software

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɒf(t)ˌwɛə/
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• General-American: /ˈsɔf(t)ˌwɛɹ/ without the cot–caught merger
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• General-American, cot-caught-merger, dialectal: /ˈsɑf(t)ˌwɛɹ/ of Canada
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• Canada, dialectal: /ˈsɒf(t)ˌwɛɹ/ of the US
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• Australian: /ˈsɔf(t)ˌweː/
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• rhymes with -ɒftwɛə(ɹ)
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• homophone: softwear
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• CMU ARPABET: S AO1 F T W EH2 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: S AO1 F W EH2 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Germanic *samþuz /*samftuz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) Old English sōfte Middle English softe English soft Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English software Computing sense from soft + -ware, by contrast with hardware (“the computer itself”). Coined by John Tukey in 1958. The earlier sense of software to mean tangible products with a soft texture may have fallen out of common usage before the computing sense was created.

157 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sagteware — encoded computer instructions
• Afrikaans: programmatuur — encoded computer instructions
• Albanian: softuer — encoded computer instructions
• Albanian: softver — encoded computer instructions
• Amharic: ሶፍትዌር (softəwer) — encoded computer instructions
• Arabic: بَرْمَجِيَات (barmajiyāt) — encoded computer instructions
• Arabic: بَرَامِج حَاسِب (barāmij ḥāsib) — encoded computer instructions
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܲܚܪܸܙܬܵܐ (tāḳrizta) — encoded computer instructions
• Armenian: ծրագրային ապահովում (cragrayin apahovum) — encoded computer instructions
• Armenian: ծրագրակազմ (cragrakazm) — encoded computer instructions
• Armenian: ծրագրաշար (cragrašar) — encoded computer instructions
• Azerbaijani: proqram təminatı — encoded computer instructions
• Azerbaijani: PT — encoded computer instructions
• Belarusian: прагра́мнае забеспячэ́нне (prahrámnaje zabjespjačénnje) — encoded computer instructions
• Belarusian: ПЗ (PZ) — encoded computer instructions
• Bengali: সফটওয়্যার (śophoṭōẇyar) — encoded computer instructions
• Bulgarian: со́фтуер (sóftuer) — encoded computer instructions
• Bulgarian: програ́мно осигуря́ване (prográmno osigurjávane) — encoded computer instructions
• Burmese: ဆော့ဖ်ဝဲလ် (hcauhp.wail) — encoded computer instructions
• Catalan: programari — encoded computer instructions
• Chinese Cantonese: 軟件 /软件 — encoded computer instructions
• Chinese: 軟體 /软体 (zh-min-nan) — encoded computer instructions
• Chinese Mandarin: 軟件 /软件 (ruǎnjiàn) — encoded computer instructions
• Chinese Mandarin: 軟體 /软体 (ruǎntǐ) — encoded computer instructions
• Cornish: medhelweyth — encoded computer instructions
• Czech: software — encoded computer instructions
• Czech: programové vybavení — encoded computer instructions
• Danish: software — encoded computer instructions
• Danish: programmel — encoded computer instructions
• Dutch: software — encoded computer instructions
• Dutch: programmatuur — encoded computer instructions
• Esperanto: programaro — encoded computer instructions
• Estonian: tarkvara — encoded computer instructions
• Finnish: ohjelmisto — encoded computer instructions
• Finnish: tietokoneohjelma — encoded computer instructions
• Finnish: softa — encoded computer instructions
• French: logiciel — encoded computer instructions
• French: programmerie — encoded computer instructions
• Galician: soporte lóxico — encoded computer instructions
• Georgian: პროგრამული უზრუნველყოფა (ṗrogramuli uzrunvelq̇opa) — encoded computer instructions
• Georgian: კომპიუტერული პროგრამა (ḳomṗiuṭeruli ṗrograma) — encoded computer instructions
• Georgian: პროგრამა (ṗrograma) — encoded computer instructions
• German: Software — encoded computer instructions
• Greek: λογισμικό (logismikó) — encoded computer instructions
• Hebrew: תׇּכְנָה (tokhná) — encoded computer instructions
• Hindi: सॉफ़्टवेयर (sŏfṭaveyar) — encoded computer instructions
• Hindi: क्रमानुदेश (kramānudeś) — encoded computer instructions
• Hungarian: szoftver — encoded computer instructions
• Icelandic: hugbúnaður — encoded computer instructions
• Ido: softwaro — encoded computer instructions
• Ido: programaro — encoded computer instructions
• Indonesian: perangkat lunak — encoded computer instructions
• Indonesian: peranti lunak — encoded computer instructions
• Interlingua: software — encoded computer instructions
• Interlingua: programmatura — encoded computer instructions
• Irish: bogearraí — encoded computer instructions
• Italian: software — encoded computer instructions
• Italian: programma — encoded computer instructions
• Italian: supporto logico — encoded computer instructions
• Japanese: ソフトウェア (sofutowea) — encoded computer instructions
• Japanese: ソフト (sofuto) — encoded computer instructions
• Javanese: ꦥꦶꦫꦤ꧀ꦠꦶ ꦲꦭꦸꦱ꧀ (piranti halus) — encoded computer instructions
• Kazakh: бағдарламалық жасақтама (bağdarlamalyq jasaqtama) — encoded computer instructions
• Kazakh: бағдарлама жасақтамасы (bağdarlama jasaqtamasy) — encoded computer instructions
• Khmer: ផ្នែកទន់ (phnaek tŭən) — encoded computer instructions
• Khmer: សូហ្វវែរ (soufvae) — encoded computer instructions
• Khmer: កម្មវិធី (kamvithii) — encoded computer instructions
• Korean: 소프트웨어 (sopeuteuweeo) — encoded computer instructions
• Korean: 무른모 (mureunmo) — encoded computer instructions
• Northern Kurdish: nermalav — encoded computer instructions
• Kyrgyz: программалык жабдык (programmalık jabdık) — encoded computer instructions
• Kyrgyz: программалык жабдуу (programmalık jabduu) — encoded computer instructions
• Kyrgyz: программалык камсыздоо (programmalık kamsızdoo) — encoded computer instructions
• Kyrgyz: программалык жабдылыш (programmalık jabdılış) — encoded computer instructions
• Lao: ໂລຊີຊີແອນ (lō sī sī ʼǣn) — encoded computer instructions
• Lao: ຊອບແວ (sǭp wǣ) — encoded computer instructions
• Latin: programmatura — encoded computer instructions
• Latvian: programmatūra — encoded computer instructions
• Lithuanian: programinė įranga — encoded computer instructions
• Lombard: prugramadura — encoded computer instructions
• Macedonian: софтвер (softver) — encoded computer instructions
• Macedonian: програмска опрема (programska oprema) — encoded computer instructions
• Malay: perisian — encoded computer instructions
• Maltese: softwer — encoded computer instructions
• Māori: pūmanawa — encoded computer instructions
• Māori: pūmanawa rorohiko — encoded computer instructions
• Mongolian: програм хангамж (program xangamž) — encoded computer instructions
• Northern Sotho: softewere — encoded computer instructions
• Norwegian Bokmål: programvare — encoded computer instructions
• Norwegian Nynorsk: programvare — encoded computer instructions
• Iranian Persian: نَرْم اَفْزار (narm afzâr) — encoded computer instructions
• Iranian Persian: نَرْماَفْزار (narm-afzâr) — encoded computer instructions
• Polish: oprogramowanie — encoded computer instructions
• Polish: software — encoded computer instructions
• Portuguese: software — encoded computer instructions
• Portuguese: programa — encoded computer instructions
• Romanian: software — encoded computer instructions
• Romanian: programe de computer — encoded computer instructions
• Romanian: soft — encoded computer instructions
• Russian: програ́ммное обеспече́ние (prográmmnoje obespečénije) — encoded computer instructions
• Russian: софтве́р (softvɛ́r) — encoded computer instructions
• Russian: со́фтвер (sóftvɛr) — encoded computer instructions
• Russian: ПО (PO) — encoded computer instructions
• Russian: софт — encoded computer instructions
• Scottish Gaelic: bathar-bog — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: програмска о̏према — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: напудбина — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: мекушје — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: мековље — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: мекотворина — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: со̏фтве̄р — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: програмска по̏тпора — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: програмска по̀дршка — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: programska ȍprema — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: napudbina — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: mekušje — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: mekovlje — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: mekotvorina — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: sȍftvēr — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: programska pȍtpora — encoded computer instructions
• Serbo-Croatian: programska pòdrška — encoded computer instructions
• Sicilian: prugramma — encoded computer instructions
• Sicilian: software — encoded computer instructions
• Sindhi: منطقگري (m̃t̤qgre) — encoded computer instructions
• Sinhalese: පරිගණක මෘදුකාංග (parigaṇaka mr̥dukāṁga) — encoded computer instructions
• Slovak: softvér — encoded computer instructions
• Slovene: programska oprema — encoded computer instructions
• Slovene: programje — encoded computer instructions
• Spanish: software — encoded computer instructions
• Spanish: programa — encoded computer instructions
• Spanish: soporte lógico — encoded computer instructions
• Spanish: sóftwer — encoded computer instructions
• Swahili: maunzi laini — encoded computer instructions
• Swedish: mjukvara — encoded computer instructions
• Swedish: programvara — encoded computer instructions
• Tagalog: software — encoded computer instructions
• Tajik: нармафзор (narmafzor) — encoded computer instructions
• Tajik: таъминоти барномавӣ (ta'minot-i barnomavi) — encoded computer instructions
• Thai: ซอฟต์แวร์ (sɔ́ɔp-wɛɛ) — encoded computer instructions
• Thai: ส่วนชุดคําสั่ง (sùuan-chút-kam-sàng) — encoded computer instructions
• Tibetan: མཉེན་ཆས (mnyen chas) — encoded computer instructions
• Turkish: yazılım — encoded computer instructions
• Turkmen: programma üpjünçiligi — encoded computer instructions
• Ukrainian: програ́мне забезпе́чення (prohrámne zabezpéčennja) — encoded computer instructions
• Ukrainian: ПЗ (PZ) — encoded computer instructions
• Urdu: سافْٹ وِئِیر (sāfṭ viīr) — encoded computer instructions
• Urdu: سافْٹ ویئَر (sāfṭ vear) — encoded computer instructions
• Urdu: مُصَنَّعِ لَطِیف (musanna'-i latīf) — encoded computer instructions
• Uyghur: يۇمشاق دېتال (yumshaq dëtal) — encoded computer instructions
• Uzbek: dasturiy taʼminot — encoded computer instructions
• Vietnamese: phần mềm — encoded computer instructions
• Vietnamese: phần ứng dụng — encoded computer instructions
• Vietnamese: nhu liệu — encoded computer instructions
• Welsh: meddalwedd — encoded computer instructions
• Yiddish: ווייכוואַרג (veykhvarg) — encoded computer instructions
• Yiddish: פּראָגראַמוואַרג (programvarg) — encoded computer instructions
• Zhuang: yonjgen — encoded computer instructions