zebra crossing

zebra crossing

English

zebra crossing

Etymology

From the similarity of the stripes to those of a zebra.

Pronunciation

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Noun

zebra crossing (plural zebra crossings)

1. (Australia, UK, New Zealand, Singapore) A pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street.
   • 1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 6, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 50:

     'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

   • 2003, The Highway Code for Northern Ireland, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 16:

     Do not ride across a pelican, puffin or zebra crossing. Dismount and wheel your cycle across.

   • 2008 December 16, Roy, Arundhati, The God of Small Things‎, Random House, →ISBN, OL 24604480M, Ch. 1:

     They also believed that if they were killed on a zebra crossing, the Government would pay for their funerals. They had the definite impression that that was what zebra crossings were meant for. Free funerals.

   • 2010 December 22, “Beatles' Abbey Road zebra crossing given listed status”, in BBC News‎:

     The Abbey Road zebra crossing in north London — made famous after appearing on a Beatles album cover — has been given Grade II listed status.

Hypernyms

• crosswalk
• pedestrian crossing
• ped xing

Translations

pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes

Armenian: անցում (hy) (ancʿum), զեբր (hy) (zebr) Catalan: pas zebra m, pas de zebra m Chinese: Cantonese: 斑馬線, 斑马线 (baan1 maa5 sin3) Mandarin: 斑馬線／斑马线 (zh) (bānmǎxiàn) Min Nan: 斑馬線 (zh-min-nan), 斑马线 (pan-má-sòaⁿ, pan-bé-sòaⁿ) Cornish: treusva labol f Czech: zebra (cs) f, přechod pro chodce (cs) Danish: fodgængerovergang c Dutch: zebrapad (nl) n Esperanto: stripasejo, zebrostria pasejo Finnish: suojatie (fi) French: passage pour piétons (fr) m, passage piéton (fr) m, passage clouté (fr) m German: Zebrastreifen (de) m, Fußgängerüberweg (de) m (formally) Hungarian: zebra (hu) Icelandic: sebrabraut f Indonesian: zebra cross Irish: trasrian síogach m, bealach trasna m Italian: strisce pedonali f, attraversamento zebrato m Japanese: 横断歩道 (ja) (おうだん ほどう, ōdan hodō) Kazakh: жаяу өткел (jaäu ötkel) Korean: 횡단보도(橫斷步道) (ko) (hoengdanbodo) Luxembourgish: Zebrasträif f Malay: lintasan zebra (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: fotgjengerfelt n, fotgjengerovergang m, gangfelt n Nynorsk: gangfelt n Polish: zebra (pl) f Portuguese: passadeira (pt) f (Portugal), zebra (pt) f (Portugal), faixa de pedestres f (Brazil), faixa (pt) f (Brazil) Romanian: trecere de pietoni f, zebră (ro) f Russian: пешехо́дный перехо́д (ru) m (pešexódnyj perexód), полоса́тый перехо́д m (polosátyj perexód), зе́бра (ru) f (zébra), зе́бра перехо́д m (zébra perexód) Spanish: paso de cebra m Swahili: kivuko milia Swedish: övergångsställe (sv) Thai: ทางม้าลาย (th) (taang máa laai) Turkish: yaya geçidi (tr) Welsh: croesfan sebra f

See also

• Belisha beacon
• ghost island
• island
• pelican crossing
• puffin crossing
• toucan crossing

Further reading

• zebra crossing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia