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English
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Etymology
From Middle English hardware; equivalent to hard + -ware; attested since the mid-15th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
hardware (uncountable)
- Fixtures, equipment, tools and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.
- (informal) Equipment.
- military hardware
2003 June 6, “Mission to Mars”, in CBS_Rather:BOWEN: The monster trucks of Mars rovers, joke scientists, equipped with an array of sophisticated hardware to look for signs of water and answer scientists questions.
2009 May, Lee S. Langston, “plowing new ground.”, in Mechanical Engineering, volume 131, number 5, page 40:It is one thing to see an intercooler as a simple entry in a textbook, but to witness the actual hardware as it crawled down the road was awe-inspiring.
2011 January, “Swedish Sportster”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 188, number 1, page 27:Smaller, turbocharged engines are one way to increase engine efficiency by 8 to 10 percent, but the extra hardware is expensive.
- (computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.
1952, R.L. Michaelson, “Binary Arithmetic”, in The Incorporated Statistician, volume 3, number 1 (Feb. 1952), pages 35–40:Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.
- (technology) Electronic equipment.
- Metal implements.
The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.
- (slang) A firearm.
- (slang) Medals or trophies.
- (Philippines) Short for hardware store.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Amharic: ሃርድዌር (hardəwer)
Translations
material part of a computer
- Arabic: مَتاع الحاسب, المَتاع (al-matāʕ)
- Azerbaijani: aparat təminatı pl, avadanlıq (az) sg
- Belarusian: апаратнае забеспячэнне n (aparatnaje zabjespjačennje), абсталяванне n (abstaljavannje)
- Bengali: হার্ডওয়্যার (bn) (ḣarḍōẏyar)
- Bulgarian: ха́рдуер (bg) m (hárduer)
- Catalan: maquinari (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 硬件 (ngaang6 gin6-2)
- Hokkien: 硬體/硬体 (zh-min-nan) (ngē-thé, ngī-thé)
- Mandarin: 硬件 (zh) (yìngjiàn) (mainland China), 硬體/硬体 (zh) (yìngtǐ) (Taiwan), 硬設備/硬设备 (yìngshèbèi) (mainland China)
- Czech: hardware (cs) m
- Danish: hardware (da) c
- Dutch: hardware (nl) m
- Esperanto: aparataro
- Finnish: laitteisto (fi), hardware (fi); (slang) rauta (fi), hardis
- French: matériel (fr) m, hardware (fr) m, matériel informatique m
- Galician: hardware (gl) m, soporte físico
- German: Hardware (de) f
- Greek: υλισμικό (el) n (ylismikó)
- Hindi: हार्डवेयर m (hārḍaveyar)
- Hungarian: hardver (hu)
- Icelandic: vélbúnaður (is) m
- Ido: hardwaro (io), aparataro
- Indonesian: perangkat keras (id), peranti keras, peralatan (id)
- Irish: crua-earraí m pl
- Italian: hardware (it) m
- Japanese: ハードウェア (ja) (hādowea), ハード (ja) (hādo)
- Javanese: ꦥꦶꦫꦤ꧀ꦠꦶ ꦏꦱꦂ (piranti kasar)
- Korean: 하드웨어 (ko) (hadeuweeo), 굳은모 (gudeunmo)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: hişkalav (ku)
- Latvian: aparatūra
- Lithuanian: aparatūra, techninė įranga (lt), aparatinė įranga
- Malay: perkakasan (ms)
- Maltese: ħardwer m
- Maori: pūmārō
- Marathi: हार्डवेअर n (hārḍavear)
- Norman: hardware m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: maskinvare m or f
- Nynorsk: maskinvare f
- Persian: سختافزار (fa) (saxt-afzâr)
- Polish: hardware (pl) m, sprzęt komputerowy m
- Portuguese: hardware (pt) m
- Romanian: hardware (ro) n, aparatură (ro) f, aparataj (ro) n
- Russian: аппарату́ра (ru) f (apparatúra), хардве́р (ru) m (xardvér), аппара́тное обеспече́ние (ru) n (apparátnoje obespečénije), обору́дование (ru) n (oborúdovanije), железо (ru) n (železo) (slang)
- Scottish Gaelic: bathar-cruaidh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чврстовље ?, тврдовље ?, стројевина ?, тврдотворина ?, скло̏по̄вље n, ха̏рдве̄р m, рачунална склоповска подршка f, стројна опрема f
- Roman: čvrstovlje ?, tvrdovlje ?, strojevina ?, tvrdotvorina ?, sklȍpōvlje (sh) n, hȁrdvēr (sh) m, računalna sklopovska podrška f, strojna oprema f
- Spanish: hardware (es) m, soporte físico m
- Swahili: maunzi ngumu
- Swedish: hårdvara (sv) c, maskinvara (sv) c
- Thai: ฮาร์ดแวร์ (th) (háat-wɛɛ)
- Turkish: donanım (tr)
- Turkmen: apparat üpjünçiligi
- Ukrainian: апаратне забезпечення (aparatne zabezpečennja), апара́тне забезпе́чення (aparátne zabezpéčennja)
- Uzbek: apparat ta'minot
- Vietnamese: cương liệu (vi), phần cứng (vi), phần máy
- Welsh: caledwedd f
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electronic equipment
- Bengali: হার্ডওয়্যার (bn) (hardoêr)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 硬件 (ngaang6 gin6-2)
- Hokkien: 硬體/硬体 (zh-min-nan) (ngē-thé, ngī-thé)
- Mandarin: 硬件 (zh) (yìngjiàn) (mainland China), 硬體/硬体 (zh) (yìngtǐ) (Taiwan)
- Czech: hardware (cs) m
- Danish: maskinel n, hardware (da) n
- Finnish: laitteisto (fi), elektroniikka (fi)
- Greek: ηλεκτρονικός εξοπλισμός m (ilektronikós exoplismós)
- Polish: sprzęt (pl) m
- Romanian: hardware (ro) n, aparatură (ro) f
- Russian: аппарату́ра (ru) f (apparatúra), хардве́р (ru) m (xardvér), обору́дование (ru) n (oborúdovanije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: скло̏по̄вље n, ха̏рдве̄р m
- Roman: sklȍpōvlje (sh) n, hȁrdvēr (sh) m
- Sindhi: ڳڻپيوگري (sd)
- Turkish: donanım (tr)
- Ukrainian: обла́днання (obládnannja), апара́тне забезпе́чення (aparátne zabezpéčennja)
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Further reading
Finnish
Etymology
English hardware
Pronunciation
Noun
hardware
- (anglicism, computing, electronics) Synonym of laitteisto (“hardware”) (physical equipment, as opposed to software)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English.
Pronunciation
Noun
hardware m (uncountable)
- (computing) hardware
- Synonym: matériel
Further reading
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English hardware.
Noun
hardware m (uncountable)
- (Jersey, computing) hardware
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hardware.
Pronunciation
Noun
hardware m inan
- (computer hardware) hardware (material part of a computer)
- Synonym: sprzęt komputerowy
- Coordinate term: software
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- hardware in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- hardware in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hardware.
Pronunciation
Noun
hardware m (plural hardwares)
- (computing) hardware (parts of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification)
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hardware.
Noun
hardware n (uncountable)
- (computing) hardware
Declension
declension of hardware (singular only)
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singular
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n gender
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indefinite articulation
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definite articulation
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nominative/accusative
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(un) hardware
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hardwareul
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genitive/dative
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(unui) hardware
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hardwareului
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vocative
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hardwareule
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Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hardware.
Pronunciation
Noun
hardware m (plural hardwares)
- (computing) hardware
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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