Sony

See also: sony, Sonny, and sonny

English

Etymology

A combination of Latin sonus (“sound”) and sonny (“boy”, diminutive).

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊni/
• Rhymes: -oʊni

Proper noun

Sony

1. (trademark) An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.
   • 1980, Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus, Ballantine Books,, →ISBN, page 16:

     Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine at the Hyatt House and she was always back by midnight, reciting a final sixty-second radio spot into her Sony or absorbing one last press release before getting a good night’s sleep.

   • 1993, Martha Gever; Pratibha Parmar; John Greyson, Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, Routledge, →ISBN, page 76:

     he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook.

   • 1995, Victor J. Ramraj, Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English, Broadview Press, →ISBN, page 297:

     My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering.

   • 1999, Peter Cook, Archigram, Princeton Architectural Press,, →ISBN, page 113:

     The common threads that exist between the fisherman and his Sony and the project above. Robert Smithson's 'Incidents of mirror travel in the Yucatan' are important.

   • 2002, Alexander J. Morin, Classical Music: The Listener's Companion, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 98:

     Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.

   • 2003, Nadine Condon, Hot Hits, Cheap Demos: The Real-World Guide to Music Business Success, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 34:

     Gary’s roster currently has Tritt and two new Sony artists soon to be hugely famous, JEB and Christy Sutherland.

   • 2006, Joseph Finder, Killer Instinct, St. Martin's Press,, →ISBN, page 5:

     Most of the e-mails were blowback from the departure of our divisional vice president, Crawford, who’d just jumped ship to Sony.

Translations

An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan

• Arabic: سُونِي‎ f (sōni)
• Bengali: সনি (soni)
• Bulgarian: Со́ни m (Sóni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 索尼 (zh) (Suǒní)

• Finnish: Sony
• French: Sony (fr)
• Greek: Σόνι (Sóni)
• Hebrew: סוני‎ (soni)
• Hindi: सोनी (hi) (sonī)
• Japanese: ソニー (Sonī)
• Khmer: សូនី (Sonī)
• Korean: 소니 (Soni)
• Marathi: सोनी f (sonī)
• Persian: سونی‎ (soni)
• Polish: Sony n
• Portuguese: Sony f
• Russian: Со́ни m (Sóni)
• Serbo-Croatian: Сони m
• Spanish: Sony
• Thai: โซนี่ (sohnêe)
• Turkish: Sony
• Urdu: سونی‎ (sonī)

Anagrams

• Noys, Yons, nosy, noys, syno, syon

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzoːni/, /ˈsoːni/, /ˈsɔʊ̯ni/ (the intermediate form probably being the most common)

Proper noun

Sony n (proper noun, strong, genitive Sonys)

1. Sony (company)

Noun

Sony m or n or f (strong, genitive Sonys or Sony, plural Sonys or Sony)

1. Sony (device produced by that company)

Usage notes

• The gender typically mirrors that of the implied common noun; for example, der Sony for a TV because of Fernseher m.