Where are the book and pencil? The book's on the table, and the pencil's on the windowsill.
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Windowsill
//ˈwɪndoʊˌsɪl//
Synonyms for "windowsill"
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70 translations across 47 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- պատուհանագոգ noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- pəncərəaltı noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Bashkir
1 entries- тәҙрә төбө noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Belarusian
1 entries- падако́ннік noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Catalan
1 entries- ampit noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 窗臺 /窗台 noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Czech
2 entries- okenní parapet noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- parapet noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Danish
1 entries- vindueskarm noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Dutch
1 entries- vensterbank noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Erzya
1 entries- вальмаланго noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Esperanto
1 entries- fenestrosojlo noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Estonian
1 entries- aknalaud noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Finnish
1 entries- ikkunalauta noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
French
1 entries- appui de fenêtre noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Galician
2 entries- antepeito noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- peitoril noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
German
4 entries- Brüstung noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- Fensterbank noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- Fensterbrett noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- Fensterbrüstung noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Hungarian
4 entries- ablakdeszka noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- ablakpárkány noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- könyöklő noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- párkány noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Icelandic
1 entries- gluggakista noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Ingrian
1 entries- poduška noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Irish
3 entries- leac fuinneoige noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- tairseach fuinneoige noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- urlár fuinneoige noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Italian
1 entries- davanzale noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Japanese
1 entries- 窓台 noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Korean
1 entries- 창턱 noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Latvian
1 entries- palodze noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Lithuanian
1 entries- palángė noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Macedonian
2 entries- пе́рваз noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- симс noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Maltese
1 entries- ħoġor it-tieqa noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Nogai
1 entries- терезетуьп noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Norman
1 entries- sîle noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- teqişk noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- vinduskarm noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- vindaugskarm noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Polish
2 entries- parapet noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- podokiennik noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Portuguese
1 entries- parapeito noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Romanian
1 entries- pervaz noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Russian
1 entries- подоко́нник noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- oir uinneig noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- sòla uinneige noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- prozorska daska noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- sims noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- прозорска даска noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- симс noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Slovak
1 entries- parapet noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Spanish
4 entries- alfeiza noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- alféizar noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- antepecho noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- fallanca noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Swedish
2 entries- fönsterbleck noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
- fönsterbräda noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Turkish
1 entries- pencere kenarı noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Ukrainian
1 entries- підвіко́ння noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Uzbek
1 entries- derazatokcha noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bậu noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Volapük
1 entries- fenätaboed noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Welsh
1 entries- sil(ff) fenestr noun (the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Tom lifted his head above the windowsill.
Source: tatoeba (1493512)
The book is on the table, and the pencil is lying on the windowsill.
Source: tatoeba (2657028)
A pretty robin landed on my room's windowsill.
Source: tatoeba (2760422)
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