gondola
English
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Italian gondola, from Venetian góndoƚa, from Byzantine Greek κοντούρα (kontoúra, “cutter, kind of ship”).
Pronunciation
    
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɒn.də.lə/
- Audio (Southern England) - (file) 
Noun
    
gondola (plural gondolas or gondole)
- A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.
- A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.
- An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.
- The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.
- The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
- That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.
 
- (rail transport, US) A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.
- A free-standing shelving unit in a supermarket or other retail store.
Derived terms
    
Translations
    
narrow boat, especially in Venice
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enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
car or basket of an airship
part of a transporter bridge that carries
hanging cart in which a worker performs maintenance to an exterior wall of a building
Verb
    
gondola (third-person singular simple present gondolas, present participle gondolaing, simple past and past participle gondolaed)
- To travel by gondola.
Gallery
    
 a Venetian gondola a Venetian gondola
 a rail transport gondola wagon a rail transport gondola wagon
 a modern airship gondola a modern airship gondola
 a transporter bridge gondola a transporter bridge gondola
 a ski lift gondola a ski lift gondola
 a window cleaners' gondola a window cleaners' gondola
Further reading
    
 gondola (disambiguation) on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia gondola (disambiguation) on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
    
Czech
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ˈɡondola]
- Rhymes: -ola
Declension
    
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
French
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ɡɔ̃.dɔ.la/
Hungarian
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ˈɡondolɒ]
- Hyphenation: gon‧do‧la
- Rhymes: -lɒ
Noun
    
gondola (plural gondolák)
Declension
    
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | gondola | gondolák | 
| accusative | gondolát | gondolákat | 
| dative | gondolának | gondoláknak | 
| instrumental | gondolával | gondolákkal | 
| causal-final | gondoláért | gondolákért | 
| translative | gondolává | gondolákká | 
| terminative | gondoláig | gondolákig | 
| essive-formal | gondolaként | gondolákként | 
| essive-modal | — | — | 
| inessive | gondolában | gondolákban | 
| superessive | gondolán | gondolákon | 
| adessive | gondolánál | gondoláknál | 
| illative | gondolába | gondolákba | 
| sublative | gondolára | gondolákra | 
| allative | gondolához | gondolákhoz | 
| elative | gondolából | gondolákból | 
| delative | gondoláról | gondolákról | 
| ablative | gondolától | gondoláktól | 
| non-attributive possessive - singular | gondoláé | gondoláké | 
| non-attributive possessive - plural | gondoláéi | gondolákéi | 
| Possessive forms of gondola | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions | 
| 1st person sing. | gondolám | gondoláim | 
| 2nd person sing. | gondolád | gondoláid | 
| 3rd person sing. | gondolája | gondolái | 
| 1st person plural | gondolánk | gondoláink | 
| 2nd person plural | gondolátok | gondoláitok | 
| 3rd person plural | gondolájuk | gondoláik | 
Derived terms
    
- gondolás
- gondolázik
References
    
- gondola in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
    
- gondola in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Italian
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Venetian góndoła, probably from Byzantine Greek κοντούρα (kontoúra, “small tail”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈɡon.do.la/
- Rhymes: -ondola
- Hyphenation: gón‧do‧la
Derived terms
    
Derived terms
Anagrams
    
Polish
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Italian gondola, from Venetian góndoła, probably from Byzantine Greek κοντούρα (kontoúra, “small tail”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ɡɔnˈdɔ.la/
- Audio - (file) 
- Rhymes: -ɔla
- Syllabification: gon‧do‧la
Noun
    
gondola f (diminutive gondolka)
Declension
    
Derived terms
    
adjective
- gondolowy
Slovak
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ˈɡondola]
Noun
    
gondola f (genitive singular gondoly, nominative plural gondoly, genitive plural gondól, declension pattern of žena)
Declension
    
Further reading
    
- gondola in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
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