English
Etymology
From Middle English fot-brigge, equivalent to foot + bridge.
Pronunciation
Noun
footbridge (plural footbridges)
- A bridge over a road, railway, river, etc for pedestrians.
- Synonym: pedestrian bridge
1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 409:The girder bridge at the head of the pass is used as a footbridge, and is roughly decked.
Derived terms
Translations
bridge for pedestrians
- Catalan: passarel·la (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 天橋 / 天桥 (zh) (tiānqiáo)
- Czech: lávka (cs) f
- Danish: gangbro (da) c, fodgængerbro c
- Dutch: voetgangersbrug (nl) f
- Estonian: purre, jalakäijate sild
- Faroese: gongubrúgv f
- Finnish: jalankulkusilta (fi)
- French: passerelle (fr) f
- German: Fußgängerbrücke (de) f
- Greek: πεζογέφυρα (el) f (pezogéfyra), γεφυράκι (el) n (gefyráki)
- Hungarian: gyalogoshíd (hu), gyaloghíd (hu)
- Icelandic: göngubrú (is) f
- Indonesian: jembatan kaki, jembatan pejalan kaki (literally “pedestrian bridge”)
- Irish: droichead coise m, droichead coisithe m
- Italian: passerella (it) f, ponte pedonale, palancola (it) f
- Japanese: 歩道橋 (ja) (ほどうきょう, hodōkyō)
- Korean: 인도교 (ko) (indogyo), 육교 (yukgyo), 보도교 (bodogyo)
- Latgalian: laipa
- Latvian: laipa
- Malayalam: നടപ്പാലം (naṭappālaṁ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gangbro m or f, gangbru m or f, fotgjengerbro m or f, fotgjengerbru m or f
- Nynorsk: gangbru f, fotgjengarbru f
- Old French: plat
- Plautdietsch: Stajch m
- Polish: kładka f
- Portuguese: passarela (pt) f
- Quechua: uruya
- Romanian: punte (ro) f
- Russian: пешехо́дный мо́стик/мост m (pešexódnyj móstik/most), мо́стик (ru) m (móstik), мостки́ (ru) m pl (mostkí) (planked footway), схо́дни (ru) f pl (sxódni) (gangplank)
- Serbo-Croatian: moštanica f
- Spanish: puente peatonal m, pasarela f
- Swedish: gångbro (sv) c
- Thai: สะพานลอย (th) (sà-paan-lɔɔi)
- Welsh: pompren f
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