veranda

See also: Veranda, véranda, and verandă

English

Alternative forms

• verandah (usual in Australia and New Zealand, archaic elsewhere)
• viranda, virandah (dated)
• virando (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi बरामदा m (barāmdā) or बरण्डा m (baraṇḍā), from Portuguese varanda (“balustrade; balcony”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /vəˈɹæn.də/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ændə

Noun

veranda (plural verandas)

1. A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. [from 18th c.]
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:

     No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.

Derived terms

• verandaed
• verandaless

 

Descendants

• → French: véranda
  • → Polish: weranda
• → German: Veranda
• → Japanese: ベランダ
• → Palauan: berangdang
• → Russian: веранда (veranda)
• → Korean: 베란다 (beranda)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} beranda (id)

Translations

roofed open gallery

• Arabic: شُرْفَة‎ (ar) f (šurfa)

  Egyptian Arabic: ڤراندة‎ f (varanda, veranda)

• Armenian: ծածկապատշգամբ (hy) (cackapatšgamb), վերանդա (hy) (veranda)
• Bengali: বারান্দা (baranda)
• Burmese: ဝရန်တာ (my) (wa.ranta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陽台／阳台 (zh) (yángtái)

• Czech: veranda f
• Danish: veranda (da) c
• Esperanto: verando
• Estonian: veranda (et)
• Finnish: kuisti (fi), veranta (fi)
• French: véranda (fr) f
• Georgian: ვერანდა (veranda)
• German: Veranda (de) f
• Greek: βεράντα (el) f (veránta)

  Ancient: αἴθουσα f (aíthousa)

• Hindi: बरामदा (hi) m (barāmdā), बरण्डा m (baraṇḍā)
• Hungarian: veranda (hu)
• Icelandic: verönd f
• Irish: vearanda m
• Italian: veranda (it) f
• Japanese: ベランダ (ja) (beranda)
• Kabuverdianu: varanda
• Korean: 베란다 (ko) (beranda)
• Latin: subdiale n
• Macedonian: вера́нда f (veránda)
• Maori: mahau, whakamahau
• Mwani: lupenu
• Ngazidja Comorian: ɓaraza class 5/6
• Norwegian: veranda (no) m
• Occitan: veranda (oc) f
• Persian: برآمده‎ (fa) (bar-âmde), ایوان‎ (fa) (eyvân)
• Polish: weranda (pl) f
• Portuguese: varanda (pt) f, alpendre (pt) m
• Romani: baramda f
• Romanian: verandă (ro)
• Russian: вера́нда (ru) f (veránda)
• Scottish Gaelic: for-sheòmar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вѐра̄нда f

  Roman: vèrānda (sh) f

• Slovak: veranda f
• Spanish: porche (es) m, galería (es) f
• Swahili: varanda
• Swedish: veranda (sv) c
• Tagalog: beranda
• Turkish: veranda (tr)
• Ukrainian: веранда f (veranda)
• Urdu: برامدہ‎ m (barāmdā), برنڈا‎ m (baraṇḍā)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛranda]
• Hyphenation: ve‧ran‧da

Noun

veranda f

1. verandah

Declension

Declension of veranda (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	veranda	verandy
genitive	verandy	verand
dative	verandě	verandám
accusative	verandu	verandy
vocative	verando	verandy
locative	verandě	verandách
instrumental	verandou	verandami

Further reading

• veranda in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• veranda in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From French véranda.

Noun

veranda c (singular definite verandaen, plural indefinite verandaer)

1. verandah

Inflection

Declension of veranda

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	veranda	verandaen	verandaer	verandaerne
genitive	verandas	verandaens	verandaers	verandaernes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English veranda, from Hindi बरामदा (barāmdā), from Portuguese varanda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈrɑn.daː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ve‧ran‧da

Noun

veranda f (plural veranda's, diminutive verandaatje n)

1. veranda

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛrɒndɒ]
• Hyphenation: ve‧ran‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Noun

veranda (plural verandák)

1. verandah

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	veranda	verandák
accusative	verandát	verandákat
dative	verandának	verandáknak
instrumental	verandával	verandákkal
causal-final	verandáért	verandákért
translative	verandává	verandákká
terminative	verandáig	verandákig
essive-formal	verandaként	verandákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	verandában	verandákban
superessive	verandán	verandákon
adessive	verandánál	verandáknál
illative	verandába	verandákba
sublative	verandára	verandákra
allative	verandához	verandákhoz
elative	verandából	verandákból
delative	verandáról	verandákról
ablative	verandától	verandáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	verandáé	verandáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	verandáéi	verandákéi

Possessive forms of veranda
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	verandám	verandáim
2nd person sing.	verandád	verandáid
3rd person sing.	verandája	verandái
1st person plural	verandánk	verandáink
2nd person plural	verandátok	verandáitok
3rd person plural	verandájuk	verandáik

Synonyms

• tornác

Further reading

• veranda in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Noun

veranda f (plural verande)

1. verandah, porch

Anagrams

• drenava

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

veranda m (definite singular verandaen, indefinite plural verandaer, definite plural verandaene)

1. a veranda or verandah (roofed open gallery)

References

• “veranda” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “veranda” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

veranda m (definite singular verandaen, indefinite plural verandaer or verandaar, definite plural verandaene or verandaane)

1. a veranda or verandah (as above)

References

• “veranda” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋěraːnda/
• Hyphenation: ve‧ran‧da

Noun

vèrānda f (Cyrillic spelling вѐра̄нда)

1. verandah
2. balcony
3. patio

Declension

Declension of veranda

	singular	plural
nominative	veranda	verande
genitive	verande	veranda
dative	verandi	verandama
accusative	verandu	verande
vocative	verando	verande
locative	verandi	verandama
instrumental	verandom	verandama

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈɾanda/ [beˈɾãn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: ve‧ran‧da

Noun

veranda f (plural verandas)

1. veranda

Further reading

• “veranda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English veranda, from Hindi बरामदा (barāmdā), from Portuguese varanda.

Noun

veranda c

1. a porch
2. a veranda

Usage notes

Outside extension of the bottom floor of a house, with or without a roof.

Declension

Declension of veranda
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	veranda	verandan	verandor	verandorna
Genitive	verandas	verandans	verandors	verandornas

Related terms

• groggveranda
• punschveranda
• verandadörr
• verandatrappa

See also

• förstukvist

References

• veranda in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• veranda in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• veranda in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• vaderna, varande, varenda, varnade

Turkish

Etymology

From French véranda.

Noun

veranda (definite accusative verandayı, plural verandalar)

1. veranda
2. balcony
3. patio, porch

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	veranda
Definite accusative	verandayı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	veranda	verandalar
Definite accusative	verandayı	verandaları
Dative	verandaya	verandalara
Locative	verandada	verandalarda
Ablative	verandadan	verandalardan
Genitive	verandanın	verandaların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular verandam verandalarım 2nd singular verandan verandaların 3rd singular verandası verandaları 1st plural verandamız verandalarımız 2nd plural verandanız verandalarınız 3rd plural verandaları verandaları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular verandamı verandalarımı 2nd singular verandanı verandalarını 3rd singular verandasını verandalarını 1st plural verandamızı verandalarımızı 2nd plural verandanızı verandalarınızı 3rd plural verandalarını verandalarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular verandama verandalarıma 2nd singular verandana verandalarına 3rd singular verandasına verandalarına 1st plural verandamıza verandalarımıza 2nd plural verandanıza verandalarınıza 3rd plural verandalarına verandalarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular verandamda verandalarımda 2nd singular verandanda verandalarında 3rd singular verandasında verandalarında 1st plural verandamızda verandalarımızda 2nd plural verandanızda verandalarınızda 3rd plural verandalarında verandalarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular verandamdan verandalarımdan 2nd singular verandandan verandalarından 3rd singular verandasından verandalarından 1st plural verandamızdan verandalarımızdan 2nd plural verandanızdan verandalarınızdan 3rd plural verandalarından verandalarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular verandamın verandalarımın 2nd singular verandanın verandalarının 3rd singular verandasının verandalarının 1st plural verandamızın verandalarımızın 2nd plural verandanızın verandalarınızın 3rd plural verandalarının verandalarının

Synonyms

• balkon
• taraça

See also

• sundurma