Noun: varanda
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | varanda |
| Plural f | varandas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like varanda
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Uncertain due to apparent cognates in both Indo-Aryan and Romance. Earliest attestation in 1498.
2. theories
3. Possibly from Late Sanskrit वरण्ड (varaṇḍa, “heap of grass”), वरण्डक (varaṇḍaka, “wall”), Prakrit 𑀯𑀭𑀁𑀟 (varaṃḍa, “wall”), from which Turner derives Bengali বারান্দা (baranda), Hindustani बरंडा (baraṇḍā) / بَرَنْڈا (baranḍā, “veranda”), Marathi वरंड (varaṇḍa, “parapet”), Odia ଅରଣ୍ଡା (araṇḍā), Persian برآمده (barâmade).
4. Gonçalves Viana connects it to Latin vāra (“forked pole, tripod, trestle”) as in vara do castelo (“high part of a castle”). Similar words can also be found in Catalan barana (“railing”), Occitan and Spanish baranda.
5. Soares suggests that Portuguese influence in the 16th century brought about a semantic shift in Indo-Aryan, resulting in the architectural sense "gallery" in Hindi, Marathi, and other Indian languages. See: Latin Nouns '
vāra', Catalan Nouns '
barana'.
Verbs referencing "varanda"
English Nouns
veranda, Czech Nouns
veranda, Danish Nouns
veranda, Dutch Nouns
veranda, Swedish Nouns
veranda, Bulgarian Nouns
веранда, Finnish Nouns
veranta, Icelandic Nouns
verönd, Spanish Nouns
baranda, Irish Nouns
vearanda.
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