chalkboard

English

Etymology

From chalk +‎ board.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔːk.bɔː(ɹ)d/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) enPR: chôk, IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔk.bɔː(ɹ)d/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

chalkboard (plural chalkboards)

1. A slate or enamel board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to a whiteboard.

Synonyms

• blackboard

Hypernyms

• writing board

Derived terms

• like fingernails on a chalkboard
• nails on a chalkboard

Related terms

• whiteboard

Translations

slate board for writing on with chalk — see also blackboard

• Arabic: سَبُورَة f (sabūra), لَوْح m (lawḥ)
• Bashkir: таҡта (taqta)
• Belarusian: до́шка f (dóška)
• Bulgarian: дъска́ (bg) f (dǎská)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 黑板 (hak¹ baan²)

  Eastern Min: 黑板 (háik-bēng)

  Gan: 黑板 (het⁶ 'ban³)

  Hokkien: 烏板／乌板 (o͘-pán)

  Jin: 黑板 (heh⁴ ban²)

  Mandarin: 黑板 (zh) (hēibǎn)

  Northern Min: 黑板 (hă̤-bǎing)

  Wu: 黑板 (⁷heq-pe)

• Czech: tabule (cs) f
• Esperanto: (classroom) kretotabulo, (small-sized board in a bar or restaurant) skribardezo
• Finnish: liitutaulu (fi)
• French: (classroom) tableau noir (fr) m, (small-sized board in a bar or restaurant) ardoise (fr)
• German: Wandtafel (de) f, Tafel (de) f
• Greek: μαυροπίνακα f (mavropínaka)
• Hindi: चॉकबोर्ड (cŏkborḍ)
• Ingrian: doska
• Irish: cailc-chlár m, clár cailc m
• Italian: lavagna (it) f
• Japanese: 黒板 (ja) (こくばん, kokuban)
• Khmer: ក្ដារខៀន (km) (kdaa khiən)
• Korean: 칠판(漆板) (ko) (chilpan)
• Latvian: tāfele (lv) f
• Lithuanian: kreidinė lenta f
• Macedonian: табла f (tabla)
• Polish: tablica (pl) f
• Portuguese: lousa (pt) f, quadro (pt) m, quadro-negro (pt) m, quadro de giz m
• Quechua: pirqa qillqana
• Romanian: tablă (ro) f
• Russian: доска́ (ru) f (doská)
• Sassarese: labagna f, preddabàina f, preddabainizza f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: та́бла f

  Roman: tábla (sh) f

• Slovak: tabuľa f
• Slovene: tabla f
• Spanish: pizarra (es) f (Spain), pizarrón (es) m (Latin America), tablero (es) m (Colombia)
• Swedish: svart tavla c
• Tagalog: pisara
• Thai: กระดาน (th) (grà-daan)
• Turkish: tebeşir tahtası
• Ukrainian: до́шка (uk) f (dóška)
• Urdu: چاک بورْڈ (cāk borḍ)
• Vietnamese: bảng đen (vi), bảng phấn
• Yoruba: pátákò-ìkọ̀wé

whiteboard — see whiteboard

Verb

chalkboard (third-person singular simple present chalkboards, present participle chalkboarding, simple past and past participle chalkboarded)

1. To write or draw on a chalkboard.
   • 2018, Marla Cilley, The CHAOS Cure:

     If you live in a home where painting walls isn't permitted, chalkboarding is still an option for you.

Further reading

• chalkboard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia