veranda

See also: Veranda, véranda, and verandă

English

Alternative forms

• verandah (usual in Australia and New Zealand, archaic elsewhere)
• viranda, virandah (dated)
• virando (obsolete)

Etymology

An Indian English word of Indo-Portuguese origin, from Portuguese varanda (“balustrade; balcony”). Further etymology is unclear and disputed.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /vəˈɹæn.də/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ændə

Noun

veranda (plural verandas)

1. A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. [from 18th c.]
   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 66:

     Boulte ate his breakfast, advised her to see her Arab pony fed in the veranda, and went out.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:

     No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.

Derived terms

• verandaed
• verandaless

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: вера́нда (veránda)
• → Burmese: ဝရန်တာ (wa.ranta)
• → French: véranda
  • → Polish: weranda
• → German: Veranda
• → Hindi: वरंडा (varaṇḍā)
• → Japanese: ベランダ
• → Kannada: ವರಾಂಡ (varāṇḍa)
• → Kashmiri: وَرَنٛڑَہ (varanḍah)
• → Palauan: berangdang
• → Russian: веранда (veranda)
• → Korean: 베란다 (beranda)
• → Telugu: వరండా (varaṇḍā)

Translations

roofed open gallery

• Arabic: شُرْفَة (ar) f (šurfa)

  Egyptian Arabic: ڤراندة f (varanda, veranda)

• Armenian: ծածկապատշգամբ (hy) (cackapatšgamb), վերանդա (hy) (veranda)
• Bengali: বারান্দা (bn) (baranda)
• Bhojpuri: बरामदा (barāmᵊdā)
• Bulgarian: вера́нда (bg) f (veránda)
• Burmese: ဝရန်တာ (my) (wa.ranta)
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陽台 (zh) (yángtái)

• Comorian:

  Ngazidja Comorian: ɓaraza class 5/6

• Czech: veranda f
• Danish: veranda (da) c
• Esperanto: verando
• Estonian: veranda (et)
• Finnish: kuisti (fi), veranta (fi)
• French: véranda (fr) f
• Georgian: ვერანდა (veranda)
• German: Veranda (de) f
• Greek: βεράντα (el) f (veránta)

  Ancient Greek: αἴθουσα f (aíthousa)

• Hebrew: אכסדרה (he) f (akhsadrá)
• Hindi: बरामदा (hi) m (barāmdā), बरण्डा m (baraṇḍā)
• Hungarian: veranda (hu)
• Icelandic: verönd f
• Irish: vearanda m
• Italian: veranda (it) f
• Japanese: ベランダ (ja) (beranda)
• Kabuverdianu: varanda
• Korean: 베란다 (ko) (beranda)
• Latin: subdiale n
• Macedonian: вера́нда f (veránda)
• Māori: mahau, whakamahau
• Mwani: lupenu
• Naga:

  Khiamniungan Naga: ûichìu

• Norwegian: veranda (no) m
• Occitan: veranda (oc) f
• Persian: برآمده (fa) (bar-âmde), ایوان (fa) (eyvân)
• Polish: weranda (pl) f
• Portuguese: varanda (pt) f, alpendre (pt) m
• Romani: baramda f
• Romanian: verandă (ro)
• Russian: вера́нда (ru) f (veránda)
• Scottish Gaelic: for-sheòmar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вѐра̄нда f

  Latin: vèrānda (sh) f

• Slovak: veranda f
• Spanish: porche (es) m, galería (es) f
• Swahili: varanda
• Swedish: veranda (sv) c
• Tagalog: beranda
• Tày: cai
• Tibetan: གཡབ (g.yab), ཀ་ཕིབས (ka phibs)
• Turkish: veranda (tr)
• Ukrainian: веранда f (veranda)
• Urdu: برامدہ m (barāmdā), برنڈا m (baraṇḍā)
• Vietnamese: hiên (vi)

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Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} beranda (id)

Albanian

Noun

veranda

1. inflection of verandë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

French véranda.

Noun

veranda

1. veranda, verandah

Declension

Declension of veranda

	singular	plural
nominative	veranda	verandalar
genitive	verandanıñ	verandalarnıñ
dative	verandağa	verandalarğa
accusative	verandanı	verandalarnı
locative	verandada	verandalarda
ablative	verandadan	verandalardan

References

• “veranda”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛranda]
• Hyphenation: ve‧ran‧da

Noun

veranda f

1. verandah

Declension

Declension of veranda (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	veranda	verandy
genitive	verandy	verand
dative	verandě	verandám
accusative	verandu	verandy
vocative	verando	verandy
locative	verandě	verandách
instrumental	verandou	verandami

Further reading

• “veranda”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “veranda”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Via English veranda, from Indo-Portuguese, from Portuguese varanda.

Noun

veranda c (singular definite verandaen, plural indefinite verandaer)

1. veranda

Inflection

Declension of veranda

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	veranda	verandaen	verandaer	verandaerne
genitive	verandas	verandaens	verandaers	verandaernes

References

• “veranda” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English veranda, from Indo-Portuguese, from Portuguese varanda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈrɑn.daː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ve‧ran‧da

Noun

veranda f (plural veranda's, diminutive verandaatje n)

1. veranda

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛrɒndɒ]
• Hyphenation: ve‧ran‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Noun

veranda (plural verandák)

1. verandah

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	veranda	verandák
accusative	verandát	verandákat
dative	verandának	verandáknak
instrumental	verandával	verandákkal
causal-final	verandáért	verandákért
translative	verandává	verandákká
terminative	verandáig	verandákig
essive-formal	verandaként	verandákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	verandában	verandákban
superessive	verandán	verandákon
adessive	verandánál	verandáknál
illative	verandába	verandákba
sublative	verandára	verandákra
allative	verandához	verandákhoz
elative	verandából	verandákból
delative	verandáról	verandákról
ablative	verandától	verandáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	verandáé	verandáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	verandáéi	verandákéi

Possessive forms of veranda

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	verandám	verandáim
2nd person sing.	verandád	verandáid
3rd person sing.	verandája	verandái
1st person plural	verandánk	verandáink
2nd person plural	verandátok	verandáitok
3rd person plural	verandájuk	verandáik

Synonyms

• tornác

Further reading

• veranda in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Italian

Noun

veranda f (plural verande)

1. verandah, porch

Anagrams

• drenava

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

veranda m (definite singular verandaen, indefinite plural verandaer, definite plural verandaene)

1. a veranda or verandah (roofed open gallery)

References

• “veranda” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “veranda” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

veranda m (definite singular verandaen, indefinite plural verandaer or verandaar, definite plural verandaene or verandaane)

1. a veranda or verandah (as above)

References

• “veranda” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋěraːnda/
• Hyphenation: ve‧ran‧da

Noun

vèrānda f (Cyrillic spelling вѐра̄нда)

1. verandah
2. balcony
3. patio

Declension

Declension of veranda

	singular	plural
nominative	veranda	verande
genitive	verande	veranda
dative	verandi	verandama
accusative	verandu	verande
vocative	verando	verande
locative	verandi	verandama
instrumental	verandom	verandama

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈɾanda/ [beˈɾãn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: ve‧ran‧da

Noun

veranda f (plural verandas)

1. veranda

Descendants

• → Tagalog: beranda

Further reading

• “veranda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

en veranda

Etymology

Borrowed from English veranda, from Indo-Portuguese, from Portuguese varanda.

Noun

veranda c

1. (architecture) a porch, a veranda (outside extension of the bottom floor of a house, normally with a roof)

Declension

Declension of veranda

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	veranda	verandas
	definite	verandan	verandans
plural	indefinite	verandor	verandors
	definite	verandorna	verandornas

Derived terms

• groggveranda
• punschveranda
• verandadörr
• verandatrappa

See also

• altan
• farstukvist
• terrass

References

• veranda in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• veranda in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• veranda in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• vaderna, varande, varenda, varnade

Turkish

Etymology

From French véranda.

Noun

veranda (definite accusative verandayı, plural verandalar)

1. veranda
2. balcony
3. patio, porch

Declension

Declension of veranda

singular plural nominative veranda verandalar definite accusative verandayı verandaları dative verandaya verandalara locative verandada verandalarda ablative verandadan verandalardan genitive verandanın verandaların Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular verandam verandalarım 2nd singular verandan verandaların 3rd singular verandası verandaları 1st plural verandamız verandalarımız 2nd plural verandanız verandalarınız 3rd plural verandaları verandaları definite accusative singular plural 1st singular verandamı verandalarımı 2nd singular verandanı verandalarını 3rd singular verandasını verandalarını 1st plural verandamızı verandalarımızı 2nd plural verandanızı verandalarınızı 3rd plural verandalarını verandalarını dative singular plural 1st singular verandama verandalarıma 2nd singular verandana verandalarına 3rd singular verandasına verandalarına 1st plural verandamıza verandalarımıza 2nd plural verandanıza verandalarınıza 3rd plural verandalarına verandalarına locative singular plural 1st singular verandamda verandalarımda 2nd singular verandanda verandalarında 3rd singular verandasında verandalarında 1st plural verandamızda verandalarımızda 2nd plural verandanızda verandalarınızda 3rd plural verandalarında verandalarında ablative singular plural 1st singular verandamdan verandalarımdan 2nd singular verandandan verandalarından 3rd singular verandasından verandalarından 1st plural verandamızdan verandalarımızdan 2nd plural verandanızdan verandalarınızdan 3rd plural verandalarından verandalarından genitive singular plural 1st singular verandamın verandalarımın 2nd singular verandanın verandalarının 3rd singular verandasının verandalarının 1st plural verandamızın verandalarımızın 2nd plural verandanızın verandalarınızın 3rd plural verandalarının verandalarının

Synonyms

• balkon
• taraça

See also

• sundurma