server

English

A Viennese beer server

A rack-mounted server computer

Wikipedia

Etymology

serve +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)və(r)

Noun

server (plural servers)

1. One who serves; a waitress or waiter.
2. A tray for dishes; a salver.
3. (computing) A computer or a program which provides services to other programs or users, either in the same computer or over a computer network.

Usage notes

• Some prefer server to waiter or waitress because it is unisex.

Derived terms

• fileserver
• microserver
• miniserver
• serverless
• timeserver

Antonyms

• client

Translations

one who serves

• Finnish: palvelija (fi)
• French: serviteur (fr) m, serviteuse (fr) f
• German: Diener m / Dienerin f
• Italian: servente (it) m and f
• Polish: kelner (pl) m, kelnerka (pl) f

• Portuguese: servidor (pt) m
• Russian: служитель (ru) (služitelʹ) m
• Swahili: soroveya (sw)
• Swedish: betjänt (sv) c, servitör (sv) c

preferred unisex term for a waitress or waiter

• Finnish: tarjoilija (fi)
• French: serveur m / serveuse f
• German: Bedienung (unisex), Kellner m, Kellnerin f

• Jèrriais: sèrveux m
• Swahili: soroveya (sw)
• Swedish: personal (sv) c, serveringspersonal (sv) c

a tray for dishes

• Finnish: tarjotin (fi)
• Greek: δίσκος (el) (dískos) m

• Swahili: soroveya (sw)
• Swedish: bricka (sv) c

computing: a computer or a program which provides services to other programs or users

• Arabic: نادل (ar) (naadil) m, خادم (ar) (khaadim) m
• Armenian: սերվեր (hy) (server)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 服務器 (cmn), 服务器 (cmn) (fúwùqì)

• Dutch: server (nl)
• Finnish: palvelin (fi), serveri (fi)
• French: serveur (fr) m
• German: Server (de) m
• Greek: διακομιστής (el) (diakomistís) m, εξυπηρετητής (el) (exypiretitís) m
• Hebrew: שרת (he) (sharat) m
• Icelandic: miðlari (is) m, netþjónn (is) m

• Italian: server (it) m, servente (it) m, servitore (it) m
• Japanese: サーバー (ja) (sābā)
• Jèrriais: sèrveux m
• Malay: pelayan (ms), server (ms)
• Norwegian: tjener (no) m
• Polish: serwer (pl) m
• Portuguese: servidor (pt) m
• Russian: сервер (ru) (sérver) m
• Spanish: servidor (es) m
• Swahili: soroveya (sw)
• Swedish: server (sv) c
• Turkish: sunucu (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Irish: riarthóir (ga) m

Anagrams

• revers
• verser

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Latin

Verb

server

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of servō

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Swedish

Noun

server c

1. (computing) a server

Declension

Declension of server

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	server	servern	servrar	servrarna
genitive	servers	serverns	servrars	servrarnas

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Turkish

Noun

server (definite accusative serveri, plural serverler)

1. servant

Declension

declension of server

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	server	serverler
definite accusative (belirtme)	serveri	serverleri
dative (yönelme)	servere	serverlere
locative (bulunma)	serverde	serverlerde
ablative (çıkma)	serverden	serverlerden
genitive (tamlayan)	serverin	serverlerin

possessive forms of server

nominative	singular	plural
benim (my)	serverim	serverlerim
senin (your)	serverin	serverlerin
onun (his/her/its)	serveri	serverleri
bizim (our)	serverimiz	serverlerimiz
sizin (your)	serveriniz	serverleriniz
onların (their)	serverleri	serverleri
accusative	singular	plural
benim (my)	serverimi	serverlerimi
senin (your)	serverini	serverlerini
onun (his/her/its)	serverini	serverlerini
bizim (our)	serverimizi	serverlerimizi
sizin (your)	serverinizi	serverlerinizi
onların (their)	serverlerini	serverlerini
dative	singular	plural
benim (my)	serverime	serverlerime
senin (your)	serverine	serverlerine
onun (his/her/its)	serverine	serverlerine
bizim (our)	serverimize	serverlerimize
sizin (your)	serverinize	serverlerinize
onların (their)	serverlerine	serverlerine
locative	singular	plural
benim (my)	serverimde	serverlerimde
senin (your)	serverinde	serverlerinde
onun (his/her/its)	serverinde	serverlerinde
bizim (our)	serverimizde	serverlerimizde
sizin (your)	serverinizde	serverlerinizde
onların (their)	serverlerinde	serverlerinde
ablative	singular	plural
benim (my)	serverimden	serverlerimden
senin (your)	serverinden	serverlerinden
onun (his/her/its)	serverinden	serverlerinden
bizim (our)	serverimizden	serverlerimizden
sizin (your)	serverinizden	serverlerinizden
onların (their)	serverlerinden	serverlerinden
genitive	singular	plural
benim (my)	serverimin	serverlerimin
senin (your)	serverinin	serverlerinin
onun (his/her/its)	serverinin	serverlerinin
bizim (our)	serverimizin	serverlerimizin
sizin (your)	serverinizin	serverlerinizin
onların (their)	serverlerinin	serverlerinin

predicative forms of server

simple present	singular	plural
ben (I am)	serverim	serverlerim*
sen (you are)	serversin	serverlersin*
o (he/she/it is)	server / serverdir	serverler* / serverlerdir*
biz (we are)	serveriz	serverleriz
siz (you are)	serversiniz	serverlersiniz
onlar (they are)	serverler	serverlerdir
simple past	singular	plural
ben (I was)	serverdim	serverlerdim*
sen (you were)	serverdin	serverlerdin*
o (he/she/it was)	serverdi	serverlerdi*
biz (we were)	serverdik	serverlerdik
siz (you were)	serverdiniz	serverlerdiniz
onlar (they were)	serverdiler	serverlerdi
indirect / unwitnessed past	singular	plural
ben (I was)	servermişim	serverlermişim*
sen (you were)	servermişsin	serverlermişsin*
o (he/she/it was)	servermiş	serverlermiş*
biz (we were)	servermişiz	serverlermişiz
siz (you were)	servermişsiniz	serverlermişsiniz
onlar (they were)	servermişler	serverlermiş
*Not used, but perhaps rarely - chiefly grammatical formations. Note: Plural forms are not used with adjectives.