tram

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• /tɹæm/
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• Received-Pronunciation, Scotland: /tɹam/
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• New-Zealand: /tɹɛm/
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• India: /ʈɾæm/
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• [t̠ʃɹɛə̯m] æ-raising
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• [t̠ʃɹeə̯m] æ-raising
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• [t̠ʃɹɛːm] æ-raising
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• rhymes with -æm
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• CMU ARPABET: T R AE1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Early 16th century, borrowed from Scots, probably from Low German traam (“tram, shaft of a barrow”), from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch trame (“narrow shaft, beam”), said to be ultimately from a lost West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) word, probably from Proto-Germanic *drum (“splinter, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“peg, post, boundary”), cognate with Latin terminus. Compare Middle Low German treme; West Flemish traam, trame. The popular derivation from the surname of the English pioneer tramway builder Benjamin Outram (1764–1805) is false: the term pre-dated him. The sense of a rail vehicle derives from tram-way, in its earliest sense meaning literally a log-covered road, but later applied to the earliest wooden railways, used for transporting coal in carts which came to be called "trams".

From Spanish trama, or French trame (“weft”). Doublet of trama.

131 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: trem — passenger vehicle
• Albanian: tramvaj — passenger vehicle
• Arabic: تْرَام (trām) — passenger vehicle
• Arabic: تْرَام (tram) — passenger vehicle
• Arabic: تْرَامْوَاي (tramwāy) — passenger vehicle
• Arabic: ترام (terām) — passenger vehicle
• Arabic: طروماي (ṭurumāy) — passenger vehicle
• Arabic: طرامواي (tramway) — passenger vehicle
• Armenian: տրամվայ (tramvay) — passenger vehicle
• Azerbaijani: tramvay — passenger vehicle
• Belarusian: трамва́й (tramváj) — passenger vehicle
• Bengali: ট্রাম (ṭram) — passenger vehicle
• Bulgarian: трамва́й (tramváj) — passenger vehicle
• Burmese: သံလမ်းရထား (samlam:ra.hta:) — passenger vehicle
• Catalan: tramvia — passenger vehicle
• Catalan: tram — passenger vehicle
• Chinese Cantonese: 有軌電車 /有轨电车 (jau5 gwai2 din6 ce1) — passenger vehicle
• Chinese Cantonese: 電車 /电车 (din6 ce1) — passenger vehicle
• Chinese: 電車 /电车 (zh-min-nan) — passenger vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 有軌電車 /有轨电车 (yǒuguǐdiànchē) — passenger vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 電車 /电车 (diànchē) — passenger vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 路面電車 /路面电车 (lùmiàn diànchē) — passenger vehicle
• Wu Chinese: 有軌電車 /有轨电车 (6yeu-kue-di-tsho) — passenger vehicle
• Wu Chinese: 電車 /电车 (6di-tsho) — passenger vehicle
• Crimean Tatar: tramvay — passenger vehicle
• Czech: tramvaj — passenger vehicle
• Danish: sporvogn — passenger vehicle
• Dutch: tram — passenger vehicle
• Esperanto: tramo — passenger vehicle
• Estonian: tramm — passenger vehicle
• Finnish: raitiovaunu — passenger vehicle
• French: tramway — passenger vehicle
• French: tram — passenger vehicle
• Galician: tranvía — passenger vehicle
• Georgian: ტრამვაი (ṭramvai) — passenger vehicle
• German: Bim — passenger vehicle
• German: Straßenbahn — passenger vehicle
• German: S-Bahn — passenger vehicle
• German: Tram — passenger vehicle
• German: Trambahn — passenger vehicle
• German: Tramway — passenger vehicle
• German: Tram — passenger vehicle
• Greek: τραμ (tram) — passenger vehicle
• Hebrew: חַשְׁמַלִית (khashmalít) — passenger vehicle
• Hindi: ट्राम (ṭrām) — passenger vehicle
• Hungarian: villamos — passenger vehicle
• Icelandic: sporvagn — passenger vehicle
• Ido: tramoveturo — passenger vehicle
• Indonesian: trem — passenger vehicle
• Interlingua: tram — passenger vehicle
• Irish: tram — passenger vehicle
• Italian: tram — passenger vehicle
• Japanese: 市内電車 (shinai densha) — passenger vehicle
• Japanese: 市電 (shiden) — passenger vehicle
• Japanese: トラム (toramu) — passenger vehicle
• Japanese: 電車 (densha) — passenger vehicle
• Japanese: 路面電車 (romen densha) — passenger vehicle
• Kazakh: трамвай (tramvai) — passenger vehicle
• Khmer: រថអគ្គិសនី (rŭət ʼakkisaʼnii) — passenger vehicle
• Khmer: ត្រាំវ៉ៃ (tramvay) — passenger vehicle
• Khmer: ឡូរី (lourii) — passenger vehicle
• Khmer: អយរថអគ្គិសនី (ʼaʼyĕəʼrŭət ʼakkisaʼnii) — passenger vehicle
• Korean: 노면전차 (nomyeonjeoncha) — passenger vehicle
• Korean: 전차 (jeoncha) — passenger vehicle
• Korean: 트램 (teuraem) — passenger vehicle
• Northern Kurdish: tramway — passenger vehicle
• Northern Kurdish: tramwey — passenger vehicle
• Kyrgyz: трамвай (tramvay) — passenger vehicle
• Ladino: טראמבאיי — passenger vehicle
• Ladino: tramvay — passenger vehicle
• Lao: ລົດລາງ (lot lāng) — passenger vehicle
• Latin: publicus currus electricus — passenger vehicle
• Latvian: tramvajs — passenger vehicle
• Lithuanian: tramvajus — passenger vehicle
• Livonian: tramvaj — passenger vehicle
• Macedonian: тра́мвај (trámvaj) — passenger vehicle
• Malay: trem — passenger vehicle
• Māori: taramukā — passenger vehicle
• Marathi: ट्रॅम (ṭrĕm) — passenger vehicle
• Central Melanau: trem — passenger vehicle
• Mongolian: трамвай (tramvaj) — passenger vehicle
• Mongolian: ᠲ᠋ᠷᠠᠮᠸᠠᠢ (tramwai) — passenger vehicle
• Norman: tram — passenger vehicle
• Norwegian Bokmål: trikk — passenger vehicle
• Norwegian Bokmål: sporvogn — passenger vehicle
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trikk — passenger vehicle
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sporvogn — passenger vehicle
• Pannonian Rusyn: трамвай (tramvaj) — passenger vehicle
• Pannonian Rusyn: штрицкара (štrickara) — passenger vehicle
• Pashto: تراموی (trāmway) — passenger vehicle
• Pashto: ټرام (ṭrām) — passenger vehicle
• Iranian Persian: تِرامْوای (terâmvây) — passenger vehicle
• Iranian Persian: تْرامْوای (trâmvây) — passenger vehicle
• Iranian Persian: تِرامْوا (terâmvâ) — passenger vehicle
• Iranian Persian: تْرامْوا (trâmvâ) — passenger vehicle
• Iranian Persian: تِرام (terâm) — passenger vehicle
• Iranian Persian: تْرام (trâm) — passenger vehicle
• Polish: tramwaj — passenger vehicle
• Polish: bimba — passenger vehicle
• Portuguese: elétrico — passenger vehicle
• Portuguese: bonde — passenger vehicle
• Romanian: tramvai — passenger vehicle
• Russian: трамва́й (tramváj) — passenger vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: тра̏мва̄ј — passenger vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: trȁmvāj — passenger vehicle
• Silesian: sztrasbana — passenger vehicle
• Silesian: sztrasynbana — passenger vehicle
• Slovak: električka — passenger vehicle
• Slovene: tramvaj — passenger vehicle
• Spanish: tranvía — passenger vehicle
• Swedish: spårvagn — passenger vehicle
• Tagalog: trambiya — passenger vehicle
• Tajik: трамвай (tramvay) — passenger vehicle
• Tatar: трамвай (tramway) — passenger vehicle
• Thai: รถราง (rót-raang) — passenger vehicle
• Turkish: tramvay — passenger vehicle
• Ottoman Turkish: تراموای (tramvay) — passenger vehicle
• Turkmen: tramwaý — passenger vehicle
• Ukrainian: трамва́й (tramváj) — passenger vehicle
• Urdu: ٹْرام (ṭrām) — passenger vehicle
• Uyghur: ترامۋاي (tramway) — passenger vehicle
• Uzbek: tramvay — passenger vehicle
• Vietnamese: tàu điện — passenger vehicle
• Yiddish: טראַמווײַ (tramvay) — passenger vehicle
• Bulgarian: вагоне́тка (vagonétka) — vehicle for material
• Dutch: wagen — vehicle for material
• Dutch: spoorwagen — vehicle for material
• Dutch: mijnwagen — vehicle for material
• Macedonian: вагоне́тка (vagonétka) — vehicle for material
• Russian: вагоне́тка (vagonétka) — vehicle for material
• Bulgarian: ре́лса (rélsa) — one of the rails of a tramway