anaquel

Spanish

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic مَنَاقِل (manáqil), from Arabic مِنْقَلَة (minqala, bench). Doublet of mancala.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /anaˈkel/ [a.naˈkel]
  • Rhymes: -el
  • Syllabification: a‧na‧quel

Noun

anaquel m (plural anaqueles)

  1. shelf
    Synonyms: balda, estante, repisa, tabla
    • 1956 [1944], Jorge Luis Borges, “La biblioteca de Babel”, in Ficciones, Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, page 86:
      A cada uno de los muros de cada hexágono corresponden cinco anaqueles: cada anaquel encierra treinta y dos libros de formato uniforme; cada libro es de cuatrocientas diez páginas; cada página, de cuarenta renglones; cada renglón, de unas ochenta letras de color negro.
      On each of the walls of each hexagon there are five shelves: each shelf holds thirty-two books of the same style; each book is four hundred ten pages long; each page, forty lines; each line, some eighty letters printed in black.

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