blackboard

English

Etymology

From black +‎ board, because such surfaces were once typically made of black slate.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈblækbɔɹd/, /ˈblækboɹd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈblækbɔːd/

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• Hyphenation: black‧board

Noun

blackboard (plural blackboards)

Physicist Paul Dirac at the blackboard.

1. A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.
   • 2012 March 1, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 106:

     Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

Hypernyms

• writing board

Related terms

• chalkboard
• greenboard
• whiteboard

Translations

a surface that can be written upon with chalk

• Albanian: dërrasë e zezë f
• Arabic: سَبُورَة f (sabūra), لَوْح m (lawḥ)
• Armenian: գրատախտակ (hy) (grataxtak)
• Asturian: pizarra f
• Azeri: lövhə (az), taxta (az)
• Basque: arbela
• Belarusian: до́шка f (dóška)
• Bengali: ব্ল্যাকবোর্ড (blyakborḑ)
• Breton: taolenn (br) f, -où pl
• Bulgarian: дъска́ (bg) f (dǎská), че́рна дъска́ f (čérna dǎská)
• Burmese: ကျောက်သင်ပုန်း (my) (kyauksangpun:)
• Catalan: pissarra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 黑板 (hak¹ baan²)

  Mandarin: 黑板 (zh) (hēibǎn)

  Min Nan: 烏板, 乌板 (o͘-pán)

• Czech: tabule (cs) f
• Danish: tavle c
• Dutch: schoolbord (nl) n, bord (nl) n
• Estonian: tahvel
• Faroese: talva f
• Finnish: liitutaulu (fi)
• French: tableau noir (fr) m
• Galician: lousa f, louxa f
• Georgian: დაფა (dapa), საკლასო დაფა (saḳlaso dapa)
• German: Tafel (de) f
• Greek: μαυροπίνακας (el) m (mavropínakas)
• Hebrew: לוּחַ m (luakh)
• Hindi: श्यामपट (śyāmpaṭ), ब्लैकबोर्ड (blaikborḍ)
• Hungarian: iskolatábla (hu), iskolai tábla
• Icelandic: tafla (is) f, skólatafla f
• Indonesian: papan tulis (id)
• Irish: clár dubh m
• Italian: lavagna (it) f
• Japanese: 黒板 (ja) (こくばん, kokuban)
• Kalmyk: самбр (sambr)
• Kazakh: тақта (kk) (taqta), доска (doska)
• Khmer: ក្ដារខៀន (km) (kdaa kʰiən)

• Korean: 칠판 (ko) (chilpan)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: depreş (ku)

• Kyrgyz: класс доскасы (klass doskası), доска (ky) (doska)
• Lao: ກະດານ (lo) (ka dān), ກະດານດຳ (lo) (ka dān dam)
• Latvian: tāfele (lv) f
• Lithuanian: klasės lenta f, lenta (lt) f, mokyklinė lenta f
• Macedonian: табла f (tabla)
• Malay: papan hitam
• Maltese: blekbord, lavanja
• Mongolian: самбар (mn) (sambar)
• Norman: néthe plianche f
• Norwegian: tavle m, f
• Persian: تخته سیاه (fa) (taxte-ye siyâh), تخته (fa) (taxte)
• Polish: tablica (pl) f
• Portuguese: lousa (pt) f, quadro-negro (pt) m, quadro de giz m, quadro (pt) m
• Romanian: tablă (ro) f
• Russian: доска́ (ru) f (doská), кла́ссная доска́ f (klássnaja doská)
• Scottish Gaelic: bòrd-dubh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: табла f

  Roman: tabla (sh) f

• Slovak: tabuľa f
• Slovene: tabla f
• Spanish: pizarra (es) f, encerado (es) m (Spain), pizarrón (es) m (Latin America), tablero (es) m (Colombia)
• Swedish: svart tavla c, skrivtavla c
• Tajik: тахта (taxta)
• Thai: กระดานดำ (th) (grà-daan-dam), กระดาน (th) (grà-daan)
• Tibetan: ནག་པང (nag pang)
• Turkish: tahta (tr), kara tahta (tr)
• Turkmen: tagta
• Ukrainian: до́шка (uk) f (dóška)
• Urdu: تختہ سیاہ (taxta siyāh), بلیک بورڈ (blek borḍ)
• Uyghur: دوسكا (doska)
• Uzbek: sinf doskasi, doska (uz)
• Vietnamese: bảng đen (vi)
• Yiddish: טאָוול m (tovl)

Verb

blackboard (third-person singular simple present blackboards, present participle blackboarding, simple past and past participle blackboarded)

1. To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion.