balustrade

See also: Balustrade

English

WOTD – 26 May 2009

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French balustrade, from Italian balaustrata (“with balusters”), from balaustro (“baluster”), from balausta (“wild pomegranate flower”), via Latin balaustium, from Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion), from Semitic, compare Classical Syriac ܒܠܳܨܳܐ (blāṣā, “pomegranate shoot”)). So named because of resemblance to the swelling form of the half-open pomegranate flower. Also see baluster.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌbæl.əˈstɹeɪd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæl.ə.stɹeɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

balustrade (plural balustrades)

1. A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
   • 1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza XXIII, page 60:

     So on a pleasant morning, as he leant / Into the sun-rise, o’er the balustrade [...]

   • 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 45:

     The Jester sat down on one of the marble balustrades and regarded Alvin with a curious intentness.

Hypernyms

• parapet

Derived terms

• balustraded
• balustrading

Related terms

• baluster

Translations

row of balusters

Albanian: balustradë Armenian: ճաղաշար (hy) (čaġašar) Basque: balaustrada Belarusian: балюстра́да f (baljustráda) Bulgarian: балюстра́да (bg) f (baljustráda) Catalan: balustrada f Chinese: Cantonese: 欄杆 (laan4 gon1) Mandarin: 欄杆 (zh) (lángān) Czech: balustráda f Danish: balustrade Dutch: balustrade (nl) f Esperanto: balustrado Estonian: balustraad Finnish: balustradi French: balustrade (fr) f Galician: balaustrada f Georgian: ბალუსტრადა (balusṭrada) German: Balustrade (de) f Greek: κιγκλίδωμα (el) f (kigklídoma), μπαλούστρο m (baloústro), μπαλουστράδα f (baloustráda) Hebrew: מעקה (he) m (maaké) Hungarian: mellvéd (hu), balusztrád (hu) Icelandic: brjóstrið n, súlnabrjóstrið n, handrið (is) n, rimlahandrið n, grindverk (is) n, rimlagirðing f Ido: balustrado (io) Indonesian: balustrade Irish: balastráid f Italian: balaustra (it) f, balaustrata (it) f, ringhiera (it) f Japanese: 手摺 (ja) (てすり, tesuri), 手すり (てすり, tesuri), 欄干 (ja) (らんかん, rankan) Korean: 난간 (ko) (nan'gan), 란간 (ran'gan) (North Korea) Latvian: balustrāde f Lithuanian: baliustrada (lt) f Macedonian: балустрада f (balustrada) Norman: balustrade f (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: balustrade (no) Nynorsk: balustrade m Ottoman Turkish: پرمقلق (parmaklık) Persian: دارابزین (dârâbzin) Polish: balustrada (pl) f Portuguese: balaustrada (pt) f Romanian: balustradă (ro) f Russian: балюстра́да (ru) f (baljustráda) Scottish Gaelic: stùc-shread f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̏града f Roman: ȍgrada (sh) f Slovak: balustrada f Slovene: balustrada (sl) f Spanish: balaustrada (es) f Swedish: balustrad (sv) Tagalog: palababahan Turkish: tırabzan (tr), korkuluk (tr) Ukrainian: балюстра́да (uk) f (baljustráda)

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French balustrade, from Italian balaustrata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbaː.lyˈstraː.də/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧lus‧tra‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

balustrade f (plural balustrades or balustraden, diminutive balustradetje n)

1. balustrade
2. (by extension) railing

   Synonym: reling

French

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle French from Italian balaustrata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.lys.tʁad/

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Noun

balustrade f (plural balustrades)

1. (architecture) balustrade [from 16th c.]

Descendants

• → Belarusian: балюстра́да (baljustráda)
• → Bulgarian: балюстра́да (baljustráda)
• → Czech: balustráda
• → German: Balustrade
• → English: balustrade
• → Macedonian: балустрада (balustrada)
• → Polish: balustrada
• → Russian: балюстра́да (baljustráda)
  • → Georgian: ბალუსტრადა (balusṭrada)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: балустра́да
  • Latin script: balustráda
• → Slovak: balustráda
• → Slovene: balustráda

Further reading

• “balustrade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch balustrade, from French balustrade, from Italian balaustrata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baluˈstradə]

Noun

balustrade (plural balustrade-balustrade)

1. (architecture) balustrade: a row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building

   Synonym: pegangan

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

balustrade f (plural balustrades)

1. (Jersey, architecture) balustrade