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English
Etymology
muffle + -er
Pronunciation
Noun
muffler (plural mufflers)
- (US, automotive) Part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
- A silencer or suppressor fitted to a gun.
- A type of scarf.
- (World War I military slang, rare) A gasmask.
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Descendants
Translations
part of exhaust pipe
- Azerbaijani: səsboğan
- Belarusian: глушы́цель m (hlušýcjelʹ)
- Bulgarian: заглуши́тел (bg) m (zaglušítel)
- Catalan: silenciador m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 消音器 (zh) (xiāoyīnqì)
- Dutch: knalpot (nl) m, demper (nl) m, knalpijp (nl) f
- Finnish: äänenvaimennin (fi)
- French: pot d’échappement (fr) m, silencieux d’échappement m
- Georgian: მაყუჩი (maq̇uči)
- German: Schalldämpfer (de) m
- Hungarian: hangtompító (hu)
- Irish: ciúnadóir m
- Italian: smorzatore m, silenziatore (it) m, marmitta (it) f
- Japanese: マフラー (ja) (mafurā), 消音器 (ja) (しょうおんき, shōonki)
- Korean: 머플러 (meopeulleo), 소음기 (so'eumgi)
- Latvian: trokšņa slāpētājs m
- Lithuanian: duslintuvas m
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lyddemper m, lydpotte m or f, eksospotte m or f
- Nynorsk: lyddempar m, lydpotte f
- Portuguese: silencioso (pt) m, silenciador (pt) m
- Romanian: tobă de eșapament (ro) f
- Russian: глуши́тель (ru) m (glušítelʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ауспух m
- Roman: auspuh m
- Spanish: silenciador m
- Swedish: ljuddämpare (sv) c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: глушни́к m (hlušnýk)
- Welsh: distewydd m
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References
- ^ Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech, volume 47, number 1/2, page 81