pupitre

→ Russian: пюпи́тр (pjupítr)

→ Spanish: pupitre
→ Catalan: pupitre

→ Ukrainian: пюпі́тр (pjupítr)

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin pulpitum.


bureau

→ Brazilian Portuguese: birô

→ Catalan: buró

→ Crimean Tatar: büro

→ Dutch: bureau

→ English: bureau

→ German: Büro

→ Haitian Creole: biwo

→ Lingala: biló

→ Piedmontese: burò

→ Polish: biuro

→ Romanian: birou

→ Russian: бюро́ (bjuró)

→ Sedang: bơrô

→ Serbo-Croatian: biro

→ Spanish: buró

→ Swedish: byrå

→ Tamil: பீரோ (pīrō)

→ Turkish: büro

Inherited from Old French burel, diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berbérion, “shabby garment”).

cog

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) desktop (on-screen background)


table

Louisiana Creole: latab

→ Bulgarian: табла (tabla)

→ Macedonian: табла (tabla)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: табла

Latin script: tabla

Inherited from Old French table, from Latin tabula (“tablet”). Doublet of tôle and taule.

Pourquoi as-tu laissé ces livres sur la table ?

Why did you leave these books on the table?


confident

fr-noun

confident m (plural confidents, feminine confidente)

confidents (plural)
confidente (feminine)

→ Catalan: confident (calque)


buffet

→ Catalan: bufet

→ Czech: bufet

→ Danish: buffet

→ Dutch: buffet

→ Finnish: buffet

→ Galician: bufete

desc

→ German: Buffet, Büfett, Büfet, Büffet, Büfee, Büffee

→ Italian: buffet

→ Lao: ບຸບເຟ່ (bup fē)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: buffet

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: buffet

→ Persian: بوفه (bufe)

→ Polish: bufet

→ Portuguese: bufê, bufete

→ Romanian: bufet

→ Serbo-Croatian: bìfē, бѝфе̄

→ Spanish: buffet, bufet

desctree

→ Spanish: bufete
→ Cebuano: bupete
→ Tagalog: bupete

→ Swedish: buffé

→ Thai: บุฟเฟต์ (búp-fêe)

→ Turkish: büfe

→ Vietnamese: búp phê

Inherited from Middle French bufet (1150), from Old French bufet, of uncertain origin; possibly a Celtic borrowing. Compare Scottish Gaelic biadh (“food, sustenance”), buadha (“valuable, precious”). Or, according to the Digitized Treasury of the French Language, from an imitative source akin to bouffer (“to eat (in excess)”).

cog

sideboard, dresser (a piece of furniture)


banc

→ Breton: bank

→ English: banc

→ Romanian: bancă

→ Sango: bâan

→ Turkish: bank

From Old High German banc, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Doublet of banque.

bank (mass of material, of cloud, fog, etc)


divan

→ English: divan

→ German: Diwan

→ Portuguese: divã

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دیوان (dîvân), from Persian دیوان (divân).


armoire

q

via <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">le armoire</i>

Louisiana Creole: larmwa (via le armoire)

Seychellois Creole: larmwar (via le armoire)

→ English: armoire

Sicilian: armuarra, muarra

Inherited from Old French armaire, aumaire, borrowed from Latin armārium, from arma (“weapons, tools”).

wardrobe (British), closet (US), a cabinet, taller than it is wide, for storing things.


tabouret

→ Czech: taburet

→ Danish: taburet

→ Norwegian Bokmål: taburett

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: taburett

→ Romanian: taburet

desc

→ Russian: табуре́т (taburét), табуре́тка (taburétka)

→ Spanish: taburete

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: табу̀ре̄

Latin script: tabùrē

→ Swedish: taburett

→ Turkish: tabure


chaise longue

fr-noun

chaise longue f (plural chaises longues)

Belarusian: шэзло́нг (šezlónh)

Catalan: chaise longue, chaise-longue

Czech: šezlong

Danish: chaiselong

Dutch: chaise longue

Estonian: chaise longue

Georgian: შეზლონგი (šezlongi)

German: Chaiselongue

desc

Greek: σεζλόνγκ (sezlóngk), σαιζλόνγκ (saizlóngk)

Hebrew: שֶׁזְלוֹנְג (shezlóng)

Hungarian: sezlon

Italian: chaise longue, cislonga

Japanese: シェーズ・ロング (shēzu-rongu)

Kashubian: szezelon

Norwegian: sjeselong

Polish: szezlong

Portuguese: chaise longue

Romanian: șezlong

desctree

Russian: шезло́нг (šezlóng)
→ Uzbek: shezlong

Serbo-Croatian: шѐзлонг, šèzlong

Spanish: chaise longue, cheslón

Swedish: schäslong

Turkish: şezlong

Ukrainian: шезло́нг (šezlónh)

Yiddish: שעזלאָנג (shezlong)

chaise longue (reclining chair with a long seat)


commode

→ Danish: kommode

→ German: Kommode

→ English: commode

→ Icelandic: kommóða

→ Italian: comodino

→ Norman: commode

→ Norwegian: kommode

→ Russian: комод (komod)

→ Swedish: kommod

→ Persian: کمد (komod)


épi

Inherited from Old French espi, from Latin spīcum, one of the variants of spīca. Doublet of aspic.

shelf or storage unit with storage areas on both sides, placed in the middle of a room, notably found in libraries


fauteuil

→ Belarusian: фатэ́ль (fatélʹ)

→ Bulgarian: фотьо́йл (fotjójl)

→ English: fauteuil

→ Dutch: fauteuil

descendants tree

→ German: Fauteuil, Fotöl, Fotöll, Fotölch
→ Hungarian: fotel
→ Polish: fotel

→ Luxembourgish: Fotell

→ Macedonian: фотелја (fotelja)

→ Romanian: fotoliu

→ Swedish: fåtölj

→ Ukrainian: фоте́ль (fotélʹ)

→ Vietnamese: phô-tơi

Inherited from Middle French faulxdestueil, fauldesteul, fausdestueil, from Old French faudestuel, faldestoel, borrowed from Frankish *faldistōl (“folding seat”). Cognate with English foldstool, faldstool. Doublet of faldistoire.


trône

→ Romanian: tron

Inherited from Middle French throne, from Old French trosne, trone, from Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “chair”, “throne”).

der

Il s’est approché du trône respectueusement. ― He approached the throne reverently.

Le gamin est sur le trône.


bibliothèque

→ Belarusian: бібліятэ́ка (biblijatéka)

→ Bulgarian: библиотека (biblioteka)

→ Danish: bibliotek

desctree

→ Dutch: bibliotheek
Afrikaans: biblioteek
→ Indonesian: bibliotek

→ German: Bibliothek

→ Latvian: bibliotēka

→ Lithuanian: biblioteka

→ Lower Sorbian: biblioteka

→ Norwegian Bokmål: bibliotek

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: bibliotek

→ Polish: biblioteka

→ Russian: библиоте́ка (bibliotéka)

desc

→ Serbo-Croatian: библиоте́ка (bibliotéka)

→ Swedish: bibliotek

→ Turkish: bibliyotek

→ Ukrainian: бібліоте́ка (bibliotéka)

→ Upper Sorbian: biblioteka

→ Yiddish: ביבליאָטעק (biblyotek)

Inherited from Middle French bibliotheque, borrowed from Latin bibliothēca (“library”), originally from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “book-room”). Morphologically biblio- + -thèque.


chesterfield

un chesterfield à vendre

(Canada) a chesterfield (a couch, sofa, or love seat)


bahut

Inherited from Old French bahur. Further origin unknown, most hypotheses being weak in one respect or another (cf. Further reading below). Bratchet suggests Middle High German behut (“hutch for provisions”) or Frankish *baghūdi, *baghōdi (“sideboard”), from Proto-Germanic *bagg- (possibly related to Old Norse baggi, Proto-Germanic *pakkô) + *hūdiz (“hide, protection”).
Compare Italian baule, Ladino baul, Portuguese baú.


balançoire

seesaw (a long board attached to a fulcrum)


prie-Dieu

→ Catalan: pregadeu (calque)

→ English: prie-dieu


chaise roulante

fr-noun

chaise roulante f (plural chaises roulantes)


rideau

Inherited from Middle French rideau, from Old French ridel (“a curtain", originally, "a plaited stuff”), perhaps from Old High German ridil (“a headband; ribbon”), from Proto-Germanic *wriþilaz, from *wrīþaną (“to twist; wind; wrap”).
Alternatively, Old French ridel may derive from rider (“to wrinkle”), from Old High German rīdan (“to wrap; twist; wind; wrinkle”), from the same Proto-Germanic verb above.
Cognate with Piedmontese ridò.

der

curtain (woven fabric to cover, e.g., windows)


ottomane

→ German: Ottomane


fauteuil roulant

fr-noun

fauteuil roulant m (plural fauteuils roulants)


liseuse

A Young Girl Reading
Jean Honoré Fragonard
fr:liseuse (homonymie)

Derived from lire (“to read”) + -euse, the word is feminine form of liseur (“reader”).

a nightgown, a bedjacket, a garment useful when reading in bed

a small paperknife used to open uncut books, also useful as a bookmark


chaise pliante

chaise pliante f (plural chaises pliantes)


bonheur-du-jour

bonheur-du-jour m (plural bonheurs-du-jour)

→ English: bonheur du jour

Literally, “daytime delight”, conjectured to be from its sudden rise in popularity.

(historical, furniture) bonheur du jour (lady's writing desk)


étoffer

étoffer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
étoffant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étoffé (participle past)
étoffe (first-person indicative present singular)
étoffes (indicative present second-person singular)
étoffe (indicative present singular third-person)
étoffons (first-person indicative plural present)
étoffez (indicative plural present second-person)
étoffent (indicative plural present third-person)
étoffais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
étoffais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
étoffait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
étoffions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
étoffiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
étoffaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
étoffai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
étoffas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
étoffa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
étoffâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
étoffâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
étoffèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
étofferai (first-person future indicative singular)
étofferas (future indicative second-person singular)
étoffera (future indicative singular third-person)
étofferons (first-person future indicative plural)
étofferez (future indicative plural second-person)
étofferont (future indicative plural third-person)
étofferais (conditional first-person singular)
étofferais (conditional second-person singular)
étofferait (conditional singular third-person)
étofferions (conditional first-person plural)
étofferiez (conditional plural second-person)
étofferaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
étoffe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
étoffes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
étoffe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
étoffions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
étoffiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
étoffent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
étoffasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
étoffasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
étoffât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
étoffassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
étoffassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
étoffassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
étoffe (imperative second-person singular)
étoffons (first-person imperative plural)
étoffez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French estoffer, from Old French estoffer, estofer (“to provide what is needed, equip, decorate”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn (“to stuff”). Doublet of stopper.


ameublement

→ Swedish: möblemang

→ Persian: مبلمان (moblemân)

Derived from dated ameubler (“to furnish”) + -ment.


chaise à bascule

fr-noun

chaise à bascule f (plural chaises à bascule)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-chaise à bascule.wav

rocking chair (chair with a curved base which can be gently rocked)


fauteuil à bascule

fauteuil à bascule m (plural fauteuils à bascule)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-fauteuil à bascule.wav


banc d'église

banc d’ église (canonical masculine)
bancs d’église (plural)


banc d'œuvre

banc d’ œuvre (canonical masculine)
bancs d’œuvre (plural)


guéridon

After a character in the play Conférence d’Antitus, Panurge et Gueridon (1614).

Nous irions, elle et moi, prendre l’apéritif à la terrasse du plus grand café de Paris. Pour nous faire un passage, le garçon remuerait les guéridons comme des tonneaux.


table de chevet

table de chevet f (plural tables de chevet)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-table de chevet.wav


table de nuit

LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-table de nuit.wav

Il faut vous dire encore, monsieur, que la «Chambre Jaune» est toute petite. Mademoiselle l’avait meublée d’un lit en fer assez large, d’une petite table, d’une table de nuit, d’une toilette et de deux chaises.

1908, Gaston Leroux, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 2009 ed., Wikisource, chap. 1; translated 1908 by anonymous, Margaret Jull Costa (ed.), as The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 2003 ed., Dedalus

— I must also tell you, sir, that the Yellow Room is quite small. Mademoiselle had furnished it with a fairly large iron bedstead, a small table, a night-commode, a washing-stand and two chairs.


chaise percée

chaise percée f (plural chaises percées)

commode (chair containing a chamber pot)


chaise électrique

chaise électrique f (plural chaises électriques)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-chaise électrique.wav

electric chair (chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution)


faldistoire

From Latin faldistōrium. Doublet of fauteuil.


chaise à porteurs

chaise à porteurs f (plural chaises à porteurs)


chaise de bureau

chaise de bureau f (plural chaises de bureau)


armoire à pharmacie

armoire à pharmacie f (plural armoires à pharmacie)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-armoire à pharmacie.wav

medicine cabinet, medicine chest, medicine cupboard