karvansaraj noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
karvanserai noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Arabic

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خَان noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
كَارْوَانْسَرَا noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Armenian

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քարվանսարա noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Azerbaijani

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karvansara noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Bashkir

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ҡарауанһарай noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Basque

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karabansaraia noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Bengali

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ক্যারাভানসরাই noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Bulgarian

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кервансара́й noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Catalan

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caravanserrall noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Central Kurdish

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کاروانسەرا noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Chinese Mandarin

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商隊旅館 /商队旅馆 noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Crimean Tatar

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kervansaray noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Czech

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karavansaraj noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Danish

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karavanestation noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
karavanserai noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Dutch

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karavanserai noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Esperanto

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karavanserajo noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Finnish

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karavaaniseralji noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
kohtauspaikka noun (place resembling a caravanserai (sense 1) as being a place for resting temporarily, or a meeting place)
levähdyspaikka noun (place resembling a caravanserai (sense 1) as being a place for resting temporarily, or a meeting place)

French

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caravansérail noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Galician

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caravasar noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Georgian

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ქარვასლა noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

German

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Karawanserei noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Greek

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καραβανσεράι noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Hebrew

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חאן noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Hindi

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कारवां सराय noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Hungarian

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karavánszeráj noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Ido

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karavanserayo noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Indonesian

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karavansari noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
karavanserai noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Italian

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caravanserraglio noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Japanese

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キャラバンサライ noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Kazakh

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керуен сарай noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Korean

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캐러밴서라이 noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Kumyk

1 entries

керивансарай noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Kyrgyz

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кербен-сарай noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Lithuanian

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karavansarajus noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Macedonian

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карвансарај noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Northern Kurdish

2 entries

karwansera noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
karwanseray noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Norwegian Bokmål

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karavaneserai noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

karavane-serai noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
karavanserai noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Occitan

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caravanserralh noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Pashto

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کاروان سراى noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Persian

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تیم noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
کاروانسرا noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
کاروانسرای noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Polish

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karawanseraj noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Portuguese

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caravancerá noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
caravançarai noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
caravançará noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Romanian

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caravanserai noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Russian

2 entries

караван-сара́й noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
каравансара́й noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

karavansaraj noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
каравансарај noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Slovak

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karavanserail noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Slovene

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karavanseraj noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Spanish

2 entries

caravansaray noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
caravasar noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Swedish

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karavanseraj noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Tajik

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корвонсарой noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Tamil

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கேரவன்செராய் noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Tatar

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кәрвансарай noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Thai

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สถานีคาราวาน noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Turkish

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kervansaray noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Turkmen

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kerwensaraý noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Ukrainian

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карава́н-сара́й noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Urdu

1 entries

کارواں سرائے noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Uyghur

1 entries

كارۋان ساراي noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Uzbek

1 entries

karvonsaroy noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Volapük

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karovöp noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

West-Frisian

2 entries

karavaanseray noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)
karavanseray noun (roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest)

Sample sentences

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A dervise travelling through Tartary, being arrived at the town of Balk, went into the king's palace by mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn, or caravansary. […] It happened that the king himself passed through the gallery during this debate, and, smiling at the mistake of the dervise, asked him how he could possibly be so dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravansary? […] 'Ah, Sir,' said the dervise, a house that changes its inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual succession of guests, is not a palace, but a caravansary.'

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But not in sumptuous Caravansary / The adventurer idles there, / Nor satiates wonder with her pomp and wealth; […]

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The "wakálah," as the caravanserai or khan is called in Egypt, combines the offices of hotel, lodging house, and store. It is at Cairo, as at Constantinople, a massive pile of buildings surrounding a quadrangular "hosh" or court-yard.

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Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai / Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day, / How Sultán after Sultán with his Pomp / Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.

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