English Etymology From cable + way. Noun cableway (plural cableways) A system of suspended cables from which cable cars are hung. Synonyms ropeway Derived terms aerial cableway Translations system of cables Armenian: ճոպանուղի (hy) (čopanuġi) Azerbaijani: kanat yolu Chinese: Mandarin: 索道 (zh) (suǒdào) Finnish: köysirata (fi) French: téléphérique (fr) m German: Seilbahn (de) f Hungarian: drótkötélvasút (hu) Japanese: ケーブルカー (ja) (kēburukā), 索道 (ja) (さくどう, sakudō), ケーブルウェイ (kēburuwei), ロープウェイ (ja) (rōpuwei) Korean: 케이블카 (keibeulka) Macedonian: жи́чница f (žíčnica) Portuguese: teleférico (pt) m Quechua: uruya Romanian: teleferic (ro) n, funicular (ro) n Russian: кана́тная доро́га (ru) f (kanátnaja doróga), фуникулёр (ru) m (funikuljór) Spanish: teleférico (es) m Swedish: linbana (sv) f Turkish: teleferik (tr) Yakut: ханаат суол (qanaat suol) Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.