meuble

See also: meublé

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mōbilis (“that which can be moved”), used in juridical Latin to refer to movable possessions, the antonym being immōbilis (> French immeuble (“building”)), used to refer to immovable possessions. Doublet of mobile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mœbl/

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Noun

meuble m (plural meubles)

1. piece of furniture
2. (heraldry) charge
3. (law) piece of personal property

Derived terms

• immeuble
• meubler
• sauver les meubles
• meuble héraldique

Descendants

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: mèb
• → Belarusian: мэ́бля (méblja)
• → Bulgarian: мебел (mebel)
• → Crimean Tatar: mebel
• → Danish: møbel
  • → Icelandic: mubla
• → Dutch: meubel
  • Afrikaans: meubel
  • → Caribbean Javanese: mébel
  • → Indonesian: mebel
  • → Sranan Tongo: meibri
• → Esperanto: meblo
• → German: Möbel
  • → Estonian: mööbel
  • → Kashubian: mébel
  • → Latvian: mēbele
  • → Polish: mebel
  • → Russian: ме́бель (mébelʹ)
    • → Azerbaijani: mebel
    • → Ingrian: meebeli
    • → Kyrgyz: мебель (mebel)
    • → Ossetian: мебель (mebelʹ)
    • → Turkmen: mebel
    • → Uzbek: mebel
• → Ido: moblo
• → Macedonian: мебел (mebel)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: møbel
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: møbel
• → Persian: مبل (mobl)
• → Swedish: möbel
• → Turkish: möble
• → Ukrainian: ме́блі (mébli)
• → Yiddish: מעבל (mebl)

Adjective

meuble (plural meubles)

1. soft, pliable, malleable

Synonyms

• (soft): mou
• (malleable): malléable

Verb

meuble

1. inflection of meubler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “meuble”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Etymology

From Latin mōbilis (“movable”).

Noun

meuble m (plural meubles)

1. (Guernsey) piece of furniture