English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Attested since the 1570s; orphan + -age.
Pronunciation[edit]
orphanage (countable and uncountable, plural orphanages)
- A residential institution for the care and protection of orphans.
- (obsolete) Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.
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Translations[edit]
a residential institution for the care and protection of orphans
- Albanian: jetimore (sq) f
- Arabic: دَار الْأَيْتَام f (dār al-ʔaytām), مَيْتَم m (maytam)
- Armenian: մանկատուն (hy) (mankatun), որբանոց (hy) (orbanocʿ)
- Basque: umezurztegi
- Belarusian: дзіця́чы дом m (dzicjáčy dom)
- Bulgarian: сиропита́лище (bg) n (siropitálište)
- Catalan: orfenat (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 孤兒院／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 (cs) m, dětský dům m
- Danish: børnehjem n
- Dutch: weeshuis (nl), kindertehuis (nl) n
- 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 (jetımxana)
- Khmer: មជ្ឈមណ្ឌលកុមារកំព្រា (maccʰea’mʊəndʊəl ko’maa kɑmprie), គ្រឹះស្ថានរក្សាក្មេងកំព្រា (krɨh stʰaan reaksaa kmeɛŋ kɑmprie)
- Korean: 고아원(孤兒院) (ko) (goawon)
- 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 (anādhaśaraṇālayaṁ)
- Turkish: yetimhane (tr)
- Ukrainian: дитя́чий буди́нок (uk) m (dytjáčyj budýnok)
- Urdu: اناتھ آشرم m (anāth āśram)
- Vietnamese: trại trẻ mồ côi
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