gazebo

English

A gazebo in the Singapore Botanic Gardens

Etymology

Possibly from gaze + Latin conjugation ending -ebo (as in videbo); or possibly from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba) (whence also casbah), refashioned after gaze.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈziːbəʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈziːboʊ/

  Rhymes: -iːbəʊ

Noun

gazebo (plural gazebos or gazeboes)

1. A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.
   • 1734, Thomas Sheridan (Sr.), Letter from Dr. Sheridan to Dr. Swift; published in Deane Swift, editor, Letters Written by the late Jonathan Swift, D. D.‎^[2], volume v, London: C. Bathurst et al., 1768, page 367:

     Ann dye Ned inn a gaze ay beau a pun a past Eye maid off any Sun ("and dined in a gazebo upon a pasty made of venison")

   • 1749, William Halfpenny, New and Compleat System of Architecture‎^[3], London: John Brindley, page 7:

     over which is a gazebo room 10 feet square

   • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 89:

     She led them around the back of the yard, where a gray, tired-looking gazebo perched at the edge of the oak trees.

Translations

roofed structure

• Armenian: զրուցարան (hy) (zrucʻaran), բեսեդկա (hy) (besedka)
• Belarusian: альта́нка f (alʹtánka)
• Bulgarian: беседка f (besedka)
• Catalan: glorieta f
• Danish: lysthus n
• Dutch: prieel (nl) n
• Esperanto: laŭbo
• Finnish: huvimaja (fi)
• French: gloriette (fr) f; pavillon (fr) m; kiosque (fr) m
• Georgian: აგარაკი (ka) (agaraḳi), ბელვედერი (belvederi)
• German: (general) Pavillon (de) m; (Austria also) Salettl (de) n; (in a private garden also) Laube (de) f, Gartenlaube (de) f
• Hungarian: filagória (hu)
• Italian: gazebo (it) m
• Japanese: 涼亭 (ryoutei), 東屋 (azumaya)
• Korean: 전망대 (ko) (jeonmangdae)
• Maori: pūrori
• Norwegian: lysthus m
• Persian: تارمی (fa) (târomi), طارم (fa) (târam)
• Polish: altana (pl) f
• Portuguese: gazebo m
• Romanian: filigórie n
• Russian: бесе́дка (ru) f (besédka)
• Slovene: paviljon m, senčnica (sl) f, uta f
• Spanish: gazebo m
• Swedish: lusthus (sv) n
• Thai: ศาลา (th) (sǎa-laa)
• Turkish: çardak (tr), kamelya (tr), kameriye (tr), köşk (tr)
• Ukrainian: альта́нка (uk) f (alʹtánka), альта́на (uk) f (alʹtána)
• Vietnamese: vọng lâu
• Welsh: gwylfa f, arsyllfa f

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English gazebo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡadˈd͡zɛ.bo/
• Rhymes: -ɛbo
• Hyphenation: ga‧zè‧bo

Noun

gazebo m (invariable)

1. gazebo

Further reading

• gazebo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ɡaˈθebo/ [ɡaˈθe.β̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ɡaˈsebo/ [ɡaˈse.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ebo
• Syllabification: ga‧ze‧bo

Noun

gazebo m (plural gazebos)

1. gazebo