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From the expansive sense of house shops or workshops where people work together for a common purpose. Originally used in reference to printing workshops supplying or included within a bookshop ; later used more expansively to refer to any institution or company involved in printing.
printing house plural printing houses
An institution or commercial company chiefly devoted to printing .
The building where printing occurs .
( now uncommon ) Synonym of printshop : a place to make personal copies .( printing company ) : See printer ( inclusive of self-run printing houses ) ( printing company ) : imprint ( subsidiary printing house ) company chiefly devoted to printing
Albanian: shtypshkronjë (sq) f
Arabic: مَطْبَعَة f ( maṭbaʕa )
Armenian: տպարան (hy) ( tparan )
Azerbaijani: mətbəə (az)
Belarusian: друка́рня f ( drukárnja )
Bulgarian: печа́тница f ( pečátnica )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 印刷廠 ／ 印刷厂 (zh) ( yìnshuāchǎng ) , 印刷所 (zh) ( yìnshuāsuǒ ) , 版畫店 ／ 版画店 ( bǎnhuàdiàn )
Czech: tiskárna (cs) f
Danish: trykkeri (da) n
Dutch: drukkerij (nl) f
Estonian: trükikoda
Finnish: painotalo (fi)
French: imprimerie (fr) f typographie (fr) f
Georgian: სტამბა ( sṭamba )
German: Druckerei (de) f Typographie (de) f
Greek: τυπογραφείο (el) n ( typografeío )
Hebrew: בֵּית דְּפוּס (he) m ( beyt dfus )
Hungarian: nyomda (hu) , nyomdaműhely nyomtatószalon
Icelandic: prentsmiðja f
Italian: tipografia (it) f
Japanese: 印刷会社 ( いんさつがいしゃ, insatsu-gaisha ) , 印刷所 ( いんさつじょ, insatsujo, いんさつしょ, insatsusho )
Kazakh: баспахана ( baspaxana )
Khmer: រោងពុម្ព ( roong pum )
Korean: 인쇄소(印刷所) (ko) ( inswaeso )
Kyrgyz: басмакана (ky) ( basmakana ) , типография (ky) ( tipografiya )
Lao: ໂຮງພິມ ( hōng phim )
Latvian: tipogrāfija f
Lithuanian: spaustuvė f
Lü: ᦷᦣᧂᦘᦲᧄ ( hongphiim )
Macedonian: печатница f ( pečatnica )
Maori: whare perehi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: trykkeri n
Ottoman Turkish: مطبعه ( matbaa )
Persian: چاپخانه (fa) ( čâpxâne ) , مطبعه (fa) ( matba'a ) ( Dari or dated )
Plautdietsch: Drekjarie f
Polish: drukarnia (pl) f
Portuguese: gráfica (pt) f tipografia (pt) f
Romanian: tipografie (ro) f imprimerie (ro) f
Russian: типогра́фия (ru) f ( tipográfija )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: штампа̀рија f тѝскара f
Roman: štampàrija (sh) f tìskara (sh) f
Slovak: tlačiareň f
Slovene: tiskarna (sl) f
Spanish: imprenta (es) f
Swedish: tryckeri (sv) n
Tagalog: palimbagan
Tajik: матбаа ( matbaa ) , чопхона ( čopxona )
Thai: โรงพิมพ์ (th) ( roong-pim )
Tibetan: པར་ཁང ( par khang )
Turkish: basımevi (tr) , matbaa (tr)
Ukrainian: друка́рня (uk) f ( drukárnja )
Uzbek: bosmaxona (uz)
Vietnamese: nhà in (vi) , xưởng in nhà máy in
Yiddish: דרוקערײַ f ( drukeray )
a building in which printing takes place
