hardware

See also: Hardware

English

Etymology

hard +‎ ware; attested since the mid-15th century.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːdˌwɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

hardware (uncountable)

1. Fixtures, equipment, tools and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.

   He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the hardware store.

2. (informal) Equipment.

   military hardware

   • 2003 June 6, “Mission to Mars”, in CBS_Rather:

     BOWEN: The monster trucks of Mars rovers, joke scientists, equipped with an array of sophisticated hardware to look for signs of water and answer scientists questions.

   • 2009 May, Lee S. Langston, “plowing new ground.”, in Mechanical Engineering, volume 131, number 5, page 40:

     It is one thing to see an intercooler as a simple entry in a textbook, but to witness the actual hardware as it crawled down the road was awe-inspiring.

   • 2011 January, “Swedish Sportster”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 188, number 1, page 27:

     Smaller, turbocharged engines are one way to increase engine efficiency by 8 to 10 percent, but the extra hardware is expensive.

3. (computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.
   • 1952, "Binary Arithmetic", R.L. Michaelson, in The Incorporated Statistician, vol. 3, no. 1 (Feb. 1952), pp 35-40.

     Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.

4. (technology) Electronic equipment.
5. Metal implements.
6. (slang) A firearm.

Related terms

• software
• hardware store

Translations

fixtures, equipment, tools and devices

• Bulgarian: железария f (železarija)
• Danish: isenkram n
• Finnish: rakennustarvikkeet pl
• Galician: soporte físico m
• German: Eisenwaren (de) f pl
• Greek: δομικά υλικά n pl (domiká yliká)
• Latvian: aparatūra
• Lithuanian: aparatūra

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jernvare m, f

  Nynorsk: jarnvare f, jernvare f

• Portuguese: equipamento (pt) m
• Romanian: echipament (ro) n, componente fizice f pl, componente materiale f pl
• Serbo-Croatian: sklopovlje (sh), čvrstovlje, tvrdovlje, strojevina, tvrdotvorina

equipment

• Bulgarian: оборудване (bg) n (oborudvane)
• Danish: udstyr n
• Finnish: kalusto (fi)
• Indonesian: peralatan (id), perlengkapan (id)

• Javanese: peralatan
• Malay: peralatan, kelengkapan
• Polish: sprzęt (pl) m

material part of a computer

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: апаратнае забеспячэнне n (aparatnaje zabjespjačennje)
• Bengali: হার্ডওয়্যার (harḑ-owar)
• Bulgarian: хардуер (bg) m (harduer)
• Catalan: maquinari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 硬件 (ngaang⁶ gin^6-2)

  Mandarin: 硬件 (zh) (yìngjiàn) (mainland China), 硬體 (zh), 硬体 (zh) (yìngtǐ) (Taiwan), 硬設備, 硬设备 (yìngshèbèi) (mainland China)

  Min Nan: 硬體 (zh-min-nan), 硬体 (ngē-thé, ngī-thé)

• Czech: hardware (cs) m
• Danish: hardware (da) c
• Dutch: hardware (nl)
• Esperanto: aparataro
• Finnish: laitteisto (fi), hardware (fi); (slang) rauta (fi), hardis
• French: matériel (fr) m
• German: Hardware (de) f
• Greek: υλισμικό (el) n (ylismikó)
• Ido: hardwaro, aparataro
• Indonesian: perangkat keras, peranti keras, peralatan
• Irish: crua-earraí m pl

• Italian: hardware (it) m
• Japanese: ハードウェア (ja) (hādou~ea), ハード (ja) (hādo)
• Javanese: ꦥꦶꦫꦤ꧀ꦠꦶ ​ꦏꦱꦂ (piranti ​kasar)
• Korean: 하드웨어 (ko) (hadeuweeo), 굳은모 (gudeunmo)
• Latvian: aparatūra
• Lithuanian: aparatūra
• Malay: perkakasan (ms)
• Maltese: ħardwer m
• Norman: hardware m
• Norwegian: maskinvare m
• Polish: sprzęt (pl) m
• Portuguese: hardware (pt) m
• Romanian: hardware (ro) f, n, aparatură (ro) f, aparataj (ro) n
• Russian: аппарату́ра (ru) f (apparatúra), хардве́р (ru) m (xardvér)
• Scottish Gaelic: bathar-cruaidh m
• Serbo-Croatian: čvrstovlje, tvrdovlje, strojevina, tvrdotvorina, sklopovlje (sh) n, hardver (sh) m, računalna sklopovska podrška f, strojna oprema f
• Spanish: hardware (es) m, soporte físico m
• Swedish: hårdvara (sv) c, maskinvara c
• Turkish: donanım (tr)
• Turkmen: apparat üpjünçiligi
• Vietnamese: cương liệu (vi), phần cứng (vi), phần máy

electronic equipment

• Bengali: হার্ডওয়্যার (harḑ-owar)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 硬件 (ngaang⁶ gin^6-2)

  Mandarin: 硬件 (zh) (yìngjiàn) (mainland China), 硬體 (zh), 硬体 (zh) (yìngtǐ) (Taiwan)

  Min Nan: 硬體 (zh-min-nan), 硬体 (ngē-thé, ngī-thé)

• Czech: hardware (cs) m
• Danish: maskinel n, hardware n
• Finnish: laitteisto (fi), elektroniikka (fi)

• Greek: ηλεκτρονικός εξοπλισμός m (ilektronikós exoplismós)
• Polish: sprzęt (pl) m
• Romanian: hardware (ro) n, aparatură (ro) f
• Russian: аппарату́ра (ru) f (apparatúra), хардве́р (ru) m (xardvér), обору́дование (ru) n (oborúdovanije)
• Serbo-Croatian: sklopovlje (sh) n, hardver (sh) m
• Sindhi: ڳڻپيوگري (sd)
• Turkish: donanım (tr)

metal implements

• Bulgarian: железария f (železarija)
• Czech: ^{(please verify)} železářské zboží n
• Danish: udstyr n
• Finnish: rautatavara
• French: quincaillerie (fr) f
• Greek: σιδηρικά n pl (sidiriká), είδη κιγκαλερίας n pl (eídi kigkalerías)

• Manx: yiarnrey
• Polish: artykuły metalowe pl
• Portuguese: ferragens f pl
• Serbo-Croatian: željezarija (sh) f
• Sindhi: سامگري (sâmagarī)
• Spanish: fierros (es) m pl

slang: firearm

• Czech: zbraň (cs) f
• Danish: skydevåben (da) n
• Finnish: tykki (fi)

• French: arme à feu (fr) f
• Greek: βαρύς στρατιωτικός εξοπλισμός m (varýs stratiotikós exoplismós)
• Spanish: arma de fuego (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} maquinari (ca) m
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 기계설비 (gigyeseolbi)

• Persian: ^{(please verify)} نرم‌افزار (narmafzar)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} donanım (tr)

Further reading

• hardware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aʁdwɛʁ/

Noun

hardware m (uncountable)

1. (computing) hardware

Synonyms

• matériel

Further reading

• “hardware” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowing from English hardware.

Noun

hardware m (uncountable)

1. (Jersey, computing) hardware

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Portuguese

Noun

hardware m (plural hardwares)

1. (computing) hardware (parts of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification)

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Spanish

Noun

hardware m (plural hardwares)

1. (computing) hardware