plywood

Englisch

Etymology

ply (“sheet”) +‎ wood

Pronunciation

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Nomen

plywood (usually uncountable, plural plywoods)

1. (uncountable) Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.

   After the hurricane there was a severe regional shortage of plywood, especially exterior plywood.

2. (countable) A specific grade or type of this construction material.

   We stock exterior plywoods, interior plywoods, and furniture plywoods.

Descendants

• → Swedish: plywood

Translations

construction material

• Albanian: kompensatë (sq) f
• Arabic: خَشَب رَقَائِقِيّ m (ḵašab raqāʔiqiyy), خَشَب مُعَاكِس m (ḵašab muʕākis), أبلكاش m
• Armenian: ֆաներ (hy) (faner), ֆաներա (hy) (fanera), նրբատախտակ (hy) (nrbataxtak)
• Azerbaijani: kontrplak, fanera
• Belarusian: фане́ра f (fanjéra), фанэ́ра f (fanéra)
• Bengali: প্লাইউড (bn) (plaiuḍ)
• Bulgarian: шпе́рплат m (špérplat)
• Burmese: သုံးထပ်သား (my) (sum:htapsa:), အထပ်သား (my) (a.htapsa:)
• Catalan: contraplacat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合板 (zh) (hébǎn), 膠合板／胶合板 (zh) (jiāohébǎn), 夾板／夹板 (zh) (jiābǎn)

• Czech: překližka (cs) f
• Danish: krydsfiner (da) m
• Dutch: multiplex (nl) n
• Estonian: vineer (et)
• Finnish: vaneri (fi)
• French: contreplaqué (fr) m
• Georgian: ფანერი (paneri), ფირფიცარი (pirpicari)
• German: Sperrholz (de) n
• Greek: κοντραπλακέ (el) n (kontraplaké)
• Hebrew: עץ סנדוויץ׳ m
• Hindi: परतदार लकड़ी f (paratdār lakṛī), प्लाईवुड (hi) (plāīvuḍ)
• Hungarian: rétegelt (fa)lemez, furnérlemez (hu)
• Icelandic: krossviður (is) m
• Indonesian: kayu lapis (id)
• Irish: sraithadhmad m
• Italian: compensato (it) m
• Japanese: 合板 (ja) (ごうはん, gōhan, ごうばん, gōban), ベニヤ板 (ベニヤいた, beniya ita), プライウッド (puraiuddo)
• Kazakh: фанера (fanera)
• Khmer: ក្តារបន្ទះ (kdaa bɑntĕəh)
• Korean: 합판(合板) (ko) (hap'pan)
• Kyrgyz: фанера (ky) (fanera)
• Lao: ໄມ້ອັດ (mai ʼat)
• Latvian: saplāksnis m
• Lithuanian: fanera f
• Macedonian: шперплоча f (šperploča)
• Malay: papan lapis
• Maori: papa tāpatupatu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kryssfiner m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تَخْتِهٔ لایِه (taxte-ye lâye), تَخْتِهٔ سِه‌لایی (taxte-ye se-lâyi)

• Polish: sklejka f, dykta (pl) f
• Portuguese: compensado (pt) m
• Romanian: placaj (ro) n
• Russian: фане́ра (ru) f (fanéra)
• Scottish Gaelic: fiodh-fillte m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шпѐрплоча f

  Roman: špèrploča (sh) f

• Silesian: szperplata f
• Slovak: preglejka f
• Slovene: vezana plošča f
• Spanish: contrachapado m, madera contrachapada f, triplay m (Mexico),
• Swedish: plywood (sv) c, kryssfaner (sv) n
• Tagalog: tablasuson
• Tajik: фанер (faner)
• Thai: ไม้อัด (th) (máai-àt)
• Turkish: kontrplak (tr)
• Turkmen: faner
• Ukrainian: фане́ра f (fanéra)
• Urdu: پِلائی وُڈ (pilāī vuḍ)
• Uzbek: faner (uz)
• Vietnamese: ván ép
• Welsh: pren haenog m

specific type or grade of this material

• Finnish: vaneri (fi)
• French: contreplaqué (fr) m
• Scottish Gaelic: fiodh-fillte m

Verb

plywood (third-person singular simple present plywoods, present participle plywooding, simple past and past participle plywooded)

1. (transitive) To fit or block up with plywood.

See also

• chipboard
• fibreboard
• particle board

Swedish

Etymology

From English plywood, used in Swedish since 1925.

Nomen

plywood c

1. (uncountable) plywood, cross veneer

Usage notes

• plywood is the common commercial name, but kryssfaner is the preferred technical term.

Declension

Declension of plywood
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	plywood	plywooden	—	—
Genitive	plywoods	plywoodens	—	—

Synonyms

• kryssfaner

Related terms

• björkplywood
• furuplywood
• granplywood
• plywoodfabrik
• plywoodplatta
• plywoodsits
• plywoodskiva

See also

• bräda
• masonit
• spånskiva

References

• plywood in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• plywood in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• plywood in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)