Bluetooth

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbluː.tuːθ/
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• General-American: /ˈblu.tuθ/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• CMU ARPABET: B L UW1 T UW2 TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh1- Proto-Indo-European *bhleh1-der. Proto-Indo-European *bhleh1wos Proto-Germanic *blēwaz Proto-West Germanic *blāubor. Late Latin blāvus Anglo-Norman bleubor. Middle English blew English blue Proto-Indo-European *h3ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h3dónts Proto-Germanic *tanþs Proto-West Germanic *tanþ Old English tōþ Middle English toth English tooth ▲ Old Norse Blátǫnncalq. English Bluetooth From blue + tooth. Calque of Old Norse Blátǫnn (compare modern Danish Blåtand). The networking standard is named after the king, since the technology unites computers and mobile devices similarly to the way he united the Danish tribes.

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: Сінязу́бы (Sinjazúby) — Danish king
• Czech: Modrozub — Danish king
• Danish: Blåtand — Danish king
• Dutch: Blauwtand — Danish king
• Estonian: Sinihammas — Danish king
• Faroese: Blátonn — Danish king
• Finnish: Sinihammas — Danish king
• Georgian: ლურჯკბილა (lurǯḳbila) — Danish king
• German: Blauzahn — Danish king
• Greek: Κυανόδους (Kyanódous) — Danish king
• Hungarian: Kékfogú — Danish king
• Icelandic: Blátönn — Danish king
• Irish: Gormfhiacail — Danish king
• Italian: Dente Azzurro — Danish king
• Japanese: 青歯王 (Seishi-ō) — Danish king
• Korean: 푸른 이빨 (pureun ippal) — Danish king
• Latvian: Zilzobis — Danish king
• Lithuanian: Mėlyndantis — Danish king
• Norwegian Nynorsk: Blåtann — Danish king
• Old Norse: Blátǫnn — Danish king
• Polish: Sinozęby — Danish king
• Russian: Синезу́бый (Sinezúbyj) — Danish king
• Serbo-Croatian: Модрозуби — Danish king
• Serbo-Croatian: Плавозуби — Danish king
• Serbo-Croatian: Modrozubi — Danish king
• Serbo-Croatian: Plavozubi — Danish king
• Slovak: Modrozubý — Danish king
• Swedish: Blåtand — Danish king
• Ukrainian: Синьозу́бий (Synʹozúbyj) — Danish king
• Arabic: بُلُوتُوث (bulūtūṯ) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Arabic: بْلُوتُوث (blūtūṯ) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Arabic: بلوتوث (blūtūṯ) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Bulgarian: блуту́т (blutút) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Bulgarian: блюту́т (bljutút) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Chinese Cantonese: 藍牙 /蓝牙 (laam4 ngaa4) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Chinese Mandarin: 藍牙 /蓝牙 (Lányá) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Czech: Bluetooth — short-range wireless technology standard
• Danish: Bluetooth — short-range wireless technology standard
• Dutch: Bluetooth — short-range wireless technology standard
• Esperanto: Bludento — short-range wireless technology standard
• Finnish: bluetooth — short-range wireless technology standard
• French: Bluetooth — short-range wireless technology standard
• Georgian: ბლუთუზი (blutuzi) — short-range wireless technology standard
• German: Bluetooth — short-range wireless technology standard
• Hebrew: בלוטות׳ — short-range wireless technology standard
• Hindi: ब्लूटूथ (blūṭūth) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Hindi: नीलादाँत (nīlādā̃t) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Hungarian: Bluetooth — short-range wireless technology standard
• Italian: bluetooth — short-range wireless technology standard
• Japanese: ブルートゥース (Burūtūsu) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Japanese: 青歯 (Aoba) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Korean: 블루투스 (Beullutuseu) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Macedonian: бљуту́т (bljutút) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Macedonian: блуту́т (blutút) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Malayalam: ബ്ലൂടൂത്ത് (blūṭūttŭ) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Marathi: ब्ल्यूटूथ (blyūṭūth) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Mongolian: блүтүүт (blütüüt) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Norwegian Nynorsk: blåtann — short-range wireless technology standard
• Persian: بلوتوث — short-range wireless technology standard
• Polish: Bluetooth — short-range wireless technology standard
• Portuguese: Bluetooth — short-range wireless technology standard
• Russian: блюту́с (bljutús) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Russian: блюту́з (bljutúz) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Russian: синезу́б (sinezúb) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Serbo-Croatian: блутут — short-range wireless technology standard
• Serbo-Croatian: бљутут — short-range wireless technology standard
• Serbo-Croatian: blutut — short-range wireless technology standard
• Spanish: Bluetooth — short-range wireless technology standard
• Swedish: blåtand — short-range wireless technology standard
• Tamil: புளுடூத் (puḷuṭūt) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Thai: บลูทูธ (bluu-tûut) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Uyghur: كۆكچىش (kökchish) — short-range wireless technology standard
• Vietnamese: bluetooth — short-range wireless technology standard
• Yiddish: בלו טוט (blu tut) — short-range wireless technology standard