roof tile

See also: rooftile

English

Alternative forms

• rooftile

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

roof tile (plural roof tiles)

2. Any tile designed to be used for the external part of a roof.

   Coordinate terms: shingle, roofstone, roofing tile

4. (obsolete) A ridge tile, a tile for the ridge of a roof.

Translations

tile covering a roof — see also shingle

• Afrikaans: dakpan (af)
• Belarusian: дахоўка f (daxówka)
• Bengali: টালি (bn) (ṭali)
• Bulgarian: кереми́да f (keremída)
• Catalan: teula (ca) f
• Czech: taška (cs) f
• Dutch: dakpan (nl) c
• Esperanto: tegolo (eo)
• Faroese: taksteinur m
• Finnish: kattotiili (fi)
• French: tuile (fr) f
• German: Dachziegel (de) m, Dachpfanne (de) f
• Hebrew: רעף (he) m (rá'af)
• Hungarian: tetőcserép (hu)
• Italian: tegola (it) f
• Japanese: 瓦 (ja) (かわら, kawara), 甍 (ja) (iraka)
• Korean: 기와 (ko) (giwa)
• Latin: tēgula f
• Luxembourgish: Daachzill f
• Macedonian: ќерамида f (ḱeramida)
• Malay: genting (ms), atap genting
• Māori: tāpatu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: takstein m

  Nynorsk: takstein m

• Occitan: teule (oc)
• Old English: þæctiġele f
• Polish: dachówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: telha (pt) f
• Romanian: țiglă (ro) f
• Russian: черепи́ца (ru) f (čerepíca)
• Sicilian: ciaramida f
• Slovene: strešnik m, korec m
• Spanish: teja (es) f, calamina (es) f (metal)
• Turkish: kiremit (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: كرمید (kiremid)

• Vietnamese: ngói (vi)

Further reading

• roof tile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia