blue screen of death

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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First use appears c. 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. See cite below.

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: شَاشَة الْمَوْت الزَّرْقَاء (šāšat al-mawt az-zarqāʔ) — screen indicating a system error
• Azerbaijani: ölümün göy ekranı — screen indicating a system error
• Belarusian: сі́ні экра́н сме́рці (síni ekrán smjérci) — screen indicating a system error
• Bulgarian: син екра́н на смъртта́ (sin ekrán na smǎrttá) — screen indicating a system error
• Catalan: pantalla blava de la mort — screen indicating a system error
• Chinese Cantonese: 藍mon /蓝mon (laam4 mon1) — screen indicating a system error
• Chinese Mandarin: 藍屏死機 /蓝屏死机 (lánpíng sǐjī) — screen indicating a system error
• Chinese Mandarin: 藍色當機畫面 /蓝色当机画面 (lánsè dāngjī huàmiàn) — screen indicating a system error
• Chinese Mandarin: 藍屏 /蓝屏 (lánpíng) — screen indicating a system error
• Czech: modrá obrazovka smrti — screen indicating a system error
• Danish: blå skærm — screen indicating a system error
• Danish: blå skærm af død — screen indicating a system error
• Dutch: blauw scherm des doods — screen indicating a system error
• Estonian: sinine surmaekraan — screen indicating a system error
• Finnish: sininen kuolemanruutu — screen indicating a system error
• French: écran bleu de la mort — screen indicating a system error
• German: Bluescreen — screen indicating a system error
• German: Blauschirm — screen indicating a system error
• Greek: μπλε οθόνη του θανάτου (ble othóni tou thanátou) — screen indicating a system error
• Hebrew: המוות הכחול — screen indicating a system error
• Hungarian: kék halál — screen indicating a system error
• Indonesian: Layar Biru Kematian — screen indicating a system error
• Italian: schermo blu della morte — screen indicating a system error
• Japanese: 死の青スクリーン (shi no ao sukurīn) — screen indicating a system error
• Japanese: ブルースクリーン (burū sukurīn) — screen indicating a system error
• Japanese: 青画面 (aogamen) — screen indicating a system error
• Japanese: 青窓 (aomado) — screen indicating a system error
• Korean: 죽음의 파란 화면 (jugeum-ui paran hwamyeon) — screen indicating a system error
• Korean: 블루스크린 (beulluseukeurin) — screen indicating a system error
• Macedonian: син екра́н на смртта (sin ekrán na smrtta) — screen indicating a system error
• Malay: skrin biru mati — screen indicating a system error
• Norwegian Bokmål: blåskjerm — screen indicating a system error
• Iranian Persian: صَفْحِهٔ آبیِ مَرْگ (safhe-ye âbi-ye marg) — screen indicating a system error
• Polish: niebieski ekran śmierci — screen indicating a system error
• Portuguese: tela azul da morte — screen indicating a system error
• Portuguese: ecrã azul da morte — screen indicating a system error
• Romanian: ecranul albastru al morții — screen indicating a system error
• Russian: си́ний экра́н сме́рти (sínij ekrán smérti) — screen indicating a system error
• Russian: голубо́й экра́н сме́рти (golubój ekrán smérti) — screen indicating a system error
• Serbo-Croatian: плави ѐкра̄н смрти — screen indicating a system error
• Serbo-Croatian: plavi èkrān smrti — screen indicating a system error
• Slovak: modrá obrazovka smrti — screen indicating a system error
• Slovene: modri zaslon — screen indicating a system error
• Slovene: modri zaslon smrti — screen indicating a system error
• Spanish: pantalla azul de la muerte — screen indicating a system error
• Swedish: blåskärm — screen indicating a system error
• Swedish: blå skärm av döden — screen indicating a system error
• Tagalog: Bughaw na Tabing ng Kamatayan — screen indicating a system error
• Thai: จอฟ้ามรณะ — screen indicating a system error
• Turkish: mavi ekran — screen indicating a system error
• Ukrainian: си́ній екра́н сме́рті (sýnij ekrán smérti) — screen indicating a system error
• Vietnamese: màn hình xanh chết chóc — screen indicating a system error