songbook

English

Etymology

From Middle English song boke, from Old English sangbōc (“a music book; songbook”), equivalent to song +‎ book. Compare Saterland Frisian Songbouk (“songbook”), West Frisian sjongboek (“songbook”), Dutch zangboek (“songbook”), German Low German Sangbook (“songbook; hymnbook; hymnal”), German Gesangbuch (“songbook; hymnbook; hymnal”), Danish sangbog (“songbook”), Swedish sångbok (“songbook”), Icelandic söngbók (“songbook”).

Noun

songbook (plural songbooks)

A book containing songs.

Translations

book

Asturian: cancioneru m
Catalan: cançoner m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 歌曲集 (zh) (gēqǔjí), 歌本 (gēběn), 歌集 (zh) (gējí)
Estonian: lauluraamat
Finnish: laulukirja (fi)
French: chansonnier (fr) m
Galician: cancioneiro m
German: Liederbuch (de) n
Hungarian: énekeskönyv (hu)
Italian: canzoniere (it) m
Japanese: 歌集 (かしゅう, kashū), ソングブック (songubukku), 唱歌集 (しょうかしゅう, shōkashū)

Korean: 노래책 (noraechaek), 가요집 (gayojip)
Kumyk: йыр китап (yır kitap)
Macedonian: песнарка f (pesnarka)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sangbok m or f
Nynorsk: songbok f
Occitan: cançonièr (oc) m
Portuguese: cancioneiro (pt) m
Russian: пе́сенник (ru) m (pésennik)
Spanish: cancionero m
Swedish: sångbok (sv)
Yiddish: לידערבוך‎ n (liderbukh)