motherboard

English

Etymology

mother +‎ board

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌðɚˌbɔɹd/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

motherboard (plural motherboards)

1. (computer hardware) The primary circuit board of a personal computer, containing the circuitry for the central processing unit, keyboard, mouse and monitor, together with slots for other devices.

Synonyms

• mainboard
• mobo (abbreviation)

Derived terms

• daughterboard
• mobo (abbreviaiton)

Related terms

• mothercard

Descendants

• Bengali: মাদারবোর্ড (madarborḑ)
• → Dutch: moederbord (calque)
• Japanese: マザーボード (mazābōdo)

Translations

primary circuit board of a computer

• Afrikaans: moederbord
• Bengali: মাদারবোর্ড (madarborḑ)
• Catalan: placa mare f, placa base f, targeta mare f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 主機板／主机板 (zyu² gei¹ baan²), 主机板 (zyu² gei¹ baan²), 主板 (zyu² baan²), 母板 (mou⁵ baan²), 底板 (dai² baan²)

  Mandarin: 主板 (zh) (zhǔbǎn), 母板 (zh) (mǔbǎn), 主機板／主机板 (zh) (zhǔjībǎn), 主机板 (zh) (zhǔjībǎn), 系統板／系统板, 系统板 (xìtǒngbǎn), 底板 (zh) (dǐbǎn)

• Czech: základní deska f
• Danish: bundkort n, motherboard n
• Dutch: moederbord (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĉefkarto, ĉeftabulo
• Estonian: emaplaat (et)
• Finnish: emolevy (fi)
• French: carte mère (fr) f, carte principale f, carte de fond de panier f
• Georgian: დედაპლატა (dedaṗlaṭa), მაზერი (mazeri) (slang)
• German: Hauptplatine (de) f, Mainboard (de) n, Motherboard (de) n
• Greek: μητρική κάρτα (el) f (mitrikí kárta)
• Hindi: मदरबोर्ड (madarborḍ)
• Hungarian: alaplap (hu)
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• Icelandic: móðurborð (is) n
• Ido: matroplako, chefoplako
• Irish: máthairchlár m
• Italian: scheda madre (it) f
• Japanese: マザーボード (mazābōdo), メインボード (meinbōdo)
• Korean: 메인보드 (meinbodeu), 마더보드 (madeobodeu)
• Malay: papan induk
• Polish: płyta główna (pl) f
• Portuguese: placa-mãe (pt)
• Russian: матери́нская пла́та (ru) f (materínskaja pláta), ма́ма (ru) f (máma) (slang)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: матична плоча f

  Roman: matična ploča f

• Spanish: placa base f, motherboard (es) (slang)
• Swahili: bodimama
• Swedish: moderkort (sv) n
• Thai: แผงวงจรหลัก
• Turkish: anakart (tr)

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Danish

Etymology

English motherboard

Noun

motherboard

1. motherboard