# stairs
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈstɛəz/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈstɛɹz/
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* (General Australian) IPA: /steːz/
* (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /stiəz/
* (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /steəz/
* (Scotland) IPA: /steɹz/
* (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /stɜː(ɹ)z/
* Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
* Homophones: stares; steers (cheer–chair merger); stirs (fair–fur merger)

### Noun

stairs
* plural of stair

### Noun

stairs pl (plural only)
* A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.
** 1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools‎, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.

#### Synonyms

* (contiguous set of steps): stairway, staircase

#### Derived terms

* above stairs
* above-stairs
* back stairs
* below stairs
* cyclopean stairs
* disappearing stairs
* emergency stairs
* fire stairs
* I'll go to the foot of our stairs
* pair of stairs
* Penrose stairs
* riot stairs
* trap stairs
* witches' stairs

#### Translations

Afrikaans: trap
Aklanon: hakdan
Albanian: shkallë (sq) f
Arabic: سَلَالِم m pl (salālim)
Armenian: սանդուղք (hy) (sanduġkʻ), աստիճաններ pl (astičanner)
Aromanian: scarã f
Azerbaijani: pilləkan
Bashkir: баҫҡыс (baśqıs)
Belarusian: ле́свіца f (ljésvica), схо́ды pl (sxódy), усхо́ды pl (usxódy) / ўсхо́ды pl (ŭsxódy)
Bengali: সোপান (bn) (śōpan), সিঁড়ি (bn) (śĩṛi)
Bulgarian: стъ́лба (bg) f (stǎ́lba)
Burmese: လှေကား (my) (hleka:)
Catalan: escala (ca) f
Cebuano: hagdan
Cherokee: ᎠᎩᏠᏒᏍᏗᎢ (agitlosvsdii)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (lau$^4$ tai$^1$)
Eastern Min: 踏斗 (dăk-dāu), 樓梯 / 楼梯 (làu-*tăi)
Gan: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (leu$^4$ ti)
Hakka: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (lèu-thôi)
Hokkien: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (zh-min-nan) (lâu-thui)
Jin: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (lou$^1$ ti$^1$)
Mandarin: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (zh) (lóutī)
Northern Min: 樓階 / 楼阶 (lê-gó)
Wu: 胡梯 ($^6$wu-thi), 樓梯 / 楼梯 ($^6$leu-ti)
Chukchi: тыттатъёлгын (tyttatʺjolgyn)
Czech: schodiště (cs) n, schody pl
Danish: trappe (da) c
Dutch: trap (nl) m
Egyptian: (rwd)
Esperanto: ŝtuparo
Estonian: trepp (et)
Finnish: portaat (fi)
French: escalier (fr) m
Friulian: scjale f, sčhale f
Galician: escaleira (gl) f, escada (gl) f, esqueira (gl) f
Georgian: კიბეები (ḳibeebi), საფეხურები (sapexurebi)
German: Treppe (de) f, (Austria) Stiege (de) f
Alemannic German: Schtäge f
Greek: σκάλα (el) f (skála)
Ancient: ἀναβαθμοί m pl (anabathmoí)
Haitian Creole: eskalye
Hanunoo: agdan
Hebrew: גֶרֶם מַדרֵגוֹת m (gerem madregot)
Hiligaynon: hagdan
Hindi: सीढ़ी (hi) f (sīṛhī), सोपान (hi) m (sopān)
Hungarian: lépcső (hu)
Icelandic: stigi (is) m
Ido: eskalero (io)
Ilocano: agdan
Indonesian: tangga (id)
Ingrian: traput
Irish: staighre (ga) f
Italian: scala (it) f
Japanese: 階段 (ja) (かいだん, kaidan)
Kapampangan: eran, sangat
Kazakh: саты (saty)
Khmer: កាំជណ្ដើរ (kam cŭəndaə), ជណ្ដើរ (km) (cŭəndaə)
Konkani: ಮೆಟ್ಟಿಲು (meṭṭilu)
Korean: 계단(階段) (ko) (gyedan)
Kyrgyz: саты (satı)
Lao: ບັນໄດ (ban dai)
Latin: scālae f pl
Latvian: kāpnes (lv) f pl
Lithuanian: laiptinė f
Macedonian: ска́ли pl (skáli)
Malay: tangga (ms)
Maltese: tat-turġien, taraġ m
Mòcheno: stiag f
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шат (mn) (šat)
Mongolian: ᠱᠠᠲᠤ (šatu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: trapp (no) m or f
Nynorsk: trapp (nn) f
Occitan: escalièrs (oc) m pl
Ojibwe: akwaandawaagan
Pangasinan: takayan
Pashto: اندرپايه f (anarpāyá), ځينه f (jiná), څپېڅلۍ f (capécley)
Persian:
Dari: زِینَه (zīna)
Iranian Persian: پِلِّکان (pellekân)
Polish: schody (pl) pl
Portuguese: escada (pt)
Romanian: scară (ro) f
Russian: ле́стница (ru) f (léstnica), ступе́ньки (ru) f pl (stupénʹki)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: степѐнице f pl, степеник m, сте̏пенӣште n, сту̏бӣште n
Roman: stepènice (sh) f pl, stepenik (sh) m, stȅpenīšte (sh) n, stȕbīšte (sh) n
Slovak: schody pl, schodisko n
Slovene: stopnišče (sl) n
Spanish: escalera (es) f, gradas (es) f pl, escalinata (es) f
Swahili: ngazi (sw)
Swedish: trappa (sv) c
Tagalog: hagdan (tl), hagdanan (tl), baitang
Tajik: зинапоя (zinapoya), нардбон (nardbon)
Tatar: баскыч (tt) (baskıç)
Thai: บันได (th) (ban-dai)
Tibetan: སྐས་འཛེགས (skas 'dzegs)
Turkish: basamak (tr), merdiven (tr)
Turkmen: merdiwan
Ukrainian: схо́ди (uk) pl (sxódy)
Urdu: سِیڑْھی f (sīṛhī)
Uyghur: پەلەمپەي (pelempey)
Uzbek: narvon (uz), zinapoya (uz)
Vietnamese: cầu thang (vi)
Welsh: grisiau (cy) f
White Hmong: ntaiv
Yiddish: טרעפּ f (trep) :

### Anagrams

* Sartis, Sitars, arists, sistra, sitars, tisars