Android

See also: android

English

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Smartphones running Android OS

Etymology

See android.

Proper noun

Android

1. (computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system currently developed by Google.

Translations

mobile operating system

• Arabic: أندرويد
• Assamese: এণ্ড্ৰৈড (endroid)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: Android (zh), 安卓 (zh) (Ānzhuó) (unofficial)

• Hindi: एंड्रॉइड (eṇḍrŏiḍ)
• Japanese: アンドロイド (ja) (Andoroido)
• Korean: 안드로이드 (Andeuroideu)
• Portuguese: Android m
• Punjabi: ਐਂਡਰਾਇਡ (aiṇḍarāiḍa)
• Russian: Андро́ид m (Andróid)
• Spanish: Android m
• Swedish: Android (sv)
• Turkish: Android

Noun

Android (plural Androids)

1. (computing, mobile telephony) A mobile phone running on Android OS.
   • 2016, Technology Made Easy: Simple Ways to Use Your Computer, Phone, and Other Electronic Devices, Peachtree City, Ga.: FC&A Publishing, →ISBN, page 317:

     Both Androids and iPhones have a timer that can delay taking a photo by up to 10 seconds.

Anagrams

• Dinardo, Dorinda

German

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• Androide

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /andʁoˈiːt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Audio (Austria)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: An‧d‧ro‧id

Noun

Android m (weak, genitive Androiden, plural Androiden, feminine Androidin)

1. android

Declension

Declension of Android [masculine, weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Android	die	Androiden
genitive	eines	des	Androiden	der	Androiden
dative	einem	dem	Androiden	den	Androiden
accusative	einen	den	Androiden	die	Androiden

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from English android.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛndʁɔɪ̯t/
• Hyphenation: An‧d‧ro‧id

Proper noun

Android n (proper noun, strong, genitive Androids or Android)

1. (computing, mobile telephony) Android (operating system)

Declension

Declension of Android [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Android
genitive	eines	des	Androids, Android
dative	einem	dem	Android
accusative	ein	das	Android

Further reading

• “Android” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Android” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Android (künstlicher Mensch)” in Duden online
• “Android (Betriebssystem)” in Duden online