bookshelf

English

A bookshelf filled with books.

Etymology

From book +‎ shelf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

bookshelf (plural bookshelves)

1. A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.
   • 1902, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, 2nd edition, page 102:

     Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.

Derived terms

• bookshelf wealth

Translations

shelf for storing books

• Armenian: գրադարակ (hy) (gradarak)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 書架／书架 (syu¹ gaa^3-2)

  Mandarin: 書架／书架 (zh) (shūjià), 書櫥／书橱 (zh) (shūchú)

• Czech: knihovnička (cs) f
• Danish: bogreol (da) c, boghylde (da) c
• Dutch: boekenkast (nl) c
• Elfdalian: buokill f
• Esperanto: libro-bretaro, librobreto
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: bókahill f
• Finnish: kirjahylly (fi)
• French: bibliothèque (fr) f, étagère (fr) f
• Georgian: თარო (ka) (taro)
• German: Regal (de) n, Bücherregal (de) n
• Greek: ράφι για βιβλία n (ráfi gia vivlía), βιβλιοθήκη (el) f (vivliothíki)
• Greenlandic: atuagaasivik
• Hebrew: ארון ספרים m (aron sfarym)
• Hungarian: könyvespolc (hu)
• Icelandic: bókahilla (is)
• Italian: libreria (it) f
• Japanese: 本棚 (ja) (ほんだな, hondana), 書架 (ja) (しょか, shoka), 書棚 (ja) (しょだな, shodana)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 책장(冊欌) (ko) (chaekjang)
• Latin: foruli m pl, pluteus m
• Latvian: grāmatu plaukts m, grāmatplaukts m
• Lü: ᦠᦱᧂᧉᦗᦸᧇ (ḣaang²poab)
• Luxembourgish: Bicherschaf m
• Maltese: librerija (mt)
• Maori: whata pukapuka
• Northern Sami: girjehildu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bokhylle (no) m or f

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: قَفَسِهٔ کِتاب (ğafase-ye ketâb)

• Plautdietsch: Bieekjaschaup n, Bieekjabrat n
• Polish: półka na książki f, biblioteczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estante (pt)
• Romanian: raft (ro) n, etajeră (ro) f
• Romansch: cudeschera f, curuna da cudeschs f
• Russian: кни́жная по́лка f (knížnaja pólka), этаже́рка (ru) f (etažérka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: полица за књиге f

  Roman: polica za knjige f

• Shan: ၵၢင်ႉပပ်ႉ (kâ̰ang pâ̰p)
• Slovak: knižnica f
• Slovene: knjižna polica f
• Spanish: estantería (es) f, librero (es) m, estante (es) m, librería (es) f
• Swedish: bokhylla (sv) c
• Thai: ชั้นวางหนังสือ (chán-waang-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ), ชั้นหนังสือ (chán-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ), หิ้งหนังสือ (hîng-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ)
• Tibetan: དེབ་སྒྲོམ (deb sgrom)
• Turkish: kitaplık (tr)
• Ukrainian: книжко́ва поли́ця f (knyžkóva polýcja)
• Vietnamese: giá sách, kệ sách
• Welsh: silff lyfrau (cy) f, silffoedd llyfrau (cy) f pl

See also

• bookcase
• bookend