shelf

Etymology 1
From, probably from , , from , from , from , distantly related to , and. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun



 * 1) A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects.
 * 2) The capacity of such an object
 * 3) A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
 * 4)  The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.
 * 1) A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
 * 2)  The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.
 * 1)  The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: رَفّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: رف
 * Hijazi Arabic: رَفّ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: кәштә
 * Basque: apal
 * Belarusian: палі́ца
 * Bengali: তাক
 * Breton: estajerenn
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Cebuano: estante
 * Chechen: терхи
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 架
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto: breto
 * Estonian: riiul
 * Faroese: hill
 * Fijian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Friulian: scansìe
 * Galician: paramio, paraño, parañoa,, alzadeira, , vaseira, prateleira, estante
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: અભરાઈ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: तख़्ता
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingush: тархе
 * Irish: seilf
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: таг
 * Kazakh: сөре
 * Khmer:
 * Komi-Permyak: джадж
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: полка,
 * Lao: ຫິ້ງ, ຊັ້ນ
 * Latvian: plaukts
 * Ligurian: rician
 * Lingala: motáláká
 * Lithuanian: lentyna
 * Macedonian: полица
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: xkaffa
 * Manx: skelloo
 * Maori: paenga, whata
 * Middle English: stage
 * Mongolian:
 * Neapolitan: stìglio, scanzia
 * Norman: ais, êtagéthe
 * Northern Sami: hildu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: hylle
 * Ojibwe: desaabaan
 * Ottoman Turkish: راف
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgeilp
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̀лица, ра̏ф
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: polica
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: regal, pólica
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili: rafu
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: раф
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: བང་ཁྲི
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: tekje
 * Udmurt: ӝажы
 * Ukrainian: поли́ця
 * Urdu: طاق
 * Uyghur: جازا
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: scansìa
 * Vietnamese: giá sách ,
 * Vilamovian: faht, faocht
 * Walloon: axhale,
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yakut: долбуур
 * Yiddish: פּאָליצע
 * Zulu: ishalufu


 * Dutch: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: paramio, paraño, parañoa,, alzadeira, , vaseira, prateleira
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Walloon:


 * Dutch:
 * Scots: bink
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgeilp


 * Italian:
 * Welsh:

Etymology 2
Of obscure origin; evidently identical to 🇨🇬, but the sound shift is unexpected. Shelp might be from 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A reef, sandbar, or shoal.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: шелф
 * Galician: recife, pedrido, brica, ariño, sirte, baixío
 * German: Schelf
 * Irish:
 * Latvian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пличина, шелф
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:, ,