laptop

See also: Laptop

English

Alternative forms

• lap-top (dated)

Etymology

From lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) +‎ top, modeled after desktop.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlæp.tɒp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlæp.tɑp/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

laptop (plural laptops)

1. (computing) A laptop computer.

   He was playing Minecraft on his laptop.

   • 2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8:

     Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 408, number 8847:

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

Synonyms

• (laptop computer): laptop computer, notebook computer

Derived terms

• craptop
• hiptop
• laplet
• laptop hobo
• laptopless
• laptoplike
• laptronica
• nonlaptop

Related terms

• desktop
• palmtop

Descendants

• → Dutch: laptop
• → Hungarian: laptop
• → Indonesian: laptop
• → Malay: laptop

Translations

computing: a laptop computer

• Afrikaans: skootrekenaar (af)
• Albanian: laptop (sq) m
• Amharic: ላፕቶፕ (laptop)
• Arabic: كَمْبْيُوتِر مَحْمُول m (kambyūtir maḥmūl), حَاسُوب مَحْمُول m (ḥāsūb maḥmūl), لَابْتُوب m (laptup, labtob)

  Gulf Arabic: لابتوب m (lābtōb)

  Hijazi Arabic: لاپتوپ m (lāptōp, lāptup)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܲܫܘܼܒ݂ܵܐ ܡܙܝܼܥܵܢܵܐ m (ḥašūḇā mzīˁānā), ܠܵܦܬܘܿܦ m (lāptōp)

• Armenian: նոթբուք (notʻbukʻ), նոութբուք (hy) (noutʻbukʻ)
• Azerbaijani: noutbuk
• Belarusian: но́ўтбук m (nówtbuk), лэпто́п m (leptóp)
• Bengali: ল্যাপটপ (bn) (lêpoṭop), ল্যাপটপ কম্পিউটার (bn) (lêpoṭop kompiuṭar)
• Bulgarian: ла́птоп m (láptop), но́утбук m (nóutbuk)
• Burmese: လပ်တော့ (laptau.), လက်ပ်တော့ပ် (lakptaup.)
• Catalan: ordinador portàtil m, portàtil m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 手提電腦 / 手提电脑 (sau² tai⁴ din⁶ nou⁵), 筆記簿電腦 / 笔记簿电脑 (bat¹ gei³ bou^6-2 din⁶ nou⁵)

  Mandarin: 手提電腦 / 手提电脑 (zh) (shǒutí diànnǎo), 手提計算機 / 手提计算机 (shǒutí jìsuànjī) (mainland China), 筆記本電腦 / 笔记本电脑 (zh) (bǐjìběn diànnǎo) (mainland China), 筆記本 / 笔记本 (zh) (bǐjìběn) (mainland China, short form), 筆記型電腦 / 笔记型电脑 (zh) (bǐjìxíng diànnǎo) (Taiwan), 筆電 / 笔电 (zh) (bǐdiàn) (Taiwan, short form)

• Cornish: barrlennel f, laptop m
• Czech: notebook (cs) m
• Danish: bærbar computer c
• Dutch: laptop (nl), notebook (nl)
• Esperanto: tekokomputilo, sinokomputilo
• Estonian: sülearvuti (et), rüperaal, mappraal, läpakas (et) (colloquial), läppar (colloquial)
• Finnish: kannettava tietokone (fi), kannettava (fi), (colloquial) läppäri (fi), (dated) sylimikro (fi)
• French: ordinateur portable (fr) m, portable (fr) m
• Galician: portátil (gl) m, ordenador portátil m, computador portátil m, computadora portátil f
• Georgian: ლეპტოპი (leṗṭoṗi), ნოუთბუქი (noutbuki) (colloquial)
• German: Laptop (de) m, Klapprechner (de) m (colloquial)
• Greek: φορητός υπολογιστής m (foritós ypologistís)
• Greenlandic: qarasaasiaq angallattagaq
• Hebrew: מחשב נייד / מַחְשֵׁב נַיָּד (he) m (makhshév nayád), לָפְּטוֹפּ (he) m (láptop)
• Hindi: लैपटॉप (laipṭŏp)
• Hungarian: laptop (hu), notebook (hu), (scarcely used, chiefly when talking to non-english speakers who tend not to understand the two loanwords) hordozható számítógép (hu)
• Icelandic: fartölva (is) f, ferðatölva (is) f
• Ido: portebla komputero
• Indonesian: komputer jinjing, laptop (id)
• Irish: ríomhaire glúine m
• Italian: (computer) portàtile m
• Japanese: ノートパソコン (ja) (nōto pasokon), ラップトップ (ja) (rapputoppu)
• Khmer: កុំព្យូទ័រយួរដៃ (kompyuutɔə yuə day)
• Korean: 노트북 (ko) (noteubuk), 랩톱 (raeptop), 랩탑 (raeptap)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: klēpjdators m, piezīmjdators m
• Lithuanian: skreitinukas m, skreitinis kompiuteris m, nešiojamas kompiuteris m, nešiojamasis kompiuteris m
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: kleptop, klaptop

  German Low German: Klappreekner (nds) m, Laptop (nds) m, Notebook m

• Macedonian: пре́нослив компју́тер m (prénosliv kompjúter), ла́птоп m (láptop)
• Malay: komputer riba (ms)
• Malayalam: ലാപ്ടോപ്പ് (lāpṭōppŭ), ചെറുഗണിനി (ceṟugaṇini)
• Maltese: laptop
• Māori: rorohiko pōnaho
• Marathi: लॅपटॉप m (lĕpṭŏp)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зөөврийн компьютер (zöövriin kompʹjüter)

• Norman: p'tit compiuteu m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bærbar datamaskin m, bærbar PC m, laptop m

  Nynorsk: berbar datamaskin m or f, berbar PC m

• Persian: لپ‌تاپ (lap-tâp), رایانهٔ کیفی (fa) (râyâne-ye kifi), رایانه همراه (râyâne-ye hamrah)
• Polish: laptop (pl) m
• Portuguese: computador portátil m, portátil (pt) m, laptop (pt) m, notebook (pt) m
• Romanian: computer portabil n, laptop (ro) n, notebook n, calculator portabil n
• Russian: но́утбук (ru) m (nóutbuk), ноутбу́к (ru) m (noutbúk), лэпто́п (ru) m (lɛptóp)
• Sanskrit: अङ्कसङ्गणक n (aṅkasaṅgaṇaka)
• Scottish Gaelic: coimpiutair-uchd m, laptop m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре́носнӣк m, прије́носнӣк m, лаптоп m

  Latin: prénosnīk m, prijénosnīk (sh) m, laptop m

• Sinhalese: ජංගම පරිගණකය (jaṁgama parigaṇakaya)
• Slovak: notbuk m, laptop m
• Slovene: prenosnik m
• Spanish: portátil (es) m, computador portátil (es) m, computadora portátil f, ordenador portátil m, laptop m or f, lap (es) f (Mexico)
• Swedish: laptop (sv) c, bärbar dator (sv) c, portföljdator c
• Tajik: ноутбук (noutbuk), роёнаи кифӣ (royona-yi kifi)
• Tamil: மடிக்கணினி (ta) (maṭikkaṇiṉi)
• Thai: คอมพิวเตอร์วางตัก, แล็ปท็อป
• Turkish: dizüstü (tr), dizüstü bilgisayar (tr), laptop (tr)
• Turkmen: noutbuk
• Ukrainian: ноутбу́к (uk) m (noutbúk)
• Urdu: لیپ ٹاپ (laip ṭāp), دستی کمپیوٹر (dasti-kampyūṭar), گشتی حاسب (gaśtī-hāsib)
• Uzbek: noutbuk (uz), laptop
• Vietnamese: máy tính xách tay (vi), láp-tóp
• Welsh: gliniadur m
• Yiddish: לעפּטאָפּ m (leptop), שויס־קאָמפּיוטער m (shoys-kompyuter)
• Yoruba: ẹ̀rọ ayárabíàṣá

Adjective

laptop (not comparable)

1. Designed for use on a lap.
   • 1984 November, Gregg Williams, Ken Sheldon, “The Data General/One”, in BYTE, volume 9, number 12, McGraw-Hill Inc., →ISSN, page 105, column 1:

     At NCC, however, laptop portables such as the Gavilan were stealing the show, and when Miyashita returned to japan, his list of possible projects included a proposal for a portable computer.

   • 1988 March 29, John Dickinson, “The Quest for the ‘Least Computer’”, in PC Magazine, volume 7, number 6, →ISSN, page 134, column 2:

     Otherwise, the keyboard feel and layout are good for a laptop machine but, as with most portables, I wouldn’t want to use the T1000 to write the entire great American novel—just a chapter or two at a time.

   • 1999 July, Chris O’Malley, “Little laptops”, in Popular Science, volume 255, number 1, →ISSN, page 73:

     Nestled snugly into a cattle-class seat aboard a 737, you drop your tray table and open your laptop PC.

Derived terms

• laptop computer

Anagrams

• applot

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English laptop.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛp.tɔp/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑp.tɔp/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lap‧top

Noun

laptop m (plural laptops, diminutive laptopje n)

1. laptop (computer with a clamshell design, portable and foldable)

Derived terms

• laptopoplader
• laptoptas

Hungarian

Etymology

From English laptop. It may also be considered as a phono-semantic matching of English laptop, its first element reinterpreted as Hungarian lap (“sheet”) due to its being slim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛptop] (phonetic respelling: leptop)
• Hyphenation: lap‧top
• Rhymes: -op

Noun

laptop (plural laptopok)

1. laptop
   • 2022 February 26, Drevenyák Dávid, Laptop vagy asztali számítógép‎^[2]:

     A PC-k gyakran masszívabb felépítésűek, és a mozgatás hiánya miatt kevesebb „atrocitásnak” is vannak kitéve, mint a laptopok.

     PCs are often more ruggedly built and, because of their lack of mobility, are also less subject to "atrocities" than laptops.

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	laptop	laptopok
accusative	laptopot	laptopokat
dative	laptopnak	laptopoknak
instrumental	laptoppal	laptopokkal
causal-final	laptopért	laptopokért
translative	laptoppá	laptopokká
terminative	laptopig	laptopokig
essive-formal	laptopként	laptopokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	laptopban	laptopokban
superessive	laptopon	laptopokon
adessive	laptopnál	laptopoknál
illative	laptopba	laptopokba
sublative	laptopra	laptopokra
allative	laptophoz	laptopokhoz
elative	laptopból	laptopokból
delative	laptopról	laptopokról
ablative	laptoptól	laptopoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	laptopé	laptopoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	laptopéi	laptopokéi

Possessive forms of laptop

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	laptopom	laptopjaim
2nd person sing.	laptopod	laptopjaid
3rd person sing.	laptopja	laptopjai
1st person plural	laptopunk	laptopjaink
2nd person plural	laptopotok	laptopjaitok
3rd person plural	laptopjuk	laptopjaik

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English laptop.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈleptop/ [ˈlep̚.t̪ɔp̚]
    • Rhymes: -eptop
  • IPA^(key): (less common) /ˈlaptop/ [ˈlap̚.t̪ɔp̚]
    • Rhymes: -aptop
• Syllabification: lap‧top

Noun

laptop (plural laptop-laptop)

1. (computing) laptop, laptop computer

   Synonym: (neologism) komputer jinjing

Derived terms

• laptop ultraportabel

Further reading

• “laptop”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Malay

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English laptop.

Pronunciation

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈlaptop/ [ˈlap̚.t̪op̚]

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈleptop/ [ˈlep̚.t̪op̚] (colloquial)
• Hyphenation: lap‧top

Noun

laptop (plural laptop-laptop or laptop²)

1. laptop

   Synonym: komputer riba

   • 2024 April 22, Nursyafikah, boleh letak dlm poket 🤭siapa nk tgok pika unboxing komen part 2‎^[3], archived from the original on 21 June 2025:

     Akak, cuba beli laptop mini.

     Sis, try buying a mini laptop.

   • 2024 August 23, Hannani Juhari, “10 Laptop Murah Bawah RM2000 Terbaik (2024)”, in eCentral‎^[4], archived from the original on 28 August 2024:

     Asus […] merupakan laptop yang direka khas untuk pengguna yang mementingkan kecekapan dan mobiliti.

     The Asus […] is a laptop specially designed for users who value efficiency and mobility.

   • 2025 June 20, @ariffmac, “(Ulasan) HP Omen Transcend 14 - Laptop Gaming Dengan Bateri Tahan Lama”, in wiser.my‎^[5], archived from the original on 21 June 2025:

     Pengguna masa kini bukan sahaja mencari prestasi terbaik dalam sesebuah laptop, […]

     Today's users are not only looking for the best performance in a laptop, […]

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English laptop.

Noun

laptop m (definite singular laptopen, indefinite plural laptoper, definite plural laptopene)

1. (computing) a laptop
   • 2011, Jan Mehlum, Madrugada‎^[6], EbnPublish, →ISBN:

     Forretningsfolk, barnefamilier, unge kvinner med moderne klær, avanserte mobiltelefoner og laptoper.

     Business people, families with children, young women with modern clothes, advanced mobile phones and laptops.

Synonyms

• bærbar datamaskin

References

• “laptop” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Polish

laptopy

Etymology

Borrowed from English laptop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlap.tɔp/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aptɔp
• Syllabification: lap‧top

Noun

laptop m inan or m animal (related adjective laptopowy)

1. (computing) laptop, laptop computer (portable computer that is small enough and light enough to be used on one's lap, but large enough to have an integrated keyboard)

   Synonym: lapek

   Hypernym: komputer

   Hyponyms: netbook, notebook

Declension

Declension of laptop

	singular	plural
nominative	laptop	laptopy
genitive	laptopa/laptopu	laptopów
dative	laptopowi	laptopom
accusative	laptop/laptopa	laptopy
instrumental	laptopem	laptopami
locative	laptopie	laptopach
vocative	laptopie	laptopy

Derived terms

nouns

• lapek
• laptopowiec

Further reading

• laptop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• laptop in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• laptop in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English laptop.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌlɛ.piˈtɔ.pi/

• Hyphenation: lap‧top

Noun

laptop m (plural laptops)

1. (computing) laptop computer (class of portable computers)

   Synonym: notebook

   Hypernyms: computador, PC

   Hyponym: netbook

Further reading

• “laptop”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English laptop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlep.top/

Noun

laptop n (plural laptopuri)

1. laptop

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	laptop	laptopul		laptopuri	laptopurile
genitive-dative	laptop	laptopului		laptopuri	laptopurilor
vocative	laptopule			laptopurilor

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English laptop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlabtop/ [ˈlaβ̞.t̪op]
• Rhymes: -abtop
• Syllabification: lap‧top

Noun

laptop m or f same meaning (plural laptops)

1. laptop

Usage notes

• Per the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, the term is predominantly feminine in most of Latin America, but masculine in Ecuador, and either gender in Chile. When used in Spain, it is masculine, although the term is rare there.

Further reading

• “laptop”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “laptop”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

Swedish

laptop med vev [laptop with a crank]

Etymology

Borrowed from English laptop.

Noun

laptop c

1. (computing) a laptop

   Synonyms: bärbar dator, portföljdator

Declension

Declension of laptop

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	laptop	laptops
	definite	laptopen	laptopens
plural	indefinite	laptopar	laptopars
	definite	laptoparna	laptoparnas

References

• “laptop”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “laptop”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)