The bookshelf is built in.
Source: tatoeba (43846)
Bookshelf
//ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf//
Synonyms for "bookshelf" (5 found)
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1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesat location
5 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
2 entrieshas a
1 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
5 entriesused for
22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
Translations
83 translations across 58 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- raft librash noun (shelf for storing books)
Arabic
2 entries- رَفُّ الْكُتُب noun (shelf for storing books)
- رَفّ كُتُب noun (shelf for storing books)
Armenian
1 entries- գրադարակ noun (shelf for storing books)
Belarusian
1 entries- кні́жная палі́ца noun (shelf for storing books)
Bulgarian
2 entries- ла́вица за кни́ги noun (shelf for storing books)
- по́лица за кни́ги noun (shelf for storing books)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 書架 /书架 noun (shelf for storing books)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 書架 /书架 noun (shelf for storing books)
- 書櫥 /书橱 noun (shelf for storing books)
Czech
1 entries- knihovnička noun (shelf for storing books)
Danish
2 entries- boghylde noun (shelf for storing books)
- bogreol noun (shelf for storing books)
Dutch
1 entries- boekenkast noun (shelf for storing books)
Elfdalian
1 entries- buokill noun (shelf for storing books)
Esperanto
2 entries- libro-bretaro noun (shelf for storing books)
- librobreto noun (shelf for storing books)
Estonian
1 entries- raamaturiiul noun (shelf for storing books)
Faroese
1 entries- bókahill noun (shelf for storing books)
Finnish
1 entries- kirjahylly noun (shelf for storing books)
French
2 entries- bibliothèque noun (shelf for storing books)
- étagère noun (shelf for storing books)
Georgian
1 entries- წიგნების თარო noun (shelf for storing books)
German
2 entries- Bücherregal noun (shelf for storing books)
- Regal noun (shelf for storing books)
Greek
2 entries- βιβλιοθήκη noun (shelf for storing books)
- ράφι για βιβλία noun (shelf for storing books)
Greenlandic
1 entries- atuagaasivik noun (shelf for storing books)
Hebrew
1 entries- אֲרוֹן סְפָרִים noun (shelf for storing books)
Hungarian
1 entries- könyvespolc noun (shelf for storing books)
Icelandic
1 entries- bókahilla noun (shelf for storing books)
Indonesian
1 entries- rak buku noun (shelf for storing books)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- قَفَسِهٔ کِتاب noun (shelf for storing books)
Irish
1 entries- seilf leabhar noun (shelf for storing books)
Italian
1 entries- libreria noun (shelf for storing books)
Japanese
3 entries- 書架 noun (shelf for storing books)
- 書棚 noun (shelf for storing books)
- 本棚 noun (shelf for storing books)
Khmer
1 entries- ធ្នើរសៀវភៅ noun (shelf for storing books)
Korean
1 entries- 책장 noun (shelf for storing books)
Latin
2 entries- foruli noun (shelf for storing books)
- pluteus noun (shelf for storing books)
Latvian
2 entries- grāmatplaukts noun (shelf for storing books)
- grāmatu plaukts noun (shelf for storing books)
Lithuanian
1 entries- knygų lentyna noun (shelf for storing books)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Bicherschaf noun (shelf for storing books)
Lü
1 entries- ᦠᦱᧂᧉᦗᦸᧇ noun (shelf for storing books)
Macedonian
1 entries- полица за книги noun (shelf for storing books)
Maltese
1 entries- librerija noun (shelf for storing books)
Māori
1 entries- whata pukapuka noun (shelf for storing books)
Northern Sami
1 entries- girjehildu noun (shelf for storing books)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bokhylle noun (shelf for storing books)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Bieekjabrat noun (shelf for storing books)
- Bieekjaschaup noun (shelf for storing books)
Polish
2 entries- biblioteczka noun (shelf for storing books)
- półka na książki noun (shelf for storing books)
Portuguese
1 entries- estante noun (shelf for storing books)
Romanian
2 entries- etajeră noun (shelf for storing books)
- raft noun (shelf for storing books)
Romansch
2 entries- cudeschera noun (shelf for storing books)
- curuna da cudeschs noun (shelf for storing books)
Russian
2 entries- кни́жная по́лка noun (shelf for storing books)
- этаже́рка noun (shelf for storing books)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- polica za knjige noun (shelf for storing books)
- полица за књиге noun (shelf for storing books)
Shan
1 entries- ၵၢင်ႉပပ်ႉ noun (shelf for storing books)
Slovak
1 entries- knižnica noun (shelf for storing books)
Slovene
1 entries- knjižna polica noun (shelf for storing books)
Spanish
4 entries- estante noun (shelf for storing books)
- estantería noun (shelf for storing books)
- librero noun (shelf for storing books)
- librería noun (shelf for storing books)
Swedish
1 entries- bokhylla noun (shelf for storing books)
Thai
3 entries- ชั้นวางหนังสือ noun (shelf for storing books)
- ชั้นหนังสือ noun (shelf for storing books)
- หิ้งหนังสือ noun (shelf for storing books)
Tibetan
1 entries- དེབ་སྒྲོམ noun (shelf for storing books)
Turkish
1 entries- kitaplık noun (shelf for storing books)
Ukrainian
1 entries- книжко́ва поли́ця noun (shelf for storing books)
Vietnamese
2 entries- giá sách noun (shelf for storing books)
- kệ sách noun (shelf for storing books)
Welsh
2 entries- silff lyfrau noun (shelf for storing books)
- silffoedd llyfrau noun (shelf for storing books)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Carry these books back to the bookshelf.
Source: tatoeba (55070)
I have a large number of books on my bookshelf.
Source: tatoeba (261761)
He made her a bookshelf.
Source: tatoeba (302733)
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