English
Etymology
From Middle English schelfe , probably from Old English sċylfe ( “ deck of a ship ” ) , distantly related to sculpt , carve and shell . Cognate to Dutch schelf .
Pronunciation
Noun
shelf (plural shelves )
A flat , rigid structure , fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet , desk etc., and used to support , store or display objects .
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Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
The capacity of such an object
a shelf of videos
A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
A reef , shoal or sandbar .
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structure
Albanian: raft (sq) m
Arabic: رَفّ m ( raff )
Egyptian Arabic: رف m ( raff )
Armenian: դարակ (hy) ( darak )
Azerbaijani: rəf (az)
Bashkir: кәштә ( kəştə )
Basque: apal
Belarusian: палі́ца f ( palíca )
Bengali: তাক ( tak )
Breton: estajerenn n
Bulgarian: полица (bg) f ( polica ) , етаже́рка (bg) f ( etažérka )
Burmese: စင် (my) ( cang )
Catalan: prestatge (ca) m , estant (ca) m , lleixa (ca) f
Cebuano: estante
Chinese:
Cantonese: 架 ( gaa3-2 )
Mandarin: 架子 (zh) ( jiàzi )
Min Nan: 架仔 (zh-min-nan) ( kè-á )
Czech: police (cs) f
Danish: hylde (da) c
Dutch: schap (nl) n , rek (nl) n , plank (nl) f , legplank (nl) f
Esperanto: breto
Estonian: riiul
Faroese: hill f
Fijian: vata (fj)
Finnish: hylly (fi)
French: rayon (fr) m , étagère (fr) f , tablard (fr) m ( Switzerland )
Friulian: scansìe m
Galician: paramio m , paraño m , parañoa f , andel (gl) m , alzadeira f , cunqueiro (gl) m , vaseira f , prateleira f
Georgian: თარო ( taro )
German: Regal (de) n
Greek: ράφι (el) n ( ráfi )
Gujarati: અભરાઈ f ( abharāī )
Hebrew: מַדָּף (he) m ( madáf )
Hindi: तख़्ता ( taxtā )
Hungarian: polc (hu)
Icelandic: hilla (is) f
Indonesian: rak (id)
Irish: seilf f
Italian: scaffale (it) m , mensola (it) f , ripiano (it) m , palchetto (it) m
Japanese: 棚 (ja) ( たな , tana)
Kalmyk: таг ( tag )
Kazakh: сөре (kk) ( söre )
Khmer: ធ្នើរ (km) ( tnəə )
Komi-Permyak: джадж ( džadž )
Korean: 선반 (ko) ( seonban )
Kyrgyz: полка ( polka ) , текче (ky) ( tekce )
Lao: ຫິ້ງ ( hing ) , ຊັ້ນ ( san )
Latvian: plaukts m
Ligurian: rician m
Lingala: motáláká class 3 /4
Lithuanian: lentyna f
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Macedonian: полица f ( polica )
Malagasy: talantalana (mg)
Malay: rak
Maltese: xkaffa f
Manx: skelloo f
Maori: paenga , whata
Mongolian: тавиур (mn) ( taviur )
Neapolitan: stìglio m , scanzia f
Norman: ais m ( Guernsey, Jersey ) , êtagéthe f ( Jersey )
Northern Sami: hildu
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hylle (no) m or f
Nynorsk: hylle f
Persian: رف (fa) ( raf )
Polish: półka (pl) f , regał (pl) m
Portuguese: prateleira (pt) f , estante (pt) f
Romanian: poliță (ro) f , raft (ro) n
Russian: по́лка (ru) f ( pólka ) , полок (ru) m ( polok )
Scottish Gaelic: sgeilp f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: полица f
Roman: polica (sh) f
Sicilian: scaffa (scn) f
Slovak: polica f
Slovene: polica (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: regal m , pólica f
Spanish: estante m , balda (es) f , anaquel (es) m
Swahili: rafu class 9 /10
Swedish: hylla (sv) c
Tajik: раф ( raf )
Tamil: அடுக்கம் (ta) ( aṭukkam ) , அடுக்கு (ta) ( aṭukku )
Tatar: киштә (tt) ( kiştä )
Telugu: అర (te) ( ara )
Thai: หิ้ง (th) ( hîng )
Tibetan: བང་ཁྲི ( bang khri )
Turkish: sergen (tr) , raf (tr)
Turkmen: tekje
Udmurt: ӝажы ( džažy )
Ukrainian: поли́ця f ( polýcja )
Urdu: تخته ( taxta )
Uyghur: جازا ( jaza )
Uzbek: polka (uz) , tokcha (uz)
Venetian: scansìa f
Vietnamese: giá sách ( bookshelf ) , giá (vi)
Vilamovian: faht n , faocht n
Walloon: axhale f , axhlete (wa) f
Welsh: silff (cy) f , silffoedd (cy) f pl
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Yiddish: פּאָליצע f ( politse )
Zulu: ishalufu class 5 /6
capacity
Dutch: schap (nl) n , rek (nl) n
French: étagère (fr) f , rayonnage (fr) m
Galician: paramio m , paraño m , parañoa f , andel (gl) m , alzadeira f , cunqueiro (gl) m , vaseira f , prateleira f
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Portuguese: prateleira (pt) f , estante (pt) f
Spanish: estantería (es) f
Walloon: håynaedje (wa) m
projecting ledge resembling a shelf
reef, shoal, sandbar
Armenian: շելֆ (hy) ( šelf )
Bulgarian: шелф m ( šelf )
Galician: recife m , pedrido m , brica f , ariño m , sirte m , baixío m
German: Schelf m
Russian: шельф (ru) m ( šelʹf )
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Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пличина f , шелф m
Roman: pličina (sh) f , šelf (sh) m
Spanish: arrecife (es) m , banco (es) m , cordón (es) m , bajío m
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Middle English
Noun
shelf
Alternative form of schelfe