library

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from , probably derived from a base. Displaced native, from (compare ).

🇨🇬 cognates often mean “bookshop” instead: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. This is a relatively recent innovation (16th century in French), which ended up displacing the earlier sense.

Pronunciation


The non-RP UK pronunciation (whence the eye dialect spelling ) exhibits.

Noun

 * 1) An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.
 * 2)  Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
 * 3) A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
 * 4) An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
 * 5) A room dedicated to storing books.
 * 6)  A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
 * 7)  A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
 * 8)  The deck or draw pile.
 * 1) An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
 * 2) A room dedicated to storing books.
 * 3)  A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
 * 4)  A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
 * 5)  The deck or draw pile.
 * 1)  A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
 * 2)  The deck or draw pile.
 * 1)  The deck or draw pile.

Descendants

 * → Hindustani: