booth

See also: Booth

English

Etymology

From Middle English bothe, from Old Norse bóð (compare Swedish bod) and/or the commoner variant búð (> Scots buth), from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.

Pronunciation

• (England) IPA^(key): /buːð/, /buːθ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /buːθ/
• Rhymes: -uːθ, -uːð

Noun

booth (plural booths)

1. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
2. An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person.
3. An enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café.
4. An enclosure for keeping animals.

Derived terms

• booth babe
• boother
• boothless
• boothlike
• buddy booth
• confession booth
• control booth
• kissing booth
• phone booth
• photo booth
• polling booth
• sound booth
• suicide booth
• telephone booth
• ticket booth
• toll booth
• voting booth

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: বুথ (buth)
• → Scottish Gaelic: bùth

Translations

a small stall for the display and sale of goods

• Arabic: كُشْك‎ (kušk)
• Armenian: տաղավար (hy) (taġavar), կրպակ (hy) (krpak)
• Bulgarian: щанд (bg) m (štand), серги́я (bg) f (sergíja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 攤子／摊子 (zh) (tānzi), 貨攤／货摊 (zh) (huòtān)

• Czech: stánek (cs) m (prodejní (cs), výstavní (cs))
• Danish: bod
• Dutch: stand (nl)
• Esperanto: budo
• Finnish: koju (fi), myyntikoju (fi)
• French: stand (fr) m, échoppe (fr) f
• Galician: estaribel m, telderexo m, chiolo m
• German: Stand (de) m, Messestand m, Bude (de) f
• Hungarian: stand (hu)
• Irish: both m
• Italian: bancarella (it), stand (it), bugigattolo (it) m
• Japanese: 露店 (ja) (ろてん, roten), 売店 (ja) (ばいてん, baiten), スタンド (ja) (sutando)
• Latin: pergula f
• Macedonian: бутка f (butka)
• Malay: gerai (ms), reruai (ms), ررواي‎ (reruai)
• Norwegian: bu (no)
• Polish: budka (pl) f
• Portuguese: banca (pt) f
• Romanian: tarabă (ro) f
• Russian: стенд (ru) m (stɛnd)
• Scottish Gaelic: pùball m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: buda f

• Spanish: puesto (es) m, stand (es) m
• Turkish: stant (tr) (trade)

an enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person

• Arabic: حُجَيْرَة‎ (ḥujayra), كَابِينَة‎ f (kābīna)
• Armenian: խցիկ (hy) (xcʿik)
• Belarusian: бу́дка f (búdka), кабі́на f (kabína), кабі́нка f (kabínka)
• Bulgarian: бу́дка (bg) f (búdka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小室 (zh) (xiǎoshì), 亭 (zh) (tíng), 棚 (zh) (péng)

• Czech: budka (cs) f
• Dutch: cabinet (nl)
• Esperanto: budo
• Finnish: koppi (fi)
• French: cabine (fr) f, guérite (fr) f
• Galician: gorita f, garita f, caritel m
• German: Bude (de) f, Zelle (de) f
• Hungarian: fülke (hu)
• Irish: both m, bothán m
• Italian: cabina (it) f
• Japanese: ブース (ja) (būsu)
• Korean: 박스 (ko) (bakseu), 부스 (buseu)
• Maori: wharau, tāwharu
• Persian: باجه‎ (fa) (bâje)
• Portuguese: cabine (pt) f
• Romanian: cabină (ro) f
• Russian: бу́дка (ru) f (búdka), каби́на (ru) f (kabína), каби́нка (ru) f (kabínka)
• Slovak: búdka f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: buda f

• Spanish: cabina (es) f, garita (es) f
• Turkish: kulübe (tr), kabin (tr)
• Ukrainian: бу́дка (uk) f (búdka), кабі́на (uk) f (kabína), кабі́нка (uk) f (kabínka)
• Vietnamese: bốt (vi), buồng (vi)

an enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café

• Czech: box (cs) m, kóje f
• Finnish: loosi (fi)
• French: box (fr) m
• German: Nische (de) f, Sitznische f, Ecke (de) f, Sitzecke f
• Romanian: separeu (ro) n

See also

• kiosk
• stall
• stand