Shelf

//ʃɛlf//

Synonyms for "shelf" (121 found)

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Noun(1 words)
ledge

Related words (60)

Noun(1 words)
shelfful

Related word relations

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12 relation types

More general

2 entries

More specific

7 entries

Synonyms

2 entries

Related terms

1 entries

at location

16 entries

capable of

2 entries

derived

55 entries

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etymologically related_to

3 entries

is a

5 entries

part of

7 entries

related to

20 entries

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used for

16 entries

Translations

200 translations across 105 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • raft noun (structure)

Arabic

3 entries
  • رف noun (structure)
  • رَفّ noun (structure)
  • رَفّ noun (structure)

Armenian

2 entries
  • դարակ noun (structure)
  • շելֆ noun (reef, shoal, sandbar)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • rəf noun (structure)

Bashkir

1 entries
  • кәштә noun (structure)

Basque

1 entries
  • apal noun (structure)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • палі́ца noun (structure)

Bengali

1 entries
  • তাক noun (structure)

Bhojpuri

1 entries
  • ताखा noun (structure)

Breton

1 entries
  • estajerenn noun (structure)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • етаже́рка noun (structure)
  • по́лица noun (structure)
  • рафт noun (structure)
  • шелф noun (reef, shoal, sandbar)

Burmese

1 entries
  • စင် noun (structure)

Catalan

3 entries
  • estant noun (structure)
  • lleixa noun (structure)
  • prestatge noun (structure)

Cebuano

1 entries
  • estante noun (structure)

Chechen

1 entries
  • терхи noun (structure)

Chinese

1 entries
  • 架仔 noun (structure)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 架 noun (structure)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 架子 noun (structure)

Czech

1 entries
  • police noun (structure)

Danish

1 entries
  • hylde noun (structure)

Dutch

4 entries
  • legplank noun (structure)
  • plank noun (structure)
  • rek noun (structure)
  • rek noun (capacity)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • breto noun (structure)

Estonian

1 entries
  • riiul noun (structure)

Faroese

1 entries
  • hill noun (structure)

Fijian

1 entries
  • vata noun (structure)

Finnish

1 entries
  • hylly noun (structure)

French

4 entries
  • rayon noun (structure)
  • rayonnage noun (capacity)
  • tablard noun (structure)
  • étagère noun (structure)

Friulian

1 entries
  • scansìe noun (structure)

Galician

4 entries
  • alzadeira noun (structure)
  • alzadeira noun (capacity)
  • andel noun (structure)
  • andel noun (capacity)

Georgian

1 entries
  • თარო noun (structure)

German

4 entries
  • Bord noun (structure)
  • Brett noun (structure)
  • Regal noun (structure)
  • Regalbrett noun (structure)

Greek

1 entries
  • ράφι noun (structure)

Gujarati

1 entries
  • અભરાઈ noun (structure)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • מַדָּף noun (structure)

Hindi

1 entries
  • तख़्ता noun (structure)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • polc noun (structure)
  • stelázsi noun (structure)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • hilla noun (structure)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • rak noun (structure)

Ingush

1 entries
  • тархе noun (structure)

Irish

2 entries
  • scairbh noun (reef, shoal, sandbar)
  • seilf noun (structure)

Italian

4 entries
  • mensola noun (structure)
  • palchetto noun (structure)
  • ripiano noun (structure)
  • scaffale noun (structure)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 棚 noun (structure)

Kalmyk

1 entries
  • таг noun (structure)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • сөре noun (structure)

Khmer

1 entries
  • ធ្នើរ noun (structure)

Komi-Permyak

1 entries
  • джадж noun (structure)

Korean

1 entries
  • 선반 noun (structure)

Kyrgyz

2 entries
  • полка noun (structure)
  • текче noun (structure)

Lao

2 entries
  • ຊັ້ນ noun (structure)
  • ຫິ້ງ noun (structure)

Latvian

2 entries
  • plaukts noun (structure)
  • šelfs noun (reef, shoal, sandbar)

Ligurian

1 entries
  • rician noun (structure)

Lingala

1 entries
  • motáláká noun (structure)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • lentyna noun (structure)

Lower Sorbian

2 entries
  • pólica noun (structure)
  • regal noun (structure)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • полица noun (structure)

Malagasy

1 entries
  • talantalana noun (structure)

Malay

1 entries
  • rak noun (structure)

Maltese

1 entries
  • xkaffa noun (structure)

Manx

1 entries
  • skelloo noun (structure)

Middle English

1 entries
  • stage noun (structure)

Mongolian

1 entries
  • тавиур noun (structure)

Māori

2 entries
  • paenga noun (structure)
  • whata noun (structure)

Neapolitan

2 entries
  • scanzia noun (structure)
  • stìglio noun (structure)

Norman

2 entries
  • ais noun (structure)
  • êtagéthe noun (structure)

Northern Sami

1 entries
  • hildu noun (structure)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • hylle noun (structure)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • hylle noun (structure)

Occitan

1 entries
  • laissa noun (structure)

Ojibwe

1 entries
  • desaabaan noun (structure)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • راف noun (structure)

Persian

1 entries
  • رف noun (structure)

Polish

3 entries
  • półka noun (structure)
  • regał noun (structure)
  • szelf noun (reef, shoal, sandbar)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • estante noun (structure)
  • estante noun (capacity)
  • prateleira noun (structure)
  • prateleira noun (capacity)

Romanian

2 entries
  • poliță noun (structure)
  • raft noun (structure)

Russian

2 entries
  • по́лка noun (structure)
  • шельф noun (reef, shoal, sandbar)

Scots

1 entries
  • bink noun (projecting ledge resembling a shelf)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries
  • sgeilp noun (structure)
  • sgeilp noun (projecting ledge resembling a shelf)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • pličina noun (reef, shoal, sandbar)
  • pòlica noun (structure)
  • rȁf noun (structure)
  • šelf noun (reef, shoal, sandbar)

Sicilian

1 entries
  • scaffa noun (structure)

Slovak

1 entries
  • polica noun (structure)

Slovene

1 entries
  • políca noun (structure)

Spanish

4 entries
  • anaquel noun (structure)
  • arrecife noun (reef, shoal, sandbar)
  • bajío noun (reef, shoal, sandbar)
  • balda noun (structure)

Swahili

1 entries
  • rafu noun (structure)

Swedish

4 entries
  • bank noun (reef, shoal, sandbar)
  • hylla noun (structure)
  • hylla noun (capacity)
  • kontinentalsockel noun (reef, shoal, sandbar)

Tajik

1 entries
  • раф noun (structure)

Tamil

2 entries
  • அடுக்கம் noun (structure)
  • அடுக்கு noun (structure)

Tatar

1 entries
  • киштә noun (structure)

Telugu

1 entries
  • అర noun (structure)

Thai

1 entries
  • หิ้ง noun (structure)

Tibetan

1 entries
  • བང་ཁྲི noun (structure)

Turkish

2 entries
  • raf noun (structure)
  • sergen noun (structure)

Turkmen

1 entries
  • tekje noun (structure)

Udmurt

2 entries
  • полка noun (structure)
  • ӝажы noun (structure)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • поли́ця noun (structure)

Urdu

1 entries
  • طاق noun (structure)

Uyghur

1 entries
  • جازا noun (structure)

Uzbek

2 entries
  • polka noun (structure)
  • tokcha noun (structure)

Venetan

1 entries
  • scansìa noun (structure)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • giá noun (structure)
  • giá sách noun (structure)

Vilamovian

2 entries
  • faht noun (structure)
  • faocht noun (structure)

Walloon

3 entries
  • axhale noun (structure)
  • axhlete noun (structure)
  • håynaedje noun (capacity)

Welsh

2 entries
  • silff noun (structure)
  • silffoedd noun (structure)

Yakut

1 entries
  • долбуур noun (structure)

Yiddish

1 entries
  • פּאָליצע noun (structure)

Zulu

1 entries
  • ishalufu noun (structure)

Sample sentences

22 total sentences available.

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Your comic books are on the shelf.

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Which way is the cheese shelf?

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Put the book back on the shelf when you're through with it.

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Put the book back on the shelf.

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