zebra crossing

English

zebra crossing

Etymology

From the similarity of the stripes to those of a zebra.

Pronunciation

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Noun

zebra crossing (plural zebra crossings)

1. (Australia, UK, New Zealand) A pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street.
   • 1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 6, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:

     Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

   • 2003, The Highway Code for Northern Ireland, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 16:

     Do not ride across a pelican, puffin or zebra crossing. Dismount and wheel your cycle across.

   • 2008 December 16, Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things‎^[1], Random House, →ISBN, →OL, Ch. 1:

     They also believed that if they were killed on a zebra crossing, the Government would pay for their funerals. They had the definite impression that that was what zebra crossings were meant for. Free funerals.

Hypernyms

• crosswalk
• pedestrian crossing
• ped xing

Translations

pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 斑馬線／斑马线 (baan¹ maa⁵ sin³), 斑马线 (baan¹ maa⁵ sin³)

  Mandarin: 斑馬線／斑马线 (zh) (bānmǎxiàn), 斑马线 (zh) (bānmǎxiàn)

  Min Nan: 斑馬線／斑马线 (zh-min-nan), 斑马线 (pan-má-sòaⁿ, pan-bé-sòaⁿ)

• Cornish: treusva labol f
• Czech: zebra (cs) f, přechod pro chodce (cs)
• Danish: fodgængerovergang c
• Dutch: zebrapad (nl) n
• Finnish: suojatie (fi)
• French: passage piétons (fr) m, passage clouté (fr) m (old-fashioned)
• German: Zebrastreifen (de) m, Fußgängerüberweg m (formally)
• Hungarian: zebra (hu)
• Icelandic: sebrabraut f
• Indonesian: zebra cross
• Irish: trasrian síogach m, bealach trasna m
• Italian: strisce pedonali f, attraversamento zebrato m
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• Japanese: 横断歩道 (ja) (ōdan hodō)
• Korean: 횡단보도 (ko) (hoengdanbodo)
• Luxembourgish: Zebrasträif f
• Malay: lintasan zebra (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fotgjengerfelt n, fotgjengerovergang m, gangfelt n

  Nynorsk: gangfelt n

• Portuguese: passadeira (pt) f (Portugal), zebra (pt) f (Portugal), faixa de pedestres f (Brazil), faixa (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: trecere de pietoni f, zebră (ro) f
• Russian: пешехо́дный перехо́д m (pešexódnyj perexód), полоса́тый перехо́д m (polosátyj perexód), зе́бра (ru) f (zébra), зе́бра перехо́д m (zébra perexód)
• Spanish: paso de cebra m
• Swedish: övergångsställe (sv)
• Thai: ทางม้าลาย (th) (taang máa laai)
• Turkish: yaya geçidi (tr)
• Welsh: croesfan sebra f

See also

• Belisha beacon
• ghost island
• island
• pelican crossing
• puffin crossing
• toucan crossing