alcove

See also alcôve

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French alcôve, from Spanish or Portuguese alcova, alcoba, from Arabic القبة ‘the vault, chamber with vaulted roof’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈælkəʊv/

Noun

alcove (plural alcoves)

1. A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

Translations

small recessed area

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ниша (bg) (niša) 
• Danish: alkove (da) c, niche (da) c
• Dutch: alkoof (nl) f and m
• Esperanto: alkovo (eo)
• Faroese: kovi (fo) m
• Finnish: alkovi (fi)
• French: alcôve (fr) f
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• German: Alkove (de) m

• Greek: κόγχη (el) (kónchi) f 
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: hálófülke (hu), alkóv (hu), falmélyedés (hu)
• Ido: alkovo (io)
• Italian: alcova (it) f
• Japanese: 壁龕 (ja) (へきがん, hekigan)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Mandarin: simpl. 壁龛, simpl. 壁橱
• Portuguese: alcova (pt) f
• Spanish: hornacina (es) f, hueco (es) m, nicho (es) m
• Swedish: alkov (sv)

Anagrams

• coeval

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Italian

Noun

alcove f

1. Plural form of alcova

Anagrams

• celavo
• vocale