library

English

Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) librarie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman (deprecated template usage) librarie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) librairie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) librarium, from (deprecated template usage) librarius, from (deprecated template usage) liber, probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(h) (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) bochus, bochous (from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English bōchūs (“library, bookhouse”)).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪbɹəɹi/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪbəɹi/, /ˈlaɪbɹi/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪˌbɹɛɹi/, /ˈlaɪbɹəɹi/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪˌbɛɹi/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

  Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

library (plural libraries)

1. An institution which holds books and/or other forms of stored information for use by the public or qualified people. It is usual, but not a defining feature of a library, for it to be housed in rooms of a building, to lend items of its collection to members either with or without payment, and to provide various other services for its community of users.
2. A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
3. An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library
4. (deprecated template usage) (computer science) A collection of software subprograms that provides functionality, to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
5. (deprecated template usage) The deck or draw pile

Usage notes

• Foreign words of similar form to library but differing in meaning include French (deprecated template usage) librairie ,Italian (deprecated template usage) libreria and Portuguese (deprecated template usage) livraria.

Derived terms

terms derived from library

• Borgesian library
• interlibrary
• librarian
• librarial
• library and information science
• library assistant
• library catalog

• library hand
• library science
• mobile library
• record library
• public library
• school library

Translations

institution which holds books etc.

• Afrikaans: biblioteek (af)
• Albanian: bibliotekë (sq) f
• Arabic: مكتبة f (máktaba)
• Armenian: գրադարան (hy) (gradaran)
• Asturian: biblioteca f
• Azeri: kitabxana (az)
• Baluchi: کتاب جاہ (kitáb jáh)
• Bashkir: китапхана (kitapxana)
• Belarusian: бібліятэка f (biblijatéka)
• Bengali: গ্রন্থাগার (grônthagar)
• Bulgarian: библиоте́ка (bg) f (bibliotéka)
• Burmese: စာကြည့်တိုက် (my) (ca-krany.tuik)
• Catalan: biblioteca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圖書館／图书馆, 图书馆 (zh) (túshūguǎn)

• Cornish: lyverva f
• Czech: knihovna (cs) f
• Danish: bibliotek (da) n
• Dutch: bibliotheek (nl) f, boekerij f
• Esperanto: biblioteko
• Estonian: raamatukogu (et)
• Faroese: bókasavn n
• Finnish: kirjasto (fi)
• French: bibliothèque (fr) f
• Galician: biblioteca (gl) f
• Georgian: ბიბლიოთეკა (biblioteḳa)
• German: Bibliothek (de) f, Bücherei (de) f
• Greek: βιβλιοθήκη (el) f (vivliothíki)
• Hebrew: ספריה (he) f (sifriyá)
• Hindi: पुस्तकालय m (pustakālay), लाइब्रेरी f (lā'ibrerī)
• Hungarian: könyvtár (hu)
• Icelandic: bókasafn (is) n, bókhlaða f, bókahús n
• Ido: biblioteko (io)
• Irish: leabharlann f
• Italian: biblioteca (it) f
• Japanese: 図書館 (ja) (としょかん, toshokan)
• Jèrriais:
• Khmer: ប័ណ្ណាល័យ (bŭnnālai)
• Korean: 도서관 (ko) (圖書館 (ko))
• Lao: ຫໍສະໝຸດ (lo) (hǭ sa mut)
• Latin: librārium n
• Latvian: bibliotēka f
• Lithuanian: biblioteka f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lower Sorbian: biblioteka f
• Luxembourgish: Bibliothéik f
• Macedonian: библиоте́ка f (bibliotéka)
• Malay: perpustakaan, kutubkhanah
• Manx: lioar-hasht, lioarlan f, thie lioaragh
• Maori: whare pukapuka
• Navajo: naaltsoos bá hooghan
• Norwegian: bibliotek (no) n
• Occitan: bibliotèca (oc) f
• Old English: bōchūs
• Persian: کتابخانه (fa) (ketâbxâne)
• Polish: biblioteka (pl) f
• Portuguese: biblioteca (pt) f
• Romanian: bibliotecă (ro) f
• Romansch: biblioteca f
• Russian: библиоте́ка (ru) f (bibliotéka)
• Scots: leebrary
• Scottish Gaelic: leabharlann f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: библиотека f, књи́жница f (Croatia)

  Roman: biblioteka (sh) f, knjížnica f (Croatia)

• Sinhalese: පුස්තකාලය (pustakālaya)
• Skolt Sami: ǩe´rjjpõrtt
• Slovak: knižnica f
• Slovene: knjižnica (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: biblioteka f

• Spanish: biblioteca (es) f
• Swahili: maktaba (sw)
• Swedish: bibliotek (sv) c
• Tagalog: aklatan (tl), silid-aklatan
• Tajik: китобхона (tg) (kitobxona)
• Tamil: நூலகம் (ta) (nūlakam)
• Thai: ห้องสมุด (th) (hông sàmòot), หอสมุด (th) (hŏr sà-mùt)
• Tswana: laeborari
• Turkish: kütüphane (tr)
• Ukrainian: бібліотека (uk) f (bibliotéka)
• Urdu: لائبریری f (lā'ibrerī)
• Uyghur: كۇتۇپخانا (kutupxana)
• Uzbek: kutubxona
• Vietnamese: thư viện (vi)
• Volapük: bukem (vo)
• Welsh: llyfrgell (cy) f

collection of books

• Albanian: bibliotekë (sq) f
• Armenian: գրադարան (hy) (gradaran)
• Catalan: biblioteca (ca) f
• Czech: knihovna (cs) f
• Danish: bibliotek (da) n
• Dutch: bibliotheek (nl) f, boekenkast (nl)
• Esperanto: libraro
• Faroese: bókasavn n
• Finnish: kirjasto (fi)
• French: bibliothèque (fr) f
• Greek: βιβλιοθήκη (el) f (vivliothíki)
• Hebrew: ספריה (he) f (sifriyá)
• Hungarian: könyvtár (hu)
• Irish: leabharlann f
• Italian: libreria (it) f
• Japanese: 双書 (そうしょ, sōsho)
• Jèrriais:
• Korean: 장서
• Latvian: bibliotēka f
• Lithuanian: biblioteka f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: библиотека f (bibliotéka)
• Malay: perpustakaan
• Mandarin: 藏書／藏书 (cángshū), 藏书 (zh) (cángshū), 收藏 (zh) (shōucáng)
• Old English: bōchōrd
• Polish: biblioteka (pl) f, (diminutive; especially a personal one) biblioteczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: biblioteca (pt) f
• Romanian: bibliotecă (ro) f
• Russian: библиотека (ru) f (bibliotéka)
• Scots: leebrary
• Scottish Gaelic: leabharlann f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: библиотека f, књи́жница f

  Roman: biblioteka (sh) f, knjížnica f

• Spanish: biblioteca (es) f, librería (es) f
• Swahili: maktaba (sw)
• Tagalog: aklatan (tl)
• Ukrainian: бібліотека (uk) f (bibliotéka)
• Volapük: bukem (vo)
• Welsh: llyfrgell (cy) f

collection of records

• Armenian: գրադարան (hy) (gradaran)
• Czech: fonotéka f
• Finnish: äänilevystö, levystö (fi)
• Greek: δισκοθήκη (el) f (diskothíki)
• Hebrew: ספריה (he) f (sifriyá)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: archivio (it) m, banca dati f
• Malay: koleksi
• Portuguese: arquivo (pt) m
• Scots: leebrary
• Swahili: maktaba (sw)
• Ukrainian: бібліотека (uk) f (bibliotéka)

collection of subprograms

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文庫／文库 (zh) (wénkù), 文库 (zh) (wénkù), 庫／库 (zh) (kù), 库 (zh) (kù)

• Czech: knihovna (cs) f
• Danish: bibliotek (da) n
• Faroese: bókasavn n
• Finnish: ohjelmakirjasto
• German: Bibliothek (de) f
• Greek: βιβλιοθήκη (el) f (vivliothíki)
• Hebrew: ספריה (he) f (sifriyá)
• Hungarian: programkönyvtár
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: leabharlann f
• Italian: libreria (it) f
• Japanese: ライブラリー (raiburarii)
• Korean: 라이브러리
• Malay: siri
• Polish: biblioteka (pl) f
• Portuguese: biblioteca (pt) f
• Russian: библиотека (ru) f (bibliotéka)
• Scots: leebrary
• Swahili: maktaba (sw)
• Ukrainian: бібліотека (uk) f (bibliotéka)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Afrikaans: (1,2) biblioteek (af) f, (1,2) boekerij f
• (deprecated template usage) Arabic: مكتبة f (máktaba)
• (deprecated template usage) Basque: liburutegia
• (deprecated template usage) Breton: levraoueg (br)
• (deprecated template usage) Bulgarian: библиотека (bg) f (biblioteka)
• (deprecated template usage) Catalan: biblioteca (ca) f
• (deprecated template usage) Esperanto: biblioteko
• (deprecated template usage) Tagalog: silid-aklatan, basa-han
• (deprecated template usage) Georgian: ბიბლიოთეკა (biblioteḳa)
• (deprecated template usage) Greenlandic: atuagaa
• (deprecated template usage) Icelandic: bókasafn (is) n
• (deprecated template usage) Ido: biblioteko (io)
• (deprecated template usage) Indonesian: perpustakaan (id)
• (deprecated template usage) Interlingua: bibliotheca
• (deprecated template usage) Khmer: ប័ណ្ណាល័យ (bŭnnālai)
• (deprecated template usage) Latin: bibliothēca (la) f, librarium n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• (deprecated template usage) Macedonian: библиотека f (bibliotéka)
• (deprecated template usage) Maltese: bibljoteka f, librerija (mt) f
• (deprecated template usage) Maori: whare pukapuka
• (deprecated template usage) Mongolian: номын сан (nomyn san)
• (deprecated template usage) Northern Sami: girjerádju
• (deprecated template usage) Norwegian: bibliotek (no) n
• (deprecated template usage) Persian: کتابخانه (fa)
• (deprecated template usage) Portuguese: biblioteca (pt) f
• (deprecated template usage) Punjabi: ਪੁਸਤਕਾਲਾ m (pustakālā)
• (deprecated template usage) Sotho: laeborari
• (deprecated template usage) Slovak: knižnica f
• (deprecated template usage) Slovene: knjižnica (sl) f
• (deprecated template usage) Spanish: (1,2) biblioteca (es) f
• (deprecated template usage) Swedish: bibliotek (sv) n
• (deprecated template usage) Tagalog: aklatan (tl)
• (deprecated template usage) Thai: ห้องสมุด (th) (hông sàmòot)
• (deprecated template usage) Tsonga: layiburari
• (deprecated template usage) Turkish: kütüphane (tr)
• Template:trreq
• (deprecated template usage) Venda: laiburari
• (deprecated template usage) Vietnamese: thư viện (vi), phòng đọc sách

See also

• bookshop, bookstore, bookhouse