A contemporary
nightstand.
night (“the conventional time for a person to be in bed”) + stand (“an object which supports things”).[1]
nightstand (plural nightstands)
- (US) A small table or cabinet, usually with two drawers one above the other or one drawer and a lower shelf, placed beside the head of a bed.
He always kept a full glass of water on the nightstand.
small table placed beside the head of a bed
- Arabic: مِنْضَدة اَلسَّرِير (minḍada(t) as-sarīr)
- Hijazi Arabic: كُمَدينة m (kumadīna)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: нощно шкафче n (noštno škafče)
- Catalan: tauleta de nit f, comodí (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 床頭櫃/床头柜 (zh) (chuángtóuguì)
- Czech: noční stolek m
- Danish: natbord (da) n
- Dutch: nachtkastje (nl) n
- Esperanto: noktotablo
- Finnish: yöpöytä (fi)
- French: table de nuit (fr) f, table de chevet (fr) f, liseuse (fr) f
- German: Nachttisch (de) m
- Greek: κομοδίνο (el) n (komodíno)
- Hungarian: éjjeliszekrény (hu)
- Icelandic: náttborð
- Ido: litotableto (io)
- Irish: bord cois leapa m, bord éadain m
- Italian: comodino (it) m
- Japanese: ナイトテーブル (naito tēburu), ナイトスタンド (naitosutando)
- Kazakh: тумбочка (tumboçka)
- Korean: 나이트스탠드 (naiteuseutaendeu), 침실용 탁자 (chimsiryong takja)
- Macedonian: на́ткасна f (nátkasna)
- Norwegian: nattbord n
- Occitan: taula de nuech f
- Polish: nakastlik (pl) m, szafka nocna (pl) f
- Portuguese: criado-mudo (pt) m (Brazil), mesinha-de-cabeceira (pt) f, mesa-de-cabeceira (pt) f
- Romanian: măsuță de noapte (ro) f
- Russian: ту́мбочка (ru) f (túmbočka)
- Slovak: nočný stolík m
- Spanish: mesa de noche f, mesita de noche f, buró m (Mexico), mesilla de noche f (Spain), mesita de luz f (Argentina), velador (es) m (Chile), nochero (es) (Colombia), mesa nocturna f, mesilla f, mesa de luz f (Argentina, Uruguay), mesa lumínica f
- Swedish: nattduksbord (sv), sängbord (sv)
- Turkish: komodin (tr)
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: bwrdd erchwyn m (North), byrddau erchwyn m pl, bord erchwyn f (South), bordydd ercwhyn f pl
- Yiddish: בעטטישל (bettishl)
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- ^ “nightstand, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft revision; Sept. 2003]