caravanserai

Etymology
Borrowed:


 * from, (modern 🇨🇬,  ,  ); or
 * directly from its,  (modern 🇨🇬), from ; or
 * directly from its etymon, from (ultimately from ) +  (ultimately from.



Noun

 * 1)  A roadside inn, usually having a central courtyard where caravans (see ) can rest, providing accommodation for travellers along trade routes in Asia and North Africa.
 * 2)  A place resembling a caravanserai  as being a place for resting temporarily, or a meeting place (especially one that is busy, or where people of different cultures encounter each other).
 * 3)  A hostelry, an inn; also, an (upscale) hotel.
 * 1)  A place resembling a caravanserai  as being a place for resting temporarily, or a meeting place (especially one that is busy, or where people of different cultures encounter each other).
 * 2)  A hostelry, an inn; also, an (upscale) hotel.
 * 1)  A place resembling a caravanserai  as being a place for resting temporarily, or a meeting place (especially one that is busy, or where people of different cultures encounter each other).
 * 2)  A hostelry, an inn; also, an (upscale) hotel.
 * 1)  A place resembling a caravanserai  as being a place for resting temporarily, or a meeting place (especially one that is busy, or where people of different cultures encounter each other).
 * 2)  A hostelry, an inn; also, an (upscale) hotel.
 * 1)  A hostelry, an inn; also, an (upscale) hotel.
 * 1)  A hostelry, an inn; also, an (upscale) hotel.
 * 1)  A hostelry, an inn; also, an (upscale) hotel.
 * 1)  A hostelry, an inn; also, an (upscale) hotel.
 * 1)  A hostelry, an inn; also, an (upscale) hotel.
 * 1)  A hostelry, an inn; also, an (upscale) hotel.
 * 1)  A hostelry, an inn; also, an (upscale) hotel.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:lodging place

Translations

 * Albanian: karvanserai, karvansaraj
 * Arabic: كَارْوَانْسَرَا, خَان
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: karvansara
 * Bashkir: ҡарауанһарай
 * Basque: karabansaraia
 * Bengali: ক্যারাভানসরাই
 * Bulgarian: кервансара́й
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 商隊旅館
 * Crimean Tatar: kervansaray
 * Czech: karavansaraj
 * Danish: karavanserai, karavanestation
 * Dutch: karavanserai
 * Esperanto: karavanserajo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: caravasar
 * Georgian: ქარვასლა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חאן
 * Hindi: कारवां सराय
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: karavanserai, karavansari
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: キャラバンサライ
 * Kazakh: керуен сарай
 * Korean: 캐러밴서라이
 * Kumyk: керивансарай
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کاروانسەرا
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: кербен-сарай
 * Lithuanian: karavansarajus
 * Macedonian: карвансарај
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: karavaneserai, karavane-serai
 * Nynorsk: karavanserai, karavane-serai
 * Occitan: caravanserralh
 * Pashto: کاروان سراى
 * Persian: کاروان‌سرا, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: caravançarai,, caravancerá
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: каравансарај
 * Roman: karavansaraj
 * Slovak: karavanserail
 * Slovene: karavanseraj
 * Spanish: caravasar, caravansaray
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: корвонсарой
 * Tamil: கேரவன்செராய்
 * Tatar: кәрвансарай
 * Thai: สถานีคาราวาน
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: kerwensaraý
 * Ukrainian: карава́н-сара́й
 * Urdu: کارواں سرائے
 * Uyghur: كارۋان ساراي
 * Uzbek:
 * Volapük:
 * West Frisian: karavaanseray, karavanseray


 * Finnish:, kohtauspaikka
 * Macedonian:

Etymology
, from, , from , from +. .