Translation
piece of furniture
Word origin
From French meuble, from Latin mobilis, 'movable'. Medieval law split property into the movable and the immovable, and the things you could carry out of a house eventually became the name for the furniture itself.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- mobilis
- English cognates
- mobile, movable, automobile
Examples
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A table and a chair are the simplest pieces of furniture.
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We bought new furniture for the house.
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The room is big, but it has only two pieces of furniture.
English says furniture as an uncountable mass; Esperanto counts. One is one item, is the furniture in a room, and o is the whole suite taken as a set. To furnish a flat is mebli, and a furniture shop is a o.
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