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English A remote control (1).
Pronunciation
Noun remote control countable and uncountable plural remote controls
( countable ) device used to operate an appliance (such as a television , vehicle , or mechanical toy) from a short distance away.
2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian A single slice of this could leave you supine in front of the Queen's speech without even the wherewithal to reach for the remote control .
( uncountable ) means of operating a device from a distance .
The bomb was detonated by remote control .
Synonyms
Descendants
Translations device used to operate an appliance from a short distance
Afrikaans: afstandsbeheerder
Albanian: pult (sq) m telekomandë f digitron m
Arabic: تَحَكُّم مِن بُعْد m ( taḥakkum min buʕd )
Armenian: հեռակառավարման վահանակ (hy) ( heṙakaṙavarman vahanak )
Asturian: mandu a distancia m control remotu m
Azerbaijani: uzaqdan idarə
Basque: urrutiko kontrol urrutiko aginte telekomando
Belarusian: пульт дыстанцы́йнага кірава́ння m ( pulʹt dystancýjnaha kiravánnja ) , дыстанцы́йнае кірава́нне n ( dystancýjnaje kiravánnje ) , пульт m ( pulʹt )
Bulgarian: дистанцио́нно управле́ние n ( distanciónno upravlénie )
Catalan: comandament a distància m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 遙控器 / 遥控器 (zh) ( yáokòngqì )
Czech: dálkový ovladač m
Danish: fjernbetjening (da) c
Dutch: afstandsbediening (nl) f
Esperanto: teleregilo
Estonian: kaugjuhtimispult (et)
Finnish: kauko-ohjain kaukosäädin (fi)
French: télécommande (fr) f ( Quebec ) manette (fr) f
Georgian: პულტი ( ṗulṭi ) , გადასართველი ( gadasartveli ) , დისტანციური მართვის მოწყობილობა ( disṭanciuri martvis moc̣q̇obiloba )
German: Fernsteuerung (de) f ( with non-vehicles more often ) Fernbedienung (de) f
Greek: τηλεχειριστήριο (el) n ( tilecheiristírio )
Hebrew: שלט (he) -רחוק (he) m ( shlat-rakhók ) , שלט (he) m ( shalát )
Hindi: दूरस्थ नियंत्रण ( dūrasth niyantraṇ ) , रिमोट कंट्रोल ( rimoṭ kaṇṭrol )
Hungarian: távirányító (hu)
Icelandic: fjarstýring (is) f
Indonesian: pengendali jarak jauh
Irish: cianrialtán m
Italian: telecomando (it) m
Japanese: リモートコントロール (ja) ( rimōto kontorōru ) , リモコン (ja) ( rimokon )
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: пульт ( pult )
Arabic: پۋلت
Latin: pwlʹt
Khmer: ទូរបញ្ជា ( tuu bɑñciə )
Korean: 리모트 컨트롤 ( rimoteu keonteurol ) , 리모컨 (ko) ( rimokeon ) , 원격조종(遠隔操縱) (ko) ( won'gyeokjojong )
Macedonian: далечински управувач (mk) m ( dalečinski upravuvač )
Malay: alat kawalan jauh
Maltese: please add this translation if you can
Maori: please add this translation if you can
Marathi: रिमोट n ( rimoṭ )
Norman: téléc'mande f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fjernkontroll (no) m
Nynorsk: fjernkontroll m
Occitan: telecomenda f
Persian: کنترل (fa) ( kontorol )
Polish: pilot (pl) m
Portuguese: controle (pt) m controle remoto m controlo remoto m comando (pt) m telecomando m
Romanian: telecomandă (ro) f comandă de la distanță f
Romansch: telecumond m cumond a distanza m
Russian: пульт дистанцио́нного управле́ния (ru) m ( pulʹt distanciónnovo upravlénija ) , ПДУ (ru) m ( PDU ) , пульт (ru) m ( pulʹt ) , дистанцио́нное управле́ние (ru) n ( distanciónnoje upravlénije )
Sardinian: telecuntrollu m
Scottish Gaelic: uidheam-smachd cèin m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: да̀љӣнскӣ упра̀вља̄ч m
Roman: dàljīnskī upràvljāč m
Slovak: diaľkový ovládač m
Slovene: daljinec m
Spanish: ( Latin America ) control remoto (es) m control (es) m ( Spain ) mando a distancia m mando (es) m telemando m
Swahili: kidhibitimbali kitanzambali
Swedish: fjärrkontroll (sv) c dosa (sv) c
Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
Thai: รีโมตคอนโทรล ( rii-mòot-kɔn-trool ) , รีโมต ( rii-mòot )
Tibetan: ཐག་རིང་ནས་ཁ་ལོ་སྒྱུར་པ ( thag ring nas kha lo sgyur pa ) , ཐག་རིང་ཚད་འཛིན ( thag ring tshad 'dzin )
Turkish: kumanda (tr) , uzaktan kumanda (tr) , televizyon kumandası
Ukrainian: пульт дистанці́йного керува́ння m ( pulʹt dystancíjnoho keruvánnja ) , дистанці́йне керува́ння n ( dystancíjne keruvánnja ) , пульт m ( pulʹt )
Venetan: tełecomàndo m
Vietnamese: điều khiển từ xa điều khiển (vi) ( abbreviation ) , rì-mốt
Walloon: telecmande (wa) f zapete (wa) f ( familiar )
Welsh: teclyn troi (cy) m teclyn (cy) m rheolydd pell m
Zulu: please add this translation if you can
doing something from a distance
Further reading 
remote control on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 