earphone

English

Etymology

ear +‎ phone.

Noun

earphone (plural earphones)

1. A transducer that converts electric signals into sound and is held near the ear, especially as part of a telephone; an earpiece or headphone.

Related terms

• headphone

Translations

sound device held near the ear

• Albanian: kufje (sq) f
• Arabic: سَمَّاعَة f (sammāʕa), سَمَاعَات الرَّأْس f pl (samāʕāt ar-raʔs)
• Armenian: ականջակալ (hy) (akanǰakal)
• Azerbaijani: qulaqlıq
• Belarusian: наву́шнікі m pl (navúšniki)
• Bulgarian: слу́шалки (bg) f pl (slúšalki)
• Burmese: နားကြပ် (my) (na:krap)
• Catalan: auricular
• Chichewa: mahedifoni
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耳機／耳机 (zh) (ěrjī), 耳机 (zh) (ěrjī), 耳筒 (ěrtǒng)

• Czech: sluchátka
• Danish: hovedtelefoner
• Dutch: oortelefoon (nl)
• Esperanto: kapaŭskultiloj
• Estonian: kõrvaklapid
• Finnish: kuuloke (fi)
• French: écouteur (fr) m
• Georgian: ყურსასმენი (q̇ursasmeni)
• German: Ohrhörer (de) m
• Greek: ακουστικό (el) n (akoustikó)
• Gujarati: કાનદટ્ટો (kāndaṭṭo)
• Hebrew: אָזְנִית / אוזניות (he)
• Hindi: हेडफ़ोन m (heḍfon)
• Hungarian: fülhallgató (hu)
• Indonesian: penyuara kuping
• Irish: cluasán m
• Italian: cuffia (it) f
• Japanese: イヤフォン (iyafon), イヤホン (iyahon)
• Kazakh: құлаққап (qūlaqqap)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 이어폰 (ieopon)
• Kyrgyz: кулаккап (kulakkap)
• Lao: ຫູຟັງ (hū fang)
• Latin: auscultabulum
• Macedonian: слушалки f pl (slušalki)
• Malay: fon kepala
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• Maori: pokotaringa
• Mongolian: чихэвч (mn) (čixevč)
• Norwegian: hodetelefoner

  Nynorsk: hovudtelefon

• Persian: هدفون (fa) (hedfon)
• Polish: słuchawki (pl) pl
• Portuguese: fone de ouvido (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਹੈਡਫ਼ੋਨਸ (haiḍfonas)
• Quechua: rinri uyarina
• Romanian: căști audio
• Russian: нау́шники (ru) m pl (naúšniki), головно́й телефо́н m (golovnój telefón)
• Scots: heidphones
• Scottish Gaelic: fòn-cluaise m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слушалице pl

  Roman: slušalice pl

• Sinhalese: හෙඩ්ෆෝන් (heḍfōn)
• Slovak: slúchadlá pl
• Slovene: slušalke f pl
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: słuchatko n

• Spanish: auricular (es) m
• Swedish: hörlur (sv) c
• Tagalog: talinig
• Tamil: காதொலிப்பான் (kātolippāṉ)
• Tatar: колакчыннар (qolaqçınnar)
• Telugu: హెడ్ ఫోన్స్ (heḍ phōns)
• Thai: หูฟัง (th) (hǔu-fang)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kulaklık (tr)
• Ukrainian: наву́шники m pl (navúšnyky)
• Uzbek: naushniklar, minigarnituralar, quloqchin (uz)
• Veddah: kundlimed
• Vietnamese: ống nghe (vi), tai nghe (vi)
• Welsh: clustffon m

See also

• ear bud