English

Etymology

From Old Germanic root bedh meaning "to dig", Old English bedde or betti meaning "garden plot" and "sleeping place".

Noun

bed

1. a piece of furniture to sleep on
2. a prepared spot to spend the night in, as in camping
3. a garden plot, as in "bed of roses"
4. the bottom of a lake or other body of water, as in "sea bed"
5. an area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found
6. a flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed, as a "bed of lettuce"
7. a deposit of ore, coal etc.
8. A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship's floor

Translations

• Arabic: السرير
• Breton: gwele m (1, 4), naoz f (4)
• Czech: postel f (1)
• Dutch: bed n (1,3,5), slaapstee m (not used anymore) (1), bedding f (4)
• Esperanto: lito (1)
• Estonian: voodi
• French: lit m (1, 4)
• German: Bett n (1,2,4 river,6), Beet n (3), Grund m (4 lake,sea), Boden m (4 lake,sea) Bank f (5), Lager n (7)
• Chinese: 床
• Finnish: sänky, vuode (1), alusta , paikka (2), penkki (e.g. ruusupenkki ) (3), pohja (4)
• Guaraní: upa (t-)
• Hebrew: מטה (mitah)
• Icelandic: seng , sengen , bedet
• Indonesian: tempat tidur
• Interlingua: lecto
• Japanese: ベッド (beddo)
• Polish: łóżko n
• Portuguese: cama f (1,2), leito m (1,2,4)
• Russian: Кровать
• Slovak: posteľ f (1, 2), záhon m (3), dno n (4)
• Slovene: postelja f (1), ležišče n (2), gredica f (3), dno n (4)
• Spanish: cama f, lecho m
• Swedish: säng (1), rabatt (e.g. rosenrabatt ) (3), botten (e.g. sjöbotten ) (4), bädd (1,6)
• Tupinambá: upaba (t-), kesaba
• Volapük: bed

Verb

to bed

1. to go to a sleeping bed
2. to put oneself to sleep

Translations

• German: sich betten (1)

Dutch

Noun

bed n

1. a piece of furniture to sleep on, a bed
2. a garden plot, as in "bed of roses"
3. collective noun for oysters

Swedish

Verb

bed

1. imperative of bedja

Volapük

Noun

1. bed