booth

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Etymology

From Middle English bothe, from either Old English bōþ or Old Norse bóð (compare Swedish bod) and/or the variant búð (> Scots buth), from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /buːθ/, (dated) /buːð/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /buːθ/

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• Rhymes: -uːθ, -uːð

Noun

booth (plural booths)

1. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
2. (dated) A temporary shelter, often in the form of a tent, shed, or canopied structure.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 41:

     When Gro came to the Witches’ booths he found them guarded even as the Red Foliot had said, and the booths of them of Demonland in like manner. So went he into the royal booth where the King lay in state on a bier of spear-shafts, robed in his kingly robes over his armour that was painted black and inlaid with gold, and the crown of Witchland on his head.

3. A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
4. An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
5. An enclosure for keeping animals.
6. (hip-hop, slang, with “the”) A recording studio.

Derived terms

• booth babe
• boother
• boothette
• boothless
• boothlike
• boothman
• boothmate
• bothy
• buddy booth
• confession booth
• control booth
• forebooth
• kissing booth
• phone booth
• photo booth
• polling booth
• recording booth
• sound booth
• suicide booth
• telebooth
• telephone booth
• ticket booth
• ticketbooth
• toll booth
• voting booth

Descendants

• → Bengali: বুথ (buth)
• → Japanese: ブース (būsu)
• → Korean: 부스 (buseu)
• ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: bùth
• → Welsh: bwth

Translations

a small stall for the display and sale of goods

Arabic: كُشْك (kušk) Armenian: տաղավար (hy) (taġavar), կրպակ (hy) (krpak) Bulgarian: щанд (bg) m (štand), серги́я (bg) f (sergíja) Chinese: Mandarin: 攤子 / 摊子 (zh) (tānzi), 貨攤 / 货摊 (zh) (huòtān) Czech: stánek (cs) m (prodejní (cs), výstavní (cs)) Danish: bod Dutch: stand (nl) Esperanto: budo Finnish: koju (fi), myyntikoju (fi) French: stand (fr) m, échoppe (fr) f Galician: estaribel m, telderexo m, chiolo m German: Stand (de) m, Messestand m, Bude (de) f Hungarian: stand (hu) Indonesian: gerai (id), stan (id) Irish: both m Italian: bancarella (it), stand (it), bugigattolo (it) m Japanese: 露店 (ja) (ろてん, roten), 売店 (ja) (ばいてん, baiten), スタンド (ja) (sutando) Korean: 부스 (busseu), 점포(店鋪) (ko) (jeompo) Latin: pergula f Macedonian: бутка f (butka) Malay: gerai (ms), reruai (ms), ررواي (ms) (reruai) Norwegian: bu (no) Persian: غرفه (fa) (ġorfe) Polish: budka (pl) f Portuguese: banca (pt) f Romanian: tarabă (ro) f Russian: стенд (ru) m (stɛnd) Scottish Gaelic: pùball m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: buda f Spanish: puesto (es) m, stand (es) m, friquitín m (Caribbean), caseta (es) f Turkish: stant (tr) (trade)

an enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person

Arabic: حُجَيْرَة (ḥujayra), كَابِينَة f (kābīna) Armenian: խցիկ (hy) (xcʻik) Belarusian: бу́дка f (búdka), кабі́на f (kabína), кабі́нка f (kabínka) Bulgarian: бу́дка (bg) f (búdka) Chinese: Mandarin: 小室 (zh) (xiǎoshì), 亭 (zh) (tíng), 棚 (zh) (péng) Czech: budka (cs) f Dutch: cabinet (nl) Esperanto: budo Finnish: koppi (fi) French: cabine (fr) f, guérite (fr) f Galician: gorita f, garita f, caritel m German: Bude (de) f, Zelle (de) f Hungarian: fülke (hu) Indonesian: bilik (id) Irish: both m, bothán m Italian: cabina (it) f Japanese: ブース (ja) (būsu) Korean: 박스 (ko) (bakseu), 부스 (buseu) Malay: pondok (ms), petak (ms) Maori: wharau, tāwharu Ottoman Turkish: قولبه (kulübe), عریش (ʼariş) Persian: باجه (fa) (bâje) Portuguese: cabine (pt) f Romanian: cabină (ro) f Russian: бу́дка (ru) f (búdka), каби́на (ru) f (kabína), каби́нка (ru) f (kabínka) Slovak: búdka f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: buda f Spanish: cabina (es) f, garita (es) f, caseta (es) f Turkish: kulübe (tr), kabin (tr) Ukrainian: бу́дка (uk) f (búdka), кабі́на (uk) f (kabína), кабі́нка (uk) f (kabínka) Vietnamese: bốt (vi), buồng (vi)

an enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café

Chinese: Cantonese: 卡位 (kaa1 wai6-2) Czech: box (cs) m, kóje f Finnish: loosi (fi) French: box (fr) m German: Nische (de) f, Sitznische f, Ecke (de) f, Sitzecke (de) f Macedonian: сепаре n (separe) Romanian: separeu (ro) n Spanish: cabina (es) f, cubículo m, mesa entrecerrada f, mesa entreabierta f mesa de poyo corrido f, mesa con poyete f, mesa de pretil f

See also

• kiosk
• stall
• stand