thermos

English

Etymology

From Thermos, a trademarked name, from Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “warm”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈθɜː.mɒs/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈθɝ.məs/

Noun

thermos (plural thermoses)

1. A bottle, flask or similar vessel having a vacuum between its inner and outer silvered walls; designed to maintain the temperature of its contents

Translations

vacuum flask

• Arabic: تِرْمُس‎ m (tirmus)
• Armenian: թերմոս (hy) (tʿermos)
• Azerbaijani: termos
• Belarusian: тэ́рмас m (térmas)
• Bulgarian: те́рмос m (térmos)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 暖壺, 暖壶 (nyun⁵ wu^4-2)

  Mandarin: 熱水瓶 (zh), 热水瓶 (zh) (rèshuǐpíng), 暖瓶 (zh) (nuǎnpíng), 暖壺 (zh), 暖壶 (zh) (nuǎnhú)

• Czech: termoska (cs) f, termoláhev f
• Finnish: termospullo (fi), termos (fi)
• French: thermos (fr) m
• Georgian: თერმოსი (ka) (termosi)
• German: Thermoskanne (de) f
• Greek: θερμός (el) n (thermós)
• Hindi: थरमस (hi) (tharmas)
• Hungarian: termosz (hu)
• Indonesian: termos (id)
• Italian: termos m
• Japanese: 魔法瓶 (ja) (まほうびん, mahōbin)
• Kazakh: термос (termos)

• Korean: 보온병 (ko) (boonbyeong)
• Kyrgyz: термос (ky) (termos)
• Latvian: termoss m, termospudele f
• Lithuanian: termosas m
• Macedonian: термос (termos)
• Mongolian: халуун сав (haluun sav)
• Ossetian: термос (termos)
• Persian: فلاسک‎ (fa) (felâsk)
• Polish: termos (pl) m
• Portuguese: garrafa térmica (pt) f
• Russian: те́рмос (ru) m (tɛ́rmos)
• Slovak: termoska f
• Spanish: termo (es) m
• Swedish: termos (sv) c
• Turkish: termos (tr)
• Ukrainian: те́рмос m (térmos)
• Uyghur: چايدان‎ (ug) (chaydan), تېرموس‎ (tërmos)
• Uzbek: termos (uz)
• Vietnamese: phích (vi), bình thuỷ

See also

• dewar

Further reading

• thermos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• moth-ers, mothers, smother

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French

Etymology

Genericized trademark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛʁ.mos/, /tɛʁ.mɔs/

Noun

thermos m (plural thermos)

1. thermos

Further reading

• “thermos” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).