Concrete bollards (2) segregating a pedestrian area from a roadway
FromMiddle Englishbollard, probably fromMiddle Englishbole(“tree trunk”), fromOld Norsebolr(“stump, trunk”), equivalent tobole +-ard(pejorative or diminutive suffix).
bollard (pluralbollards)
- (nautical) A strong verticalpost oftimber oriron, fixed to the ground and/or on the deck of a ship, to which the ship'smooring lines etc are secured.
- Synonym:bitt
- Coordinate term:(smaller)cleat
1959,Mervyn Peake,Titus Alone:Today he had forbollard the unfinished monument half-erected to some all but forgotten anarchist.
1965,Poul Anderson,The Star Fox:He sat on abollard, looking out across the water, a man more small and shabby than expected.
- A similar post preventing vehicle access to apedestrian area, to delineate traffic lanes, or used for security purposes.
post to secure mooring lines
- Bulgarian:вързало (bg) n(vǎrzalo),кнехт m(kneht)
- Catalan:norai (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:纜樁 /缆桩 (zh)(lǎnzhuāng),繫纜樁 /系缆桩 (zh)(jìlǎnzhuāng)
- Czech:pachole (cs) n
- Danish:pullert c
- Dutch:meerpaal (nl) m,bolder (nl) m,aanlegpaal m
- Esperanto:bito
- Finnish:pollari (fi)
- French:bollard (fr) m(rarely used),bitte d’amarrage (fr) f(mooring bollard),bitte (fr) f(rarely used asbitte used alone is a widely used slang word forpenis)
- Galician:norai m,bita f
- German:Poller (de) m,Pfahl (de) m
- Hungarian:kikötőbak (hu)
- Icelandic:polli (is) m
- Irish:ceap ceangail m
- Italian:bitta (it) f,galloccia f
- Latin:caudex m
- Malay:tonggak
- Maori:pūtiki
- Norman:lache f
- Polish:pachołek (pl) m
- Portuguese:cabeço (pt) m
- Russian:кнехт (ru) m(knext),прико́л (ru) m(prikól),шварто́вная ту́мба f(švartóvnaja túmba)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:би̏тва f
- Roman:bȉtva (sh) f
- Spanish:noray (es) m,bolardo (es) m
- Swedish:pollare (sv) c
- Turkish:baba (tr)
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post preventing vehicles from entering pedestrian area
- Catalan:bol·lard (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:車阻 /车阻(chēzǔ)
- Czech:sloupek (cs)
- Danish:pullert c
- Dutch:verkeerspaal (nl) m(road bollard),poller (nl) m(retractible road bollard)
- Finnish:pollari (fi),betonipylväs
- French:borne (fr) f,bollard (fr) m
- Galician:bolardo m
- Georgian:please add this translation if you can
- German:Poller (de) m,Absperrpoller m
- Hungarian:oszlop (hu)
- Irish:ceap ceangail m,mullard m
- Italian:paracarro (it) m,pilastro (it) m,spartitraffico (it) m,colonnina (it) f
- Malay:tonggak
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:pullert m
- Polish:słupek (pl) m
- Portuguese:pilarete (pt) m
- Russian:столб (ru) m(stolb),ту́мба (ru) f(túmba)
- Spanish:bolardo (es) m,pilona f,pivote (es) m
- Swedish:pollare (sv) c
- Turkish:baba (tr)
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bollard m (pluralbollards)
- (nautical)bollard
- Synonym:bite d’amarrage
