orphanage

English

Etymology

Attested since the 1570s; orphan +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)fənɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

orphanage (countable and uncountable, plural orphanages)

1. A residential institution for the care and protection of orphans.
2. (obsolete) Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.

Synonyms

• children's home
• orphanarium

Translations

a residential institution for the care and protection of orphans

• Albanian: jetimore (sq) f
• Arabic: دَار الْأَيْتَام‎ f (dār al-ʾaytām), مَيْتَم‎ m (maytam)
• Basque: umezurztegi
• Belarusian: дзіця́чы дом m (dzicjáčy dom)
• Bulgarian: сиропита́лище (bg) n (siropitálište)
• Catalan: orfenat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孤兒院 (zh), 孤儿院 (zh) (gū'éryuàn), 保育院 (zh) (bǎoyùyuàn), 兒童福利院, 儿童福利院 (értóng fúlìyuàn)

• Chukchi: яйваԓран (jajvaḷran)
• Classical Nahuatl: icnōpilcalli
• Czech: sirotčinec m, dětský dům m
• Danish: børnehjem n
• Dutch: weeshuis (nl)
• Esperanto: orfejo
• Estonian: lastekodu
• Finnish: orpokoti (fi); lastenkoti (fi)
• French: orphelinat (fr) m, maison d'enfants f
• Galician: orfanato (gl) m
• German: Waisenhaus (de) n, Kinderheim (de) n
• Greek: ορφανοτροφείο (el) n (orfanotrofeío)

  Ancient: βρεφοτροφεῖον f (brephotropheîon), ὀρφανοτροφεῖον f (orphanotropheîon)

• Greenlandic: børnehjemmi, meeqqat angerlarsimaffiat, perorsaavik
• Hindi: अनाथ आश्रम m (anāth āśram)
• Hungarian: árvaház (hu)
• Icelandic: munaðarleysingjahæli (is) n
• Ido: orfanerio (io)
• Indonesian: panti asuhan (id)
• Irish: dílleachtlann f
• Italian: orfanotrofio (it)

• Japanese: 孤児院 (ja) (こじいん, kojiin)
• Kazakh: жетімхана (jetimxana)
• Khmer: មជ្ឈមណ្ឌលកុមារកំព្រា (maccʰea’mʊəndʊəl ko’maa kɑmprie), គ្រឹះស្ថានរក្សាក្មេងកំព្រា (krɨh stʰaan reaksaa kmeɛŋ kɑmprie)
• Korean: 고아원 (ko) (goawon) (孤兒院 (ko))
• Latvian: bērnu nams m
• Macedonian: сиропита́лиште n (siropitálište)
• Maori: wharepani
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barnehjem n

• Persian: یتیم‌خانه‎ (yatim-xâne)
• Plautdietsch: Weisenheim n
• Polish: sierociniec (pl) m, dom dziecka (pl) m, bidul (pl) m
• Portuguese: orfanato (pt) m
• Russian: де́тский дом (ru) m (détskij dom), детдо́м (ru) m (detdóm), прию́т для сиро́т m (prijút dlja sirót), прию́т (ru) m (prijút)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сѝротӣште n

  Roman: sìrotīšte (sh) n

• Slovak: detský domov m
• Slovene: sirotišnica f
• Spanish: orfanato (es) m, casa cuna f
• Swedish: barnhem (sv) n
• Tagalog: bahay-ampunan
• Telugu: అనాధశరణాలయం (anādhaśaraṇālayaṃ)
• Turkish: yetimhane (tr)
• Ukrainian: дитя́чий буди́нок (uk) m (dytjáčyj budýnok)
• Urdu: اناتھ آشرم‎ m (anāth āśram)
• Vietnamese: trại trẻ mồ côi

References

• “orphanage” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.

Anagrams

• harpagone