password

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

pass +‎ word.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæswɜːɹd/
• (Southern England) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːswɜː(ɹ)d/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈpæswɜːd/

Noun

password (plural passwords)

1. A word used to gain admittance or to gain access to information; watchword.
2. (computing) A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, etc.

Synonyms

• (word used to gain admittance): watchword
• passcode
• (abbreviation): pw, pwd, pword, pass

See also

• passphrase

Translations

word used to gain admittance

• Arabic: كلمة المرور (kalimat al-muruur), كلمة السر (kalimat al-sirr)
• Armenian: գաղտնաբառ (gałtnabaṙ)
• Catalan: contrasenya f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密碼 (zh), 密码 (zh) (mìmǎ), 口令 (zh) (kǒulìng)

• Czech: heslo (cs) n
• Danish: kodeord n, løsen n, feltråb n
• Dutch: wachtwoord (nl) n
• Finnish: salasana (fi), tunnussana (fi)
• French: mot de passe (fr) m
• German: Codewort m, Passwort n, Parole f
• Greek: συνθηματικό (el) n (synthimatikó), κωδικός (el) m (kodikós)
• Hungarian: jelszó (hu)
• Irish: focal faire m, pasfhocal m
• Italian: parola d'ordine (it) f, parola chiave f
• Japanese: パスワード (pasuwādo), 合い言葉 (あいことば, aikotoba)
• Latvian: parole f
• Lithuanian: slaptažodis (lt) m

• Macedonian: лозинка f (lózinka)
• Malay: kata laluan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: passord (no) n

  Nynorsk: passord n

• Old English: lēafnesword n
• Polish: hasło (pl) n
• Portuguese: senha (pt) f
• Romanian: parolă f
• Russian: пароль (ru) m (paról')
• Scottish Gaelic: facal-faire m
• Serbo-Croatian: lòzīnka f, gȅslo n
• Spanish: contraseña (es)
• Swahili: nywila (sw)
• Swedish: lösen (sv) n, lösenord (sv)
• Turkish: parola (tr), şifre (tr)
• West Frisian: wachtwurd n

computing: string of characters known only to a user

• Albanian: fjalëkalimi
• Armenian: գաղտնաբառ (gałtnabaṙ)
• Basque: pasahitza
• Catalan: contrasenya f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密碼 (zh), 密码 (zh) (mìmǎ)

• Czech: heslo (cs) n
• Danish: kodeord n, adgangskode (da) c, password (da) n
• Dutch: wachtwoord (nl) n
• Esperanto: pasvorto
• Estonian: salasõna
• Faroese: loyniorð
• Finnish: salasana (fi)
• French: mot de passe (fr) m
• German: Passwort (de) n
• Greek: κωδικός (el) m (kodikós), συνθηματικό (el) n (synthimatikó)
• Hungarian: jelszó (hu)
• Icelandic: lykilorð n, leyniorð n, aðgangsorð n
• Irish: focal faire, pasfhocal m
• Italian: parola chiave f, password (it) f
• Japanese: パスワード (pasuwādo)
• Korean: 암호 (ko) (amho)

• Latvian: parole f
• Lithuanian: slaptažodis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Passwuert n
• Macedonian: лозинка f (lózinka)
• Malay: kata laluan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: passord (no) n

  Nynorsk: passord n

• Polish: hasło (pl) n
• Portuguese: senha (pt) f, password (pt) f
• Romanian: parolă f
• Russian: пароль (ru) m (paról')
• Scottish Gaelic: facal-faire m
• Serbo-Croatian: javka f, lòzīnka f, gȅslo n
• Slovak: heslo (sk)
• Slovene: geslo (sl)
• Spanish: contraseña (es) f
• Swahili: nywila (sw)
• Swedish: lösenord (sv) n
• Tagalog: password
• Welsh: cyfrinair
• West Frisian: wachtwurd n

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Translations to be checked

• Mandarin: 密码 (mì mǎ)
• Portuguese: senha

• Serbo-Croatian: javka f, geslo n, lozinka f
• Slovak: heslo n
• Turkish: şifre

Verb

password (third-person singular simple present passwords, present participle passwording, simple past and past participle passworded)

1. (computing, transitive) To protect with a password.

See also

• login
• passphrase
• PIN

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Danish

Etymology

First attested in 1983, borrowing from English password.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰɑːsˌwœːd̥]

Noun

password n (singular definite passwordet, plural indefinite password or passwords)

1. (computing) password

Inflection

Inflection of password

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	password	passwordet	password passwords	passwordene
genitive	passwords	passwordets	passwords passwords'	passwordenes

Synonyms

• adgangskode

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English.

Noun

password f (invariable)

1. (computing) password