caravanserai

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkæɹəˈvænsəɹaɪ/
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• General-American: /ˌkɛɹəˈvænsəˌɹaɪ/
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Borrowed either: * from Middle French carvansera, carvassera (modern French caravansérail, carauanserrail (obsolete), caravansara (obsolete)); or * directly from its etymon Ottoman Turkish كاروانسَرای (karvanseray), كَروانسَرای (kervanseray) (modern Turkish kervansaray), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kārvān-serā); or * directly from its etymon Persian کاروانسرای (kârvânsarây), from کاروان (kârvân, “caravan; convoy”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”)) + سرای (sarây, “courtyard, hall; dwelling, house; inn; mansion, palace”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh2- (“to cross over; to pass through; to overcome”). Cognates * Dutch karavanserai, carewansera (obsolete) * German Karawanserei, Caravansera (obsolete) * Italian caravanserraglio, carvasarà (obsolete), carvanserà (obsolete) * Portuguese caravançará, caravançarai * Spanish caravasar

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: karvanserai — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Albanian: karvansaraj — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Arabic: كَارْوَانْسَرَا (kārwānsarā) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Arabic: خَان (ḵān) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Armenian: քարվանսարա (kʻarvansara) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Azerbaijani: karvansara — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Bashkir: ҡарауанһарай (qarawanharay) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Basque: karabansaraia — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Bengali: ক্যারাভানসরাই (kêrabhanśorai) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Bulgarian: кервансара́й (kervansaráj) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Catalan: caravanserrall — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Chinese Mandarin: 商隊旅館 /商队旅馆 (shāngduì lǚguǎn) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Crimean Tatar: kervansaray — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Czech: karavansaraj — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Danish: karavanserai — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Danish: karavanestation — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Dutch: karavanserai — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Esperanto: karavanserajo — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Finnish: karavaaniseralji — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• French: caravansérail — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• West-Frisian: karavaanseray — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• West-Frisian: karavanseray — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Galician: caravasar — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Georgian: ქარვასლა (karvasla) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• German: Karawanserei — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Greek: καραβανσεράι (karavanserái) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Hebrew: חאן — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Hindi: कारवां सराय (kārvā̃ sarāy) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Hungarian: karavánszeráj — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Ido: karavanserayo — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Indonesian: karavanserai — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Indonesian: karavansari — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Italian: caravanserraglio — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Japanese: キャラバンサライ (kyarabansarai) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Kazakh: керуен сарай (keruen sarai) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Korean: 캐러밴서라이 (kaereobaenseorai) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Kumyk: керивансарай (keriwansaray) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Central Kurdish: کاروانسەرا (karwansera) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Northern Kurdish: karwansera — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Northern Kurdish: karwanseray — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Kyrgyz: кербен-сарай (kerben-saray) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Lithuanian: karavansarajus — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Macedonian: карвансарај (karvansaraj) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Norwegian Bokmål: karavaneserai — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Norwegian Nynorsk: karavanserai — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Norwegian Nynorsk: karavane-serai — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Occitan: caravanserralh — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Pashto: کاروان سراى (kārwānsarãy) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Persian: کاروانسرا (kârvân-sarâ) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Persian: کاروانسرای (kârevânsarây) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Persian: تیم (tim) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Polish: karawanseraj — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Portuguese: caravançarai — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Portuguese: caravançará — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Portuguese: caravancerá — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Romanian: caravanserai — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Russian: караван-сара́й (karavan-saráj) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Russian: каравансара́й (karavansaráj) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Serbo-Croatian: каравансарај — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Serbo-Croatian: karavansaraj — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Slovak: karavanserail — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Slovene: karavanseraj — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Spanish: caravasar — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Spanish: caravansaray — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Swedish: karavanseraj — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Tajik: корвонсарой (korvonsaroy) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Tamil: கேரவன்செராய் (kēravaṉcerāy) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Tatar: кәрвансарай (kärwansaray) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Thai: สถานีคาราวาน — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Turkish: kervansaray — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Turkmen: kerwensaraý — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Ukrainian: карава́н-сара́й (karaván-saráj) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Urdu: کارواں سرائے (kārvā̃ sarāy) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Uyghur: كارۋان ساراي (karwan saray) — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Uzbek: karvonsaroy — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Volapük: karovöp — roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest
• Finnish: levähdyspaikka — place resembling a caravanserai (sense 1) as being a place for resting temporarily, or a meeting place
• Finnish: kohtauspaikka — place resembling a caravanserai (sense 1) as being a place for resting temporarily, or a meeting place