banister

See also: Banister

English

A banister in the Natural History Museum of Helsinki

Alternative forms

bannister

Etymology

Alteration of earlier barrester, ballester, corruptions of baluster.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbænɪstɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ænɪstɚ

Noun

banister (plural banisters)

Curved banister; by David Lally

The handrail on the side of a staircase.
One of the vertical supports of a handrail; a baluster.

Translations

the handrail on the side of a staircase

Arabic: دَرَابْزُون m (darābzūn)
Hijazi Arabic: دَرَبْزين m (darabzīn)
Bulgarian: парапет (bg) (parapet)
Catalan: arrambador (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 欄杆 (zh) (lángān)
Czech: zábradlí n
Dutch: baluster (nl), leuning (nl)
Finnish: kaide (fi), kaidepuu
French: rampe (fr)
German: Geländer (de) n
Greek: κιγκλίδωμα (el) n (kigklídoma)
Hebrew: מעקה (he) m
Hungarian: lépcsőkorlát (hu)
Icelandic: handrið (is) n, stigahandrið n
Irish: banastar m
Italian: 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)
Luxembourgish: Trapegelänner n
Macedonian: геле́ндер m (gelénder), парапе́т m (parapét)
Norwegian: gelender n
Ottoman Turkish: پرمقلق (parmaklık)
Persian: طارمی (fa) (târami)
Plautdietsch: Wolm m
Polish: poręcz (pl) f
Portuguese: corrimão (pt) m
Russian: пери́ла (ru) n pl (períla), по́ручень (ru) m (póručenʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: gelender (sh), rukohvat (sh)
Spanish: barandilla (es) f
Swedish: trappräcke n
Tibetan: ལག་འཇུ (lag 'ju)
Turkish: tırabzan (tr), küpeşte (tr)

one of the vertical supports of a handrail

Catalan: balustre m
Czech: sloupek zábradlí
Finnish: kaidepinna (fi)
French: balustre (fr) m
German: Geländerpfosten m
Greek: κάγκελο (el) n (kágkelo)
Hungarian: korlátbáb, mellvédbáb, baluszter
Icelandic: rimill m, pílári í handriði m, brjóstriðssúla f, speli m, spæll m
Irish: banastar m
Portuguese: balaústre (pt) m
Russian: баля́сина (ru) f (baljásina)

Verb

banister (third-person singular simple present banisters, present participle banistering, simple past and past participle banistered)

(transitive) To construct a banister.
(transitive) To act as a banister.

Anagrams

Bainters, barniest

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