footstool

English

Alternative forms

• foot stool, foot-stool

Etymology

From foot +‎ stool.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊtˌstuːl/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

footstool (plural footstools)

1. A low stool for supporting the feet while seated.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 183:

     In Christianity, the world is called the footstool of Christ; in this Sumerian vision, the awakened body would be called the bed of the Queen of Heaven.

2. (figurative) Anything trodden upon or treated as subservient.

Translations

a low stool

• Afrikaans: voetstoel, skabel, voetbankie, stofie
• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: պատուանդան (patuandan)

• Catalan: reposapeus m, escambell (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 腳凳／脚凳 (goek³ dang³)

  Mandarin: 腳台 (jiǎotái), 腳凳／脚凳 (zh) (jiǎodèng)

• Czech: podnožka f
• Danish: fodskammel (da) c, skammel c
• Dutch: voetbankje (nl) n
• Esperanto: piedbenketo, skabelo
• Estonian: jalajäri
• Finnish: rahi (fi), jalkajakkara (fi)
• French: repose-pied (fr) m
• German: Schemel (de) m, Fußbank (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 n (fōtubaurd)
• Greek: υποπόδιο (el) n (ypopódio)

  Ancient: ὑποπόδιον n (hupopódion), σφέλας n (sphélas), θρῆνυς m (thrênus)

• Hebrew: הדום \ הֲדוֹם (he) m (hadóm)
• Hungarian: zsámoly (hu)
• Icelandic: fótskemill m, fótaskemill m, skemill (is) m
• Indonesian: sandaran kaki
• Italian: sgabello (it) m, poggiapiedi m
• Japanese: 足載せ台 (あしのせだい, ashinosedai)
• Latin: scabellum n
• Macedonian: ко́клица f (kóklica), табуре́тка f (taburétka)
• Maori: tūrangawaewae
• Middle English: schamel
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krakk m

  Nynorsk: krakk m

• Old English: fōtsċamol m, sċamol m
• Old Norse: skemill m
• Polish: podnóżek (pl) m
• Portuguese: escabelo (pt) m
• Russian: скаме́ечка для ног f (skaméječka dlja nog), подста́вка для ног f (podstávka dlja nog)
• Spanish: reposapiés (es) m, escabel (es) m
• Swahili: kibao (sw) class 7/8
• Swedish: fotpall (sv) c
• Tagalog: timbanin
• Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎄𐎎 (hdm)

See also

• stepstool