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stairs
plural of stair
stairs pl (plural only )
A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors .
1762 , Charles Johnstone , The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools [1] , volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC , page 202 :At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs , naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them [ …]
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contiguous set of steps
Afrikaans: trap
Aklanon: hakdan
Albanian: shkallë (sq) f
Arabic: سَلَالِم m pl ( salālim )
Armenian: սանդուղք (hy) ( sanduġkʻ ) , աստիճաններ pl ( astičanner )
Aromanian: scarã f
Azerbaijani: pilləkan
Bashkir: баҫҡыс ( baśqıs )
Belarusian: ле́свіца f ( ljésvica ) , схо́ды pl ( sxódy ) , усхо́ды pl ( usxódy ) / ўсхо́ды pl ( ŭsxódy )
Bengali: সোপান (bn) ( śōpan )
Bulgarian: стъ́лба (bg) f ( stǎ́lba )
Burmese: လှေကား (my) ( hleka: )
Catalan: escala (ca) f
Cebuano: hagdan
Cherokee: ᎠᎩᏠᏒᏍᏗᎢ ( agitlosvsdii )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 樓梯 / 楼梯 ( lau4 tai1 )
Mandarin: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (zh) ( lóutī )
Chukchi: тыттатъёлгын ( tyttatʺjolgyn )
Czech: schodiště (cs) n , schody pl
Danish: trappe (da)
Dutch: trap (nl)
Egyptian: (rwd )
Esperanto: ŝtuparo
Estonian: trepp (et)
Finnish: portaat (fi)
French: escalier (fr) m
Friulian: scjale f , sčhale f
Galician: escaleira (gl) f , escada (gl) f , esqueira (gl) f
Georgian: კიბეები ( ḳibeebi ) , საფეხურები ( sapexurebi )
German: Treppe (de) f , ( Austria ) Stiege (de) f
Alemannic German: Schtäge f
Greek: σκάλα (el) f ( skála )
Ancient: ἀναβαθμοί m pl ( anabathmoí )
Haitian Creole: eskalye
Hebrew: גֶרֶם מַדרֵגוֹת m ( gerem madregot )
Hiligaynon: hagdan
Hindi: सीढ़ी (hi) f ( sīṛhī ) , सोपान (hi) m ( sopān )
Hungarian: lépcső (hu)
Icelandic: stigi (is) m
Ido: eskalero (io)
Ilocano: agdan
Indonesian: tangga (id)
Ingrian: traput
Irish: staighre (ga) f
Italian: scala (it) f
Japanese: 階段 (ja) ( かいだん, kaidan )
Kapampangan: eran , sangat
Kazakh: саты ( saty )
Khmer: កាំជណ្ដើរ ( kam cŭəndaə ) , ជណ្ដើរ (km) ( cŭəndaə )
Konkani: ಮೆಟ್ಟಿಲು ( meṭṭilu )
Korean: 계단(階段) (ko) ( gyedan )
Kyrgyz: саты ( satı )
Lao: ບັນໄດ ( ban dai )
Latin: scālae f pl
Latvian: kāpnes (lv) f pl
Lithuanian: laiptinė f
Macedonian: ска́ли pl ( skáli )
Malay: tangga (ms)
Maltese: tat-turġien , taraġ
Mòcheno: stiag f
Mongolian: шат (mn) ( šat )
Norwegian: trapp (no) m or f
Occitan: escalièrs (oc) m pl
Ojibwe: akwaandawaagan
Pangasinan: takayan
Pashto: اندرپايه f ( anarpāyá ) , ځينه f ( jiná ) , څپېڅلۍ f ( capécley )
Persian: پلکان (fa) ( pellekân )
Polish: schody (pl) pl
Portuguese: escada (pt)
Romanian: scară (ro)
Russian: ле́стница (ru) f ( léstnica ) , ступе́ньки (ru) f pl ( stupénʹki )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: степенице f pl , степеник m , степениште n , стубиште n
Roman: stepenice (sh) f pl , stepenik (sh) m , stepenište (sh) n , stubište (sh) n
Slovak: schody pl , schodisko n
Slovene: stopnišče (sl) n
Spanish: escalera (es) f
Swedish: trappa (sv)
Tagalog: hagdan (tl) , hagdanan (tl) , baitang
Tajik: зинапоя ( zinapoya ) , нардбон ( nardbon )
Tatar: баскыч (tt) ( baskıç )
Thai: บันได (th) ( ban-dai )
Tibetan: སྐས་འཛེགས ( skas 'dzegs )
Turkish: basamak (tr) , merdiven (tr)
Turkmen: merdiwan
Ukrainian: схо́ди (uk) pl ( sxódy )
Urdu: سیڑھی f ( sīṛhī )
Uyghur: پەلەمپەي ( pelempey )
Uzbek: narvon (uz) , zinapoya (uz)
Vietnamese: cầu thang (vi)
Welsh: grisiau (cy) f
White Hmong: ntaiv
Yiddish: טרעפּ f ( trep )
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