half-hourly

English

Etymology

From half-hour +‎ -ly.

Adjective

half-hourly (not comparable)

1. Once every half-hour, every 30 minutes.

   a half-hourly train service

   • 2019 October, “Lee Valley shuttle service launched”, in Modern Railways, page 18:

     A new half-hourly service between Stratford [Greater London] and Meridian Water was introduced on 9 September by Greater Anglia.

Synonyms

• semihourly

Translations

half-hourly

• Russian: получасово́й (ru) (polučasovój)

Adverb

half-hourly (not comparable)

1. At intervals of a half-hour, every 30 minutes.

   Take this medicine half-hourly.

Synonyms

• twice-hourly
• semihourly

Translations

twice an hour

• Arabic: كل نصف ساعة
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 每半小時／每半小时 (měi bàn xiǎoshí)

• Esperanto: duonhore
• Finnish: puolen tunnin välein
• German: jede halbe Stunde
• Japanese: 30分おきに (sanjippun oki ni)
• Russian: ка́ждые полчаса́ (káždyje polčasá), два ра́за в ча́с (dva ráza v čás)