orphanage

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Attested since the 1570s; orphan +‎ -age.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

Wikipedia

orphanage ‎(plural orphanages)

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

SynonymsEdit

• children's home
• orphanarium

TranslationsEdit

a public institution for the care and protection of orphans

• Albanian: jetimore (sq) f
• Arabic: دَار الْأَيْتَام f ‎(dār al-ʾaytām)
• Basque: umezurztegi
• Belarusian: дзіця́чы дом m ‎(dzicjáčy dom)
• Bulgarian: сиропита́лище (bg) n ‎(siropitálište)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孤兒院 (zh), 孤儿院 (zh) ‎(gū'éryuàn), 保育院 (zh) ‎(bǎoyùyuàn), 兒童福利院, 儿童福利院 ‎(értóng fúlìyuàn)

• Classical Nahuatl: icnōpilcalli
• Czech: sirotčinec m, dětský dům m
• Danish: børnehjem n
• Dutch: weeshuis (nl)
• Esperanto: orfejo
• Estonian: lastekodu
• Finnish: orpokoti (fi); lastenkoti (fi)
• French: orphelinat (fr) m, maison d'enfants f
• Galician: orfanato (gl) m
• German: Waisenhaus (de) n, Kinderheim (de) n
• Greek: ορφανοτροφείο (el) n ‎(orfanotrofeío)
• Greenlandic: børnehjemmi, meeqqat angerlarsimaffiat, perorsaavik
• Hindi: अनाथ आश्रम m ‎(anāth āśram)
• Hungarian: árvaház (hu)
• Icelandic: munaðarleysingjahæli (is) n
• Ido: orfanerio (io)
• Irish: dílleachtlann f
• Italian: orfanotrofio (it)
• Japanese: 孤児院 (ja) ‎(こじいん, kojiin)
• Khmer: មជ្ឈមណ្ឌលកុមារកំព្រា ‎(maccʰea’mʊəndʊəl ko’maa kɑmprie), គ្រឹះស្ថានរក្សាក្មេងកំព្រា ‎(krɨh stʰaan reaksaa kmeɛŋ kɑmprie)

• Korean: 고아원 (ko) ‎(goawon) (孤兒院 (ko))
• Latvian: bērnu nams m
• Macedonian: сиропита́лиште n ‎(siropitálište)
• Maori: wharepani
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barnehjem n

• Persian: یتیم‌خانه ‎(yatim-xâne)
• Plautdietsch: Weisenheim n
• Polish: sierociniec (pl) m, dom dziecka (pl) m
• Portuguese: orfanato (pt) m
• Russian: де́тский дом m ‎(détskij dom), детдо́м (ru) m ‎(detdóm), прию́т для сиро́т m ‎(prijút dlja sirót), прию́т (ru) m ‎(prijút)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сѝротӣште n

  Roman: sìrotīšte (sh) n

• Slovak: detský domov m
• Slovene: sirotišnica f
• Spanish: orfanato (es) m, casa cuna f
• Swedish: barnhem (sv) n
• Telugu: అనాధశరణాలయం ‎(anādhaśaraṇālayaṃ)
• Turkish: yetimhane (tr)
• Ukrainian: дитя́чий буди́нок (uk) m ‎(dytjáčyj budýnok)
• Urdu: اناتھ آشرم m ‎(anāth āśram)
• Vietnamese: trại trẻ mồ côi

ReferencesEdit

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