booth

See also: Booth

English

Etymology

From Middle English bothe, from either Old English bōþ or Old Norse bóð (compare Swedish bod) and/or the variant búð (> Scots buth), from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /buːθ/, (dated) /buːð/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /buːθ/

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• Rhymes: -uːθ, -uːð

Noun

booth (plural booths)

1. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
2. (dated) A temporary shelter, often in the form of a tent, shed, or canopied structure.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 41:

     When Gro came to the Witches’ booths he found them guarded even as the Red Foliot had said, and the booths of them of Demonland in like manner. So went he into the royal booth where the King lay in state on a bier of spear-shafts, robed in his kingly robes over his armour that was painted black and inlaid with gold, and the crown of Witchland on his head.

3. A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
4. An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
5. An enclosure for keeping animals.
6. (hip-hop, slang, with “the”) A recording studio.

Derived terms

• booth babe
• boother
• boothette
• boothless
• boothlike
• boothman
• boothmate
• bothy
• buddy booth
• confession booth
• control booth
• forebooth
• kissing booth
• phone booth
• photo booth
• polling booth
• recording booth
• sound booth
• suicide booth
• telebooth
• telephone booth
• ticket booth
• ticketbooth
• toll booth
• voting booth

Descendants

• → Bengali: বুথ (buth)
• → Scottish Gaelic: bùth
• → Welsh: bwth

Translations

a small stall for the display and sale of goods

• Arabic: كُشْك (kušk)
• Armenian: տաղավար (hy) (taġavar), կրպակ (hy) (krpak)
• Bulgarian: щанд (bg) m (štand), серги́я (bg) f (sergíja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 攤子 / 摊子 (zh) (tānzi), 貨攤 / 货摊 (zh) (huòtān)

• Czech: stánek (cs) m (prodejní (cs), výstavní (cs))
• Danish: bod
• Dutch: stand (nl)
• Esperanto: budo
• Finnish: koju (fi), myyntikoju (fi)
• French: stand (fr) m, échoppe (fr) f
• Galician: estaribel m, telderexo m, chiolo m
• German: Stand (de) m, Messestand m, Bude (de) f
• Hungarian: stand (hu)
• Indonesian: gerai (id), stan (id)
• Irish: both m
• Italian: bancarella (it), stand (it), bugigattolo (it) m
• Japanese: 露店 (ja) (ろてん, roten), 売店 (ja) (ばいてん, baiten), スタンド (ja) (sutando)
• Latin: pergula f
• Macedonian: бутка f (butka)
• Malay: gerai (ms), reruai (ms), ررواي (ms) (reruai)
• Norwegian: bu (no)
• Polish: budka (pl) f
• Portuguese: banca (pt) f
• Romanian: tarabă (ro) f
• Russian: стенд (ru) m (stɛnd)
• Scottish Gaelic: pùball m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: buda f

• Spanish: puesto (es) m, stand (es) m, friquitín m (Caribbean), caseta (es) f
• Turkish: stant (tr) (trade)

an enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person

• Arabic: حُجَيْرَة (ḥujayra), كَابِينَة f (kābīna)
• Armenian: խցիկ (hy) (xcʻik)
• Belarusian: бу́дка f (búdka), кабі́на f (kabína), кабі́нка f (kabínka)
• Bulgarian: бу́дка (bg) f (búdka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小室 (zh) (xiǎoshì), 亭 (zh) (tíng), 棚 (zh) (péng)

• Czech: budka (cs) f
• Dutch: cabinet (nl)
• Esperanto: budo
• Finnish: koppi (fi)
• French: cabine (fr) f, guérite (fr) f
• Galician: gorita f, garita f, caritel m
• German: Bude (de) f, Zelle (de) f
• Hungarian: fülke (hu)
• Indonesian: bilik (id)
• Irish: both m, bothán m
• Italian: cabina (it) f
• Japanese: ブース (ja) (būsu)
• Korean: 박스 (ko) (bakseu), 부스 (buseu)
• Malay: pondok (ms), petak (ms)
• Maori: wharau, tāwharu
• Ottoman Turkish: قولبه (kulübe), عریش (ʼariş)
• Persian: باجه (fa) (bâje)
• Portuguese: cabine (pt) f
• Romanian: cabină (ro) f
• Russian: бу́дка (ru) f (búdka), каби́на (ru) f (kabína), каби́нка (ru) f (kabínka)
• Slovak: búdka f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: buda f

• Spanish: cabina (es) f, garita (es) f, caseta (es) f
• Turkish: kulübe (tr), kabin (tr)
• Ukrainian: бу́дка (uk) f (búdka), кабі́на (uk) f (kabína), кабі́нка (uk) f (kabínka)
• Vietnamese: bốt (vi), buồng (vi)

an enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 卡位 (kaa¹ wai^6-2)

• Czech: box (cs) m, kóje f
• Finnish: loosi (fi)
• French: box (fr) m
• German: Nische (de) f, Sitznische f, Ecke (de) f, Sitzecke (de) f
• Macedonian: сепаре n (separe)
• Romanian: separeu (ro) n

See also

• kiosk
• stall
• stand