headphones
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
English phones
English headphones
From head + phones.
Inflected forms:
form: headphone
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
examples: Circumaural headphones enclose the ear, supra-aural headphones rest on the ear's surface, and earbuds are placed inside the ear.
My headphones / They saved my life / Your tape / It lulled me to sleep
Toward the end of the film Nazu rushes into her bedroom, clamps on headphones and listens to the technopoppy "I Wanna Be Free." The picturization shows her moving convulsively, desperately to the funky beat, turning ever more agitated, until we wonder what she wants to be free from: free from her domestic vise, or free from life?
Detectorists may also carry headphones, a metal detecting shovel, hand tools such as a hori-hori (a serrated, steel hand shovel), a “finds pouch,” and a hand-held precision detector called a pinpointer.
gloss: A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
specifically
Related words: headphone
earbud
earphones
earpiece
headset
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: kufje
lang: Arabic
word: سَمَّاعَة
roman: sammāʕa
lang: Arabic
word: سَمَاعَات الرَّأْس
roman: samāʕāt ar-raʔs
lang: Armenian
word: ականջակալ
roman: akanǰakal
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qulaqlıq
lang: Belarusian
word: наву́шнікі
roman: navúšniki
lang: Bulgarian
word: слу́шалки
roman: slúšalki
lang: Burmese
word: နားကြပ်
roman: na:krap
lang: Catalan
word: auriculars
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 耳機 /耳机
roman: ěrjī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 耳筒
roman: ěrtǒng
lang: Czech
word: sluchátka
lang: Danish
word: hovedtelefoner
lang: Danish
word: høretelefoner
lang: Dutch
word: hoofdtelefoon
lang: Dutch
word: koptelefoon
lang: Elfdalian
word: ärlur
lang: Esperanto
word: aŭskultiloj
lang: Esperanto
word: kapaŭskultiloj
lang: Estonian
word: kõrvaklapid
lang: Faroese
word: oyralurtitól
lang: Finnish
word: kuulokkeet
lang: Finnish
word: luurit
lang: French
word: casque
lang: French
word: écouteurs
lang: German
word: Kopfhörer
lang: Greek
word: ακουστικά
roman: akoustiká
lang: Greenlandic
word: naalaarutit siutaasat
lang: Hebrew
word: אָזְנִית
lang: Hebrew
word: אוזניות
lang: Hindi
word: आकर्णक
roman: ākarṇak
lang: Hindi
word: हेडफ़ोन
roman: heḍfon
lang: Hungarian
word: fejhallgató
lang: Hungarian
word: fülhallgató
lang: Icelandic
word: heyrnartól
lang: Irish
word: cluasáin
lang: Italian
word: cuffie
lang: Japanese
word: ヘッドフォン
roman: heddofon
lang: Japanese
word: ヘッドホン
roman: heddohon
lang: Japanese
word: イヤフォン
roman: iyafon
lang: Kazakh
word: құлаққап
roman: qūlaqqap
lang: Khmer
word: កាស
roman: kaah
lang: Korean
word: 헤드폰
roman: hedeupon
lang: Korean
word: 이어폰
roman: ieopon
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кулаккап
roman: kulakkap
lang: Lao
word: ຫູຟັງ
roman: hū fang
lang: Latin
word: auscultābulum
lang: Latvian
word: austiņas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Casque
lang: Macedonian
word: слушалки
roman: slušalki
lang: Malay
word: fon kepala
lang: Mongolian
word: чихэвч
roman: čixevč
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠴᠢᠬᠢᠪᠴᠢ
roman: čikibči
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: hodetelefoner
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: høretelefoner
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: hovudtelefonar
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: høyretelefonar
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: слухалки
roman: sluxalki
lang: Persian
word: هدفون
roman: hedfon
lang: Persian
word: گوشی
roman: guši
lang: Polish
word: słuchawki
lang: Portuguese
word: fones
lang: Portuguese
word: fones de cabeça
lang: Portuguese
word: auscultadores
lang: Romanian
word: cască
lang: Romansh
word: ureglier
lang: Russian
word: нау́шники
roman: naúšniki
lang: Northern Sami
word: oaivetelefovdna
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: слушалице
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: slušalice
lang: Sinhalese
word: හෙඩ්ෆෝන්
roman: heḍfōn
lang: Slovak
word: slúchadlá
lang: Slovene
word: slušalke
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: słuchatko
lang: Spanish
word: cascos
lang: Spanish
word: auriculares
lang: Spanish
word: audífonos
lang: Swedish
word: hörlurar
lang: Thai
word: หูฟัง
roman: hǔu-fang
lang: Turkish
word: kulaklık
lang: Ukrainian
word: наву́шники
roman: navúšnyky
lang: Uzbek
word: naushnik
lang: Vietnamese
word: ống nghe
lang: Vietnamese
word: tai nghe
lang: Welsh
word: clustffonau