IKEA

See also: Ikea

English

Alternative forms

• Ikea

Etymology

From Swedish IKEA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈkiːə/, /ɪˈkeɪ.ə/, /ˈaɪˌki.ə/
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /ɪˈki.a/, /i-/

Proper noun

IKEA

1. An international, originally Swedish home products retailer that sells modern, utilitarian design furniture, much of which is assembled by the consumer.
   • 2005, Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 126:

     Instruct the servant robot to clean the house, landscape the yard, and assemble several major pieces of IKEA furniture. Then, when your robot is power depleted and attempts to recharge, shut off the power to your house.

   • 2008 February 2, Luke Burbank, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:

     It seems Swedish gangs, apparently no longer satisfied with knocking over their local IKEA’s, have taken to sneaking little people into the cargo holds of the buses by stowing them in suitcases.

Derived terms

• IKEA effect

Translations

international, originally Swedish retailer

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 宜家 (ji⁴ gaa¹)

  Mandarin: 宜家 (zh) (Yíjiā)

• Czech: IKEA f
• Hebrew: איקאה (ikéa)
• Hungarian: IKEA, Ikea
• Japanese: イケア (Ikea), IKEA (IKEA)
• Korean: IKEA (IKEA), 이케아 (Ikea)
• Polish: IKEA (pl) f, Ikea f
• Slovak: IKEA f
• Swedish: IKEA, Ikea
• Thai: อิเกีย
• Turkish: IKEA

Further reading

• IKEA on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Hungarian

Etymology

From Swedish IKEA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈikeːjɒ]

Proper noun

IKEA

1. IKEA

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	IKEA	—
accusative	IKEA-t	—
dative	IKEA-nak	—
instrumental	IKEA-val	—
causal-final	IKEA-ért	—
translative	IKEA-vá	—
terminative	IKEA-ig	—
essive-formal	IKEA-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	IKEA-ban	—
superessive	IKEA-n	—
adessive	IKEA-nál	—
illative	IKEA-ba	—
sublative	IKEA-ra	—
allative	IKEA-hoz	—
elative	IKEA-ból	—
delative	IKEA-ról	—
ablative	IKEA-tól	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	IKEA-é	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	IKEA-éi	—

Possessive forms of IKEA

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	IKEA-m	—
2nd person sing.	IKEA-d	—
3rd person sing.	IKEA-ja	—
1st person plural	IKEA-nk	—
2nd person plural	IKEA-tok	—
3rd person plural	IKEA-juk	—

Swedish

Alternative forms

• Ikea

Etymology

The initials of the founder's name, Ingvar Kamprad, of his home village Elmtaryd (now spelled Älmtaryd), and of the nearby village Agunnaryd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈkêːa/

Proper noun

IKEA n (genitive IKEA:s)

1. IKEA