stairwell

English

a college stairwell

Etymology

From stair +‎ well.

Noun

stairwell (plural stairwells)

1. A shaft in a multi-story building enclosing a stairway or staircase.

Translations

a shaft in a multi-story building enclosing a stairway or staircase

• Arabic: عَمُود السُّلَّم m (ʕamūd as-sullam)
• Bulgarian: стълбищна шахта f (stǎlbištna šahta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 樓梯井／楼梯井 (lóutījǐng)

• Danish: opgang c
• Dutch: trappenhuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: rappukäytävä (fi), porraskäytävä (fi), porrashuone (fi)
• French: cage d’escalier (fr) f
• German: Treppenhaus (de) n
• Greek: φρέαρ κλιμακοστασίου n (fréar klimakostasíou)
• Hungarian: lépcsőház (hu)
• Icelandic: stigagangur m
• Italian: tromba delle scale f, pozzo delle scale m
• Japanese: 階段の吹き抜け (かいだんのふきぬけ, kaidan no fukinuke)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trappeoppgang (no) m

  Nynorsk: trappeoppgang m

• Polish: klatka schodowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: poço (pt) m, poço das escadas m, poço da escadaria m
• Russian: ле́стничный коло́дец m (léstničnyj kolódec), подъе́зд (ru) m (podʺjézd)
• Spanish: caja (es) f
• Swedish: trapphus (sv) n, trappuppgång c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can