Bokmål

See also: bokmål, bokmal, and bókmál

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian bokmål (literally “book language”). The equivalent Old Norse bókamál was used in this sense as a name for Latin, as it was the primary language used for writing of biblical work in much of the Middle Ages. The modern Icelandic name for Norwegian Bokmål is bókmál. When dialect research in western Norway was pioneered by Ivar Aasen in the 1850s, bogmaal took on the meaning of written standard language, as opposed to spoken dialects and Aasen's synthesized landsmaal. The two Norwegian languages, standardized in 1907, changed names in 1929 from landsmål to nynorsk, and from riksmål to bokmål.

Noun

Bokmål (uncountable)

1. One of the two major written standards of Norwegian, literally meaning “book language”.

Synonyms

• Norwegian Bokmål

Translations

language

• Armenian: բուկմոլ (bukmol)
• Catalan: bokmål m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴克摩挪威語, 巴克摩挪威语 (Bakèmó Nuówēiyǔ), 書面挪威語, 书面挪威语 (Shūmiàn Nuówēiyǔ)

• Danish: bokmål (da) n
• Dhivehi: ބޯކިމާލު‎ (bōkimālu)
• Dutch: Bokmål (nl)
• Faroese: bókmál (fo) n
• Finnish: kirjanorja (fi)
• French: bokmål (fr) m
• Galician: bokmål
• Georgian: ბუკმოლი (buḳmoli)
• German: Bokmål (de) n
• Icelandic: bókmál (is) n

• Irish: Bocmál m
• Japanese: ブークモール (ja) (Būkumōru)
• Korean: 보크몰 (Bokeumol), 복말 (Bongmal)
• Latvian: būkmols m
• Northern Sami: girjedárogiella
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bokmål (no) n

  Nynorsk: bokmål n

• Polish: bokmål (pl) m
• Portuguese: bokmal m
• Russian: бу́кмол (ru) m (búkmol)
• Spanish: bokmål (es) m
• Swedish: bokmål (sv) n

See also

• høgnorsk, Høgnorsk
• landsmål, Landsmål
• nynorsk, Nynorsk
• riksmål, Riksmål

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code nb, ISO 639-3 code nob
• Ethnologue entry for Bokmål, nb

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian bokmål (“book language”).

Noun

Bokmål n

1. Bokmål (One of the two major written standards of Norwegian)

Related terms

• Nynorsk