bookcase

English

a bookcase

Etymology

book +‎ case

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbʊkːeɪs]

Noun

bookcase (plural bookcases)

1. A piece of furniture for the storage and display of books.

Translations

furniture displaying books

• Arabic: مكتبة f (maktaba), خِزَانَة اَلْكُتُب f (ḵizānat al-kutub)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: библиоте́ка (bg) f (bibliotéka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 書架／书架 (zh) (shūjià), 书架 (zh) (shūjià), 書櫥／书橱 (zh) (shūchú), 书橱 (zh) (shūchú)

• Czech: knihovna (cs) f
• Danish: bogreol (da)
• Dutch: boekenkast (nl) c
• Esperanto: libroŝranko
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kirjakaappi (fi), kirjahylly (fi)
• French: bibliothèque (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bücherregal (de) n
• Greek: βιβλιοθήκη (el) f (vivliothíki)

  Ancient: πῆγμα n (pêgma)

• Hebrew: ארון ספרים m (aron sfarym)
• Hungarian: könyvszekrény (hu)
• Ido: biblioteko (io)
• Italian: libreria (it) f
• Japanese: 本棚 (ja) (ほんだな, hondana)
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• Khmer: ទូសៀវភៅ (tuu siǝv pʰɨv)
• Korean: 책장 (ko) (chaekjang)
• Lao: ຕູ້ໜັງສື (tū nang sư̄), ຕູ້ພັບ (tū phap) (dialect), ຮ້ານ (hān), ຫິ້ງ (hing), ຕູ້ (lo) (tū), ຂາກະເຍັຽ (khā ka nyīa)
• Latin: librarium n, librarius m, pluteus m
• Lü: ᦠᦱᧂᧉᦗᦸᧇ (ḣaang²poab)
• Manx: kishtey lioar m
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: bibliothèque f
• Norwegian: bokhylle (no) f or m
• Persian: قفسه کتاب (qafase-ye ketâb)
• Polish: regał (pl) m, biblioteczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estante (pt) f
• Russian: кни́жный шкаф (ru) m (knížnyj škaf), этаже́рка (ru) f (etažérka)
• Slovak: knižnica f
• Spanish: estantería (es) f, librero (es) m, biblioteca (es) f
• Swedish: bokhylla (sv) c, bokskåp n
• Thai: ตู้หนังสือ (dtûu-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ), ชั้นหนังสือ (chán-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ)
• Turkish: kitaplık (tr)
• Ukrainian: книжко́ва ша́фа f (knyžkóva šáfa)
• Vietnamese: tủ sách (vi)

See also

• bookshelf

Anagrams

• case book, case-book, casebook