easel

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from , from , diminutive of , ultimately from an unknown source in Asia Minor. Essentially, the stand that a painting is placed on is being likened to a donkey carrying a burden; compare, as in and.

Noun

 * 1) An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 黑板架,
 * Cornish: margh skrifa
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: כן ציור
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: trönur
 * Ido:
 * Italian:, treppiedi
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: мольберт
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: molberts
 * Lithuanian: molbertas
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: staffeli
 * Nynorsk: staffeli
 * Persian:, سه‌پایه نقاشی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Samogitian: muolberts
 * Scottish Gaelic: dealbh-thaic
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kabalyete
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: мольберт, підставка
 * Vietnamese: giá vẽ
 * Welsh: îsl