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Spanish
Etymology
From Andalusian Arabic مَنَاقِل (manáqil), from Arabic مِنْقَلَة (minqala, “bench”). Doublet of mancala.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /anaˈkel/
- Rhymes: -el
- Syllabification: a‧na‧quel
Noun
anaquel m (plural anaqueles)
- shelf
- Synonyms: balda, estante, repisa, tabla
1956 [1944], Jorge Luis Borges, “La biblioteca de Babel”, in Ficciones, Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, page 86:A cada uno de los muros de cada hexágono corresponden cinco anaqueles: cada anaquel encierra treinta y dos libros de formato uniforme; cada libro es de cuatrocientas diez páginas; cada página, de cuarenta renglones; cada renglón, de unas ochenta letras de color negro.- On each of the walls of each hexagon there are five shelves: each shelf holds thirty-two books of the same style; each book is four hundred ten pages long; each page, forty lines; each line, some eighty letters printed in black.
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