headphones

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdfəʊnz/
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• US: /ˈhɛdfoʊnz/
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• Australian: /ˈhedfəʉnz/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈhedfɐʉnz/
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• Scotland: /ˈhɛdfonz/
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• Wales: /ˈhɛdfoːnz/ without the toe–tow merger
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• CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 D F OW2 N Z 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 English phones English headphones From head + phones.

85 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kufje — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Arabic: سَمَّاعَة (sammāʕa) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Arabic: سَمَاعَات الرَّأْس (samāʕāt ar-raʔs) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Armenian: ականջակալ (akanǰakal) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Azerbaijani: qulaqlıq — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Belarusian: наву́шнікі (navúšniki) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Bulgarian: слу́шалки (slúšalki) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Burmese: နားကြပ် (na:krap) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Catalan: auriculars — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Chinese Mandarin: 耳機 /耳机 (ěrjī) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Chinese Mandarin: 耳筒 (ěrtǒng) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Czech: sluchátka — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Danish: hovedtelefoner — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Danish: høretelefoner — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Dutch: hoofdtelefoon — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Dutch: koptelefoon — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Elfdalian: ärlur — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Esperanto: aŭskultiloj — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Esperanto: kapaŭskultiloj — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Estonian: kõrvaklapid — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Faroese: oyralurtitól — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Finnish: kuulokkeet — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Finnish: luurit — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• French: casque — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• French: écouteurs — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• German: Kopfhörer — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Greek: ακουστικά (akoustiká) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Greenlandic: naalaarutit siutaasat — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Hebrew: אָזְנִית — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Hebrew: אוזניות — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Hindi: आकर्णक (ākarṇak) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Hindi: हेडफ़ोन (heḍfon) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Hungarian: fejhallgató — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Hungarian: fülhallgató — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Icelandic: heyrnartól — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Irish: cluasáin — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Italian: cuffie — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Japanese: ヘッドフォン (heddofon) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Japanese: ヘッドホン (heddohon) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Japanese: イヤフォン (iyafon) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Kazakh: құлаққап (qūlaqqap) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Khmer: កាស (kaah) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Korean: 헤드폰 (hedeupon) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Korean: 이어폰 (ieopon) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Kyrgyz: кулаккап (kulakkap) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Lao: ຫູຟັງ (hū fang) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Latin: auscultābulum — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Latvian: austiņas — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Luxembourgish: Casque — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Macedonian: слушалки (slušalki) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Malay: fon kepala — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Mongolian: чихэвч (čixevč) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Mongolian: ᠴᠢᠬᠢᠪᠴᠢ (čikibči) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Norwegian Bokmål: hodetelefoner — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Norwegian Bokmål: høretelefoner — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hovudtelefonar — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Norwegian Nynorsk: høyretelefonar — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Pannonian Rusyn: слухалки (sluxalki) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Persian: هدفون (hedfon) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Persian: گوشی (guši) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Polish: słuchawki — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Portuguese: fones — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Portuguese: fones de cabeça — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Portuguese: auscultadores — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Romanian: cască — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Romansh: ureglier — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Russian: нау́шники (naúšniki) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Northern Sami: oaivetelefovdna — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Serbo-Croatian: слушалице — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Serbo-Croatian: slušalice — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Sinhalese: හෙඩ්ෆෝන් (heḍfōn) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Slovak: slúchadlá — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Slovene: slušalke — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Upper Sorbian: słuchatko — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Spanish: cascos — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Spanish: auriculares — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Spanish: audífonos — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Swedish: hörlurar — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Thai: หูฟัง (hǔu-fang) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Turkish: kulaklık — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Ukrainian: наву́шники (navúšnyky) — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Uzbek: naushnik — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Vietnamese: ống nghe — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Vietnamese: tai nghe — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
• Welsh: clustffonau — pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound