desk

English

A typewriter on a desk

Etymology

From Medieval Latin desca, from Latin discus.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /desk/

Noun

desk (plural desks)

Wikipedia

1. A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
2. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.

Hypernyms

• furniture

Coordinate terms

• chair

Derived terms

• cash desk
• desk job
• front desk
• reception desk
• Resolute desk

Translations

table for writing and reading

• Arabic: مكتب (ar) (maktab) m, منضدة (ar) (minDada) f
• Armenian: գրասեղան (hy) (graseġan)
• Bulgarian: бюро (bg) (bjuro) n, писалище (bg) (pisalište) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 书桌 (cmn), 书桌 (cmn) (shūzhuō), 桌子 (cmn) (zhuōzi)

• Czech: psací stůl (cs) m
• Dutch: bureau (nl) n
• Esperanto: skribotablo (eo), skribtablo (eo)
• Finnish: työpöytä (fi), kirjoituspöytä (fi)
• French: bureau (fr) m, pupitre (fr) m (school desk)
• Georgian: საწერი მაგიდა (ka) (saceri magida)
• German: Schreibtisch (de)
• Greek: γραφείο (el) (grafío) n
• Hebrew: שולחן (he) (šulkhán) m
• Hungarian: íróasztal (hu)
• Icelandic: skrifborð (is) n
• Italian: scrivania (it) f
• Japanese: 机 (ja) (つくえ, tsukue)
• Jèrriais: êcritouaithe m

• Korean: 책상 (ko) (chaeksang) (冊床 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: doşk (kmr) m, mase (kmr) f, mêze (kmr) f

• Latin: mensa scriptoria (la) f
• Lojban: gunjubme (jbo)
• Luhya: litesiki
• Norwegian: pult (no) m, skrivebord (no) n
• Polish: biurko (pl) n
• Portuguese: escrivaninha (pt) m
• Russian: письменный стол (ru) (pís'mennyj stol) m, стол (ru) (stol) m, (school) парта (ru) (párta) f
• Scottish Gaelic: bòrd-sgrìobhaidh (gd) m, deasg (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: pisaći sto (sh) m, писаћи сто (sh) m, радни сто (sh) m
• Spanish: escritorio (es) m, pupitre (es) m (school desk)
• Swahili: dawati (sw), jarari (sw)
• Swedish: skolbänk (sv) c (school desk), skrivbord (sv) n (otherwise)
• Uyghur: جوزا (ug) (joza)
• Volapük: püpit (vo)

lectern — see lectern

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• Interlingua: scriptorio (ia)
• Latin: scriptorium (la)

Verb

desk (third-person singular simple present desks, present participle desking, simple past and past participle desked)

1. To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

Anagrams

• keds
• sked