veranda 的词源

也作verandah，意为“建筑外部的开放式门廊”，有屋顶的柱子和栏杆，1711年，英印语，来自印地语varanda，可能源自葡萄牙语varanda，最初意为“长阳台或露台”，这个词的起源不确定。

可能是一个在印度语境中使用的欧洲词汇，被相对晚到印度的英国人发现。在这种情况下，它可能代表西班牙语baranda“栏杆”，最终来自俗拉丁语*barra“障碍，杆”。法语véranda是从英语借来的。

That the word as used in England and in France was brought by the English from India need not be doubted. But either in the same sense, or in one closely analogous, it appears to have existed, quite independently, in Portuguese and Spanish; and the manner in which it occurs without explanation in the very earliest narrative of the adventure of the Portuguese in India ... seems almost to preclude the possibility of their having learned it in that country for the first time .... [Col. Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell, "Hobson-Jobson, A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases," 1903]

英国和法国使用的这个词是由英国人从印度带来的，这一点毫无疑问。但它在葡萄牙语和西班牙语中似乎也独立存在，或在相似的意义上存在；而它在葡萄牙人在印度冒险的最早叙述中出现却没有解释，似乎几乎排除了他们首次在该国学到这个词的可能性…… [Col. Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell, "Hobson-Jobson, A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases," 1903]