pager

English

Etymology

From page +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪdʒə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -eɪdʒə(r)

Noun

pager (plural pagers)

1. A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
2. A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.

Synonyms

• beeper

Translations

device

• Arabic: بِيجِر m (beyjer), بِيجِر m (peyjer)
• Armenian: փեյջեր (hy) (pʻeyǰer)
• Belarusian: пэ́йджар m (péjdžar)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 傳呼機／传呼机 (cyun⁴ fu¹ gei¹), 传呼机 (cyun⁴ fu¹ gei¹), 呼叫器 (fu¹ giu³ hei³), call機／call机 (ko¹ gei¹), call机 (call gei¹) (slang)

  Mandarin: 呼叫器 (zh) (hūjiàoqì), BB機／BB机 (bìbìjī), BB机 (bībī-jī), BP機／BP机 (bìpìjī), BP机 (bīpī-jī), 傳呼機／传呼机 (chuánhūjī), 传呼机 (chuánhūjī)

• Czech: pager m
• Danish: personsøger c
• Dutch: bieper
• Esperanto: poŝmesaĝilo
• Finnish: hakulaite (fi)
• French: bip (fr) m, téléavertisseur m, pager (fr) m
• German: Piepser m, Taschenpiepser m, Rufgerät n, Pager m, Funkmeldeempfänger m, FME m
• Greek: τηλεειδοποιητής m (tileeidopoiitís)
• Hebrew: איתורית f (iturít), זימונית f (zimunít)
• Italian: cercapersone (it) m
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• Japanese: ポケットベル (pokettoberu), ポケベル (pokeberu), ページャ (pēja)
• Korean: 무선호출기 (museonhochulgi), 호출기 (hochulgi)
• Malay: alat kelui
• Maori: pūoho
• Norwegian: personsøker m
• Persian: پی‌جو (fa) (peyjar)
• Polish: pager (pl) m
• Portuguese: pager (pt) m
• Russian: пе́йджер (ru) m (pɛ́jdžer)
• Spanish: buscapersonas (es) m, bíper m, busca (es) m, mensáfono (es) m
• Swedish: personsökare (sv)
• Thai: เพจเจอร์ (pèet-jə̂ə)
• Ukrainian: пе́йджер (uk) m (péjdžer)
• Uyghur: چاقىرغۇ (chaqirghu)
• Vietnamese: máy nhắn tin

Anagrams

• gaper, grape, parge

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Portuguese

Noun

pager m (plural s)

1. pager (device used for sending and receiving electronic messages)