notebook

See also: Notebook and note book

English

A Moleskine notebook

Alternative forms

• note book

Etymology

Etymology tree

English note

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?

Proto-Germanic *bōks

Proto-West Germanic *bōk

Old English bōc

Middle English bok

English book

English notebook

From note + book.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnəʊtˌbʊk/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

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

Noun

notebook (plural notebooks)

1. A book (physical or digital) in which notes or memoranda are written.

   Synonym: by-book

   Hypernyms: book, record

   Coordinate terms: scorebook, record book

   Near-synonyms: notepad, rough book, writing pad, logbook, journal

   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 125, column 1:

     For Caſſius is a-weary of the World: / Hated by one he loues, brau'd by his Brother, / Check'd like a bondman, all his faults obſeru'd, / Set in a Note-booke, learn'd, and con'd by roate / To caſt into my Teeth.

   • 1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 69:

     With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.

2. (computing, sometimes attributive) A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.
   • 2016, David Ming, David Glasser, Diane Hildebrandt, Attainable Region Theory, page 317:

     We have found the use of Jupyter notebooks to be a convenient way of sharing work and code in a compact and reproducible manner. Jupyter notebooks are easy to update and adapt over time compared to a static CD-ROM.

3. (computing) Ellipsis of notebook computer (“laptop computer”).
   • 2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8:

     Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.

Derived terms

• composition notebook
• desknote
• MacBook
• notebinder
• notebooker
• notebookful
• notebookish
• notebookless
• notebooklike
• subnotebook

Related terms

• bad books
• good books
• in one's book

Descendants

notebook computer

• → Armenian: նոթբուք (notʻbukʻ), նոութբուք (noutʻbukʻ)
• → Azerbaijani: noutbuk
• → Belarusian: но́ўтбук (nówtbuk)
• → Bulgarian: но́утбук (nóutbuk)
• → Chinese: notebook — Hong Kong Cantonese
• → Czech: notebook
• → French: notebook
• → Georgian: ნოუთბუქი (noutbuki)
• → Hindi: नोटबुक (noṭbuk)
• → German: Notebook
• → Italian: notebook
• → Japanese: ノートブック (nōtobukku)
• → Kazakh: ноутбук (nowtbuwk)
• → Korean: 노트북 (noteubuk)
• → Marathi: नोटबुक (noṭbuk)
• → Polish: notebook
• → Portuguese: notebook
• → Russian: ноутбук (noutbuk)
• → Slovak: notbuk
• → Tajik: ноутбук (noutbuk)
• → Tatar: ноутбук (nowtbuq)
• → Thai: โน้ตบุ๊ก (nóot-búk)
• → Spanish: notebook
• → Swedish: notebook
• → Tajik: ноутбук (noutbuk)
• → Turkish: notebook
• → Ukrainian: ноутбук (noutbuk)
• → Urdu: نوٹ بُک (noṭ buk)
• → Uzbek: noutbuk

Translations

empty book able to be used for notes

• Abkhaz: атетрад (atʼetʼrad), аблокнот (ablokʼnotʼ)
• Acehnese: buku catatan, buku tuleh
• Acholi: buk me coc, buk me coyo piny
• Afar: kassit buuk, kassiisenti buuk
• Afrikaans: oefeningboek, notaboek, aantekeningboek
• Albanian: fletore (sq) m, fletore (sq) f, bllok shënimesh m, fletore shënimesh f, kompjuter i vogël m, nout-buk m
• Amharic: ደብተር (däbtär)
• Arabic: دَفْتَر m (daftar), مُذَكِّرَة f (muḏakkira), مُفَكِّرَة f (mufakkira)

  Egyptian Arabic: دفتر m (daftar), كشكول m (kaškūl), كراسة f (kurrāsa), نوتبوك f (nūtbuk), نوتة f (nūta)

  Gulf Arabic: دفتر (daftar)

  Hijazi Arabic: دفتر m (daftar), كشكول n (kaškūl), نوتة f (nōta)

  South Levantine Arabic: دفتر m (dáftar)

• Armenian: տետր (hy) (tetr), նոթատետր (notʻatetr), բլոկնոտ (hy) (bloknot), ծոցատետր (hy) (cocʻatetr)
• Assamese: বহী (bohi)
• Atayal: biru bruwan
• Azerbaijani: dəftər (az)
• Bashkir: дәфтәр (däftär)
• Basque: koaderno (eu)
• Belarusian: ната́тнік m (natátnik), блакно́т m (blaknót), запісна́я кні́жка f (zapisnája knížka), сшы́так m (sšýtak)
• Bengali: খাতা (bn) (khata)
• Bulgarian: тетра́дка (bg) f (tetrádka), беле́жник (bg) m (beléžnik), тефте́р (bg) m (teftér)
• Burmese: မှတ်စုစာအုပ် (hmatcu.caup)
• Catalan: llibreta (ca) f, quadern (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 筆記本 / 笔记本 (zh) (bǐjìběn), 本子 (zh) (běnzi), 簿子 (zh) (bùzi)

• Crimean Tatar: bloknot, defter
• Czech: zápisník (cs) m, blok (cs) m, notes (cs) m, sešit (cs) m
• Danish: skrivehæfte n, notebog n, notesbog n
• Dutch: schrift (nl) n, cahier (nl) n, notitieboek (nl) n, aantekenboek (nl) n
• Esperanto: kajero (eo), notlibreto
• Estonian: vihik, kaustik (thick notebook)
• Fala: libreta f
• Faroese: uppskriftabók f, uppritsbók f
• Finnish: vihko (fi), muistikirja (fi), taskumuistio
• French: cahier (fr) m, calepin (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: jeft c

• Galician: caderno (gl)
• Georgian: ბლოკნოტი (bloḳnoṭi), რვეული (ka) (rveuli)
• German: Notizbuch (de) n, Notizheft (de) n, Notizblock (de) m, Merkheft n, Schmierheft n
• Greek: σημειωματάριο (el) n (simeiomatário), τετράδιο (el) n (tetrádio)
• Greenlandic: blokki
• Gujarati: નોટબુક n (noṭbuk)
• Haitian Creole: kaye
• Hebrew: מַחְבֶּרֶת (he) f (makhbéret), דִּפְתָּר (he) (diftar), פִּנְקָס (he) m (pinkás)
• Hindi: नोटबुक (hi) f (noṭbuk), कापी (hi) f (kāpī)
• Hungarian: jegyzetfüzet (hu), notesz (hu), naptár (hu), füzet (hu)
• Icelandic: stílabók f, skrifbók f
• Ido: kayero (io)
• Indonesian: notes (id), buku catatan, bloknot (id)
• Irish: leabhar nótaí m
• Italian: blocco (it) m, taccuino (it), quaderno (it) m
• Japanese: 帳面 (ja) (ちょうめん, chōmen), ノート (ja) (nōto), 手帳 (ja) (てちょう, techō), 手帖 (ja) (てちょう, techō)
• Kazakh: дәптер (kk) (däpter), блокнот (bloknot)
• Khmer: សៀវភៅ (km) (siəw phɨw)
• Korean: 공책(空冊) (ko) (gongchaek), 노트 (ko) (noteu), 수첩(手帖) (ko) (sucheop)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەفتەر (ckb) (defter)

  Northern Kurdish: lênûsk (ku), defter (ku)

• Kyrgyz: дептер (ky) (depter), блокнот (ky) (bloknot)
• Lao: ພັບຂຽນ (phap khīan), ສະມຸດ (sa mut)
• Latin: commentārius (la) m, pugillārēs m pl
• Latvian: burtnīca f, klade (lv) f
• Lithuanian: užrašų knygutė f
• Luxembourgish: Calepin m, Bichelchen n
• Macedonian: тетратка (mk) f (tetratka), бележник m (beležnik), нотес m (notes), тефтер m (tefter), свеска f (sveska)
• Malay: buku catatan (ms), buku nota (ms)
• Māori: pukapuka tuhi, pukatuhi
• Marathi: वही (mr) f (vahī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дэвтэр (mn) (devter)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: notatbok m or f, notisbok m or f, skrivebok m or f

  Nynorsk: notatbok f, notisbok f, skrivebok f

• Pashto: کتابچه (ps) f (ketābča), دفتر (ps) m (daftar)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: دَفْتَرْچِه (daftarče), دَفْتَر (daftar)

• Plautdietsch: Heft n, Skribla m, Schriewbuak n
• Polish: notes (pl) m, zeszyt (pl) m, kajet (pl) m
• Portuguese: caderno (pt) m
• Romanian: caiet (ro) n
• Russian: блокно́т (ru) m (bloknót), записна́я кни́жка (ru) f (zapisnája knížka), тетра́дь (ru) f (tetrádʹ), тетра́дка (ru) (tetrádka)
• Sanskrit: टिप्पणीपुस्तक (ṭippaṇīpustaka)
• Scottish Gaelic: leabhar-pòcaid m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свеска f, пи́са̄нка f, те́ка f бѐлежница f, бѝљежница f, те̏фтер m

  Latin: sveska (sh) f, písānka (sh) f, téka (sh) f, bèležnica (sh) f, bìlježnica (sh) f, tȅfter (sh) m

• Slovak: zápisník m, notes m, zošit m
• Slovene: zvezek (sl) m
• Spanish: cuaderno (es) m, libreta (es) f
• Swahili: daftari (sw)
• Swedish: anteckningsbok (sv) c, anteckningsblock (sv) n, skrivbok (sv) c
• Tagalog: kuwaderno
• Tajik: дафтар (tg) (daftar)
• Tatar: дәфтәр (tt) (däftär)
• Thai: สมุด (th) (sà-mùt)
• Turkish: not defteri (tr), defter (tr), betlek (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: سفینه (sefine), دفتر (defter)

• Turkmen: depder
• Ukrainian: блокно́т (uk) m (bloknót), зо́шит (uk) m (zóšyt), записна́ кни́жка f (zapysná knýžka), нота́тник m (notátnyk)
• Urdu: نوٹ بُک f (noṭ buk), کاپی f (kāpī), دَفْتَر m (daftar)
• Uyghur: دەپتەر (depter)
• Uzbek: notepad (uz), yon daftar (uz), bloknot (uz)
• Vietnamese: tập (vi), vở (vi), sổ tay (vi)
• Welsh: nodiadur m
• Yakut: тэтэрээт (tetereet)
• Yiddish: העפֿט f or n (heft)

notebook computer

• Arabic: كَمْبْيُوتَر مَحْمُول (kambyūtar maḥmūl), حَاسُوب مَحْمُول (ḥāsūb maḥmūl)

  Egyptian Arabic: لاب توب m (lab tub)

• Armenian: նոթբուք (notʻbukʻ), նոութբուք (hy) (noutʻbukʻ)
• Azerbaijani: noutbuk
• Belarusian: но́ўтбук m (nówtbuk), лэпто́п m (leptóp)
• Bulgarian: но́утбук m (nóutbuk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 筆記本 / 笔记本 (zh) (bǐjìběn), 手提計算機 / 手提计算机 (shǒutí jìsuànjī), 筆記本電腦 / 笔记本电脑 (zh) (bǐjìběn diànnǎo)

• Czech: notebook (cs) m
• Esperanto: notlibra komputilo, tekokomputilo
• Estonian: sülearvuti (et)
• Faroese: fartelda f
• Finnish: kannettava (fi)
• French: notebook (fr) m, laptop (fr) m, ordinateur portatif m
• Georgian: ნოუთბუქი (noutbuki) (colloquial), ლეპტოპი (leṗṭoṗi)
• German: Notebook (de) n, Laptop (de) n or m
• Greek: φορητός (el) m (foritós), φορητός υπολογιστής (el) m (foritós ypologistís)
• Hebrew: מחשב נייד / מַחְשֵׁב נַיָּד (he) m (makhshév nayád)
• Hindi: नोटबुक (hi) f (noṭbuk)
• Hungarian: notebook (hu)
• Irish: ríomhaire glúine m
• Italian: notebook (it) m, laptop (it) m, computer portatile m, calcolatore portatile m, elaboratore portatile m, ordinatore portatile m, computatore portatile m, computiere portatile m
• Japanese: ノートパソコン (ja) (nōto pasokon)
• Kazakh: ноутбук (nowtbuwk)
• Khmer: កុំព្យូទ័រយួរដៃ (kompyuutɔə yuə day)
• Korean: 노트북 (ko) (noteubuk)
• Kyrgyz: ноутбук (ky) (noutbuk)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: klēpjdators m, piezīmjdators m
• Lithuanian: nešiojamas kompiuteris m, nešiojamasis kompiuteris m
• Macedonian: пре́нослив компју́тер m (prénosliv kompjúter), ла́птоп m (láptop)
• Marathi: नोटबुक f (noṭbuk)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: رایانِهٔ کیفی (râyâne-ye kifi), لَپ‌تاپ (lap-tâp)

• Polish: notebook (pl) m
• Portuguese: notebook (pt) m, laptop (pt) m
• Russian: но́утбук (ru) m (nóutbuk), ноутбу́к (ru) m (noutbúk), лэпто́п (ru) m (lɛptóp)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре́носнӣк m, прије́носнӣк m

  Latin: prénosnīk m, prijénosnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: notbuk m, laptop m
• Slovene: prenosnik m
• Spanish: computador portátil (es) m, computadora portátil (es) f, ordenador portátil (es) m, portátil (es) m, notebook m
• Swedish: bärbar dator (sv) c, notebook (sv) c
• Tajik: ноутбук (noutbuk), роёнаи кифӣ (royona-yi kifī)
• Tatar: ноутбук (nowtbuq)
• Thai: โน้ตบุ๊ก (nóot-búk), คอมพิวเตอร์โน้ตบุ๊ก (kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə-nóot-búk)
• Turkish: notebook (tr)
• Ukrainian: ноутбу́к (uk) m (noutbúk), лепто́п m (leptóp)
• Urdu: نوٹ بُک f (noṭ buk)
• Uzbek: noutbuk (uz)
• Vietnamese: máy tính xách tay (vi)

Further reading

• notebook on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• notebook interface on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• notebook computer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 碌卜

Etymology

Borrowed from English notebook.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nuk¹ buk¹ / luk¹ buk¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: nuk¹ buk¹ / luk¹ buk¹
    • Yale: nūk būk / lūk būk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nuk⁷ buk⁷ / luk⁷ buk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: nug¹ bug¹ / lug¹ bug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nʊk̚⁵ pʊk̚⁵/, /lʊk̚⁵ pʊk̚⁵/

Noun

notebook (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. laptop; notebook computer (Classifier: 部 c)
2. notebook (Classifier: 本 c)

Synonyms

• (laptop):

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• 便攜式電腦 / 便携式电脑 (biànxiéshì diànnǎo)
• 手提計算機 / 手提计算机 (shǒutí jìsuànjī)
• 手提電腦 / 手提电脑 (shǒutí diànnǎo)
• 掌上電腦 / 掌上电脑 (zhǎng shàng diànnǎo)
• 本本 (⁵pen-pen) (Wu)
• 筆本 / 笔本 (bǐběn) (short form)
• 筆記型電腦 / 笔记型电脑 (bǐjìxíng diànnǎo)
• 筆記本 / 笔记本 (bǐjìběn) (short form)
• 筆記本式計算機 / 笔记本式计算机 (bǐjìběnshì jìsuànjī)
• 筆記本電腦 / 笔记本电脑 (bǐjìběn diànnǎo)
• 筆電 / 笔电 (bǐdiàn) (short form)
• 膝上型電腦 / 膝上型电脑 (xīshàngxíng diànnǎo)

Dialectal synonyms of 手提電腦 (“laptop computer; notebook”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	筆記型電腦, 筆電, 手提電腦
Cantonese	Hong Kong	手提電腦, notebook, laptop
Southern Min	Kinmen	筆電
Wu	Shanghai	筆記本, 本本

• (notebook): 筆記本／笔记本 (bǐjìběn)

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

English note

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?

Proto-Germanic *bōks

Proto-West Germanic *bōk

Old English bōc

Middle English bok

English book

English notebookbor.

Czech notebook

Borrowed from English notebook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnou̯dbuk]

Noun

notebook m inan

1. laptop, notebook (laptop computer)

Declension

Declension of notebook (velar masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	notebook	notebooky
genitive	notebooku	notebooků
dative	notebooku	notebookům
accusative	notebook	notebooky
vocative	notebooku	notebooky
locative	notebooku	noteboocích
instrumental	notebookem	notebooky

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no.te.buk/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

Noun

notebook m (plural notebooks)

1. notebook computer (small, portable computer)

   Synonyms: laptop, ordinateur portatif

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnot.buk/
• Rhymes: -otbuk

Noun

notebook m

1. notebook computer (small, portable computer)

   Synonym: laptop

Polish

notebook

Etymology

Etymology tree

English note

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?

Proto-Germanic *bōks

Proto-West Germanic *bōk

Old English bōc

Middle English bok

English book

English notebookubor.

Polish notebook

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔd.buk/, /ˈnɔw.dbuk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔdbuk, -ɔwdbuk
• Syllabification: note‧book

Noun

notebook m inan or m animal (related adjective notebookowy)

1. (computing) notebook, notebook computer (class of laptop computer that is around the size of a spiral-bound notebook with A4 or letter-sized pages)

   Hypernym: laptop

   Coordinate term: netbook

Declension

Declension of notebook

	singular	plural
nominative	notebook	notebooki
genitive	notebooka	notebooków
dative	notebookowi	notebookom
accusative	notebook/notebooka	notebooki
instrumental	notebookiem	notebookami
locative	notebooku	notebookach
vocative	notebooku	notebooki

Further reading

• “notebook”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “notebook”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• notebook in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

English note

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?

Proto-Germanic *bōks

Proto-West Germanic *bōk

Old English bōc

Middle English bok

English book

English notebookubor.

Portuguese notebook

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌnow.t͡ʃiˈbu.ki/ [ˌnoʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈbu.ki], /ˌnowt͡ʃˈbu.ki/ [ˌnoʊ̯t͡ʃˈbu.ki], /ˌnɔ.t͡ʃiˈbu.ki/, /ˌnɔt͡ʃˈbu.ki/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌnow.tɨˈbu.kɨ/ [ˌnow.tɨˈβu.kɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌnow.tɨˈbu.kɨ/ [ˌnow.tɨˈβu.kɨ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌnow.tɨˈbu.kɨ/

• Hyphenation: note‧book

Noun

notebook m (plural notebooks)

1. notebook computer (small, portable computer)

   Synonym: laptop

   Hypernyms: computador, PC

   Hyponym: netbook

   • 2003, Info exame, volume 18, Editora Abril, page 29:

     À primeira vista, o computador da Toshiba parece um notebook comum, com teclado, tela de 12 polegadas e touch pad.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2010, Luiz Artur Ferrareto, Luciano Klöckner, E o rádio? : novos horizontes midiáticos, EDIPUCRS, →ISBN, page 130:

     Os equipamentos utilizados (notebook, mesa de som, aparelho mini system - caixa de retorno, microfones e gravadores) eram escassos e insuficientes pois muito material licitado pela Instituição ainda não havia chegado. Somente no segundo semestre de 2008 pode se contar com um computador exclusivo para as aulas de rádio, no qual foram instalados software de programas de captação e edição de áudio.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2012, Vanessa de Oliveira, Psicopatas do coração, Matrix Editora, →ISBN, page 110:

     Liguei meu notebook para ver as mensagens do dia. Aos poucos eu estava voltando a responder os e-mails de meus leitores.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “notebook”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “notebook”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

English note

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?

Proto-Germanic *bōks

Proto-West Germanic *bōk

Old English bōc

Middle English bok

English book

English notebookubor.

Spanish notebook

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nodˈbuk/ [noð̞ˈβ̞uk]
• IPA^(key): /noudˈbuk/ [nou̯ð̞ˈβ̞uk]
• Rhymes: -uk

Noun

notebook m (plural notebooks)

1. notebook computer (small, portable computer)

   Synonyms: computador portátil, computadora portátil, ordenador portátil, portátil

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

Noun

notebook c

1. notebook computer (small, portable computer)

   Synonym: bärba dator

Turkish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

Noun

notebook (definite accusative notebooku, plural notebooklar)

1. notebook computer (small, portable computer)

Declension

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