timer

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• General-American: /ˈtaɪmɚ/
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• rhymes with -aɪmə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: T AY1 M ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh2-der. Proto-Indo-European *deh2y- Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Proto-Indo-European *dh2i-mon- Proto-Germanic *tīmô Proto-West Germanic *tīmō Old English tīma Middle English tyme English time 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 timer From time (verb) + -er.

From time (noun) + -er (measurement suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: хронометрист (hronometrist) — person
• Finnish: ajanottaja — person
• Greek: χρονομέτρης (chronométris) — person
• Arabic: مُؤَقِّت m or مُوَقِّت (muʔaqqit) — device
• Catalan: temporitzador — device
• Chinese Mandarin: 定時器 /定时器 (dìngshíqì) — device
• Chinese Mandarin: 計時器 /计时器 (jìshíqì) — device
• Czech: minutka — device
• Czech: časovač — device
• Danish: nedtællingsur — device
• Danish: timer — device
• Dutch: timer — device
• Dutch: eierwekker — device
• Estonian: taimer — device
• Finnish: kello — device
• Finnish: ajastin — device
• French: minuteur — device
• German: Schaltuhr — device
• German: Zeitschaltuhr — device
• Greek: χρονομετρητής (chronometritís) — device
• Hebrew: טיימר (táymer) — device
• Hungarian: időzítő — device
• Hungarian: időmérő — device
• Hungarian: időkapcsoló — device
• Hungarian: percjelző — device
• Hungarian: főzőóra — device
• Hungarian: időjelző — device
• Hungarian: kapcsolóóra — device
• Icelandic: tímastillir — device
• Icelandic: tímarofi — device
• Italian: timer — device
• Italian: temporizzatore — device
• Italian: contaminuti — device
• Japanese: タイマー (taimā) — device
• Khmer: កម្មវិធីកំណត់ម៉ោង (kamvithii kɑmnɑt maong) — device
• Korean: 타이머 (taimeo) — device
• Māori: inewā — device
• Norwegian Bokmål: timer — device
• Norwegian Nynorsk: timer — device
• Persian: زمانسنج (zamân-sanj) — device
• Persian: تایمر (tâymer) — device
• Polish: minutnik — device
• Portuguese: temporizador — device
• Portuguese: timer — device
• Romanian: releu de timp — device
• Romanian: cronometru — device
• Romanian: cronograf — device
• Romanian: regulator de timp — device
• Romanian: timpizor — device
• Russian: та́ймер (tájmer) — device
• Russian: реле́ вре́мени (rɛlé vrémeni) — device
• Serbo-Croatian: odbrojavač vremena — device
• Spanish: temporizador — device
• Swedish: timer — device
• Tagalog: pang-oras — device
• Thai: เครื่องจับเวลา — device
• Volapük: timimafian — device
• Bulgarian: таймер (tajmer) — electronic function
• Finnish: ajastin — electronic function
• French: minuterie — electronic function
• German: Timer — electronic function
• Italian: timer — electronic function
• Italian: temporizzatore — electronic function
• Italian: contaminuti — electronic function
• Portuguese: temporizador — electronic function
• Spanish: temporizador — electronic function