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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbʌfə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈbɐfə(ɹ)]
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• General-American: /ˈbʌfəɹ/
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• Australian: /ˈbafə(ɹ)/
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• Australian: [ˈbäfə(ɹ)]
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• rhymes with -ʌfə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: B AH1 F ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From buff + -er.

Etymology tree Old French buffeder. Middle English buff Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English buffer Agent noun from obsolete verb buff (“make a dull sound when struck”) (mid-16c.), from Old French buffe (“blow”). The “boatswain's mate” sense is said to be popularly explained by the mate being a “buffer”, that is intermediary, between officers and men, but various other explanations have also been proposed.

In reference to buff leather.

110 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: kiillottaja — someone or something that buffs
• Finnish: kiillotuskone — someone or something that buffs
• Spanish: escrepa — someone or something that buffs
• Bulgarian: бу́фер (búfer) — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Esperanto: bufro — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Finnish: puskuri — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• French: tampon — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• German: Puffer — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Indonesian: penyangga — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Māori: pākai — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Māori: tauārai — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Spanish: búfer — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Spanish: parachoques — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Spanish: amortiguador — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Spanish: intercesor — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Spanish: mediador — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Spanish: aislador — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Spanish: aislante — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Spanish: buffer — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Spanish: amortiguamiento — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Welsh: byffer — anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another
• Bulgarian: бу́фер (búfer) — solution to stabilize pH
• Catalan: amortidor — solution to stabilize pH
• Catalan: solució amortidora — solution to stabilize pH
• Danish: puffer — solution to stabilize pH
• Danish: buffer — solution to stabilize pH
• Dutch: buffermengsel — solution to stabilize pH
• Esperanto: bufro — solution to stabilize pH
• Finnish: puskuriliuos — solution to stabilize pH
• Finnish: puskuri — solution to stabilize pH
• French: solution tampon — solution to stabilize pH
• Greek: ρυθμιστικό διάλυμα (rythmistikó diályma) — solution to stabilize pH
• Indonesian: bufer — solution to stabilize pH
• Indonesian: dapar — solution to stabilize pH
• Italian: soluzione tampone — solution to stabilize pH
• Macedonian: пуфер (pufer) — solution to stabilize pH
• Māori: mehanga whakatautika — solution to stabilize pH
• Occitan: solucion tampon — solution to stabilize pH
• Polish: bufor — solution to stabilize pH
• Portuguese: solução tampão — solution to stabilize pH
• Spanish: tampón — solution to stabilize pH
• Spanish: solución amortiguadora — solution to stabilize pH
• Spanish: disolución reguladora — solution to stabilize pH
• Swedish: buffert — solution to stabilize pH
• Swedish: buffertlösning — solution to stabilize pH
• Armenian: թափարգել (tʻapʻargel) — rail transport: barrier that absorbs the impact of a train
• Bulgarian: бу́фер (búfer) — rail transport: barrier that absorbs the impact of a train
• Catalan: topall — rail transport: barrier that absorbs the impact of a train
• Dutch: buffer — rail transport: barrier that absorbs the impact of a train
• French: tampon — rail transport: barrier that absorbs the impact of a train
• German: Puffer — rail transport: barrier that absorbs the impact of a train
• Italian: respingente — rail transport: barrier that absorbs the impact of a train
• Polish: zderzak — rail transport: barrier that absorbs the impact of a train
• Romanian: tampon — rail transport: barrier that absorbs the impact of a train
• Swedish: buffert — rail transport: barrier that absorbs the impact of a train
• Bulgarian: бу́фер (búfer) — portion of memory in computing
• Chinese Mandarin: 緩衝器 /缓冲器 (huǎnchōngqì) — portion of memory in computing
• Chinese Mandarin: 缓冲区 (huǎnchōngqū) — portion of memory in computing
• Czech: vyrovnávací paměť — portion of memory in computing
• Czech: buffer — portion of memory in computing
• Dutch: buffer — portion of memory in computing
• Esperanto: bufro — portion of memory in computing
• Estonian: puhver — portion of memory in computing
• Finnish: puskuri — portion of memory in computing
• French: tampon — portion of memory in computing
• French: mémoire tampon — portion of memory in computing
• German: Puffer — portion of memory in computing
• German: Pufferspeicher — portion of memory in computing
• Greek: ενδιάμεση μνήμη (endiámesi mními) — portion of memory in computing
• Greek: πρόσκαιρη μνήμη (próskairi mními) — portion of memory in computing
• Hebrew: חוֹצֵץ (hotsets) — portion of memory in computing
• Icelandic: biðminni — portion of memory in computing
• Indonesian: dapar — portion of memory in computing
• Japanese: バッファ (baffa) — portion of memory in computing
• Japanese: バッファー (baffā) — portion of memory in computing
• Latin: conditorium intermedium — portion of memory in computing
• Latin: memoria intermedia — portion of memory in computing
• Lithuanian: buferis — portion of memory in computing
• Māori: pūreirei — portion of memory in computing
• Norwegian Bokmål: buffer — portion of memory in computing
• Occitan: memòria tampon — portion of memory in computing
• Persian: بافر (bâfer) — portion of memory in computing
• Polish: bufor — portion of memory in computing
• Portuguese: buffer — portion of memory in computing
• Romanian: memorie tampon — portion of memory in computing
• Romanian: memorie intermediară — portion of memory in computing
• Russian: бу́фер (búfer) — portion of memory in computing
• Serbo-Croatian: međuspremnik — portion of memory in computing
• Spanish: memoria intermedia — portion of memory in computing
• Spanish: antememoria — portion of memory in computing
• Swedish: buffert — portion of memory in computing
• Swedish: buffertminne — portion of memory in computing
• Turkish: arabellek — portion of memory in computing
• Vietnamese: bộ nhớ đệm — portion of memory in computing
• Vietnamese: vùng nhớ đệm — portion of memory in computing
• Vietnamese: bộ đệm — portion of memory in computing
• Dutch: inperken — to isolate, to minimise the impacts of (one thing on another)
• Finnish: eristää — to isolate, to minimise the impacts of (one thing on another)
• Finnish: puskuroida — to isolate, to minimise the impacts of (one thing on another)
• Māori: tauārai — to isolate, to minimise the impacts of (one thing on another)
• Spanish: amortiguar — to isolate, to minimise the impacts of (one thing on another)
• Spanish: aislar — to isolate, to minimise the impacts of (one thing on another)
• Spanish: interceder — to isolate, to minimise the impacts of (one thing on another)
• Spanish: mediar — to isolate, to minimise the impacts of (one thing on another)
• Finnish: puskuroida — maintain a given acidity
• French: tamponner — maintain a given acidity
• Italian: tamponare — maintain a given acidity
• Māori: whakatautika — maintain a given acidity
• Portuguese: tamponar — maintain a given acidity
• Spanish: tamponar — maintain a given acidity