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Noun
stairs
plural of stair
Noun
Template:en-plural noun
A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors .
1762 , Charles Johnstone , The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools [1] , volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC , page 202 :At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs , naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them [ …]
1913 , Joseph C. Lincoln , chapter 13, in Mr. Pratt's Patients :We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.
Synonyms
Translations
contiguous set of steps
Afrikaans: trap
Albanian: shkallë (sq) f
Arabic: سَلَالِم m pl ( salālim )
Armenian: սանդուղք (hy) ( sanduġkʻ ) , աստիճաններ pl ( astičanner )
Aromanian: scarã f
Azerbaijani: pilləkan
Bashkir: баҫҡыс ( baśqıs )
Belarusian: ле́свіца f ( ljésvica ) , схо́ды pl ( sxódy ) , усхо́ды pl ( usxódy ) / ўсхо́ды pl ( ŭsxódy )
Bengali: সোপান ( śōpan )
Bulgarian: стъ̀лба (bg) f ( stǎ̀lba )
Burmese: လှေကား (my) ( hleka: )
Catalan: escala (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 樓梯 / 楼梯 ( lau4 tai1 ) , 楼梯 ( lau4 tai1 )
Mandarin: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (zh) ( lóutī ) , 楼梯 (zh) ( lóutī )
Chukchi: тыттатъёлгын ( tyttatʺjolgyn )
Czech: schodiště (cs) n , schody pl
Danish: trappe (da)
Dutch: trap (nl)
Egyptian: (rwd )
Esperanto: ŝtuparo
Estonian: trepp
Finnish: portaat (fi)
French: escalier (fr) m
Friulian: scjale f , sčhale f
Galician: escaleira f , escada f , esqueira f
Georgian: კიბეები ( ḳibeebi ) , საფეხურები ( sapexurebi )
German: Treppe (de) f
Alemannic German: Schtäge f
Greek: σκάλα (el) f ( skála )
Ancient: ἀναβαθμοί m pl ( anabathmoí )
Haitian Creole: eskalye
Hebrew: גֶרֶם מַדרֵגוֹת m ( gerem madregot )
Hindi: सीढ़ी (hi) f ( sīṛhī ) , सोपान (hi) m ( sopān )
Hungarian: lépcső (hu)
Icelandic: stigi (is) m
Ido: eskalero (io)
Indonesian: tangga (id)
Irish: staighre (ga) f
Italian: scala (it) f
Japanese: 階段 (ja) ( かいだん, kaidan )
Kazakh: саты (kk) ( saty )
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Khmer: កាំជណ្ដើរ ( kam cŭəndaə ) , ជណ្ដើរ (km) ( cŭəndaə )
Korean: 계단 (ko) ( gyedan ) (階段 (ko) )
Kyrgyz: саты ( satı )
Lao: ບັນໄດ ( ban dai )
Latin: scālae f pl
Latvian: kāpnes (lv) f pl
Lithuanian: laiptinė f
Macedonian: ска́ли pl ( skáli )
Malay: tangga
Maltese: tat-turġien
Mongolian: шат (mn) ( šat )
Norwegian: trapp (no) m or f
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Pashto: اندرپايه f ( anarpāyá ) , ځينه f ( jiná ) , څپېڅلۍ f ( caрécley )
Persian: پلکان (fa) ( pellekân )
Polish: schody (pl) pl
Portuguese: escada (pt)
Romanian: scară (ro)
Russian: ле́стница (ru) f ( léstnica ) , ступе́ньки (ru) f pl ( stupénʹki )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: степенице f pl , степеник m , степениште n , стубиште n
Roman: stepenice (sh) f pl , stepenik (sh) m , stepenište (sh) n , stubište (sh) n
Slovak: schody pl , schodisko n
Slovene: stopnišče (sl) n
Spanish: escalera (es) f
Swedish: trappa (sv)
Tagalog: baitang , hagdan (tl) , hagdanan (tl)
Tajik: зинапоя ( zinapoya ) , нардбон ( nardbon )
Tatar: баскыч (tt) ( baskıç )
Thai: บันได (th) ( ban-dai )
Tibetan: སྐས་འཛེགས ( skas 'dzegs )
Turkish: basamak (tr) , merdiven (tr)
Turkmen: merdiwan
Ukrainian: схо́ди pl ( sxódy )
Urdu: سیڑھی f ( sīṛhī )
Uyghur: پەلەمپەي ( pelempey )
Uzbek: narvon (uz) , zinapoya (uz)
Vietnamese: cầu thang (vi)
Welsh: grisiau (cy) f
Yiddish: טרעפּל ( trepl )
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