coffee table

English

Coffee table

Noun

coffee table (plural coffee tables)

1. (furniture) A long, low table, often placed before seating in a living room, on which drinks may be served, and magazines, etc. placed.

   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.

Derived terms

• coffee table book

Translations

type of table

• Arabic: طَاوِلَة قَهْوَة f (ṭāwilat qahwa), طَاوِلَة لِلْقَهْوَة f (ṭāwila lilqahwa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (lit. coffee table) 咖啡桌 (kāfēizhuō), (tea table) 茶几 (zh) (chájī), (short tea table) 矮茶几 (ǎichájī)

• Danish: sofabord (da) n
• Dutch: salontafel (nl) m
• 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)
• Lü: ᦈᦸᧉᦑᧄ (ṫsoa²tam)
• Macedonian: масичка f (masička)
• Maori: papara kawhe
• Navajo: gohwééh bikááʼ dah nákááhí, bikááʼ adání yázhí
• 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)
• 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

Further reading

• coffee table on Wikipedia.Wikipedia