bookshelf

English

A bookcase filled with books

Etymology

book +‎ shelf

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/

Noun

bookshelf (plural bookshelves)

1. A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.

Translations

shelf for storing books

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 書架, 书架 (syu¹ gaa^3-2)

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

• Czech: knihovnička (cs) f
• Danish: bogreol (da) c
• Dutch: boekenkast (nl) c
• Elfdalian: buokill f
• Esperanto: libro-bretaro
• 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 (しょだな, shodana)
• Korean: 책장 (ko) (chaekjang) (冊欌 (ko))
• Latin: foruli m pl

• Latvian: grāmatu plaukts m, grāmatplaukts m
• Luxembourgish: Bicherschaf m
• Lü: ᦠᦱᧂᧉᦗᦸᧇ (ḣaang²poab)
• Maltese: librerija (mt)
• Maori: whata pukapuka
• Northern Sami: girjehildu
• Norwegian: bokhylle (no)
• Polish: półka na książki 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)
• Shan: ၵၢင်ႉပပ်ႉ (kaang5 pap5)
• Slovak: knižnica f
• Slovene: knjižna polica f
• Spanish: estantería (es) f, librero (es) m
• Swedish: bokhylla (sv) c
• Thai: ชั้นวางหนังสือ (chán-waang-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ), ชั้นหนังสือ (chán-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ)
• Tibetan: དེབ་སྒྲོམ (deb sgrom)
• Turkish: kitaplık (tr)
• Vietnamese: giá sách, kệ sách
• Welsh: silff lyfrau (cy) f, silffoedd llyfrau (cy) f pl

See also

• bookcase
• bookend