stationery

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪʃ(ə)n(ə)ɹi/

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• (US) enPR: stāʹshə-nĕr-ĭ, IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪʃənɛɹi/
• Homophone: stationary

Etymology 1

From stationer +‎ -y.

Noun

stationery (usually uncountable, plural stationeries)

1. Writing materials, envelopes, office materials.

   When the school year finished, he put all of his stationery away in the loft, as he would have no need for pencils and exercise books during the holidays.

   We can pick up more paper and pens at the stationery store.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:stationery

Translations

writing materials

• Arabic: قِرْطَاسِيَّة f (qirṭāsiyya)
• Armenian: գրենական պիտույքներ (grenakan pituykʻner)
• Bulgarian: канцеларски материали (kancelarski materiali)
• Catalan: papereria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文具 (zh) (wénjù)

• Czech: papírnictví (cs) n
• Danish: brevpapir n (writing paper with a letterhead), skrivepapir n (writing paper), kontorartkler c pl, skrivesager c pl, papirvarer c pl
• Dutch: schrijfbenodigdheden (nl) pl, schrijfgerei (nl) n
• Finnish: kirjoitusvälineet (fi) pl, kirjoitustarvikkeet
• French: papeterie (fr) f
• German: Büromaterial (de) n, Schreibwaren f pl
• Greek: γραφική ύλη f (grafikí ýli)
• Hindi: लेखन-सामग्री (lekhan-sāmagrī)
• Hungarian: papír-írószer, írószer (hu), papíráru (hu), irodaszerek pl, nyomtatványok pl
• Irish: páipéarachas m
• Italian: cancelleria f
• Japanese: 文房具 (ja) (ぶんぼうぐ, bunbōgu), 文具 (ja) (ぶんぐ, bungu)
• Kazakh: кеңсе тауары (keñse tauary)
• Korean: 문방구(文房具) (ko) (munbanggu), 문구 (ko) (mun'gu)
• Latvian: rakstāmlietas f, rakstāmpiederumi m
• Malay: alat tulis (ms)
• Maori: rawatuhi, taonga tuhituhi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бичгийн хэрэгсэл (bičgiin xeregsel)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ ᠦᠨ
  ᠬᠡᠷᠡᠭᠰᠡᠯ (bičig-ün kereɣsel)

• Norman: papet'tie f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: papirvarer, rekvisita
• Persian: نوشت افزار (fa) (nevešt-afzâr)
• Polish: artykuły papiernicze pl
• Portuguese: papelaria (pt) f
• Romanian: rechizite (ro) f pl
• Russian: канцеля́рские това́ры m pl (kanceljárskije továry), канцтова́ры (ru) m pl (kanctováry), канцеля́рские принадле́жности f pl (kanceljárskije prinadléžnosti)
• Spanish: papelería (es) f
• Swedish: kontorsmaterial (sv) n
• Turkish: kırtasiye (tr)
• Ukrainian: канцтова́ри m pl (kanctováry), канцеля́рські това́ри m pl (kanceljársʹki továry), канцеля́рське прила́ддя n (kanceljársʹke pryláddja)
• Vietnamese: văn phòng phẩm (vi)
• Volapük: papüracans

Etymology 2

Adjective

stationery

1. Misspelling of stationary.

Anagrams

• tyrosinate