English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
railing (plural railings)
- A fence or barrier consisting of one or more horizontal rails and vertical supports.
- During the war, everyone's railings were taken away to make bombers.
Usage notes[edit]
British use is normally the plural.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
fence or barrier
- Armenian: ճաղավանդակ (čaġavandak), բազրիք (hy) (bazrikʻ)
- Basque: baranda
- Bulgarian: парапет (bg) m (parapet)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 欄杆 (zh) (lángān)
- Czech: zábradlí n
- Danish: rækværk n
- Dutch: hekwerk (nl) n
- Finnish: kaide (fi), rauta-aita
- French: rampe (fr) (of staircase), barrière (fr) f, clôture (fr) f
- German: Geländer (de) n
- Greek: κιγκλίδα (el) f (kigklída)
- Hebrew: מַעֲקֶה (he) m (ma'aké)
- Hungarian: korlát (hu)
- Ido: pasamano (io)
- Indonesian: pagar (id)
- Irish: ráille m
- Italian: ringhiera (it) f
- Japanese: 手摺 (ja) (てすり, tesuri), 手すり (てすり, tesuri)
- Latin: cancellī m pl
- Norman: bârrotîns m pl (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: rekkverk n, gelender n
- Nynorsk: rekkverk n, gelender n
- Occitan: barralha f, retenedor m, barrièra (oc) f
- Ottoman Turkish: پرمقلق (parmaklık)
- Polish: reling (pl) f
- Portuguese: corrimão (pt) m
- Romanian: balustradă (ro) f
- Russian: пери́ла (ru) n pl (períla), по́ручень (ru) m (póručenʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: callaid f
- Spanish: barandilla (es)
- Swedish: räcke (sv) n, staket (sv) n
- Telugu: కటకటాలు (te) (kaṭakaṭālu)
- Turkish: küpeşte (tr)
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railing
- present participle and gerund of rail
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