English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Attested since the 1570s; orphan + -age.
Wikipedia
orphanage (plural orphanages)
- A public institution for the care and protection of orphans.
- (obsolete) Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a public institution for the care and protection of orphans
- Albanian: jetimore f
- Arabic: دَار الْأَيْتَام f (dār al-ʾaytām)
- Basque: umezurztegi
- Belarusian: дзіця́чы дом m (dzicjáčy dom)
- Bulgarian: сиропита́лище (bg) n (siropitálište)
- 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)
- 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
- German: Waisenhaus (de) n, Kinderheim (de) n
- Greek: ορφανοτροφείο (el) n (orfanotrofeío)
- Greenlandic: børnehjemmi, meeqqat angerlarsimaffiat, perorsaavik
- Hindi: अनाथ आश्रम m (anāth āśram)
- Hungarian: árvaház (hu)
- Icelandic: munaðarleysingjahæli (is) n
- Ido: orfanerio (io)
- Irish: dílleachtlann f
- Japanese: 孤児院 (ja) (こじいん, kojiin)
- Khmer: មជ្ឈមណ្ឌលកុមារកំព្រា (maccʰea’mʊəndʊəl ko’maa kɑmprie), គ្រឹះស្ថានរក្សាក្មេងកំព្រា (krɨh stʰaan reaksaa kmeɛŋ kɑmprie)
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References[edit]
- “orphanage” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
