blackboard

Etymology
From, because such surfaces were once typically made of black slate.

Noun



 * 1) A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.

Derived terms

 * blackboard bold

Translations

 * Albanian: dërrasë e zezë
 * Arabic: سَبُورَة, لَوْح
 * Egyptian Arabic: تختة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: pizarra
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: таҡта
 * Basque: arbela
 * Belarusian: до́шка, кла́сная до́шка, шко́льная до́шка
 * Bengali: ব্ল্যাকবোর্ড
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, че́рна дъска́
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 黑板
 * Eastern Min: 黑板
 * Gan: 黑板
 * Hokkien: 烏板
 * Jin: 黑板
 * Mandarin:
 * Northern Min: 黑板
 * Wu: 黑板
 * Czech:, školní tabule
 * Danish: tavle
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: nigra tabulo
 * Estonian: tahvel
 * Faroese: talva
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, louxa
 * Georgian: დაფა, საკლასო დაფა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: श्यामपट, ब्लैकबोर्ड, तख़्ता-ए-सियाह
 * Hungarian:, iskolai tábla
 * Hunsrik: Daafel
 * Icelandic:, skólatafla
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: doska
 * Irish: clár dubh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: самбр
 * Kazakh:, доска, сынып тақтасы
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: класс доскасы,
 * Lao: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: klasės lenta,, mokyklinė lenta
 * Lü: ᦶᦔᧃᧉᦂᧄᧈ
 * Macedonian: табла
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: blekbord, lavanja
 * Maori: papatuhituhi
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠮᠪᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ
 * Norman: néthe plianche
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tavle
 * Nynorsk: tavle
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Dari: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , quadro de giz,
 * Quechua: pirqa qillqana
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , шко́льная доска́
 * Scottish Gaelic: bòrd-dubh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: та́бла
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: tabuľa
 * Slovene: tabla, šolska tabla
 * Spanish:, ,  ,
 * Swahili: ubao mweusi
 * Swedish: svart tavla, skrivtavla
 * Tagalog: pisara
 * Tajik: тахта, тахтаи синф, тахтаи сиёҳ
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ནག་པང
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: tagta
 * Ukrainian:, кла́сна до́шка, шкільна́ до́шка
 * Urdu: تَخْتَۂ سِیاہ, بِلَیک بورْڈ, بْلَیک بورْڈ
 * Uyghur: دوسكا
 * Uzbek: sinf doskasi,, qora doskasi
 * Venetian: łavanja
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: bwrdd du
 * Yiddish: טאָוול

Verb

 * 1) To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion.