagar, penopang

Further reading

• “girder”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016