IKEA

Ikea IKEA IKEĄ English Alternative forms en Ikea Etymology en :bor sv:IKEA + 1 Pronunciation en /aɪˈkiːə/ /ɪˈkeɪ.ə/ /ˈaɪˌki.ə/ en /ɪˈki.a/ /i-/ HK Proper noun An international, originally Swedish home products retailer that sells modern, utilitarian design furniture, much of which is assembled by the consumer. en 2005 Daniel H. Wilson How to Survive a Robot Uprising 126 Bloomsbury 1582345929 Instruct the servant robot to clean the house, landscape the yard, and assemble several major pieces of IKEA furniture. Then, when your robot is power depleted and attempts to recharge, shut off the power to your house. en February 2 2008 Luke Burbank Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me! National Public Radio It seems Swedish gangs, apparently no longer satisfied with knocking over their local IKEA’s, have taken to sneaking little people into the cargo holds of the buses by stowing them in suitcases. Derived terms en IKEA effect Translations international, originally Swedish retailer Chinese: Cantonese: yue 宜家 ji4 gaa1 Mandarin: cmn 宜家 Yíjiā Czech: cs IKEA f Hebrew: he איקאה ikéa Hungarian: hu IKEA, hu Ikea Japanese: ja イケア Ikea, ja IKEA Korean: ko IKEA, ko ^이케아 Norwegian: Bokmål: nb IKEA, nb Ikea alternative capitalization Polish: pl IKEA f Slovak: sk IKEA f Swedish: sv IKEA, sv Ikea Thai: th อิเกีย Turkish: tr IKEA Further reading en eponyms Hungarian hu: Etymology From hu sv IKEA. Pronunciation ikéa Proper noun hu proper noun IKEA Declension IKEA- o sgIKEA- sg Norwegian Bokmål no thumb|The IKEA logo. thumb|An IKEA store at Furuset in Oslo, Norway. Alternative forms nb Ikea alternative capitalization, especially in running text Etymology nb sv IKEA, a lexicalized acronym formed from the initial letters of Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd. It is nb Ingvar Kamprad Swedish entrepreneur Ingvar Kamprad 1, while the final two initials refer to the farm where he grew up and the parish and nearby village. Elmtaryd is now spelled Älmtaryd. The trading company was registered on 28 July 1943. Early wordmarks used forms such as ikéa and IKÉA. The acute accent was reportedly inspired by the French pen manufacturer La Société Evergood, for which Kamprad was the general agent, and probably helped establish the pronunciation of the acronym as a single word rather than as four separate letter names. Upper-case lettering became standard during the 1950s, and the accent was removed in 1962. Pronunciation nb /²ɪˈkeː.a/ [ɪˈkêːa] nb eːa 3 nb Ikea nb I KE A Proper noun nb proper noun IKEA, a Swedish multinational retailer of ready-to-assemble furniture and other products for the home nb 23 June 2026 Espen Ekberg IKEA Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/IKEA IKEA er et svensk møbelkonsern grunnlagt 1943 i Småland i Sør-Sverige av Ingvar Kamprad. IKEA is a Swedish furniture group founded in 1943 in Småland in southern Sweden by Ingvar Kamprad. https://web.archive.org/web/20260923121330/https://snl.no/IKEA 23 September 2026 nb metonymically an IKEA store or other retail location nb 19 March 2026 Andreas Wolden Fredriksen Geir Pollestad VG Ikea må ha minst 1099 parkeringsplasser – for sykkel: – Idiotisk https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/9p3Q89/ikea-maa-ha-minst-1099-parkeringsplasser-for-sykkel-idiotisk Jeg er på Ikea relativt ofte og har ennå til gode å se én sykkel der. I go to IKEA fairly often and have yet to see a single bicycle there. Usage notes The official capitalization is nb IKEA; nb Ikea is also common in Norwegian running text. The genitive is written IKEAs, without an apostrophe. A hyphen is normally used in compounds, as in IKEA-varehus and IKEA-møbel. References 23 June 2026 Espen Ekberg IKEA Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/IKEA 29 July 2026 IKEA-konseptet IKEA Norge https://www.ikea.com/no/no/this-is-ikea/ikea-konseptet-pub697a0e81/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260911092654/https://www.ikea.com/no/no/this-is-ikea/ikea-konseptet-pub697a0e81/ 11 September 2026 29 July 2026 The birth of IKEA IKEA Museum https://ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/the-story-of-ikea/the-birth-of-ikea/ https://web.archive.org/web/20261004185303/https://ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/the-story-of-ikea/the-birth-of-ikea/ 4 October 2026 29 July 2026 History of the IKEA logotype IKEA Museum https://ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/the-story-of-ikea/history-of-the-logotype/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260905004200/https://ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/the-story-of-ikea/history-of-the-logotype/ 5 September 2026 Anagrams nb aeik eika kaie Swedish sv: Alternative forms sv Ikea Etymology The initials of the founder's name, Ingvar Kamprad, of his home village Elmtaryd (now spelled Älmtaryd), and of the nearby village Agunnaryd. Pronunciation sv /ɪˈkêːa/ Proper noun n IKEA:s en IKEA