tramway

See also: Tramway

English

On- and off-street tramway in the Czech Republic

A cable car tramway in the United States

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-?

Proto-Indo-European *ter-?

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥

Proto-Germanic *drum

Middle Low German trame

Low German traambor.?

Scotsbor.

English tram

English way

English tramway

From tram + way.

Noun

tramway (plural tramways)

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland) The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs.
2. (US) The system of cables that supports a cable car.
3. (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

• → Albanian: tramvajë
• → French: tramway
  • → Russian: трамва́й (tramváj) (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: tranvia
• → Portuguese: trâmuei
• → Spanish: tranvía

Translations

track on which trams run

• Danish: sporvej c
• Dutch: tramspoor (nl) n
• Esperanto: tramvojo, ^{(please verify)} 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

• Polish: tor tramwajowy 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/

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Noun

tramway m (plural tramways)

1. (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
• → Persian: تراموای (terâmvây)
• → 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)

1. (rail transport) tramway; alternative spelling of trâmuei

   Synonym: tranvia

Further reading

• “tramway”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tramway”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026