laptop

See also: Laptop

English

A laptop

Alternative forms

• lap-top (slightly dated)

Etymology

lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) +‎ top.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæp.tɒp/

• Audio EN(US) GA:

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæp.tɑp/

Noun

laptop (plural laptops)

1. (computing) A laptop computer.
   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, 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

• laptronica

Related terms

• desktop
• palmtop

Translations

computing: a laptop computer

• Albanian: laptopi
• Arabic: كَمْبْيُوتِر مَحْمُول (kambyūtir maḥmūl), حَاسُوب مَحْمُول (ḥāsūb maḥmūl), لَابْتُوب m (laptup)
• Bengali: ল্যাপটপ (lêpoṭop), ল্যাপটপ কম্পিউটার (lêpoṭop kompiuṭar)
• Bulgarian: лаптоп m (laptop)
• Catalan: ordinador portàtil m, portàtil m
• Chinese:

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

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

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

  Dutch Low Saxon: kleptop, klaptop

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

• Macedonian: преносен компју́тер m (prenosen kompjúter), лаптоп m (laptop)
• Malay: komputer riba
• Maltese: laptop
• Maori: rorohiko pōnaho
• Mongolian: 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 (laptâp)
• Polish: laptop (pl) m
• Portuguese: computador portátil m, portátil (pt) m
• Romanian: computer portabil n, laptop n, notebook n, calculator portabil n
• Russian: но́утбу́к (ru) m (nóutbúk) (nóutbuk, noutbúk), лэпто́п (ru) m (lɛptóp) (leptóp)
• Sanskrit: अङ्कसङ्गणक n (aṅkasaṅgaṇaka)
• Scottish Gaelic: coimpiutair-uchd m, laptop m
• Serbo-Croatian: prijénosnīk (sh) m, prénosnīk m, прије́носнӣк m, пре́носнӣк m
• Sinhalese: ජංගම පරිගණකය (jaṁgama parigaṇakaya)
• Slovak: laptop
• Spanish: portátil (es) m, computador portátil (es) m, computadora portátil f, ordenador portátil m
• Swedish: laptop (sv) c, bärbar dator (sv) c, portföljdator c
• Tamil: மடிக்கணினி (ta) (maṭikkaṇiṉi)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: dizüstü (tr), dizüstü bilgisayar (tr)
• Vietnamese: máy tính xách tay (vi)
• Welsh: cliniadur m

Anagrams

• applot

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English laptop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛp.tɔp/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lap‧top

Noun

laptop m (plural laptops, diminutive laptopje n)

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

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Hungarian

Etymology

From English laptop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛptop]
• Hyphenation: lap‧top

Noun

laptop (plural laptopok)

1. laptop

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English laptop

Noun

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

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

     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).

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English laptop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlap.tɔp/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

laptop m inan

1. laptop

Declension

Declension of laptop

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

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English laptop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌlɛp.ˈtɔp/

Noun

laptop m (plural s)

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

Synonyms

• notebook

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Spanish

Noun

laptop m or f (plural laptops)

1. laptop

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English laptop.

Noun

laptop c

1. (computing) laptop

Declension

Declension of laptop
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	laptop	laptopen	laptopar	laptoparna
Genitive	laptops	laptopens	laptopars	laptoparnas