English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From black board slate .
Pronunciation [ edit ] blackboard (plural blackboards
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] 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 [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
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
Azerbaijani: lövhə (az) , taxta (az)
Basque: arbela
Belarusian: до́шка f ( dóška )
Bengali: ব্ল্যাকবোর্ড ( bljakborḍ )
Breton: taolenn (br) f 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 tableau (fr) m ( any colour )
Galician: lousa f louxa f
Georgian: დაფა ( dapa ) , საკლასო დაფა ( saḳlaso dapa )
German: Tafel (de) f
Greek: μαυροπίνακας (el) m ( mavropínakas )
Hebrew: לוּחַ (he) 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
Maori: papatuhituhi
Marathi: फळा ( phaḷā )
Mongolian: самбар (mn) ( sambar )
Norman: néthe plianche f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tavle m , f
Nynorsk: tavle f
Pashto: توره دړه (ps) f ( tóradaṛa )
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
Quechua: pirqa qillqana
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 ( Argentina ) , 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)
Welsh: bwrdd du m
Yiddish: טאָוול m ( tovl )
blackboard (third-person singular simple present blackboards present participle blackboarding simple past and past participle blackboarded
To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion. 
