headphone

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdfəʊn/
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• US: /ˈhɛdfoʊn/
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• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Australian: /ˈhedfəʉn/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈhedfɐʉn/
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• Scotland: /ˈhɛdfon/
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• Wales: /ˈhɛdfoːn/ without the toe–tow merger
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• CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 D F OW2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Germanic *haubudą Old English hēafod Middle English heed English head Proto-Indo-European *kwelh1-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. French télé- Proto-Indo-European *bheh2-der. Proto-Hellenic *phōnā́ Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der. French -phone French téléphonebor. English telephone English phone English headphone From head + phone.

105 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kufje — listening device
• Arabic: سَمَّاعَة (sammāʕa) — listening device
• Arabic: سَمَاعَات رَأْس (samāʕāt raʔs) — listening device
• Arabic: سَمَاعَات الرَّأْس (samāʕāt ar-raʔs) — listening device
• Arabic: أُرْصُوصَة (ʔurṣūṣa) — listening device
• Arabic: أَرَاصِيص (ʔarāṣīṣ) — listening device
• Armenian: ականջակալ (akanǰakal) — listening device
• Azerbaijani: qulaqlıq — listening device
• Belarusian: наву́шнікі (navúšniki) — listening device
• Bengali: হেডফোন (heḍophōn) — listening device
• Bulgarian: слу́шалки (slúšalki) — listening device
• Burmese: နားကြပ် (na:krap) — listening device
• Catalan: auricular — listening device
• Chinese Cantonese: 耳機 /耳机 (ji5 gei1) — listening device
• Chinese Cantonese: 耳筒 — listening device
• Chinese Mandarin: 耳機 /耳机 (ěrjī) — listening device
• Chinese Mandarin: 耳筒 (ěrtǒng) — listening device
• Min Nan Chinese: 耳機 /耳机 (hīn-ki) — listening device
• Czech: sluchátka — listening device
• Danish: hovedtelefon — listening device
• Dutch: hoofdtelefoon — listening device
• Dutch: koptelefoon — listening device
• Esperanto: kapaŭskultilo — listening device
• Estonian: kõrvaklapid — listening device
• Finnish: kuulokkeet — listening device
• French: écouteur — listening device
• French: casque — listening device
• French: casque audio — listening device
• Georgian: ყურსაცვამი (q̇ursacvami) — listening device
• German: Kopfhörer — listening device
• Greek: ακουστικό (akoustikó) — listening device
• Greek: ακουστικά (akoustiká) — listening device
• Hebrew: אָזְנִית — listening device
• Hebrew: אוזניות (oznít) — listening device
• Hindi: हेडफ़ोन (heḍfon) — listening device
• Hindi: हेड फ़ोन्स (heḍ fons) — listening device
• Hungarian: fejhallgató — listening device
• Icelandic: heyrnartól — listening device
• Indonesian: penyuara kuping — listening device
• Indonesian: penyuara jemala — listening device
• Irish: cluasán — listening device
• Italian: auricolari — listening device
• Italian: cuffie — listening device
• Japanese: ヘッドフォン (heddofon) — listening device
• Japanese: ヘッドホン (heddohon) — listening device
• Kazakh: құлаққап (qūlaqqap) — listening device
• Kazakh: тыңдауыр (tyñdauyr) — listening device
• Khmer: កាស (kaah) — listening device
• Khmer: កាសស្ដាប់ត្រចៀក (kaah sdap trɑɑciək) — listening device
• Korean: 헤드폰 (hedeupon) — listening device
• Kyrgyz: кулаккап (kulakkap) — listening device
• Kyrgyz: кулакчын (kulakcın) — listening device
• Lao: ຫູຟັງ (hū fang) — listening device
• Latin: auscultābulum — listening device
• Latin: concha auditoria — listening device
• Latvian: austiņas — listening device
• Lithuanian: ausinės — listening device
• Macedonian: слушалки (slušalki) — listening device
• Malay: fon kepala — listening device
• Māori: pokitaringa — listening device
• Mongolian: чихэвч (čixevč) — listening device
• Norwegian Bokmål: hodetelefoner — listening device
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hovudtelefonar — listening device
• Iranian Persian: هِدْفون (hedfon) — listening device
• Iranian Persian: دوگوشی (doguši) — listening device
• Polish: słuchawki — listening device
• Portuguese: fone de cabeça — listening device
• Romanian: căști — listening device
• Romanian: căști audio — listening device
• Romanian: căști auriculare — listening device
• Romanian: cască — listening device
• Russian: нау́шники (naúšniki) — listening device
• Santali: ᱦᱮᱰᱯᱷᱳᱱ (heḍphon) — listening device
• Scottish Gaelic: fòn-cluaise — listening device
• Serbo-Croatian: слушалице — listening device
• Serbo-Croatian: slušalice — listening device
• Slovak: slúchadlá — listening device
• Slovene: slušalke — listening device
• Upper Sorbian: słuchatko — listening device
• Spanish: auricular — listening device
• Spanish: audífono — listening device
• Spanish: cascos — listening device
• Spanish: audífono circumaural — listening device
• Spanish: audífono supraaural — listening device
• Spanish: circumauricular — listening device
• Spanish: supraauricular — listening device
• Swedish: hörlur — listening device
• Swedish: hörlurar — listening device
• Tajik: гӯшмонак (güšmonak) — listening device
• Tamil: ஹெட்ஃபோன் (heṭfōṉ) — listening device
• Tamil: காதொலிப்பான் (kātolippāṉ) — listening device
• Tatar: колакчын (qolaqçın) — listening device
• Thai: หูฟัง (hǔu-fang) — listening device
• Tibetan: ཉན་བྱེད་འཕྲུལ་ཆས (nyan byed 'phrul chas) — listening device
• Turkish: kulaklık — listening device
• Turkmen: nauşnik — listening device
• Ukrainian: наву́шники (navúšnyky) — listening device
• Urdu: ہیڈ فون (heḍ fon) — listening device
• Urdu: ہیڈ فونْز (heḍ fonz) — listening device
• Uyghur: نائۇشنىك (na'ushnik) — listening device
• Uzbek: naushnik — listening device
• Uzbek: naushniklar — listening device
• Vietnamese: ống nghe — listening device
• Vietnamese: tai nghe — listening device
• Welsh: clustffon — listening device