veranda
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English
Alternative forms
- verandah (usual in Australia and New Zealand, archaic elsewhere)
- viranda, virandah (dated)
- virando (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi बरामदा m (barāmdā) or बरण्डा m (baraṇḍā), from Portuguese varanda (“balustrade; balcony”).
Pronunciation
Noun
veranda (plural verandas)
- A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.
- 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:
- 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
Descendants
- → French: véranda
- → Polish: weranda
- → German: Veranda
- → Japanese: ベランダ
- → Palauan: berangdang
- → Russian: веранда (veranda)
- → Korean: 베란다 (beranda)
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Translations
roofed open gallery
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Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Noun
veranda
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
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
veranda f
Declension
Further reading
- veranda in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- veranda in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology
Noun
veranda c (singular definite verandaen, plural indefinite verandaer)
Inflection
Declension of veranda
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | veranda | verandaen | verandaer | verandaerne |
| genitive | verandas | verandaens | verandaers | verandaernes |
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English veranda, from Hindi बरामदा (barāmdā), from Portuguese varanda.
Pronunciation
Noun
veranda f (plural veranda's, diminutive verandaatje n)
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Noun
veranda (plural verandák)
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
Further reading
- veranda in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Italian
Noun
veranda f (plural verande)
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
veranda m (definite singular verandaen, indefinite plural verandaer, definite plural verandaene)
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
veranda m (definite singular verandaen, indefinite plural verandaer or verandaar, definite plural verandaene or verandaane)
References
- “veranda” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
vèrānda f (Cyrillic spelling вѐра̄нда)
Declension
Declension of veranda
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
veranda f (plural verandas)
Further reading
- “veranda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English veranda, from Hindi बरामदा (barāmdā), from Portuguese varanda.
Noun
veranda c
Usage notes
Outside extension of the bottom floor of a house, with or without a roof.
Declension
| Declension of veranda | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | veranda | verandan | verandor | verandorna |
| Genitive | verandas | verandans | verandors | verandornas |
Related terms
See also
References
- veranda in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- veranda in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- veranda in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
Turkish
Etymology
Noun
veranda (definite accusative verandayı, plural verandalar)