foyer

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• Canada, UK: /ˈfɔɪ.eɪ/
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• US: /ˈfɔɪ.ɝ/
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• US, also: /ˈfɔɪ.eɪ/
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• US: /fɔɪˈeɪ/
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• Australian: /ˈfoɪ.ə/
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• rhymes with -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ)
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Borrowed from French foyer (“hearth, lobby”), in turn from Vulgar Latin *focārium, from Late Latin focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”). Cognate with Spanish hogar (“home”).

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: ingangsportaal — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Afrikaans: foyer — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Albanian: pojatë — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Albanian: treme — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Arabic: بَهْو (bahw) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Armenian: ճեմասրահ (čemasrah) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Armenian: ֆոյե (foye) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Belarusian: фае́ (fajé) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Bulgarian: фоайе́ (foajé) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Carpathian Rusyn: фойе́ (fojé) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Chinese Mandarin: 門廳 /门厅 (méntīng) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Chinese Mandarin: 休息室 (xiūxishì) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Czech: foyer — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Danish: foyer — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Dutch: foyer — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Finnish: aula — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Finnish: lämpiö — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• French: foyer — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Galician: subeira — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Galician: sanguán — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Galician: andadeiro — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Georgian: ფოიე (poie) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• German: Foyer — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Greek: φουαγιέ (fouagié) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Hebrew: פואייה /פוּאָיֶה (fuayé) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Hebrew: מְבוֹאָה (m'vo'á) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Hungarian: előcsarnok — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Hungarian: előtér — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Hungarian: hall — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Hungarian: társalgó — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Icelandic: anddyri — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Icelandic: forsalur — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Icelandic: forstofa — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Icelandic: fordyri — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Icelandic: forbyrgi — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Indonesian: foyer — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Irish: forhalla — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Italian: ridotto — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Italian: foyer — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Japanese: 玄関 (genkan) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Macedonian: фоаје́ (foajé) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Māori: roro — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Māori: tomokanga — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Norwegian Bokmål: foajé — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Norwegian Bokmål: foaje — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Norwegian Nynorsk: foajé — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Norwegian Nynorsk: foaje — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Pannonian Rusyn: фоає (foaje) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Polish: foyer — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Portuguese: saguão — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Russian: фойе́ (fojjé) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Serbo-Croatian: фоа̀је̄ — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Serbo-Croatian: предсобље — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Serbo-Croatian: foàjē — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Serbo-Croatian: predsoblje — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Slovak: foyer — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Slovene: foyer — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Spanish: zaguán — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Spanish: foyer — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Spanish: vestíbulo — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Swedish: foajé — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Swedish: entré — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Tagalog: ulutan — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Turkish: fuaye — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Ukrainian: фойє́ (fojjé) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room
• Ukrainian: фоє (foje) — lobby, corridor, or waiting room