altan

 

From Italian altana (“balcony”), from alto, from Latin altus (“high”).

• IPA^(key): /altaːn/, [alˈtˢæːˀn]

altan c (singular definite altanen, plural indefinite altaner)

1. (architecture) balcony (structure extending from a building)

• fransk altan c

•   altan on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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altan

1. accusative singular of alta

altan f (genitive singular altaine, nominative plural altana)

1. Alternative form of altán (“sharp knife”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “altán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

altan

1. gold (metal)

• Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley, Oroqen vocabulary, in Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database, Munich: Max Planck Digital Library (2009)

altan m pl

1. plural of alt

 

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From Italian altana (“balcony”), from alto, from Latin altus (“high”).

altan c

2. (architecture) a deck (adjoining a building – like a porch / veranda without a roof, with or without a railing)

   Katten ligger ute på altanen och lapar sol

   The cat is lying out on the deck, soaking up the sun

4. (architecture) a (large) balcony (supported by pillars or the like)

Most well known in (sense 1). Likely to be called a balkong (“balcony”) in (sense 2) by many native speakers.

• balkong (“balcony”)
• däck
• farstukvist
• terrass
• uteplats (“patio”)
• veranda (“porch, veranda”)

• altan in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• altan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• altan in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• antal, talan