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ve⋅ran⋅da

[vuh-ran-duh]
–noun
1. Also, ve⋅ran⋅dah. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house; gallery.
2. piazza.

Origin:
1705–15; < Hindi baraṇḍā, barāmdā < Pers bar āmadaḥ coming out (unless the Hindi word is < Pg varanda, Sp baranda railing, balustrade; cf. bar 1 )
ve·ran·da or ve·ran·dah   (və-rān'də)   
n.  A porch or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. Also called regionally gallery.

[Hindi varaṇḍā, probably from Portuguese varanda (perhaps ultimately from Vulgar Latin *barra, barrier, bar).]

Veranda

Ve*ran"da\, n. [A word brought by the English from India; of uncertain origin; cf. Skr. vara??a, Pg. varanda, Sp. baranda, Malay baranda.] (Arch.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.

The house was of adobe, low, with a wide veranda on the three sides of the inner court. --Mrs. H. H. Jackson.
Language Translation for : veranda
Spanish: porche,
German: die Veranda,
Japanese: ベランダ

veranda 
1711, from Hindi varanda, which probably is from Port. varanda, originally "long balcony or terrace," of uncertain origin, possibly related to Sp. baranda "railing," and ultimately from V.L. *barra "barrier, bar." Fr. véranda is borrowed from Eng.

veranda

in architecture, most frequently, an open-walled, roofed porch attached to the exterior of a domestic structure and usually surrounded by a railing. The word came into English through the Hindi varanda, but it is related to the Spanish baranda, meaning "railing," and thus most likely entered Hindi via Portuguese explorers of India.

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