English
Etymology
From coffee + table.
Pronunciation
Noun
coffee table (plural coffee tables)
- (furniture) A long, low table, often placed in front of a sofa or seating area in a living room.
- Synonym: occasional table
- Hypernym: table
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 26:We were just settling ourselves around the coffee-table, when several friends from the parsonage arrived.
- (furniture, originally) A table from which coffee is served.
Derived terms
Translations
type of table
- Arabic: طَاوِلَة قَهْوَة f (ṭāwilat qahwa), طَاوِلَة لِلْقَهْوَة f (ṭāwila lilqahwa)
- Armenian: սուրճի սեղան (surči seġan)
- Belarusian: часо́пісны сто́лік m (časópisny stólik), ка́вавы сто́лік m (kávavy stólik)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (lit. coffee table) 咖啡桌 (kāfēizhuō), (tea table) 茶几 (zh) (chájī), (short tea table) 矮茶几 (ǎichájī)
- Czech: konferenční stolek m
- Danish: sofabord (da) n, kaffebord n
- Dutch: salontafel (nl) m
- Esperanto: tableto
- Estonian: kohvilaud
- Finnish: sohvapöytä (fi)
- French: table basse (fr) f, table de salon f
- German: Couchtisch (de) m, Nebentisch (de) m, Beitisch m, Beistelltisch (de) m, Seitentisch (de) m
- Hebrew: שולחן קפה \ שֻׁלְחַן קָפֶה m (shulkhán kafé)
- Hungarian: dohányzóasztal (hu)
- Irish: bord íseal m, tábla caife m
- Italian: tavolino da salotto m
- Japanese: コーヒーテーブル (kōhītēburu)
- Korean: 커피 테이블 (keopi teibeul)
- Lü: ᦈᦸᧉᦑᧄ (ṫsoa²tam)
- Macedonian: масичка f (masička)
- Maori: papara kawhe
- Navajo: gohwééh bikááʼ dah nákááhí, bikááʼ adání yázhí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: salongbord n, sofabord n
- Polish: ława (pl) f
- Portuguese: mesa de centro f
- Romanian: măsuță de salon, masă joasă f
- Russian: журна́льный сто́лик m (žurnálʹnyj stólik), кофе́йный сто́лик m (koféjnyj stólik)
- Slovak: konferenčný stolík m
- Spanish: mesa ratona f
- Swedish: soffbord (sv) n
- Thai: โต๊ะกาแฟ (dtó-gaa-fɛɛ)
- Turkish: kahve masası
- Ukrainian: журна́льний сто́лик m (žurnálʹnyj stólyk), ка́вовий сто́лик m (kávovyj stólyk)
- Welsh: bwrdd coffi m
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