gable

See also: gâble and gabble

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪ.bəl/
• Rhymes: -eɪbəl

Etymology 1

From Old French gable (compare modern French gâble).

A house with four gables visible.

Noun

gable (plural gables)

1. (architecture) The triangular area of external wall adjacent to two meeting sloped roofs.

Derived terms

• gable roof

Translations

triangular area of wall

• Catalan: gablet m
• Dutch: gevelspits
• Finnish: päätykolmio
• French: gâble (fr) m
• German: Giebel (de) m
• Greek: αέτωμα (el) n (aétoma)
• Macedonian: калкан m (kálkan)

• Norwegian: gavl m
• Polish: szczyt m
• Portuguese: empena f
• Russian: щипец (ru) m (ščipec)
• Serbo-Croatian: zabat m
• Spanish: hastial (es) m
• Swedish: gavel (sv)
• Turkish: kalkan duvarı, pencere kalkanı, kalkan (tr)

See also

• pediment

Etymology 2

Noun

gable (plural gables)

1. A cable.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• bagel
• gleba

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German

Verb

gable

1. First-person singular present of gabeln.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of gabeln.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of gabeln.
4. Imperative singular of gabeln.