porch

See also: Porch

English

Etymology

From Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”). Doublet of portego, portico, and porticus.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːtʃ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /pɔɹt͡ʃ/
(rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹtʃ/
(non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poətʃ/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃ

Noun

porch (plural porches)

The porch of the William G. Harrison House.

(architecture) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
He sat on his porch, waiting for his friend to come over.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
  But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, […] . We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.
A portico; a covered walk.
The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
- 2012, Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson, Chariots for Apollo:
  By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.

Synonyms

see Thesaurus:porch

Derived terms

Translations

a covered and enclosed entrance to a building

Albanian: verandë (sq) f, treme (sq) f, hajat (sq) m
Arabic: رِوَاق m (riwāq), رُوَاق m (ruwāq), شُرْفَة (ar) f (šurfa)
Armenian: ճակատամուտք (hy) (čakatamutkʻ), պատշգամբ (hy) (patšgamb)
Azerbaijani: eyvan (az), səki (az), talvar (az)
Basque: apiriku
Belarusian: га́нак m (hának), вера́нда f (vjeránda)
Bengali: বারান্দা (bn) (baranda), রোয়াক (bn) (roak)
Bhojpuri: बरामदा (barāmᵊdā)
Bulgarian: вера́нда (bg) m (veránda)
Catalan: porxo (ca) m, pòrtic (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 門廊 / 门廊 (zh) (ménláng), 玄關 / 玄关 (zh) (xuánguān)
Czech: veranda f
Dutch: veranda (nl) f, portiek (nl) f
Erzya: кустембе (kustembe)
Esperanto: porĉo, alero, portiko
Estonian: veranda (et)
Finnish: porstua (fi), kuisti (fi)
French: porche (fr) m, véranda (fr) f, portique (fr) m
Galician: portal m, alpendre (gl) m
Georgian: პარმაღი (ṗarmaɣi)
German: Vorbau (de) m, Vordach (de) n, Veranda (de) f, Windfang (de) m, Vorraum (de) m
Gothic: 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰 f (ubizwa)
Greek:
Ancient: παστάς f (pastás)
Hebrew: מִרְפֶּסֶת (he) f (mirpéset)
Hindi: द्वारमण्डप m (dvārmaṇḍap), बरामदा (hi) m (barāmdā)
Hungarian: tornác (hu), veranda (hu)
Irish: póirse m
Italian: veranda (it) f
Japanese: ポーチ (ja) (pōchi), 玄関 (ja) (げんかん, genkan)
Kabuverdianu: varanda
Kazakh: кіреберіс (kıreberıs), шығаберіс (şyğaberıs)
Korean: 현관(玄關) (ko) (hyeon'gwan), 포치 (pochi)
Kyrgyz: босого (ky) (bosogo), крыльцо (krıltso)
Latin: porticus f
Latvian: lievenis (lv) m, veranda f
Lithuanian: veranda f
Macedonian: трем m (trem), предворје n (predvorje)
Malayalam: പൂമുഖം (ml) (pūmukhaṁ)
Maori: mahau, whakamahau, kōihi, tupehau, pikitara, kopa pākai
Mongolian: кирлц (kirlc)
Norman: portico m
Northern Altai: паскыч (paskïč), паскыш (paskïš)
Old English: forehūs
Pennsylvania German: Portsch
Persian: ایوان (fa) (eyvân)
Polish: ganek (pl) m, przedsionek (pl) m
Portuguese: alpendre (pt) m, pórtico (pt) m, varanda (pt) f
Romanian: verandă (ro) f, portic (ro) n
Russian: крыльцо́ (ru) n (krylʹcó), вера́нда (ru) f (veránda)
Scottish Gaelic: fosglan m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: трем m, тријем m

Roman: trem (sh) m, trijem (sh) m
Slovak: veranda f
Slovene: preddverje (sl) n
Southern Altai: кирнесте (kirneste)
Spanish: pórtico (es) m, porche (es) m
Swedish: veranda (sv) c (with or without roof), förstukvist (sv) (usually with roof)
Tagalog: portiko
Tajik: айвончаи дари даромад (ayvonča-yi dar-i daromad), айвон (tg) (ayvon)
Tatar: болдыр (tt) (boldır)
Thai: เฉลียง (th) (chlǐiang), มุข (th) (múk), ระเบียง (th) (rá-biiang)
Turkish: sundurma (tr), veranda (tr)
Ukrainian: ґа́нок (uk) m (gánok), вера́нда f (veránda)
Uzbek: ayvon (uz)
Welsh: porth (cy) m, cyntedd m
Yiddish: גאַניק m (ganik)

a portico; a covered walk

Esperanto: portiko
Finnish: pylväshalli
Galician: soportal m
Greek:
Ancient: παστάς f (pastás)
Hindi: द्वारमण्डप m (dvārmaṇḍap)
Italian: portico (it) m
Latin: porticus m
Norman: portico m
Polish: portyk (pl) m
Russian: по́ртик (ru) m (pórtik), кры́тая галере́я f (krýtaja galeréja)
Spanish: pórtico (es) m, soportal (es) m

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Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} verönd f