"bookshelf" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-bookshelf.wav Forms: bookshelves [plural]
Etymology: From book + shelf. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|book|shelf}} book + shelf Head templates: {{en-noun|bookshelves}} bookshelf (plural bookshelves)
  1. (furniture) A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference. Wikidata QID: Q215857 Categories (topical): Furniture Derived forms: bookshelf wealth, bookshelve, bookshelved, bookshelver, bookshelving Related terms: bookcase, bookend Translations (shelf for storing books): գրադարակ (gradarak) (Armenian), 書架 (Chinese Cantonese), 书架 (alt: syu¹ gaa³⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 書架 (Chinese Mandarin), 书架 (shūjià) (Chinese Mandarin), 書櫥 (Chinese Mandarin), 书橱 (shūchú) (Chinese Mandarin), knihovnička [feminine] (Czech), bogreol [common-gender] (Danish), boghylde [common-gender] (Danish), boekenkast [common-gender] (Dutch), buokill [feminine] (Elfdalian), libro-bretaro (Esperanto), librobreto (Esperanto), raamaturiiul (Estonian), bókahill [feminine] (Faroese), kirjahylly (Finnish), bibliothèque [feminine] (French), étagère [feminine] (French), თარო (taro) (Georgian), Regal [neuter] (German), Bücherregal [neuter] (German), ράφι για βιβλία (ráfi gia vivlía) [neuter] (Greek), βιβλιοθήκη (vivliothíki) [feminine] (Greek), atuagaasivik (Greenlandic), ארון ספרים (aron sfarym) [masculine] (Hebrew), könyvespolc (Hungarian), bókahilla (Icelandic), قَفَسِهٔ کِتاب (ğafase-ye ketâb) (Iranian Persian), libreria [feminine] (Italian), 本棚 (hondana) (alt: ほんだな) (Japanese), 書架 (shoka) (alt: しょか) (Japanese), 書棚 (shodana) (alt: しょだな) (Japanese), 책장 (chaekjang) (alt: 冊欌) (Korean), foruli [masculine, plural] (Latin), pluteus [masculine] (Latin), grāmatu plaukts [masculine] (Latvian), grāmatplaukts [masculine] (Latvian), Bicherschaf [masculine] (Luxembourgish), ᦠᦱᧂᧉᦗᦸᧇ (ḣaang²poab) (), librerija (Maltese), whata pukapuka (Maori), girjehildu (Northern Sami), bokhylle [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), Bieekjaschaup [neuter] (Plautdietsch), Bieekjabrat [neuter] (Plautdietsch), półka na książki [feminine] (Polish), biblioteczka [feminine] (Polish), estante (Portuguese), raft [neuter] (Romanian), etajeră [feminine] (Romanian), cudeschera [feminine] (Romansch), curuna da cudeschs [feminine] (Romansch), кни́жная по́лка (knížnaja pólka) [feminine] (Russian), этаже́рка (etažérka) [feminine] (Russian), полица за књиге [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), polica za knjige [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ၵၢင်ႉပပ်ႉ (kâ̰ang pâ̰p) (Shan), knižnica [feminine] (Slovak), knjižna polica [feminine] (Slovene), estantería [feminine] (Spanish), librero [masculine] (Spanish), estante [masculine] (Spanish), librería [feminine] (Spanish), bokhylla [common-gender] (Swedish), ชั้นวางหนังสือ (chán-waang-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ) (Thai), ชั้นหนังสือ (chán-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ) (Thai), หิ้งหนังสือ (hîng-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ) (Thai), དེབ་སྒྲོམ (deb sgrom) (Tibetan), kitaplık (Turkish), книжко́ва поли́ця (knyžkóva polýcja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), giá sách (Vietnamese), kệ sách (Vietnamese), silff lyfrau [feminine] (Welsh), silffoedd llyfrau [feminine, plural] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-bookshelf-en-noun-en:Q215857 Categories (other): Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations, English endocentric compounds, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Georgian terms with redundant script codes, Lü terms with redundant script codes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Elfdalian translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with Faroese translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Greenlandic translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Luxembourgish translations, Terms with Lü translations, Terms with Maltese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Northern Sami translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Plautdietsch translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Romansch translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Shan translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Thai translations, Terms with Tibetan translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations, Terms with Welsh translations Topics: furniture, lifestyle

Inflected forms

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          "word": "bookshelf wealth"
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        {
          "word": "bookshelve"
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          "ref": "1902, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, 2nd edition, page 102:",
          "text": "Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.",
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        "A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference."
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          "furniture",
          "furniture"
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          "shelf"
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        "(furniture) A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference."
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          "word": "bookcase"
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          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "gradarak",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "գրադարակ"
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          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "書架"
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          "alt": "syu¹ gaa³⁻²",
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "书架"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "書架"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shūjià",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "书架"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "書櫥"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shūchú",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "书橱"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "knihovnička"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "word": "bogreol"
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        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "boghylde"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "boekenkast"
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          "code": "ovd",
          "lang": "Elfdalian",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "buokill"
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          "code": "eo",
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          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "libro-bretaro"
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "librobreto"
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          "code": "et",
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          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "raamaturiiul"
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          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "bókahill"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "kirjahylly"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "bibliothèque"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "étagère"
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        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "taro",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "თარო"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
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          "word": "Regal"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
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          "word": "Bücherregal"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ráfi gia vivlía",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
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          "word": "ράφι για βιβλία"
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          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "vivliothíki",
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          "word": "βιβλιοθήκη"
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          "word": "atuagaasivik"
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          "word": "ארון ספרים"
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          "word": "libreria"
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        {
          "alt": "ほんだな",
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          "alt": "しょか",
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          "alt": "しょだな",
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        {
          "alt": "冊欌",
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          "word": "책장"
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          "word": "foruli"
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          "word": "pluteus"
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          "roman": "ḣaang²poab",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "ᦠᦱᧂᧉᦗᦸᧇ"
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          "word": "Bicherschaf"
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          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "librerija"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
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          "word": "whata pukapuka"
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        {
          "code": "se",
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          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "girjehildu"
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          "code": "nb",
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          "code": "fa-ira",
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          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
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          "word": "Bieekjaschaup"
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          "code": "pdt",
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          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "estante"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
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          "word": "raft"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "etajeră"
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          "code": "rm",
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          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "rm",
          "lang": "Romansch",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "ru",
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          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "кни́жная по́лка"
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          "code": "sh",
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          "code": "sh",
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          "word": "ၵၢင်ႉပပ်ႉ"
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          "code": "sk",
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "estantería"
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        {
          "code": "es",
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          "code": "es",
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          "code": "sv",
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          "word": "bokhylla"
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          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "chán-waang-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "ชั้นวางหนังสือ"
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        {
          "code": "th",
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          "code": "th",
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          "word": "หิ้งหนังสือ"
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          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "deb sgrom",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "དེབ་སྒྲོམ"
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          "code": "tr",
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          "word": "kitaplık"
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
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          "word": "книжко́ва поли́ця"
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          "code": "vi",
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "shelf for storing books",
          "word": "kệ sách"
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          "word": "silffoedd llyfrau"
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        "Terms with Faroese translations",
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        "Terms with Greek translations",
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        "Terms with Persian translations",
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        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Romansch translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
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        "Terms with Shan translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "գրադարակ"
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      "code": "da",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "libro-bretaro"
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      "code": "et",
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "raamaturiiul"
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      "code": "fo",
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "bókahill"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "kirjahylly"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "bibliothèque"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "étagère"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "თარო"
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "ράφι για βιβλία"
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      "word": "atuagaasivik"
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      "word": "ארון ספרים"
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      "word": "könyvespolc"
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "bókahilla"
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      "code": "it",
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      "word": "libreria"
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      "alt": "ほんだな",
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      "word": "本棚"
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      "alt": "冊欌",
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      "word": "책장"
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      "word": "pluteus"
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
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      "word": "Bicherschaf"
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      "code": "mt",
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "librerija"
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      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "whata pukapuka"
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      "code": "se",
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "girjehildu"
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "bokhylle"
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    {
      "code": "fa-ira",
      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
      "roman": "ğafase-ye ketâb",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "قَفَسِهٔ کِتاب"
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      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
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      "word": "Bieekjaschaup"
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "półka na książki"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "biblioteczka"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "estante"
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      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "raft"
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      "code": "ro",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "etajeră"
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    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "curuna da cudeschs"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "knížnaja pólka",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кни́жная по́лка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "etažérka",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "этаже́рка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "полица за књиге"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "polica za knjige"
    },
    {
      "code": "shn",
      "lang": "Shan",
      "roman": "kâ̰ang pâ̰p",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "ၵၢင်ႉပပ်ႉ"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "knižnica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "knjižna polica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "estantería"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "librero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estante"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "librería"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bokhylla"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "chán-waang-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "ชั้นวางหนังสือ"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "chán-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "ชั้นหนังสือ"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "hîng-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "หิ้งหนังสือ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "deb sgrom",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "དེབ་སྒྲོམ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "kitaplık"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "knyžkóva polýcja",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "книжко́ва поли́ця"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "giá sách"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "word": "kệ sách"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "silff lyfrau"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "shelf for storing books",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "silffoedd llyfrau"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bookshelf"
}

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