Möbel

See also: möbel and møbel

German

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *moweō

Latin moveō

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin mobilis

Middle French meublebor.

German Möbel

15th century, from Middle French meuble(s) (“household goods”), from Latin mobilis. At first restricted to the Moselle region, more widely attested since ca. 1600.

Doublet of mobil. Cognate with Hunsrik Mevel.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmøːbəl/, [ˈmøː.bl̩]
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)

Noun

Möbel n (strong, genitive Möbels, plural Möbel, diminutive Möbelchen n)

(in the singular, fairly rare) piece of furniture
Synonym: Möbelstück
(in the plural) furniture
Synonym: Mobiliar

Declension

Declension of Möbel [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Möbel	die	Möbel
genitive	eines	des	Möbels	der	Möbel
dative	einem	dem	Möbel	den	Möbeln
accusative	ein	das	Möbel	die	Möbel

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

→ Estonian: mööbel
→ Kashubian: mébel
→ Latvian: mēbele
→ Polish: mebel
→ Russian: ме́бель (mébelʹ)
- → Armenian: մեբել (mebel)
- → Azerbaijani: mebel
- → Georgian: მებელი (mebeli)
- → Ingrian: meebeli
- → Kyrgyz: мебель (mebel)
- → Ossetian: мебель (mebelʹ)
- → Turkmen: mebel
- → Uzbek: mebel