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.

Derived terms

aerial tramway
cable tramway

Descendants

Russian: трамвай (tramvaj)
- Armenian: տրամվայ (tramvay)
- Azerbaijani: tramvay
- Bashkir: трамвай (tramvay)
- Georgian: ტრამვაი (ṭramvai)
- Kazakh: трамвай (tramvay)
- Kyrgyz: трамвай (tramvay)
- Tajik: трамвай (tramvay)
- Tatar: трамвай (tramway)
- Turkmen: tramwaý
- Uzbek: tramvay

Translations

track on which trams run

Finnish: raitiotie (fi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sporvei m, sporveg m

Nynorsk: sporveg m

French

tramway

Etymology

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)

(rail transport) tram (passenger vehicle)

Further reading

“tramway” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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