English
Etymology
From Gramophone (“a trademark”), coined by German-American inventor Emile Berliner in 1887 after the invention of the first phonograph, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “letter”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
Noun
gramophone (plural gramophones)
- (British, dated) A record player.
Synonyms
Translations
record player
- Arabic: غْرَامَافُون m (ḡrāmāfūn), فُونُوغْرَاف m (fūnūḡrāf)
- Armenian: գրամոֆոն (hy) (gramofon), պատեֆոն (hy) (patefon)
- Azerbaijani: qrammafon
- Belarusian: прайграва́льнік m (prajhraválʹnik), грамафо́н m (hramafón), патэфо́н m (patefón)
- Bulgarian: грамофо́н m (gramofón)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 留聲機／留声机 (zh) (liúshēngjī), 留声机 (zh) (liúshēngjī), 唱機／唱机 (zh) (chàngjī), 唱机 (zh) (chàngjī), 電唱機／电唱机 (zh) (diànchàngjī), 电唱机 (zh) (diànchàngjī)
- Danish: grammofon (da), pladespiller c
- Dutch: grammofoon (nl) m
- Esperanto: gramofono
- Faroese: grammofon f
- Finnish: gramofoni (fi)
- French: gramophone (fr) m
- Galician: gramófono m
- Georgian: გრამაფონი (gramaponi)
- German: Grammophon (de) n, Grammofon (de) n
- Greek: γραμμόφωνο (el) n (grammófono)
- Hebrew: גְּרָמוֹפוֹן (he) m (gramofón)
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- Hindi: ग्रामोफ़ोन (grāmofon)
- Italian: giradischi (it) m, grammofono (it) m
- Japanese: 蓄音機 (ちくおんき, chikuonki)
- Korean: 축음기 (ko) (chugeumgi)
- Macedonian: грамофо́н m (gramofón)
- Malay: gramofon
- Persian: گرامافون (fa) (gerâmâfon)
- Polish: gramofon m
- Portuguese: gramofone (pt) m
- Romanian: gramofon (ro) n
- Russian: прои́грыватель (ru) m (proígryvatelʹ), граммофо́н (ru) m (grammofón), патефо́н (ru) m (patefón) (manual)
- Spanish: gramola f
- Swahili: gramafoni
- Swedish: grammofon (sv) c
- Thai: หีบเสียง (hìip-sǐiang)
- Turkish: gramofon (tr)
- Ukrainian: грамофо́н m (hramofón), патефо́н m (patefón) (manual), програва́ч m (prohraváč)
- Vietnamese: máy hát (vi)
- Yiddish: גראַמאָפֿאָן m (gramofon)
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References
Further reading
gramophone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 