renovation

See also: rénovation

English

A building undergoing renovation

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin renovatio, renovationem.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

renovation (countable and uncountable, plural renovations)

1. An act, or the process, of renovating.
2. (theology) Regeneration.

Related terms

• renovate

Derived terms

• renovationism
• renovationist

Translations

act or process of renovating

• Arabic: تَجْدِيد‎ m (tajdīd), إِحْيَاء‎ m (ʾiḥyāʾ), تَرْمِيم‎ m (tarmīm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 整修 (zh) (zhěngxiū), 翻新 (zh) (fānxīn), 刷新 (zh) (shuāxīn)

• Dutch: renovatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: renovigo
• Finnish: saneeraus (fi), peruskorjaus, remontti (fi)
• French: rénovation (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Renovierung (de) f
• Hungarian: renoválás, felújítás (hu)
• Irish: athnuachan f

• Japanese: 改装 (ja) (かいそう, kaisō), 修築 (ja) (しゅうちく, shūchiku), 更改 (ja) (こうかい, kōkai)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: renovering m or f

  Nynorsk: renovering f

• Portuguese: renovação (pt) f
• Russian: ремо́нт (ru) m (remónt), реконстру́кция (ru) f (rekonstrúkcija), обновле́ние (ru) n (obnovlénije)
• Spanish: renovación (es) f
• Swahili: ukarabati (sw)
• Tagalog: pagsasaayos, pagkakapag-ayos
• Turkish: yenileme (tr), bakım (tr), tamirat (tr)