WotD: suburb

[muckefuck]

1. der Vorort
2. de voorstad
3. las afueras, el suburbio
4. les afores, el raval, el suburbi
5. le faubourg, la banlieue
6. y faestref
7. an bruachbhaile
8. 교외 (郊外)
9. 郊區 jiāoqū

Notes: 5. Cajun le déhors du village.

Discussion: This is a good example of how difficult it is to find straightforward equivalents of even the most concrete terms. European cities are much different in history and structure from most American urban areas, which tend to reverse their pattern by having a depressed inner core and a ring of affluent settlements. Thus, the translation found in most English-French dictionaries for "suburb", banlieue actually has completely different connotations, ones closer to those of American English "ghetto". For Spanish and Catalan, the best translation of "suburbs" is a term literally meaning "outskirts".