bancal

Spanish; see abancalar

bancal (plural bancales)

1. An ornamental covering, as of carpet or leather, for a bench or form.
   • 1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, page 217:

     A few rich settles and bancals, choicely carved and decorated with glazed leather hangings of the sort termed or basané, completed the furniture of the apartment.

From banc (“bench”) +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəŋˈkal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [baŋˈkal]

bancal m (plural bancals)

1. storage bench

   Synonyms: arquibanc, caixabanc

2. a piece of carpet or cloth covering furniture
3. bed, plot, terrace, parcel (agricultural)

   Synonym: feixa

4. predella

• “bancal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Borrowed from Old Occitan bancal, from Medieval Latin bancālis, from the base of Proto-Germanic *bankiz + -alis.

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.kal/

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bancal (feminine bancale, masculine plural bancals, feminine plural bancales)

1. bow-legged, bandy-legged (of person)
2. rickety, wobbly (of table etc.)
3. shaky, unclear, illogical

• “bancal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Attested since the 14th century. From banco (“bench”) +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /baŋˈkal/

bancal m (plural bancais)

1. bancal
   • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295:

     mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo et con sous alfamares et con los outros destalos que eu trago comunalmente pela terra et con vn pano uerde et un tapete sen bançaes

     I bequeath this my bed, as it is, with its clothes and with its curtains and ceiling and with its quilts and with the other rugs that I have usually in the ground and with a green cloth and a tablecloth, no bancals

• banco

• “bancal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “bançaes” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “bancal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bancal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bancal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

bancal m (plural bancales)

1. plot (of land, for planting)

• “bancal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• blanca

• bancałe

bancal m (plural bancałi)

1. pallet
2. sill, windowsill