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chalkboard

chalkboard

English

Noun

chalkboard ‎(plural chalkboards)

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

Synonyms

blackboard

Hypernyms

writing board

Related terms

whiteboard

Translations

slate board for writing on with chalk

Chinese:
Mandarin: 黑板 (zh) ‎(hēibǎn)
Czech: tabule (cs) f, tabule (cs)
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)
Irish: cailc-chlár m, clár cailc m
Italian: lavagna (it) f
Japanese: 黒板 (ja) ‎(こくばん, kokuban)

Korean: 칠판 (ko) ‎(chilpan)
Latvian: tāfele (lv) f
Macedonian: табла f ‎(tábla)
Portuguese: lousa (pt) f, quadro (pt) m, quadro-negro (pt) m, quadro de giz m
Romanian: tablă (ro) f
Russian: доска́ (ru) f ‎(doská)
Spanish: pizarra (es) f (Spain), pizarrón (es) m (Latin America), tablero (es) m (Colombia)
Swedish: svart tavla c
Vietnamese: bảng đen (vi)