corridor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/, /-də/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹɪdoː/, /-də/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: kôrʹədôr', IPA^(key): /ˈkoɹəˌdoɹ/; enPR: kôrʹədər', IPA^(key): /ˈkoɹədɚ/

  • Audio (California):

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  • Audio (North Carolina):

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• (New York City) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹəˌdɔɹ/; IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹədɚ/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹədoː/, /-də/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ̟ɹədoː], [-də]
• Hyphenation: cor‧ri‧dor

Noun

corridor (plural corridors)

1. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

     There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.

   • 1931, Francis Beeding, Death Walks in Eastrepps, chapter 1/1:

     Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.

   • 1977, Isley Brothers, “Footsteps in the Dark”, in Go for Your Guns:

     My mind drifts now and then / Lookin' down dark corridors and wonders what might have been / Something's up ahead / Hey, should I keep this same direction or go back instead?

2. A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
   • 1951 November, Brian Reed, “An Austro-German "Corridor" Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 778:

     In addition, there are two up and two down korridorzug ^[sic] [Korridorzüge] of the O.B.B. which run through from Innsbruck to Reutte via the Mittenwald line, but which are "sealed" between Scharnitz through Garmisch-Partenkirchen as far as Ehrwald, carrying passengers only from Austria to Austria; the korridor thus refers to the corridor through Germany and not through the train.

3. (military, historical, rare) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
4. Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
5. The land near an important road, river, railway line.

   Main Street corridor

   Pike-Pine Corridor, Seattle

Derived terms

• air corridor
• boom corridor
• corridor care
• corridor discussion
• corridor disease
• corridored
• corridorless
• corridorlike
• corridor of uncertainty
• corridor shooter
• corridors of power
• corridor train
• corridor warrior
• Danubian corridor
• economic corridor
• ghost corridor
• green corridor
• humanitarian corridor
• M62 corridor
• Mormon corridor
• non-corridor, noncorridor
• Northeast Corridor
• Suwalki corridor
• utilidor
• wildlife corridor

Translations

narrow hall or passage — see also hallway,‎ passageway

• Afrikaans: gang (af)
• Akan: abrannaa
• Albanian: korridor m, mesore (sq), shtrak (sq)
• Arabic: رِوَاق m (riwāq), دِهْلِيز m (dihlīz), رَدْهَة f (radha), مَمَرّ m (mamarr)

  Egyptian Arabic: طرقى f (ṭorqā)

  Hijazi Arabic: طرقة f (ṭurga), سيب m (sīb)

• Armenian: միջանցք (hy) (miǰancʻkʻ)
• Azerbaijani: dəhliz (az), koridor
• Belarusian: калідо́р m (kalidór)
• Bulgarian: коридо́р (bg) m (koridór)
• Burmese: စင်္ကြံ (my) (cangkram)
• Catalan: passadís (ca) m, corredor (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏅᏛᎢ (galinvdvi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 走廊 (zh) (zǒuláng), 甬道 (zh) (yǒngdào), 過道 / 过道 (zh) (guòdào), 廊道 (lángdào)

• Cornish: kuldremenva f
• Czech: chodba (cs) f
• Danish: korridor (da) c, gang (da) c
• Dutch: corridor (nl) m, gang (nl) m, hal (nl) f
• Esperanto: koridoro
• Estonian: koridor
• Finnish: käytävä (fi)
• French: couloir (fr) m, corridor (fr) m
• Galician: pasadoiro m, corredor (gl) m, ástrago m, andámeo m, tránsito (gl) m
• Georgian: დერეფანი (derepani), კორიდორი (ḳoridori)
• German: Korridor (de) m, Gang (de) m, Durchgang (de) m, Flur (de) m, Diele (de) f
• Greek: διάδρομος (el) m (diádromos)

  Ancient Greek: ἀνδρών m (andrṓn)

• Gujarati: પડાળી m (paḍāḷī)
• Haitian Creole: koridò
• Hebrew: מִסְדְּרוֹן (he) m (misd'rón), פְּרוֹזְדוֹר (he) m (prozdór)
• Hindi: गलियारा (hi) m (galiyārā)
• Hungarian: folyosó (hu)
• Indonesian: koridor (id)
• Ingrian: kalindora
• Irish: dorchla (ga) m, pasáiste m, halla m
• Italian: corridoio (it) m
• Japanese: 廊下 (ja) (ろうか, rōka), 回廊 (ja) (かいろう, kairō)
• Kazakh: дәліз (däliz), коридор (korıydor)
• Khmer: របៀង (km) (rɔbiəng), ច្រករបៀង (crɑɑk rɔbiəng)
• Korean: 복도(複道) (ko) (bokdo), 회랑(回廊) (hoerang), 낭하(廊下) (nangha), 랑하(廊下) (rangha) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dehlîz (ku), dolan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: коридор (koridor), далис (ky) (dalis)
• Lao: ທາງຍ່າງ (thāng nyāng)
• Latin: andron m
• Latvian: koridors m
• Lithuanian: koridorius m
• Macedonian: коридо́р m (koridór), ходник m (hodnik), кулоа́р m (kuloár)
• Malagasy: lalantsara (mg)
• Malay: koridor
• Malayalam: ഇടനാഴി (ml) (iṭanāḻi)
• Maltese: kuritur m
• Māori: kauhanga, kauhanganui, kauwhanga, awarua
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: коридор (mn) (koridor), хонгил (mn) (xongil)

  Mongolian script: ᠻᠣᠷᠢᠳᠣᠷ (koridor), ᠬᠣᠩᠭᠢᠯ (qongɣil)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: korridor (no) m, gang (no) m

• Pashto: دهلېز (ps) m (dahléz)
• Persian:

  Dari: دَهْلِیز (dahlīz)

  Iranian Persian: راهْرُوْ (râhrow), کُریدور (koridor), دِهْلیز (dehliz)

• Plautdietsch: Gank m
• Polish: korytarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: corredor (pt) m
• Romanian: culoar (ro) n, coridor (ro) n
• Russian: коридо́р (ru) m (koridór)
• Scottish Gaelic: trannsa f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хо̏днӣк m, корѝдо̄р m, куло̀а̄р m

  Latin: hȍdnīk (sh) m, korìdōr (sh) m, kulòār (sh) m

• Slovak: chodba (sk) f
• Slovene: hodnik (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wjaža f

• Spanish: corredor (es) m, andador (es) m
• Swahili: ushoroba, korido
• Swedish: korridor (sv) c, gång (sv) c, hall (sv) c
• Tagalog: koridor, pasilyo (tl)
• Tajik: долон (dolon), коридор (koridor), даҳлез (dahlez)
• Tamil: தாழ்வாரம் (ta) (tāḻvāram)
• Telugu: కారిడార్ (kāriḍār)
• Thai: ฉนวน (th) (chà-nǔuan)
• Turkish: koridor (tr), dehliz (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: دهلیز (dehliz), آرالق (aralık), قوریدور (koridor)

• Turkmen: koridor
• Ukrainian: коридо́р (uk) m (korydór)
• Urdu: راہْداری f (rāhdārī), دَہْلِیز f (dahlīz)
• Uyghur: كارىدور (karidor)
• Uzbek: yoʻlak (uz), koridor (uz)
• Vietnamese: hành lang (vi)
• Welsh: coridor m, tramwyfa f
• Xhosa: iranga
• Yakut: көрүдүөр (körüdüör)
• Yiddish: קאָרידאָר m (koridor)

tract of land

• Arabic: طَرِيق (ar) m (ṭarīq) ضِيق m (ḍīq)
• Catalan: corredor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: koridor m
• Danish: korridor (da) c
• Dutch: corridor (nl)
• Finnish: käytävä (fi)
• French: corridor (fr) m, couloir (fr) m
• German: Korridor (de) m, Trasse (de) f
• Greek: διάδρομος (el) m (diádromos)
• Hindi: गलियारा (hi) m (galiyārā)
• Indonesian: koridor (id)
• Japanese: 回廊地帯 (かいろうちたい, kairō chitai)
• Māori: awarua
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کُریدور (koridor)

• Polish: korytarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: corredor (pt) m
• Romanian: coridor (ro) n
• Russian: коридо́р (ru) m (koridór)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: корѝдо̄р m

  Latin: korìdōr (sh) m

• Spanish: andador (es) m
• Swedish: korridor (sv) c
• Urdu: راہداری f (rāhdārī) (example Kartarpur corridor)

airspace — see also airway

• Arabic: مَمَرّ (mamarr) جَوِّيّ (jawwiyy), مُـخـتَرَق (ar) (muḵtaraq) جَوِّيّ (jawwiyy)
• Bulgarian: коридо́р (bg) m (koridór)
• Catalan: passadís (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: koridor m
• Dutch: luchtweg (nl), corridor (nl)
• Finnish: ilmakäytävä (fi)
• French: couloir aérien m
• German: Korridor (de) m
• Greek: αεροδιάδρομος (el) m (aerodiádromos)
• Italian: corridoio aereo m
• Japanese: 空中回廊 (くうちゅうかいろう, kūchū kairō)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کُریدور (koridor)

• Polish: korytarz powietrzny m
• Portuguese: corredor aéreo m
• Romanian: coridor aerian n
• Russian: коридо́р (ru) m (koridór)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: корѝдо̄р m

  Latin: korìdōr (sh) m

• Spanish: pasillo (es) m, corredor (es) m, andador (es) m
• Swedish: flygkorridor c, korridor (sv) c

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian corridore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁi.dɔʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

corridor m (plural corridors)

1. corridor, passage

Descendants

• → Crimean Tatar: koridor
• → Dutch: corridor
  • → Indonesian: koridor
• → English: corridor
• → Iranian Persian: کریدور (koridor)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قوریدور (koridor)
  • Turkish: koridor

Further reading

• “corridor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012