tramway

See also: Tramway

English

On- and off-street tramway in the Czech Republic

A cable car tramway in the United States

Etymology

tram +‎ way

Noun

tramway (plural tramways)

The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs.
The system of cables that supports a cable car.
(Victoria, formal) A lane of a road or street, in which tram tracks are embedded, that is (in normal circumstances) for the exclusive use of trams and public buses.

Derived terms

aerial tramway
cable tramway

Descendants

→ French: tramway
- → Russian: трамва́й (tramváj) (see there for further descendants)
→ Portuguese: trâmuei
→ Spanish: tranvía

Translations

track on which trams run

Danish: sporvej c
Dutch: tramspoor (nl) n
Esperanto: tramveturilo
Finnish: raitiotie (fi)
Georgian: ტრამვაის ლიანდაგი (ṭramvais liandagi), ტრამვაის ხაზი (ṭramvais xazi), ტრამვაის რელსები (ṭramvais relsebi)
German: Trambahn (de)
Irish: trambhealach m
Macedonian: тра́мвајска ли́нија f (trámvajska línija)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sporvei (no) m, sporveg m

Nynorsk: sporveg m
Swedish: spårväg (sv) m, spårvagnsräls c

French

tramway

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tramway, from Middle Dutch trame, ultimately from a lost West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) word.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʁa.mwɛ/
tramway (file)
Audio (Paris) (file)
Audio (Paris) (file)

Noun

tramway m (plural tramways)

(rail transport) tram (passenger vehicle)

Descendants

→ Romanian: tramway
→ Russian: трамва́й (tramváj)
- → Armenian: տրամվայ (tramvay)
- → Azerbaijani: tramvay
- → Bashkir: трамвай (tramvay)
- → Belarusian: трамва́й (tramváj)
- → Georgian: ტრამვაი (ṭramvai)
- → Kazakh: трамвай (tramvai)
- → Kyrgyz: трамвай (tramvay)
- → Mongolian:
  Cyrillic script: трамвай (tramvaj)
  Mongolian script: ᠲ᠋ᠷᠠᠮᠸᠠᠢ (tramwai)
- → Polish: tramwaj
- → Tajik: трамвай (tramvay)
- → Tatar: трамвай (tramway)
- → Turkmen: tramwaý
- → Ukrainian: трамва́й (tramváj)
- → Uyghur: ترامۋاي (tramway)
- → Uzbek: tramvay
→ Turkish: tramvay

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

tramway m (plural tramways)

(rail transport) tramway; Alternative spelling of trâmuei
Synonym: tranvia

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