porch

See also: Porch

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English porche, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin porticus (“portico”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔːtʃ/
• IPA^(key): /pɔɹtʃ/
• IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹtʃ/
• IPA^(key): /poətʃ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃ

Noun

porch (plural porches)

1. (architecture) A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, […] . We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.

2. A portico; a covered walk.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:porch

Derived terms

• back porch
• front porch
• porch monkey
• snow porch
• wet porch

Translations

a covered and enclosed entrance to a building

• Arabic: رِوَاق m (riwāq), رُوَاق m (ruwāq), شُرْفَة (ar) f (šurfa)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: eyvan (az)
• Basque: apiriku
• Belarusian: га́нак m (hának)
• Bulgarian: вера́нда (bg) m (veránda)
• Catalan: porxo (ca) m, pòrtic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門廊／门廊 (zh) (ménláng), 门廊 (zh) (ménláng), 玄關／玄关 (zh) (xuánguān), 玄关 (zh) (xuánguān)

• Czech: veranda f
• Dutch: veranda (nl) f, portiek (nl) f
• Erzya: кустембе (kusťembe)
• Finnish: porstua (fi), kuisti (fi)
• French: porche (fr) m, véranda (fr) f
• Galician: portal m, alpendre (gl) m
• German: Vorbau (de) m, Vordach (de) n, Veranda (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: παστάς f (pastás)

• Hebrew: מִרְפֶּסֶת (he) f (mirpéset)
• Hindi: द्वारमण्डप m (dvārmaṇḍap)
• Hungarian: tornác (hu), veranda (hu)
• Irish: póirse m
• Italian: veranda (it) f
• Japanese: ポーチ (pōchi), 玄関 (ja) (げんかん, genkan)
• Kabuverdianu: varanda
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 현관 (ko) (hyeon'gwan), 포치 (pochi)
• Latin: pergula f
• Macedonian: трем m (trem), предворје n (predvorje)
• Maori: mahau, whakamahau, kōihi, tupehau
• Mongolian: кирлц (kirlc)
• Norman: portico m
• Old English: forehūs
• Pennsylvania German: Portsch
• Persian: ایوان (fa) (eyvân)
• Polish: przedsionek (pl) m, ganek (pl) m
• Portuguese: alpendre (pt) m
• Russian: крыльцо́ (ru) n (krylʹcó), вера́нда (ru) f (veránda)
• Scottish Gaelic: fosglan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трем m, тријем m

  Roman: trem (sh) m, trijem (sh) m

• Slovak: veranda f
• Slovene: preddverje (sl) n
• Spanish: pórtico (es) m, porche (es) m
• Swedish: veranda (sv) c
• Tagalog: portiko
• Turkish: sundurma (tr), veranda (tr)
• Ukrainian: ґа́нок (uk) m (gánok)
• Welsh: porth (cy) m, cyntedd m
• Yiddish: גאַניק m (ganik)

a portico; a covered walk

• Esperanto: portiko
• Finnish: pylväshalli
• Galician: soportal m
• Greek:

  Ancient: πάσχω (páskhō)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: portico (it) m
• Latin: porticus m
• Norman: portico m
• Russian: по́ртик (ru) m (pórtik), кры́тая галере́я f (krýtaja galeréja)

• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} verönd f

See also

• loggia
• porte-cochère