banister

See also: Banister

English

Alternative forms

bannister

Etymology

Alteration of earlier barrester, ballester, corruptions of baluster.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbænɪstə(ɹ)/

Noun

banister (plural banisters)

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), 栏杆 (zh) (lángān)
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

Icelandic: handrið (is) n, stigahandrið n
Italian: ringhiera (it) f
Japanese: 手摺 (てすり, tesuri), 手すり (てすり, tesuri), 欄干 (らんかん, rankan)
Korean: 난간 (ko) (nan-gan), 란간 (ran-gan) (North Korea)
Luxembourgish: Trapegelänner n
Norwegian: gelender n
Persian: طارمی‎ (fa) (târamī)
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)

one of the vertical supports of a handrail

Catalan: balustre m
Finnish: kaidepinna
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
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)

To construct a banister
To act as a banister

Anagrams

Bainters, barniest

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