bookshelf

English

A bookshelf filled with books.

Etymology

From book +‎ shelf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

bookshelf (plural bookshelves)

1. A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.
   • 1902, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, 2nd edition, page 102:

     Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.

Translations

shelf for storing books

• Armenian: գրադարակ (hy) (gradarak)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 書架／书架 (syu¹ gaa^3-2)

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

• Czech: knihovnička (cs) f
• Danish: bogreol (da) c
• Dutch: boekenkast (nl) c
• Elfdalian: buokill f
• Esperanto: libro-bretaro, librobreto
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: bókahill f
• Finnish: kirjahylly (fi)
• French: bibliothèque (fr) f, étagère (fr) f
• Georgian: თარო (taro)
• German: Regal (de) n, Bücherregal (de) n
• Greek: ράφι για βιβλία n (ráfi gia vivlía), βιβλιοθήκη (el) f (vivliothíki)
• Greenlandic: atuagaasivik
• Hebrew: ארון ספרים‎ m (aron sfarym)
• Hungarian: könyvespolc (hu)
• Icelandic: bókahilla (is)
• Italian: libreria (it) f
• Japanese: 本棚 (ja) (ほんだな, hondana), 書架 (ja) (しょか, shoka), 書棚 (ja) (しょだな, shodana)
• Korean: 책장(冊欌) (ko) (chaekjang)
• Latin: foruli m pl, pluteus m
• Latvian: grāmatu plaukts m, grāmatplaukts m
• Lü: ᦠᦱᧂᧉᦗᦸᧇ (ḣaang²poab)
• Luxembourgish: Bicherschaf m
• Maltese: librerija (mt)
• Maori: whata pukapuka
• Northern Sami: girjehildu
• Norwegian: bokhylle (no)
• Persian: قفسه کتاب‎ (qafas-e ketâb)
• Plautdietsch: Bieekjaschaup n, Bieekjabrat n
• Polish: półka na książki f, biblioteczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estante (pt)
• Romanian: raft (ro) n, etajeră (ro) f
• Romansch: cudeschera f, curuna da cudeschs f
• Russian: кни́жная по́лка f (knížnaja pólka), этаже́рка (ru) f (etažérka)
• Serbo-Croatian: polica za knjige f
• Shan: ၵၢင်ႉပပ်ႉ (kâ̰ang pâ̰p)
• Slovak: knižnica f
• Slovene: knjižna polica f
• Spanish: estantería (es) f, librero (es) m, estante (es) m, librería (es) f
• Swedish: bokhylla (sv) c
• Thai: ชั้นวางหนังสือ (chán-waang-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ), ชั้นหนังสือ (chán-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ)
• Tibetan: དེབ་སྒྲོམ (deb sgrom)
• Turkish: kitaplık (tr)
• Ukrainian: книжко́ва поли́ця f (knyžkóva polýcja)
• Vietnamese: giá sách, kệ sách
• Welsh: silff lyfrau (cy) f, silffoedd llyfrau (cy) f pl

See also

• bookcase
• bookend