# download
## English
### Alternative forms

* DL, dl, d/l, D/L

### Etymology

From down- +‎ load. Verbal form first appears c. 1962 in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times. Nominal form first appears c. 1977 in Scientific American.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, noun) IPA: /ˈdaʊnˌləʊd/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Received Pronunciation, verb) IPA: /ˌdaʊnˈləʊd/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈdaʊnˌloʊd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation, verb) -əʊd

### Noun

download (plural downloads)
* A file transfer to a given computer or device from a remote one through a network connection.
    The download took longer than I expected.
* A file that has been or is intended to be transferred in this way.
    I got the download but it wouldn't work on my computer.
** 2007, Barbara Ellen Harris, I Am So Pissed!:The blue sites will be blocked on all school computers, and no email or instant messaging will be set up or permitted. These student computers would strictly be for school use. Teachers will be able to request downloads from students' jumpdrives.

#### Coordinate terms

* upload

#### Derived terms

* autodownload
* download manager
* drive-by download
* redownload

#### Descendants

* Bengali: ডাউনলোড (ḍaunlōḍ)
* Dutch: download
* German: Download
* Hindi: डाउनलोड (ḍāunloḍ)
* Italian: download
* Japanese: ダウンロード (daunrōdo)
* Korean: 다운로드 (daunnodeu)
* Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)
* Portuguese: download
* Urdu: ڈاؤنلوڈ (ḍāunloḍ)

#### Translations
### Verb

download (third-person singular simple present downloads, present participle downloading, simple past and past participle downloaded)
* (transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.
    You can download a trial version of the program for thirty days to determine whether you want to purchase the full version.
** 2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179:You can download Google's deskbar for free […]
** 2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3:
    Voiceover: You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow and then steal it again. Downloading films is stealing. If you do it you WILL face the consequences. Roy: Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting really mean.
** 2012, Rebecca K. Miller, Carolyn Meier, Heather Moorfield-Lang, Rethinking Reference and Instruction with Tablets, page 38:Finally, some e-content must first be downloaded to a computer before being transferred to a tablet or other mobile device for viewing.
** 2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian‎:With Apple’s solar farm, customers could now be confident that downloading an app or video-chatting a friend would not increase carbon pollution, Jackson said.
* (transitive, nonstandard) Synonym of upload: to send data from a given computer to a remote one.
* (transitive, nonstandard) Synonym of copy: to transfer data to or from removable media.
    When I was your age, there were no flash drives. I needed to download photos to a CD-ROM.
* (transitive, nonstandard) Synonym of install: to load software forced.
* (transitive, firearms) To load a gun (especially a muzzle-loader) with less propellant than its designed load.
* (transitive, Canada) To transfer jurisdiction and responsibility of a government asset or service to a lower level of government.
** 2008, Allister Thompson, Mike Harris, The Canadian Encyclopedia:In 1997, The Harris government also downloaded a number of social services to municipal governments, including affordable housing.

#### Hypernyms

* copy, move, transfer

#### Coordinate terms

* upload

#### Derived terms

* autodownload
* downloadability
* downloadable
* downloader
* redownload
* undownload
* undownloaded

#### Descendants

* → Danish: downloade
* → Dutch: downloaden
* → German: downloaden; herunterladen (calque)
* → Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)
* → Malay: muat turun (calque)
* → Maltese: ddawnlowdja
* → Thai: ดาวน์โหลด (daao-lòot)

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Raisa B. Deber, Kris Millan, Howard Shapiro, Christopher W. Mcdougall (2006) “A Cautionary Tale of Downloading Public Health in Ontario: What Does It Say about the Need for National Standards for More Than Doctors and Hospitals?”, in Healthc Policy‎
* ↑ John Michael McGrath (2019 August 19) “Why municipalities are worried about the return of “the D word”: Downloading”, in TVO‎, TVO, archived from the original on 13 August 2023
* ↑ The Canadian Press (2019 April 30) “27 Ontario mayors slam province for downloading costs, forcing possible tax hikes”, in CBC‎, CBC, archived from the original on 13 August 2023
* ↑ Allister Thompson ((Can we date this quote?)) “Mike Harris”, in The Canadian Encyclopedia‎, The Canadian Encyclopedia, archived from the original on 2023-08-13

### Anagrams

* Woodland, woodland

## Chinese
### Alternative forms

* 單撈 / 单捞 (daan$^1$ lou$^1$)

### Etymology

From English download.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): daan$^1$ lou$^1$ / daang$^1$ lou$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: daan$^1$ lou$^1$ / daang$^1$ lou$^1$
*** Yale: dāan lōu / dāang lōu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: daan$^1$ lou$^1$ / daang$^1$ lou$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dan$^1$ lou$^1$ / dang$^1$ lou$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /taːn⁵⁵ lou̯⁵⁵/, /taːŋ⁵⁵ lou̯⁵⁵/

### Verb

download
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) to download

### See also

* down (daan1)
* upload (ap1 lou1), up (ap1)

### References

* English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɑu̯n.loːt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: down‧load

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English download.

#### Noun

download m (plural downloads, diminutive downloadje n)
* download

##### Related terms

* downloaden

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

download
* inflection of downloaden:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English download.

### Noun

download m (invariable)
* (computing) download

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English download.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌdaw̃ˈlowd͡ʒ/

### Noun

download m (plural downloads)
* (computing) download (file transfer to the local computer)
    Synonym: descarregamento

## Swahili
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English download.

### Verb

-download (infinitive kudownload)
* to download

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -download :
| Positive present | -nadownload |
| Subjunctive | -download |
| Negative | -download |
| Imperative singular | download |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kudownload |
| Negative | kutodownload |
Imperatives :
| Singular | download |
| Plural | downloadni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hudownload |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lidownload |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kudownload |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tadownload |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tadownload |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sidownload |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngedownload |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singedownload |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalidownload |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalidownload |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -medownload |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshadownload |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jadownload |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kidownload |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipodownload |
| Consecutive | kadownload / positive subject concord + -kadownload |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kadownload |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

### References

* ↑ Petzell, Malin (2005) “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia‎, volume 5, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2009-11-29, page 87 of 85-107: “The infinitival form of the verb constitutes class 15. Many of the new verbs borrowed from English are put into this class such as kudownload ‘to download’.”