CD player

See also: CD-player and CD-Player

English

Alternative forms

• CD-player

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

CD player (plural CD players)

1. (consumer electronics) An electronic device that plays compact discs.
   • 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 192:

     She takes it to the living room, grateful for the ancient CD player that still sits proudly on the trolley beneath the window like a prized relic because Simiso is of the generation that will simply not part with things no matter how many deaths they die.

Translations

CD player

• Arabic: مَشْغَل سِي دِي m (mašḡal sī dī), مَشْغَل CD m (mašḡal sī dī)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: CD播放機 / CD播放机 (xìdì bōfàngjī), CD機 / CD机 (xìdìjī)

• Czech: CD přehrávač m
• Danish: CD-afspiller c, cd-afspiller (da) c
• Dutch: cd-speler (nl) m
• Faroese: fløguspælari m
• Finnish: CD-soitin (fi)
• French: lecteur CD (fr) m, lecteur de CD (fr) m
• Georgian: კომპაქტ-დისკების დამკვრელი (ḳomṗakṭ-disḳebis damḳvreli)
• German: CD-Spieler (de) m
• Greek: συσκευή CD (syskeví CD)
• Hindi: सीडी प्लेयर (sīḍī pleyar)
• Hungarian: CD-lejátszó
• Irish: seinnteoir CDanna m
• Italian: lettore CD m
• Japanese: CDプレーヤー (ja) (shīdī purēyā)
• Korean: CD 플레이어 (sidi peulleieo)
• Norman: joueux d'CDs m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: CD-spiller m, CD-speller m, cd-spiller m, cd-speller m

  Nynorsk: CD-spelar m, cd-spelar m

• Portuguese: CD player (pt) m, diskman m
• Russian: CD-пле́ер m (CD-pléjer), си-ди-пле́ер m (si-di-pléjer)
• Spanish: reproductor de CD m, lector de CD m
• Swedish: cd-spelare (sv) c
• Thai: เครื่องเล่นซีดี (krʉ̂ʉang-lên sii-dii)
• Welsh: chwaraewr CD m

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English CD player.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsiˈd͡ʒi ˈplej.eʁ/ [ˌsiˈd͡ʒi ˈpleɪ̯.eh], /ˌseˈde ˈplej.eʁ/ [ˌseˈde ˈpleɪ̯.eh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsiˈd͡ʒi ˈplej.eʁ/ [ˌsiˈd͡ʒi ˈpleɪ̯.eh], /ˌseˈde ˈplej.eʁ/ [ˌseˈde ˈpleɪ̯.eh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌsiˈd͡ʒi ˈplej.eɾ/ [ˌsiˈd͡ʒi ˈpleɪ̯.eɾ], /ˌseˈde ˈplej.eɾ/ [ˌseˈde ˈpleɪ̯.eɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌsiˈd͡ʒi ˈplej.eʁ/ [ˌsiˈd͡ʒi ˈpleɪ̯.eχ], /ˌseˈde ˈplej.eʁ/ [ˌseˈde ˈpleɪ̯.eχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˌsiˈd͡ʒi ˈplej.eɻ/ [ˌsiˈd͡ʒi ˈpleɪ̯.eɻ], /ˌseˈde ˈplej.eɻ/ [ˌseˈde ˈpleɪ̯.eɻ]

• Rhymes: -ejeʁ

Noun

CD player m (plural CD players)

1. CD player (device that plays audio CDs)

   Synonym: diskman

Further reading

• “CD player”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026