easy chair

English

Alternative forms

• easy-chair

Etymology

Compound of easy +‎ chair.

Noun

easy chair (plural easy chairs)

1. A comfortable chair, often well upholstered; a lounge chair.
   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

     "Let's sit quiet a bit, Toady!" said the Rat, throwing himself into an easy chair, while the Mole took another by the side of him and made some civil remark about Toad's delightful residence.

Translations

a comfortable chair

• Armenian: բազկաթոռ (hy) (bazkatʻoṙ)
• Bengali: আরাম-কেদারা (aram-kedara), ইজি চেয়ার (iji cear)
• Bulgarian: фотьойл m (fotjojl), кресло (bg) n (kreslo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安樂椅 / 安乐椅 (zh) (ānlèyǐ)

• Finnish: nojatuoli (fi), laiskanlinna (fi), lepolassi
• French: fauteuil (fr)
• Georgian: სავარძელი (ka) (savarʒeli)
• German: Sessel (de) m
• Hebrew: כִּסֵּא נוֹחַ (he) m (kisé nóaẖ)
• Hungarian: fotel (hu), karosszék (hu)
• Irish: cathaoir bhog f, cathaoir shócúil f, cathaoir shócúlach f
• Italian: poltrona (it) f
• Malay: kerusi malas
• Persian: صندلی راحتی (fa)
• Portuguese: poltrona (pt)
• Russian: кре́сло (ru) n (kréslo)
• Spanish: tumbona (es) f
• Swedish: fåtölj (sv) c, länstol (sv), armstol