tramway
See also: Tramway
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
tramway (plural tramways)
- The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs.
- The system of cables that supports a cable car.
- (Victoria, formal) A lane of a road or street, in which tram tracks are embedded, that is (in normal circumstances) for the exclusive use of trams and public buses.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → French: tramway
- → Russian: трамва́й (tramváj) (see there for further descendants)
- → Portuguese: trâmuei
- → Spanish: tranvía
Translations edit
track on which trams run
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French edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English tramway, from Middle Dutch trame, ultimately from a lost West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) word.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tramway m (plural tramways)
- (rail transport) tram (passenger vehicle)
Descendants edit
- → Romanian: tramway
- → Russian: трамва́й (tramváj)
- → Armenian: տրամվայ (tramvay)
- → Azerbaijani: tramvay
- → Bashkir: трамвай (tramvay)
- → Belarusian: трамва́й (tramváj)
- → Georgian: ტრამვაი (ṭramvai)
- → Kazakh: трамвай (tramvai)
- → Kyrgyz: трамвай (tramvay)
- → Mongolian:
- → Polish: tramwaj
- → Tajik: трамвай (tramvay)
- → Tatar: трамвай (tramway)
- → Turkmen: tramwaý
- → Ukrainian: трамва́й (tramváj)
- → Uyghur: ترامۋاي (tramway)
- → Uzbek: tramvay
- → Turkish: tramvay
Further reading edit
- “tramway”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
tramway m (plural tramways)
- (rail transport) tramway; Alternative spelling of trâmuei
- Synonym: tranvia