building

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From Middle English byldynge, buyldyng, byldyng, buldynge, buldyng, boldyng, equivalent to build + -ing. Compare also related Middle English bold (“edifice, castle, mansion”), from Old English bold (“building, dwelling, house”).

From Middle English beeldynge, equivalent to build + -ing.

365 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بِنَاء (bināʔ) — act or process of building
• Armenian: շինարարություն (šinararutʻyun) — act or process of building
• Armenian: կառուցում (kaṙucʻum) — act or process of building
• Asturian: edificación — act or process of building
• Azerbaijani: inşaat — act or process of building
• Azerbaijani: tikmə — act or process of building
• Azerbaijani: tikinti — act or process of building
• Basque: eraikina — act or process of building
• Belarusian: будава́нне n будаўні́цтва (budavánnje) — act or process of building
• Belarusian: пабудо́ва (pabudóva) — act or process of building
• Bulgarian: строи́телство (stroítelstvo) — act or process of building
• Bulgarian: граде́ж (gradéž) — act or process of building
• Bulgarian: изгра́ждане (izgráždane) — act or process of building
• Catalan: construcció — act or process of building
• Chinese Mandarin: 建設 /建设 (jiànshè) — act or process of building
• Czech: stavba — act or process of building
• Czech: budování — act or process of building
• Czech: výstavba — act or process of building
• Danish: byggeri — act or process of building
• Danish: opførelse (af en bygning) — act or process of building
• Dutch: bouwen — act or process of building
• Dutch: bouw — act or process of building
• Esperanto: konstruado — act or process of building
• Estonian: ehitamine — act or process of building
• Estonian: ehitus — act or process of building
• Finnish: rakentaminen — act or process of building
• Finnish: rakennus — act or process of building
• Finnish: rakennustaito — act or process of building
• French: construction — act or process of building
• Galician: construción — act or process of building
• Georgian: შენება (šeneba) — act or process of building
• Georgian: მშენებლობა (mšenebloba) — act or process of building
• Georgian: აგება (ageba) — act or process of building
• German: Bau — act or process of building
• German: Bauen — act or process of building
• Greek: δόμηση (dómisi) — act or process of building
• Ancient Greek: οἰκοδόμησις (oikodómēsis) — act or process of building
• Ancient Greek: οἰκοδομίᾱ (oikodomíā) — act or process of building
• Hebrew: בנייה — act or process of building
• Hebrew: בְּנִיָּה (b'niyá) — act or process of building
• Hindi: निर्माण (nirmāṇ) — act or process of building
• Hungarian: építés — act or process of building
• Hungarian: építkezés — act or process of building
• Hungarian: felépítés — act or process of building
• Icelandic: bygging — act or process of building
• Indonesian: pembangunan — act or process of building
• Indonesian: konstruksi — act or process of building
• Italian: costruzione — act or process of building
• Italian: edificazione — act or process of building
• Italian: formazione — act or process of building
• Japanese: 建築 (kenchiku) — act or process of building
• Japanese: 建造 (kenzō) — act or process of building
• Japanese: 建設 (kensetsu) — act or process of building
• Kazakh: құрылыс (qūrylys) — act or process of building
• Korean: 건설 (geonseol) — act or process of building
• Central Kurdish: بیناکردن (bînakirdin) — act or process of building
• Northern Kurdish: avakirin — act or process of building
• Northern Kurdish: bînasazî — act or process of building
• Kyrgyz: имарат (imarat) — act or process of building
• Kyrgyz: үй (üy) — act or process of building
• Kyrgyz: курулуш (kuruluş) — act or process of building
• Kyrgyz: салуу (saluu) — act or process of building
• Kyrgyz: куруу (kuruu) — act or process of building
• Kyrgyz: жасоо (jasoo) — act or process of building
• Kyrgyz: тургузуу (turguzuu) — act or process of building
• Kyrgyz: көтөрүү (kötörüü) — act or process of building
• Kyrgyz: чогултуу (cogultuu) — act or process of building
• Kyrgyz: кураштыруу (kuraştıruu) — act or process of building
• Kyrgyz: конструкция (konstruktsiya) — act or process of building
• Kyrgyz: конструкциялоо (konstruktsiyaloo) — act or process of building
• Latgalian: stateit — act or process of building
• Latgalian: budavuot — act or process of building
• Latin: cōnstrūctiō — act or process of building
• Latvian: celšana — act or process of building
• Latvian: būvēšana — act or process of building
• Lithuanian: statyba — act or process of building
• Macedonian: изградба (izgradba) — act or process of building
• Macedonian: градење (gradenje) — act or process of building
• Malay: pembangunan — act or process of building
• Malay: pembinaan — act or process of building
• Middle English: byldynge — act or process of building
• Norwegian Bokmål: konstruksjon — act or process of building
• Old English: timbring — act or process of building
• Old English: bytling — act or process of building
• Pannonian Rusyn: будованє (budovanje) — act or process of building
• Pannonian Rusyn: вибудов (vibudov) — act or process of building
• Pannonian Rusyn: будова (budova) — act or process of building
• Pashto: جوړول (jorrawəl) — act or process of building
• Phoenician: 𐤌𐤁𐤍𐤕 (mbnt) — act or process of building
• Polish: budowanie — act or process of building
• Polish: budowa — act or process of building
• Portuguese: construção — act or process of building
• Portuguese: edificação — act or process of building
• Punic: 𐤁𐤍 (bn) — act or process of building
• Romanian: construcție — act or process of building
• Romanian: construire — act or process of building
• Romanian: edificare — act or process of building
• Russian: строи́тельство (stroítelʹstvo) — act or process of building
• Russian: стро́йка (strójka) — act or process of building
• Scots: biggin — act or process of building
• Scottish Gaelic: togail — act or process of building
• Serbo-Croatian: гра́дња — act or process of building
• Serbo-Croatian: изгра́дња — act or process of building
• Serbo-Croatian: grádnja — act or process of building
• Serbo-Croatian: izgrádnja — act or process of building
• Slovene: gradnja — act or process of building
• Southern Altai: тудар (tudar) — act or process of building
• Southern Altai: эдер (eder) — act or process of building
• Southern Altai: јазал (ǰazal) — act or process of building
• Spanish: edificación — act or process of building
• Spanish: construcción — act or process of building
• Spanish: cimentación — act or process of building
• Swahili: jenga — act or process of building
• Swedish: byggande — act or process of building
• Swedish: bygge — act or process of building
• Swedish: byggnation — act or process of building
• Swedish: byggnadsverksamhet — act or process of building
• Tagalog: pagtayo — act or process of building
• Tagalog: paggawa — act or process of building
• Telugu: కట్టుబడి (kaṭṭubaḍi) — act or process of building
• Thai: การสร้าง (gaan-sâang) — act or process of building
• Turkish: inşa — act or process of building
• Turkish: inşaat — act or process of building
• Ukrainian: будівни́цтво (budivnýctvo) — act or process of building
• Urdu: تَعْمِیر (ta'mīr) — act or process of building
• Volapük: bum — act or process of building
• Volapük: bumam — act or process of building
• Welsh: adeiladu — act or process of building
• Afrikaans: gebou — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Albanian: ndërtesë — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Amharic: ሕንጻ (ḥənṣa) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Western Apache: kįh — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Arabic: مَبْنَى (mabnā) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Arabic: بِنَاء (bināʔ) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Arabic: دَار (dār) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Arabic: بِنَايَة (bināya) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Arabic: عِمَارَة (ʕimāra) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Arabic: عمارة (ʕimāra) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Arabic: مبنى (mabna) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Armenian: շենք (šenkʻ) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Asturian: edificiu — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Asturian: edificación — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Azerbaijani: yapı — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Azerbaijani: bina — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Azerbaijani: tikinti — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Baluchi: ماڑی (máří) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Basque: eraikin — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Belarusian: буды́нак (budýnak) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Belarusian: дом (dom) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Belarusian: будо́ва (budóva) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Belarusian: пабудо́ва (pabudóva) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Bengali: ভবন (bhobon) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Bengali: দালান (dalan) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Breton: savadur — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Bulgarian: зда́ние (zdánie) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Bulgarian: постро́йка (postrójka) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Bulgarian: сгра́да (sgráda) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Bulgarian: къ́ща (kǎ́šta) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Bulgarian: дом (dom) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Burmese: တိုက်အိမ် (tuik-im) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Burmese: တိုက် (tuik) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Burmese: ရုံ (rum) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Burmese: အဆောက်အအုံ (a.hcauk-a.um) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Carpathian Rusyn: будо́ва (budóva) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Catalan: edifici — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏁᎸᎢ (adanelvi) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Chickasaw: abooha — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Chickasaw: aboowa — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Chinese Cantonese: 建築物 /建筑物 — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Chinese: 大廈 /大厦 (tāi-hā / tāi-hēe / tōa-hēe) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Chinese Mandarin: 建築 /建筑 (jiànzhù) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Chinese Mandarin: 建築物 /建筑物 (jiànzhùwù) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Choctaw: chuka — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Crimean Tatar: bina — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Czech: budova — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Czech: stavba — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Czech: dům — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Danish: bygning — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Dutch: gebouw — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Esperanto: konstruaĵo — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Estonian: hoone — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Faroese: bygningur — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Finnish: rakennus — closed structure with walls and a roof
• French: immeuble — closed structure with walls and a roof
• French: édifice — closed structure with walls and a roof
• French: bâtiment — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Galician: edificio — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Galician: construción — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Georgian: შენობა (šenoba) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Georgian: ნაგებობა (nageboba) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• German: Gebäude — closed structure with walls and a roof
• German: Bau — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐍉 (gatimrjō) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Greek: κτίριο (ktírio) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Greek: κτίσμα (ktísma) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Greek: οικοδομή (oikodomí) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Greek: κτήριο (ktírio) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ancient Greek: οἴκημα (oíkēma) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ancient Greek: οἰκοδομίᾱ (oikodomíā) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ancient Greek: οἰκοδόμημα (oikodómēma) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Greenlandic: illuliaq — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Greenlandic: illu — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Gujarati: મકાન (makān) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Haitian Creole: bilding — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Haitian Creole: batiman — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Hawaiian: hale — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Hebrew: בניין \ בִּנְיָן (binyan) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Hindi: भवन (bhavan) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Hindi: इमारत (imārat) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Hindi: निर्माण (nirmāṇ) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Hungarian: épület — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Icelandic: bygging — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Icelandic: hús — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ido: edifico — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Indonesian: bangunan — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Indonesian: gedung — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ingrian: hoone — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Irish: foirgneamh — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Italian: edificio — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Italian: palazzo — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Japanese: 建物 (tatemono) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Japanese: 建築物 (kenchiku butsu) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Japanese: 建屋 (tateya) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Japanese: ビル (biru) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Kazakh: ғимарат (ğimarat) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Kazakh: үй (üi) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Khmer: អាគារ (ʼaakiə) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Korean: 건물 (geonmul) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Korean: 빌딩 (bilding) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Central Kurdish: بینا (bîna) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Northern Kurdish: avahî — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Northern Kurdish: bîna — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Kyrgyz: имарат (imarat) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Kyrgyz: үй (üy) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Lao: ການກໍ່ສ້າງ (kān kǭ sāng) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Lao: ຕຶກ (tưk) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Latgalian: kuorms — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Latgalian: statne — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Latgalian: budaveiba — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Latin: aedificium — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Latvian: celtne — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Latvian: ēka — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Latvian: būve — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Lithuanian: pastatas — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Lithuanian: statinys — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Luxembourgish: Gebai — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Macedonian: зграда (zgrada) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Macedonian: здание (zdanie) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Macedonian: куќа (kuḱa) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Macedonian: дом (dom) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Malay: bangunan — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Maltese: binja — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Māori: whare — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Mauritian Creole: batiman — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Middle English: byldynge — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Mongolian: барьсан зүйл (barʹsan züjl) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Mongolian: барилга (barilga) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Nepali: भवन (bhavan) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Norman: înmeubl'ye — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Norwegian Bokmål: bygning — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bygning — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Occitan: edifici — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Old English: timbring — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Old English: botl — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Oromo: gamoo — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ossetian: кӕнт (kænt) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Pannonian Rusyn: будинок (budinok) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Pannonian Rusyn: будовня (budovnja) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Pannonian Rusyn: будова (budova) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Pannonian Rusyn: зданиє (zdanije) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Pashto: ماڼۍ (mānnəi) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Pashto: ودانۍ (wadānǝy) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Pashto: بنا (benā) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Pashto: عمارت ('emārat) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Iranian Persian: ساخْتِمان (sâxtemân) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Iranian Persian: ساخْتِمون (sâxtemun) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Iranian Persian: بَنا (banâ) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Iranian Persian: عِمارَت (emârat) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Phoenician: 𐤌𐤒𐤌 (mqm) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Plautdietsch: Bu — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Polish: budynek — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Polish: budowla — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Polish: dom — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Polish: gmach — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Portuguese: edifício — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Portuguese: prédio — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Punic: 𐤌𐤒𐤌 (mqm) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Punjabi: ਇਮਾਰਤ (imārat) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Romanian: edificiu — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Romanian: clădire — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Romanian: construcție — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Romansh: edifizi — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Romansh: stabiliment — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Russian: зда́ние (zdánije) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Russian: строе́ние (strojénije) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Russian: постро́йка (postrójka) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Russian: дом (dom) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Sanskrit: भवन (bhavana) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Sanskrit: निर्माण (nirmāṇa) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Scots: biggin — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Scottish Gaelic: togalach — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Serbo-Croatian: згра̏да — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Serbo-Croatian: зда́ње — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Serbo-Croatian: ку̏ћа — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Serbo-Croatian: до̏м — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Serbo-Croatian: zgrȁda — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Serbo-Croatian: zdánje — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Serbo-Croatian: kȕća — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Serbo-Croatian: dȍm — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Slovak: budova — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Slovak: stavba — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Slovak: dom — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Slovene: zgradba — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Slovene: stavba — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Slovene: hiša — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Lower Sorbian: twarjenje — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Southern Altai: ӱй (üy) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Spanish: edificio — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Spanish: inmueble — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Spanish: edificación — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Spanish: construcción — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Swahili: jengo — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Swedish: byggnad — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Swedish: bygge — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Swedish: hus — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Tagalog: gusali — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Tagalog: edipisyo — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Tajik: бино (bino) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Tajik: иморат (imorat) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Tajik: сохтмон (soxtmon) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Tamil: கட்டிடம் (kaṭṭiṭam) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Telugu: భవంతి (bhavanti) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Telugu: కట్టడము (kaṭṭaḍamu) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Thai: ตึก (dtʉ̀k) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Thai: อาคาร (aa-kaan) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Thai: โรง (roong) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Thai: หอ (hɔ̌ɔ) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Tibetan: ཁང་པ (khang pa) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Tok Pisin: haus — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Turkish: bina — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Turkish: yapı — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ottoman Turkish: یاپی (yapı) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ottoman Turkish: عمارت (ʼimaret) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Turkmen: bina — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Turkmen: ymarat — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ukrainian: буди́нок (budýnok) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ukrainian: спору́да (sporúda) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ukrainian: дім (dim) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ukrainian: будівля (budivlja) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Ukrainian: будо́ва (budóva) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Urdu: عِمارَت ('imārat) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Urdu: بھَوَن (bhavan) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Uyghur: بىنا (bina) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Uzbek: bino — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Uzbek: qirilish — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Uzbek: imorat — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Vietnamese: toà nhà — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Volapük: bumot — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Volapük: bumotil — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Volapük: bumotem — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Volapük: bumotilem — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Welsh: adeilad — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Welsh: adail — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Yiddish: בנין (binyen) — closed structure with walls and a roof
• Yiddish: געבײַדע (gebayde) — closed structure with walls and a roof