e-book

See also: ebook, eBook, and E-Book

English

Alternative forms

• ebook, eBook

Etymology

A contraction of electronic book: e- +‎ book.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːbʊk/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

e-book (plural e-books)

1. An electronic book, a book published in electronic form.

   Hypernym: book

   • 2004, Sunil Saxena, Breaking News: The Craft and Technology of Online Journalism:

     The hype around e-books was electrifying in the year 2000 when Stephen King became the first celebrity writer to publish an e-novel.

Derived terms

• e-book reader

Translations

electronic book

• Afrikaans: e-boek (af)
• Arabic: كِتَاب إِلِكْتْرُونِيّ m (kitāb ʔiliktrōniyy), إِيبُوك m (ʔibūk)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܬܵܒ݂ܵܐ ܐܸܠܝܼܩܲܛܪܘܿܢܵܝܵܐ m (ktāḇā ilīqaṭrōnāyā)

• Azerbaijani: Rəqəmsəl Kitab
• Bengali: ই-বই (i-boi)
• Bulgarian: е-кни́га f (e-kníga), електро́нна кни́га f (elektrónna kníga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子書 / 电子书 (zh) (diànzǐshū)

• Cornish: elyver m
• Czech: Ebook m, elektronická kniha f
• Danish: e-bog c
• Dutch: boek (nl) n, e-book (nl)
• Estonian: e-raamat (et), digiraamat
• Finnish: sähkökirja (fi), e-kirja (fi)
• French: livre numérique (fr) m, livrel (fr), livre électronique (fr)
• Georgian: ელწიგნი (elc̣igni), ელ-წიგნი (el-c̣igni), ელექტრონული წიგნი (elekṭronuli c̣igni)
• German: E-Book (de) n, E-Buch (de) n, elektronisches Buch n, Digitalbuch n
• Greek: ηλεκτρονικό βιβλίο n (ilektronikó vivlío)
• Hindi: ई-पुस्तक f (ī-pustak)
• Hungarian: e-könyv
• Icelandic: rafbók
• Indonesian: buku elektronik
• Irish: ríomhleabhar m, rleabhar m, r-leabhar m
• Italian: e-book (it) m, libro elettronico m, libro digitale m, telelibro m (rare), cyberlibro (it) m (rare)
• Japanese: 電子書籍 (ja) (でんししょせき, denshi-shoseki), 電子本 (でんしほん, denshi-hon), イーブック (ī-bukku), ｅブック (ī-bukku)
• Korean: 전자책(電子冊) (jeonjachaek), 전자서적(電子書籍) (jeonjaseojeok), 이북 (ko) (ibuk)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: e-pirtûk (ku)

• Macedonian: е-кни́га f (e-kníga), електро́нска кни́га f (elektrónska kníga)
• Marathi: ई-बुक n (ī-buk), ई-पुस्तक n (ī-pustak)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: e-bok (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: e-bok f

• Persian: کتاب الکترونیکی (ketâb-e elektroniki)
• Polish: e-book (pl) m, książka elektroniczna (pl) f, e-książka (pl) f, ebook (pl) m, eBook (pl) m
• Portuguese: e-book (pt) m, livro digital m, livro eletrónico m (Portugal), livro eletrônico m (Brazil)
• Romanian: eBook n, carte electronică f
• Russian: электро́нная кни́га (ru) f (elektrónnaja kníga), электрокни́га f (elektrokníga), э-кни́га f (e-kníga), ибу́к m (ibúk)
• Scottish Gaelic: leabhar-d m
• Slovene: e-knjiga f
• Spanish: ebook m, libro electrónico m, libro digital m, ciberlibro m
• Swahili: kitabu (sw)
• Swedish: e-bok (sv) c
• Tagalog: dagisiking aklat
• Thai: หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์ (năng-sĕu ì-lék-tror-nìk)
• Turkish: e-kitap (tr)
• Vietnamese: sách điện tử
• Welsh: e-lyfr

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Translations to be checked

• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} sách (vi)

See also

• cyberbook
• etext, e-text

Anagrams

• booke

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English e-book.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.buk/, /iˈbuk/
• Rhymes: -ibuk, -uk

Noun

e-book m (invariable)

1. e-reader

   Synonym: e-reader

2. e-book

Further reading

• “e-book”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English e-book.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.buk/, /ˈɛ.buk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ibuk, -ɛbuk
• Syllabification: e-‧book

Noun

e-book m inan

1. (electronics) e-book

   Synonym: e-książka

Declension

Declension of e-book

	singular	plural
nominative	e-book	e-booki
genitive	e-booka	e-booków
dative	e-bookowi	e-bookom
accusative	e-book	e-booki
instrumental	e-bookiem	e-bookami
locative	e-booku	e-bookach
vocative	e-booku	e-booki

Further reading

• “e-book”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “e-book”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈbu.ki/, /iˈbuk/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈbuk/ [iˈβuk]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈbuk/ [iˈβuk]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈbuk/

• Hyphenation: e‧book

Noun

e-book m (plural e-books)

1. e-book

   Synonyms: livro digital, livro eletrónico

Further reading

• “e-book”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “e-book”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026