kiosque

English

Noun

kiosque (plural kiosques)

1. Archaic form of kiosk.
   • 1895, Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow:

     Cafés and restaurants were scattered here and there among the trees, and twice a week military bands from the garrison played in the kiosques on the parapets.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian chiosco, from Ottoman Turkish كوشك (köşk), from Classical Persian کوشْک (kōšk, “palace, portico”), from Middle Persian kwšk' (kōšk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kjɔsk/

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Noun

kiosque m (plural kiosques)

1. kiosk (enclosed structure)
2. ellipsis of kiosque à musique (“bandstand”); bandstand
3. (nautical) a sail of a submarine

Descendants

• → Dutch: kiosk
  • Afrikaans: kiosk
  • → Indonesian: kios
    • → Ternate: kios
• → English: kiosk
• → Norman: kiosque
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kiosk
• → Polish: kiosk
• → Portuguese: quiosque
• → Persian: کیوسک (kiyusk)
• → Russian: киоск (kiosk), кіо́скъ (kiósk) — pre-1918 spelling
  • → Georgian: კიოსკი (ḳiosḳi)
  • → Hebrew: קִיּוֹסְק (kiyósk)
  • → Yakut: киоск (kiosk)
• → Spanish: kiosco, quiosco

Further reading

• “kiosque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• kiosque on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• kiosque à musique on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French kiosque.

Noun

kiosque m (plural kiosques)

1. (Jersey) kiosk

Derived terms

• kiosque d'lot'tie (“lottery kiosk”)
• kiosque d'téléphône (“telephone box”)