Library

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O'Fallon, Illinois
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Etymology

Middle English librarie from Template:Xno[[Category:Template:Xno derivations|Library]] [[librarie#Template:Xno|librarie]], from Old French librairie, from Latin librarius (“‘concerning books’”), from librarium (“‘bookcase, chest for books’”), from liber (“‘the inner bark of trees", "paper", "parchment", "book’”), probably derived from a Proto-IE base * (leub(h)), “‘to strip", "to peel’”). Displaced native Middle English bochus, bochous "library, bookhouse" (from Old English bōchūs "library, bookhouse").

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈlaɪbɹəɹɪ/, SAMPA: /"laIbr@ri/
• (US) IPA: /ˈlaɪbɹɛɹi/, SAMPA: /"laIbrEri/

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Noun

Singular Library

Plural libraries

Library (libraries)

1. An institution which holds books and/or other forms of stored information for use by the public or qualified people. It is usual, but not a defining feature of a library, for it to be housed in rooms of a building, to lend items of its collection to members either with or without payment, and to provide various other services for its community of users.
2. A collection of books or other forms of stored information. An individual may refer to his collection of books and other items as his library.
3. An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library
4. Template:Computer science A collection of subprograms used to develop software.

Usage notes

• False friends of library include French librairie (“‘bookshop’”) and Italian libreria (“‘bookshop’”).

Derived terms

terms derived from library

Borgesian library interlibrary librarian librarial library and information science library assistant library catalog

library hand library science mobile library record library public library school library

Translations

institution which holds books etc.

Albanian: bibliotekë sq(sq) f. Arabic: مكتبة ar(ar) (máktaba) f. Armenian: գրադարան hy(hy) (gradaran) Azeri: kitabxana az(az) Belarusian: бібліятэка be(be) (biblijatéka) f. Bengali: গ্রন্থাগার bn(bn) Bulgarian: библиотека bg(bg) (bibliotéka) f. Burmese: စာကြည့်တိုက် my(my) (sakyi.daik) Chinese: Mandarin: 圖書館 cmn(cmn), 图书馆 cmn(cmn) (túshūguǎn) Czech: knihovna cs(cs) f. Danish: bibliotek da(da) n. Dutch: bibliotheek nl(nl) f., boekerij nl(nl) f. Esperanto: librejo eo(eo) Faroese: bókasavn fo(fo) n. Filipino: aklatan, silid-aklatan Finnish: kirjasto fi(fi) French: bibliothèque fr(fr) f. Georgian: ბიბლიოთეკა ka(ka) (bibliot'eka) German: Bibliothek de(de) f. Greek: βιβλιοθήκη el(el) (vivlioθíki) f. Hebrew: ספריה he(he) (sifriyá) f. Hindi: पुस्तकालय hi(hi) (pustakālaya) Hungarian: könyvtár hu(hu) Ido: biblioteko io(io) Irish: leabharlann ga(ga) f. Italian: biblioteca it(it) f. Japanese: 図書館 ja(ja) (としょかん, toshokan) Khmer: ប័ណ្ណាល័យ km(km) (bŭnnālai) Korean: 도서관 ko(ko) (doseogwan) (圖書館 ko(ko))

Latvian: bibliotēka lv(lv) f. Lithuanian: biblioteka lt(lt) f. Lower Sorbian: biblioteka f. Macedonian: библиотека mk(mk) (bibliotéka) f. Malay: perpustakaan ms(ms), kutubkhanah ms(ms) Manx: lioar-hasht gv(gv), lioarlan gv(gv) f., thie lioaragh gv(gv) Norwegian: bibliotek no(no) n. Old English: bōchūs ang(ang) Persian: کتابخانه fa(fa) (ketâbkhâne) Polish: biblioteka pl(pl) f. Portuguese: biblioteca pt(pt) Romanian: bibliotecă ro(ro) f. Romansch: biblioteca f. Russian: библиотека ru(ru) (bibliotéka) f. Scots: leebrary Scottish Gaelic: leabharlann gd(gd) f. Serbo-Croatian: библиотека f., biblioteka f., књи́жница f., knjížnica f. Spanish: biblioteca es(es) f. Swahili: maktaba sw(sw) Swedish: bibliotek sv(sv) c. Tagalog: aklatan tl(tl), silid-aklatan tl(tl) Tajik: китобхона tg(tg) (kitobkhona) Thai: ห้องสมุด th(th) (hông sàmòot) Tswana: laeborari tn(tn) Turkish: kütüphane tr(tr) Ukrainian: бібліотека uk(uk) (bibliotéka) f. Vietnamese: thư viện vi(vi) Welsh: llyfrgell cy(cy) f.

collection of books

Albanian: bibliotekë sq(sq) f. Armenian: գրադարան hy(hy) (gradaran) Croatian: knjížnica hr(hr) f., bibliotéka hr(hr) f. Czech: knihovna cs(cs) f. Danish: bibliotek da(da) n. Dutch: bibliotheek nl(nl) f., boekenkast nl(nl) Esperanto: libraro eo(eo) Faroese: bókasavn fo(fo) n. Filipino: aklatan Finnish: kirjasto fi(fi) French: bibliothèque fr(fr) f. German: Bücherei de(de) f. Greek: βιβλιοθήκη el(el) (vivlioθíki) f. Hebrew: ספריה he(he) (sifriyá) f. Hungarian: könyvtár hu(hu) Irish: leabharlann ga(ga) f.

Japanese: 双書 ja(ja) (そうしょ, sōsho) Korean: 장서 ko(ko) (jangseo) Latvian: bibliotēka lv(lv) f. Lithuanian: biblioteka lt(lt) f. Macedonian: библиотека mk(mk) (bibliotéka) f. Mandarin: 藏書 cmn(cmn), 藏书 cmn(cmn) (cángshū), 收藏 cmn(cmn) (shōucáng) Old English: bōchōrd Polish: biblioteka pl(pl) f., (diminutive; especially a personal one) biblioteczka pl(pl) f. Russian: библиотека ru(ru) (bibliotéka) f. Scots: leebrary Scottish Gaelic: leabharlann gd(gd) f. Spanish: biblioteca es(es) f. Swahili: maktaba sw(sw) Tagalog: aklatan tl(tl) Welsh: llyfrgell cy(cy) f.

collection of records

Armenian: գրադարան hy(hy) (gradaran) Czech: fonotéka cs(cs) f. Finnish: äänilevystö fi(fi), levystö fi(fi) Greek: δισκοθήκη el(el) (ðiskoθíki) f.

Hebrew: ספריה he(he) (sifriyá) f. Scots: leebrary Swahili: maktaba sw(sw)

collection of subprograms

Chinese: Mandarin: 文庫 cmn(cmn), 文库 cmn(cmn) (wénkù), 庫 cmn(cmn), 库 cmn(cmn) (kù) Czech: knihovna cs(cs) f. Danish: bibliotek da(da) n. Faroese: bókasavn fo(fo) n. Finnish: ohjelmakirjasto fi(fi) Greek: βιβλιοθήκη el(el) (vivlioθíki) f.

Hebrew: ספריה he(he) (sifriyá) f. Irish: leabharlann ga(ga) f. Japanese: ライブラリー ja(ja) (raiburarii) Korean: 라이브러리 ko(ko) (raibeureori) Polish: biblioteka pl(pl) f. Russian: библиотека ru(ru) (bibliotéka) f. Scots: leebrary Swahili: maktaba sw(sw)

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Afrikaans: biblioteek f. (1,2), boekerij f. (1,2) Arabic: مكتبة (máktaba) f. Basque: liburutegia Breton: levraoueg Bulgarian: библиотека (biblioteka) f. Catalan: biblioteca f. Cornish: lyverva Esperanto: biblioteko Estonian: raamatukogu Filipino: silid-aklatan, basa-han Georgian: ბიბლიოთეკა (bibliot‘eka) Greenlandic: atuagaa Icelandic: bókasafn n. Ido: biblioteko Indonesian: perpustakaan Khmer: ប័ណ្ណាល័យ (bŭnnālai) Latin: bibliothēca f., librarium n.

Macedonian: библиотека (bibliotéka) f. Malay: perpustakaan Maltese: bibljoteka f., librerija f. Maori: whare pukapuka Mongolian: номын сан (nomiin san) Northern Sami: girjerádju Norwegian: bibliotek n. Persian: کتابخانه Portuguese: biblioteca f. Punjabi: ਪੁਸਤਕਾਲਾ m. Sesotho: laeborari Slovak: knižnica f. Slovene: knjižnica f. Spanish: biblioteca f. (1,2) Swedish: bibliotek n. Tagalog: aklatan Thai: ห้องสมุด (hông sàmòot) Tsonga: layiburari Turkish: kütüphane Upper Sorbian: please add this translation if you can Venda: laiburari Vietnamese: thư viện, phòng đọc sách

See also

• bookshop, bookstore, bookhouse

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