fortochka

English

fortochka (in the upper left corner)

Etymology

From Russian фо́рточка (fórtočka), from German Pförtchen (“little door”), diminutive of Pforte (“gate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːtət͡ʃkə/

Noun

fortochka (plural fortochkas)

1. A small ventilation window, spanning the frame of one window pane, that opens on hinges independently of the whole window, common in Russia, other post-Soviet states and Finland.

Translations

small ventilation window spanning the frame of a window

• Armenian: օդանցք (hy) (ōdancʻkʻ)
• Belarusian: фо́ртачка f (fórtačka)
• Czech: vyhlídka (cs) f, větrací okénko n
• Erzya: вальмаваря (vaľmavaŕa)
• Finnish: tuuletusikkuna
• French: vasistas (fr) m
• Georgian: სარკმელი (ka) (sarḳmeli)
• German: Klappfenster n, Kämpferfenster n, Fortotschka f or n
• Hungarian: szellőzőablak
• Kyrgyz: форточка (fortocka)
• Latvian: vēdlodziņš m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: салхивч (mn) (salxivč)

• Polish: lufcik (pl) m, oberluft (pl) m, wietrznik (pl) m, wywietrzak m, wywietrznik (pl) m
• Russian: фо́рточка (ru) f (fórtočka)
• Tajik: бодхан (bodxan), бодхон (bodxon)
• Turkish: vasistas (tr)
• Ukrainian: квати́рка (uk) f (kvatýrka)
• Uzbek: fortochka (uz)

Further reading

• fortochka on Wikipedia.Wikipedia