awning

English

Awnings (roof-like covers) over windows on a building.

Shop awnings over the pavement were popular in New Zealand

Canopies at Kettering station in England were described as awnings

Etymology

1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn +‎ -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans (“sloping roof”), from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)bannā (“eaves”) (compare Occitan ambans (“parapet”)), form of *ande- (intensive prefix) (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) + *bandā (“horn; peak”) (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːnɪŋ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔnɪŋ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑnɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ

Noun

awning (plural awnings)

1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
   • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:

     At Nairobi the mail waits an hour-and-a-half. The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway.

   • 2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Kettering”, in RAIL, number 972, page 56:

     But instead, the distinctive ironwork and glass platform awnings have been carefully refurbished, while making them compatible with the overhead wiring. Kettering's island Platform 2/3 is especially noteworthy. Although it dates from 1879, when the station was enlarged to four platforms, the same original (1857) patterns for the delicate cast-ironwork seem to have been used - […] .

2. (nautical) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

Derived terms

• awninged
• awning window

 

Related terms

• canopy

Translations

a rooflike cover

• Bulgarian: на́вес (bg) m (náves), те́нта f (ténta), козирка́ (bg) f (kozirká)
• Catalan: tendal (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遮篷 (zhēpeng), 雨篷 (yǔpéng), 天幕 (zh) (tiānmù), 天棚 (zh) (tiānpéng)

• Czech: markýza (cs) f
• Danish: markise (da) c
• Dutch: luifel (nl)
• Esperanto: alero, markezo (eo)
• Finnish: markiisi (fi)
• French: marquise (fr) f, auvent (fr) m
• Georgian: ტენტი (ka) (ṭenṭi)
• German: Markise (de) f
• Greek: τέντα (el) f (ténta)
• Hebrew: סוֹכֵךְ m (sochéch)
• Hungarian: ponyvatető (hu), védőtető (hu), sátortető (hu), előtető (hu), ernyő (hu), ponyva (hu), vászonernyő, napellenző (hu)
• Irish: scáthbhrat m, díonbhrat m
• Japanese: 日よけ (ひよけ, hiyoke), 天幕 (ja) (てんまく, tenmaku)
• Latin: vēlārium n
• Malay: sengkuap, kajang
• Norwegian: markise (no) m
• Polish: markiza (pl) f
• Portuguese: toldo (pt) m
• Russian: марки́за (ru) m (markíza), наве́с (ru) m (navés), тент (ru) m (tɛnt), козырёк (ru) m (kozyrjók) (colloquial)
• Spanish: toldo (es) m, tejaroz (es) m, marquesina (es) m, marquesa (es) f, cobertizo (es) m
• Swedish: markis (sv) c
• Turkish: tente (tr)
• Ukrainian: маркіза f (markiza), наві́с m (navís), козиро́к (kozyrók) (colloquial)
• Vietnamese: hiên (vi)
• Welsh: cynfas (cy) m, cysgodlen f

that part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin

• Dutch: luifel (nl)
• German: Sonnenschutz (de) m
• Irish: canbhás m
• Russian: наве́с (ru) m (navés)
• Turkish: tente (tr)

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