Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·South Asia ·1710s
Veranda
from varāṇḍā (Hindi, possibly via Portuguese *varanda*)
- Meaning
- An open covered gallery along the side of a house.
- Source word
- varāṇḍā (Hindi, possibly via Portuguese *varanda*)
- Route into English
- Portuguese colonial Goa → British Raj domestic architecture → home to Britain with the bungalow. The etymology is contested but the route isn't.
- Arrived
- 1710s
From South Asia
Three centuries of British colonial contact — East India Company, Raj, military, domestic life — deposited a distinct Hindi/Urdu/Bengali/Sanskrit layer in everyday English.
English borrows.
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