tramway

From tram +‎ way.

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.

• aerial tramway
• cable tramway

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

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

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.mwɛ/

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tramway m (plural tramways)

1. (rail transport) tram (passenger vehicle)

• → 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

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

tramway m (plural tramways)

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

   Synonym: tranvia