orphanage

English

Etymology

Attested since the 1570s; orphan +‎ -age.

Noun

Wikipedia orphanage (plural orphanages)

1. A public institution for the care and protection of orphans.
2. (obsolete) Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.

Synonyms

• children's home
• orphanarium

Translations

a public institution for the care and protection of orphans

• Albanian: jetimore
• Arabic: دار الأيتام (ar) (daar al-'aytaam) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孤兒院 (cmn), 孤儿院 (cmn) (gū'éryuàn)

• Czech: sirotčinec (cs) m
• Danish: børnehjem
• Dutch: weeshuis (nl)
• Esperanto: orfejo (eo)
• Finnish: orpokoti (fi); lastenkoti (fi)
• French: orphelinat (fr) m
• German: Waisenhaus (de) n
• Greek: ορφανοτροφείο (el) (orfanotrofeío) n 
• Greenlandic: børnehjemmi (kl), meeqqat angerlarsimaffiat (kl), perorsaavik (kl)
• Hindi: अनाथ आश्रम (hi) (anāth āśram) m
• Hungarian: árvaház (hu)
• Icelandic: munaðarleysingjahæli (is) n
• Japanese: 孤児院 (ja) (こじいん, kojiin)

• Korean: 고아원 (ko) (goawon (孤兒院))
• Latvian: bērnu nams (lv) m
• Macedonian: сиропиталиште (mk) (siropitálište) n
• Persian: یتیم‌خانه (fa) (yatim-xâne)
• Plautdietsch: Weisenheim n
• Portuguese: orfanato (pt) m
• Russian: детский дом (ru) (détskij dom) m , детдом (ru) (detdóm) m , приют для сирот (ru) (prijút dlja sirót) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сѝротӣште (sh) n

  Roman: sìrotīšte (sh) n

• Spanish: orfanato (es) m
• Swedish: barnhem (sv)
• Telugu: అనాధశరణాలయం (anaadhaSaraNaalayam)
• Turkish: yetimhane (tr)
• Urdu: اناتھ آشرم (ur) (anāth āśram) m

References

• “orphanage” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).