# notebook
## English
### Alternative forms

* note book

### Etymology

From note +‎ book.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈnəʊtˌbʊk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈnoʊtˌbʊk/

### Noun

notebook (plural notebooks)
* A book in which notes or memoranda are written.
    Synonyms: notepad, by-book, rough book, writing pad
** 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.
* (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.
* (computing) Ellipsis of notebook computer. A laptop.
** 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
* notebookful
* notebookish
* notebookless
* subnotebook

#### Descendants

* → Czech: notebook
* → Portuguese: notebook
* → Spanish: notebook

#### Translations
### Further reading

* notebook on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Chinese
### Alternative forms

* 碌卜

### Etymology

Borrowed from English notebook.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): nuk$^1$ buk$^1$ / luk$^1$ buk$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: nuk$^1$ buk$^1$ / luk$^1$ buk$^1$
*** Yale: nūk būk / lūk būk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: nuk$^7$ buk$^7$ / luk$^7$ buk$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: nug$^1$ bug$^1$ / lug$^1$ bug$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /nʊk̚⁵ pʊk̚⁵/, /lʊk̚⁵ pʊk̚⁵/

### Noun

notebook (Hong Kong Cantonese)
* laptop; notebook computer (Classifier: 部 c)
* notebook (Classifier: 本 c)

#### Synonyms

* (laptop):
* 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 (zhǎngshàng diànnǎo)
* 本本 ($^5$pen-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)
* (notebook): 筆記本／笔记本 (bǐjìběn)

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from English notebook.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnou̯dbuk]

### Noun

notebook m inan
* laptop, notebook (laptop computer)

#### Declension
## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɔd.buk/, /ˈnɔw.dbuk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔdbuk, -ɔwdbuk
* Syllabification: note‧book

### Noun

notebook m inan or m animal (related adjective notebookowy)
* (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
### Further reading

* notebook in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* notebook in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* notebook in PWN's encyclopedia

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌno(w).t͡ʃiˈbu.ki/ [ˌno(ʊ̯).t͡ʃiˈbu.ki], /ˌno(w)t͡ʃˈbu.ki/ [ˌno(ʊ̯)t͡ʃˈbu.ki], /ˌnɔ.t͡ʃiˈbu.ki/, /ˌnɔt͡ʃˈbu.ki/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌno(w).t͡ʃiˈbu.ki/ [ˌno(ʊ̯).t͡ʃiˈbu.ki], /ˌno(w)t͡ʃˈbu.ki/ [ˌno(ʊ̯)t͡ʃˈbu.ki], /ˌnɔ.t͡ʃiˈbu.ki/, /ˌnɔt͡ʃˈbu.ki/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˌno(w)t͡ʃˈbu.ke/ [ˌno(ʊ̯)t͡ʃˈbu.ke], /ˌno(w).t͡ʃiˈbu.ke/ [ˌno(ʊ̯).t͡ʃiˈbu.ke], /ˌnɔt͡ʃˈbu.ke/, /ˌnɔ.t͡ʃiˈbu.ke/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˌnow.tɨˈbu.kɨ/ [ˌnow.tɨˈβu.kɨ]

### Noun

notebook m (plural notebooks)
* notebook computer (small, portable computer)
    Synonym: laptop
** 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)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nodˈbuk/ [noð̞ˈβ̞uk]
* IPA: /noudˈbuk/ [nou̯ð̞ˈβ̞uk]
* Rhymes: -uk

### Noun

notebook m (plural notebooks)
* notebook computer (small, portable computer)

#### 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.