English
A contemporary nightstand.
Etymology
From night (“the conventional time for a person to be in bed”) + stand (“an object which supports things”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
nightstand (plural nightstands)
- (US) A small table or cabinet, often with one or more drawers or shelves, placed beside the head of a bed.
- Synonyms: bedside table, night table
- Hypernyms: end table, side table
He always kept a full glass of water on the nightstand.
Translations
small table placed beside the head of a bed
- Albanian: komodinë (sq) f
- Arabic: مِنْضَدة اَلسَّرِير (minḍada(t) as-sarīr)
- Hijazi Arabic: كُمَدينة m (kumadīna)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: dolabça
- Bulgarian: нощно шкафче n (noštno škafče)
- Catalan: tauleta de nit f, comodí (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 床頭櫃 / 床头柜 (zh) (chuángtóuguì)
- Czech: noční stolek m
- Danish: natbord (da) n
- Dutch: nachtkastje (nl) n
- Esperanto: noktotablo
- Finnish: yöpöytä (fi)
- French: table de nuit (fr) f, table de chevet (fr) f, liseuse (fr) f
- German: Nachtkasten (de) m, Nachtkasterl (de) n, Nachtkastl (de) n, Nachtkästchen (de) n, Nachtschrank (de) m, Nachtschränkchen (de) n, Nachttisch (de) m, Nachttischchen (de) n
- Greek: κομοδίνο (el) n (komodíno)
- Hungarian: éjjeliszekrény (hu)
- Icelandic: náttborð
- Ido: litotableto (io)
- Irish: bord cois leapa m, bord éadain m
- Italian: comodino (it) m
- Japanese: ナイトテーブル (naito tēburu), ナイトスタンド (naitosutando)
- Kazakh: тумбочка (tumboçka)
- Korean: 나이트스탠드 (naiteuseutaendeu), 침실용 탁자 (chimsiryong takja)
- Macedonian: на́ткасна f (nátkasna)
- Norwegian: nattbord n
- Occitan: taula de nuech f
- Polish: nakastlik (pl) m, szafka nocna (pl) f
- Portuguese: criado-mudo (pt) m (Brazil), mesinha de cabeceira f, mesa de cabeceira f
- Romanian: măsuță de noapte (ro) f
- Russian: ту́мбочка (ru) f (túmbočka)
- Slovak: nočný stolík m
- Spanish: mesa de noche (es) f, mesita de noche f, buró (es) m (Mexico), mesilla de noche f (Spain), mesita de luz f (Argentina), velador (es) m (Chile), nochero (es) (Colombia), mesa nocturna f, mesilla f, mesa de luz (es) f (Argentina, Uruguay), mesa lumínica f
- Swedish: nattduksbord (sv), sängbord (sv)
- Turkish: komodin (tr)
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: bwrdd erchwyn m (North), byrddau erchwyn m pl, bord erchwyn f (South), bordydd ercwhyn f pl
- Yiddish: בעטטישל (bettishl)
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References
- ^ “nightstand, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft revision; Sept. 2003]
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