kiosque

kiosque

English

Noun

kiosque (plural kiosques)

1. Archaic form of kiosk.
   • 1895, Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

     Cafés and restaurants were scattered here and there among the trees, and twice a week military bands from the garrison played in the kiosques on the parapets.

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French

kiosque à musique

Etymology

From Italian chiosco, from Ottoman Turkish كوشك‎ (köşk), from Persian کوشک‎ (kôšk, “palace, portico”), from Middle Persian kwšk' (kōšk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kjɔsk/

• kiosque

  (file)

Noun

kiosque m (plural kiosques)

1. kiosk (enclosed structure)
2. Ellipsis of kiosque à musique (“bandstand”); bandstand

Descendants

• → Dutch: kiosk
  • Afrikaans: kiosk
  • → Indonesian: kios
    • → Ternate: kios
• → English: kiosk
• → Norman: kiosque
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kiosk
• → Polish: kiosk
• → Russian: киоск (kiosk), кіо́скъ (kiósk)
  • → Georgian: კიოსკი (ḳiosḳi)
  • → Hebrew: קִיּוׄסְק‎ (kiyósk)
  • → Yakut: киоск (kiosk)
• → Spanish: kiosco

Further reading

• “kiosque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• kiosque on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• kiosque à musique on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French kiosque.

Noun

kiosque m (plural kiosques)

1. (Jersey) kiosk

Derived terms

• kiosque d'lot'tie (“lottery kiosk”)
• kiosque d'téléphône (“telephone box”)