bookmark

See also: Bookmark

English

Etymology

From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book +‎ mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊk.mɑː(ɹ)k/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

bookmark (plural bookmarks)

1. A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
2. (computing) A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.

   Synonym: favourites

3. (databases) A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap

Translations

strip used to mark a place in a book

• Armenian: էջանիշ (hy) (ēǰaniš)
• Azerbaijani: əlfəcin
• Belarusian: закла́дка (zakládka)
• Catalan: punt de llibre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 書籤／书签 (zh) (shūqiān)

• Czech: záložka (cs) f
• Danish: bogmærke n
• Dutch: bladwijzer (nl) m
• Esperanto: legosigno
• Estonian: järjehoidja
• Finnish: kirjanmerkki (fi)
• French: marque-page (fr) m, signet (fr) m
• German: Lesezeichen (de) n
• Greek: σελιδοδείκτης (el) m (selidodeíktis)
• Hebrew: סִימָנִיָּה f (simaniyá)
• Hungarian: könyvjelző (hu)
• Icelandic: bókamerki (is) n
• Irish: leabharmharc m
• Italian: segnalibro (it) m
• Japanese: 栞 (ja) (しおり, shiori)
• Korean: 책갈피 (chaekgalpi), 서표 (seopyo), 북마크 (bungmakeu)
• Lithuanian: skirtukas m
• Luxembourgish: Lieszeechen n
• Macedonian: обеле́жувач m (obeléžuvač)
• Malay: penanda buku
• Maltese: markapaġna f
• Maori: tāhei
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bokmerke n

  Nynorsk: bokmerke n

• Polish: zakładka (pl) f
• Portuguese: marcador (pt) m, marca-livro (pt) m, marcador de páginas, marca-página m
• Romanian: semn de carte (ro) n
• Russian: закла́дка (ru) f (zakládka), ляссе́ (ru) n (ljassɛ́)
• Spanish: separador m, punto de libro m, marcapáginas (es) m, señalador m
• Swedish: bokmärke (sv) n
• Thai: ที่คั่นหนังสือ (tîi-kân-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ)
• Turkish: kitap ayracı
• Ukrainian: закла́дка f (zakládka)
• Vietnamese: thẻ đánh dấu
• Welsh: llyfrnod m
• Yiddish: טײַטל n (taytl)

record of the address of a file or page

• Catalan: adreça d'interès f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 書籤／书签 (zh) (shūqiān)

• Czech: záložka (cs) f
• Danish: bogmærke n
• Dutch: bladwijzer (nl) m
• Esperanto: legosigno
• Estonian: järjehoidja
• Finnish: kirjanmerkki (fi)
• French: favori (fr) m, marque-page (fr) m, signet (fr) m
• Georgian: სანიშნე (sanišne)
• German: Lesezeichen (de) n, bookmark m or f or n
• Greek: σελιδοδείκτης (el) m (selidodeíktis)
• Hungarian: könyvjelző (hu)
• Japanese: お気に入り (おきにいり, okiniiri)
• Korean: 북마크 (bungmakeu), 즐겨찾기 (jeulgyeochatgi)
• Luxembourgish: Lieszeechen n
• Macedonian: обеле́жувач m (obeléžuvač)
• Maori: tohuwāhi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bokmerke n

  Nynorsk: bokmerke n

• Polish: zakładka (pl) f
• Portuguese: favorito (pt) m, marcador (pt) m
• Russian: закла́дка (ru) f (zakládka), и́збранное (ru) n (ízbrannoje), бу́кмарк m (búkmark), букма́рк m (bukmárk)
• Spanish: marcador (es) m, favorito (es) m

Verb

bookmark (third-person singular simple present bookmarks, present participle bookmarking, simple past and past participle bookmarked)

1. (computing, transitive) To create a bookmark.

Derived terms

• unbookmarked