flash drive

English

A flash drive

Etymology

So called because it is a memory drive that uses flash memory.

Noun

flash drive (plural flash drives)

1. (computer hardware) A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive.

Synonyms

• USB flash drive
• USB drive
• USB
• memory stick
• pen drive
• USB key
• jump drive
• thumb drive
• disk-on-key

Translations

storage device

• Arabic: فِلَاشَة f (filāša), قُرْص وَامِض m (qurṣ wāmiḍ) (a literal translation prescribed by some purists, though virtually unused)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: llapis de memòria (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 記憶體／记忆体 (gei³ jik¹ tai²), 记忆体 (gei³ jik¹ tai²), 記憶棒／记忆棒 (gei³ jik¹ paang⁵), 记忆棒 (gei³ jik¹ paang⁵), 手指 (sau² zi²) (slang)

  Mandarin: 快閃碟／快闪碟 (kuàishǎndié), 快闪碟 (kuàishǎndié), 閃盤／闪盘 (shǎnpán), 闪盘 (shǎnpán) (mainland China), 優盤／优盘 (zh) (yōupán), 优盘 (zh) (yōupán) (mainland China), U盤／U盘 (zh) (yōupán), U盘 (zh) (U-pán) (mainland China), 閃存盤／闪存盘 (zh) (shǎncúnpán), 闪存盘 (zh) (shǎncúnpán) (mainland China), 快閃記憶體盤／快闪记忆体盘 (kuàishǎn jìyìtǐpán), 快闪记忆体盘 (kuàishǎn jìyìtǐpán) (mainland China), 霹靂碟／霹雳碟 (pīlìdié), 霹雳碟 (pīlìdié) (mainland China), 大拇哥 (zh) (dàmǔgē) (mainland China, slang), 隨身碟／随身碟 (zh) (suíshēndié), 随身碟 (zh) (suíshēndié) (Taiwan), 快閃隨身碟／快闪随身碟 (kuàishǎn suíshēndié), 快闪随身碟 (kuàishǎn suíshēndié) (Taiwan)

• Cornish: kyv kov m
• Czech: flash disk m, fleška (cs) f (colloquial)
• Danish: usb-stik / USB-stik n, usb-nøgle / USB-nøgle c
• Esperanto: poŝmemorilo, memorbastoneto
• Faroese: geymi m
• Finnish: muistitikku (fi), USB-muisti (fi), flash-asema
• French: clé USB (fr) f, disque flash m, disque à mémoire flash m, disque dur à mémoire flash m, disque dur flash m
• Galician: memoria USB f
• Georgian: ფლეშ-მეხსიერება (pleš-mexsiereba)
• German: USB-Stick (de) m, USB-Massenspeicher m, Flash-Laufwerk n (a literal one, not the usual term for a USB stick)
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: דיסק און קי (he) m (disk on key)
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• Hindi: फ़्लैश ड्राइव (flaiś ḍrāiv)
• Hungarian: pendrive (hu), flash-meghajtó
• Icelandic: minnislykill m, USB-minni n, gagnalykill m, þumadrif n
• Irish: méaróg chuimhne f, méaróg USB f
• Italian: pen-drive f, pen drive (it) f, chiavetta (it) f, penna (it) f, pennetta f, penna USB f, chiave USB f, chiavetta USB f, penna USB f, pen drive (it) f, chiavetta (it) f, penna (it) f, pennetta f, penna USB f, chiave USB f, chiavetta USB f, penna USB f
• Japanese: フラッシュドライブ (furasshudoraibu)
• Kabyle: tasarut n USB f
• Khmer: ដ្រាយវ៍ពន្លឺ (drayv៍pន្លឺ)
• Korean: 플래시 드라이브 (peullaesi deuraibeu)
• Macedonian: уесбе n (uesbe)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: badgette dé mémouaithe f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: minnepinne
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: pendrive (pl) m, pendrajw (pl) m, PenDrive m, pamięć USB (pl) f
• Portuguese: pen-drive m
• Romanian: stick de memorie n, stick USB n
• Russian: фле́ш-накопи́тель m (fléš-nakopítelʹ), (colloquial) фле́шка (ru) f (fléška)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: memoria USB f, pendrive (es) m, lápiz de memoria m, lápiz USB m, llave maya (es) f (standard in Costa Rica)
• Swedish: USB-minne (sv) n, USB-sticka (sv) c, minnespinne c, minnessticka c
• Thai: แฟลชไดรฟ์ (th), ทัมบ์ไดรฟ์ (tám-drái)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: bellek aygıtı, flash disk, flaş sürücüsü, hafıza ünitesi, USB bellek, USB çubuk
• Vietnamese: USB
• Welsh: ffon gof (cy) f, cof bach m, cofbin m