Phrase guide

microwave oven

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

An oven that uses microwave-frequency energy to heat food or other items placed within it.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Chef Mike, microwave[Appendix:Glossary

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: microwave

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: kitchen appliance

History

Etymology

From microwave and oven.

Across languages

Translations

138 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: mikrogolfoond — oven using microwave energy
  • Albanian: mikrovalë — oven using microwave energy
  • Arabic: مَيْكْرُووَيْف (maykrūwayf) — oven using microwave energy
  • Arabic: فُرْن مَيْكْرُووَيْف (furn maykrūwayf) — oven using microwave energy
  • Arabic: فُرْن كَهْرُومَغْنَاطِيسِيّ (furn kahrūmaḡnāṭīsiyy) — oven using microwave energy
  • Armenian: միկրոալիքային վառարան (mikroalikʻayin vaṙaran) — oven using microwave energy
  • Azerbaijani: mikrodalğalı soba — oven using microwave energy
  • Basque: mikrouhin labe — oven using microwave energy
  • Belarusian: мікрахва́левая печ (mikraxváljevaja pječ) — oven using microwave energy
  • Belarusian: мікрахва́леўка (mikraxváljewka) — oven using microwave energy
  • Bengali: মাইক্রোওয়েভ ওভেন (maikrōōẇebh ōbhen) — oven using microwave energy
  • Bulgarian: микровъ́лнова фу́рна (mikrovǎ́lnova fúrna) — oven using microwave energy
  • Burmese: မိုက်ခရိုဝေ့မီးဖို (muikhka.ruiwe.mi:hpui) — oven using microwave energy
  • Catalan: forn de microones — oven using microwave energy
  • Catalan: forn microones — oven using microwave energy
  • Catalan: microones — oven using microwave energy
  • Cheyenne: nêševâhá'eneo'o — oven using microwave energy
  • Chinese Cantonese: 微波爐 /微波炉 (mei4 bo1 lou4) — oven using microwave energy
  • Hakka Chinese: 微波爐 /微波炉 (mì-pô-lù) — oven using microwave energy
  • Chinese: 微波爐 /微波炉 (zh-min-nan) — oven using microwave energy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 微波爐 /微波炉 (mainland China: wēibōlú; Taiwan: wéibōlú) — oven using microwave energy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 微波烤箱 (mainland China: wēibō kǎoxiāng; Taiwan: wéibō kǎoxiāng) — oven using microwave energy
  • Cornish: forn gorrdon — oven using microwave energy
  • Czech: mikrovlnná trouba — oven using microwave energy
  • Czech: mikrovlnka — oven using microwave energy
  • Danish: mikrobølgeovn — oven using microwave energy
  • Danish: mikroovn — oven using microwave energy
  • Dutch: magnetron — oven using microwave energy
  • Dutch: magnetronoven — oven using microwave energy
  • Dutch: microgolf — oven using microwave energy
  • Dutch: microgolfoven — oven using microwave energy
  • Esperanto: mikroondilo — oven using microwave energy
  • Estonian: mikrolaineahi — oven using microwave energy
  • Finnish: mikroaaltouuni — oven using microwave energy
  • Finnish: mikro — oven using microwave energy
  • French: four à micro-ondes — oven using microwave energy
  • French: micro-ondes — oven using microwave energy
  • Georgian: მიკროტალღური ღუმელი (miḳroṭalɣuri ɣumeli) — oven using microwave energy
  • German: Mikrowellenherd — oven using microwave energy
  • German: Mikrowelle — oven using microwave energy
  • German: Mikrowellenofen — oven using microwave energy
  • Greek: φούρνος μικροκυμάτων (foúrnos mikrokymáton) — oven using microwave energy
  • Hebrew: מִיקְרוֹגַל (mikrogál) — oven using microwave energy
  • Hindi: सूक्ष्मतरंग चूल्हा (sūkṣmatraṅg cūlhā) — oven using microwave energy
  • Hindi: माइक्रोवेव चूल्हा (māikrovev cūlhā) — oven using microwave energy
  • Hungarian: mikrohullámú sütő — oven using microwave energy
  • Hungarian: mikró — oven using microwave energy
  • Icelandic: örbylgjuofn — oven using microwave energy
  • Indonesian: oven gelombang mikro — oven using microwave energy
  • Irish: oigheann micreathonnach — oven using microwave energy
  • Irish: micreathonnán — oven using microwave energy
  • Italian: forno a microonde — oven using microwave energy
  • Italian: microonde — oven using microwave energy
  • Japanese: 電子レンジ (denshi renji) — oven using microwave energy
  • Japanese: 電子レンジオーブン (denshi renji-ōbun) — oven using microwave energy
  • Japanese: レンジ (renji) — oven using microwave energy
  • Japanese: チン (chin) — oven using microwave energy
  • Kannada: ಮೈಕ್ರೋವೇವ್ ಓವನ್ (maikrōvēv ōvan) — oven using microwave energy
  • Kazakh: микротолқынды пеш (mikrotolqyndy peş) — oven using microwave energy
  • Khmer: មីក្រូវ៉េវ (miikrouveew) — oven using microwave energy
  • Korean: 전자레인지 (jeonjareinji) — oven using microwave energy
  • Northern Kurdish: mîkrofirne — oven using microwave energy
  • Northern Kurdish: mîkro — oven using microwave energy
  • Kyrgyz: микротолкун меши (mikrotolkun meşi) — oven using microwave energy
  • Lao: ເຕົາອົບໄມໂຄເວຟ (tao ʼop mai khō wēp) — oven using microwave energy
  • Lao: ເຕົາໄມໂຄເວຟ (tao mai khō wēp) — oven using microwave energy
  • Lao: ເຕົາໄມໂຄຣເວບ (tao mai khlō wēp) — oven using microwave energy
  • Latin: clībanus mīcrocȳmaticus — oven using microwave energy
  • Latin: furnulus mīcroündārius — oven using microwave energy
  • Latvian: mikroviļņu krāsns — oven using microwave energy
  • Lithuanian: mikrobangų krosnelė — oven using microwave energy
  • Luxembourgish: Mikrowell — oven using microwave energy
  • Macedonian: микробра́нова пе́чка (mikrobránova péčka) — oven using microwave energy
  • Macedonian: микробра́нова (mikrobránova) — oven using microwave energy
  • Malay: ketuhar gelombang mikro — oven using microwave energy
  • Malayalam: മൈക്രോവേവ് ഓവൻ (maikrōvēv ōvaṉ) — oven using microwave energy
  • Manx: oghe meegra-honn — oven using microwave energy
  • Māori: umu tira — oven using microwave energy
  • Mongolian: бичил долгионы зуух (bičil dolgiony zuux) — oven using microwave energy
  • Mongolian: богино долгионы зуух (bogino dolgiony zuux) — oven using microwave energy
  • Mongolian: печь (pečʹ) — oven using microwave energy
  • Mongolian: БДЗ (BDZ) — oven using microwave energy
  • Navajo: bee naʼniildóhó — oven using microwave energy
  • Norwegian Bokmål: mikrobølgeovn — oven using microwave energy
  • Norwegian Bokmål: mikroovn — oven using microwave energy
  • Norwegian Bokmål: mikro — oven using microwave energy
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: mikrobølgjeomn — oven using microwave energy
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: mikrobylgjeomn — oven using microwave energy
  • Pannonian Rusyn: микрогабова релна (mikrohabova relna) — oven using microwave energy
  • Iranian Persian: تُنْدْپَز (tondpaz) — oven using microwave energy
  • Iranian Persian: زودْپَز (zudpaz) — oven using microwave energy
  • Iranian Persian: دَسْتْگاهِ مایْکْرووِیْو (dastgâh-e mâykroveyv) — oven using microwave energy
  • Iranian Persian: اُجاقِ مایْکْرووِیْو (ojâġ-e mâykroveyv) — oven using microwave energy
  • Iranian Persian: فِرِ ریزْمُوْج (fer-e rizmowj) — oven using microwave energy
  • Iranian Persian: مُوْجپَز (mowj-paz) — oven using microwave energy
  • Iranian Persian: فِرِ مُوْجپَز (fer-e mowj-paz) — oven using microwave energy
  • Polish: kuchenka mikrofalowa — oven using microwave energy
  • Polish: mikrofalówka — oven using microwave energy
  • Portuguese: forno de micro-ondas — oven using microwave energy
  • Portuguese: micro-ondas — oven using microwave energy
  • Romanian: cuptor cu microunde — oven using microwave energy
  • Russian: микроволно́вая печь (mikrovolnóvaja pečʹ) — oven using microwave energy
  • Russian: микроволно́вка (mikrovolnóvka) — oven using microwave energy
  • Scottish Gaelic: àmhainn meanbh-thonnach — oven using microwave energy
  • Serbo-Croatian: микроталасна пећ — oven using microwave energy
  • Serbo-Croatian: микровална пећница — oven using microwave energy
  • Serbo-Croatian: mikrotalasna peć — oven using microwave energy
  • Serbo-Croatian: mikrovalna pećnica — oven using microwave energy
  • Slovak: mikrovlnná rúra — oven using microwave energy
  • Slovene: mikrovalovna pečica — oven using microwave energy
  • Spanish: horno de microondas — oven using microwave energy
  • Spanish: microondas — oven using microwave energy
  • Spanish: horno microondas — oven using microwave energy
  • Swahili: oveni ya mikrowevu — oven using microwave energy
  • Swahili: maikrowevu — oven using microwave energy
  • Swedish: mikrovågsugn — oven using microwave energy
  • Swedish: mikro — oven using microwave energy
  • Tajik: микромавҷӣ (mikromavji) — oven using microwave energy
  • Tajik: тундпаз (tundpaz) — oven using microwave energy
  • Tajik: дастгоҳи майкровейв (dastgoh-i maykroveyv) — oven using microwave energy
  • Tajik: фармавҷпаз (farmavjpaz) — oven using microwave energy
  • Tamil: நுண்ணலை அடுப்பு (nuṇṇalai aṭuppu) — oven using microwave energy
  • Telugu: మైక్రోవేవ్ ఓవెన్ (maikrōvēv ōven) — oven using microwave energy
  • Thai: เตาอบไมโครเวฟ (dtao-òp-mai-kroo-wéep) — oven using microwave energy
  • Turkish: mikrodalga fırın — oven using microwave energy
  • Turkish: mikrodalga — oven using microwave energy
  • Ukrainian: мікрохвильо́ва піч (mikroxvylʹóva pič) — oven using microwave energy
  • Ukrainian: мікрохвильо́вка (mikroxvylʹóvka) — oven using microwave energy
  • Urdu: مائِکْروویو چُولْہا (māikrovev cūlhā) — oven using microwave energy
  • Uyghur: مىكرو دولقۇنلۇق ئوچاق (mikro dolqunluq ochaq) — oven using microwave energy
  • Uyghur: مىكرو دولقۇنلۇق دۇخوپكا (mikro dolqunluq duxopka) — oven using microwave energy
  • Uzbek: mikrotoʻlqinli pech — oven using microwave energy
  • Vietnamese: lò vi ba — oven using microwave energy
  • Vietnamese: lò vi sóng — oven using microwave energy
  • Welsh: meicrodon — oven using microwave energy
  • Welsh: ffwrn feicrodon — oven using microwave energy
  • Welsh: popty meicrodon — oven using microwave energy
  • Yiddish: מיקראָכוואַלניק (mikrokhvalnik) — oven using microwave energy