Google

Google

See also: google and googlé

English

the logo of Google

Etymology

Misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡəl/

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -uːɡəl
• Homophones: google, googol

Proper noun

Google

1. (trademark) A particular Internet company.
2. (computing, trademark) A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.

Derived terms

• Doctor Google, Dr. Google
• FANG, FAANG
• FGI
• GAFAM
• ghit
• GIYF, giyf
• Gmail, Gmailer
• googlable
• google
• googleability, googlability
• googleable, Googleable
• Google bomb, googlebomb
• Google Doodle
• Google-fu
• Google is your friend
• Googlemania
• Googlemaniac
• Googlephone
• Googleplex
• Googler, googler
• Google stalk
• Google tax
• Googleverse
• googlewhack
• googlewhacker
• googlewhacking
• Googlian
• Googlise, Googlize
• Googlish, googlish
• googology
• JFGI
• LMGTFY
• Noogler
• quod google
• TGIF
• unGoogleable, ungooglable
• Xoogler

 

Translations

Google (in other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters)

Afrikaans: Google Amharic: ጉግል (gugl) Arabic: جُوجِل‎ (ar) m (jūjil), غُوغِل‎ m (ḡūḡil), قُوقِل‎ m (qūqil) Armenian: Գուգլ (Gugl) Assamese: গুগল (gugol) Azerbaijani: Quql Bambara: Gugolu Belarusian: Гугл m (Huhl) Bengali: গুগল (gugôlô) Bihari: गूगल (gūgal) Bulgarian: Гу́гъл m (Gúgǎl) Burmese: ဂူဂယ် (gugai) Chinese: Cantonese: 谷歌 (guk1 go1) Mandarin: 谷歌 (zh) (Gǔgē), 科高 (Kēgāo) (Taiwan) Chuvash: Кукӑль (Kuk̬ălʹ) Czech: Google m, Gúgl m (humble, rare), Gůgl m (humble, rare) Dinka: Google Esperanto: Guglo (eo) Estonian: Google Fiji Hindi: Google Finnish: Google French: Google (fr) Galician: Google (gl) Georgian: გუგლი (ka) (gugli) German: Google (de) n Greek: Γκουγκλ f or n (Gkougkl) Gujarati: ગૂગલ n (gūgal) Hebrew: גוגל‎ (gugl) Hindi: गूगल (hi) m (gūgal) Hungarian: Google (hu) Inuktitut: ᒎᒐᓪ (coocal) Italian: Google m Japanese: グーグル (Gūguru) Javanese: ꦒꦹꦒꦼꦭ꧀ (gūgel) Kannada: ಗೂಗಲ್ (gūgal) Kazakh: Гугл (Gugl) Khmer: ហ្គូហ្គល (guugŭəl) Korean: 구글 (ko) (Gugeul) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گووگڵ‎ (gûgill) Northern Kurdish: Gûgil Kyrgyz: Гугл (Gugl) Lao: ກູໂກລ (kū kōn) Macedonian: Гугл m (Gugl) Malay: Jawi: ݢوݢل‎ Rumi: Google (ms) Malayalam: ഗൂഗിൾ (gūgiḷ) Maori: Kūkara Marathi: गूगल (gūgal) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Гүүгл (Güügl) Nepali: गुगल (gugal) Persian: گوگل‎ (fa) (gugel) Polish: Google (pl) m Portuguese: Google (pt) m or f Punjabi: ਗੂਗਲ (pa) m (gūgal) Russian: Гугл (ru) m (Gugl), Гугль m (Guglʹ) Sanskrit: गूगल n (gūgala) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Гугл m Sinhalese: ගූගල් (gūgal) Spanish: Google m Swedish: Google (sv) Sylheti: ꠉꠥꠉꠟ (gugol) Tajik: Гугл (Gugl) Tamil: கூகிள் (kūkiḷ) Telugu: గూగుల్ (gūgul) Thai: กูเกิล (guu-gə̂n) Tigrinya: ጉግል (gugl) Turkish: Google (tr) Ukrainian: Ґуґл m (Gugl), Гугл m (Huhl) Urdu: گوگل‎ m (gūgal) Uyghur: گۇگۇل‎ (gugul)

See also

• Category:en:Google
• Android
• Frightful Five

Verb

Google (third-person singular simple present Googles, present participle Googling, simple past and past participle Googled)

1. Alternative letter-case form of google

Translations

to search the internet using the Google search engine — see google

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Danish

Etymology

From English Google.

Proper noun

Google (genitive Googles)

1. Google

Derived terms

• google

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Finnish

Etymology

From English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡle/, [ˈɡuːɡle̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡl/, [ˈɡuːɡl]
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoːɡle/, [ˈɡo̞ːɡle̞]

Proper noun

Google

1. Google (trademark)
2. Google (search engine)

Declension

Inflection of Google (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		Google	—
genitive		Googlen	—
partitive		Googlea	—
illative		Googleen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Google	—
accusative	nom.	Google	—
	gen.	Googlen
genitive		Googlen	—
partitive		Googlea	—
inessive		Googlessa	—
elative		Googlesta	—
illative		Googleen	—
adessive		Googlella	—
ablative		Googlelta	—
allative		Googlelle	—
essive		Googlena	—
translative		Googleksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Googletta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Google (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Googleni	Googlemme
2nd person	Googlesi	Googlenne
3rd person	Googlensa

Derived terms

• googlata

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French

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /ɡu.ɡœl/

Proper noun

Google ?

1. Google

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːɡəl/, [ˈɡuːɡəl], [ˈɡuːɡl̩]

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Goo‧gle

Proper noun

Google n (genitive Googles)

1. Google (search engine)
   • 2004, Thomas Köhre, Google: Alles finden und viele Tricks, p. 9;

     Sicher haben Sie schon einmal den Ausspruch »Frag doch Google!« gehört und sich gefragt, was dieses Google eigentlich ist?

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Derived terms

• googeln

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡuːɡl̩], [ˈɡuːɡəl]
• Hyphenation: Google
• Rhymes: -əl

Proper noun

Google

1. Google (search engine or company)

Usage notes

Due to the difficulty posed by its word-final consonant cluster, it is sometimes localized informally (and somewhat jocularly) as gugli and this latter variant may serve as a basis for further derivations.

Declension

The Hungarian version of Google uses suffixes with -o- in Google’s Chrome browser.[1]

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Google	—
accusative	Google-t	—
dative	Google-nak	—
instrumental	Google-lal	—
causal-final	Google-ért	—
translative	Google-lá	—
terminative	Google-ig	—
essive-formal	Google-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Google-ban	—
superessive	Google-on	—
adessive	Google-nál	—
illative	Google-ba	—
sublative	Google-ra	—
allative	Google-hoz	—
elative	Google-ból	—
delative	Google-ról	—
ablative	Google-tól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Google-é	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Google-éi	—

Possessive forms of Google
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Google-om	—
2nd person sing.	Google-od	—
3rd person sing.	Google-ja	—
1st person plural	Google-unk	—
2nd person plural	Google-otok	—
3rd person plural	Google-juk	—

or

Inflection (stem in -ö-, front rounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Google	—
accusative	Google-t	—
dative	Google-nek	—
instrumental	Google-lel	—
causal-final	Google-ért	—
translative	Google-lé	—
terminative	Google-ig	—
essive-formal	Google-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Google-ben	—
superessive	Google-ön	—
adessive	Google-nél	—
illative	Google-be	—
sublative	Google-re	—
allative	Google-höz	—
elative	Google-ből	—
delative	Google-ről	—
ablative	Google-től	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Google-é	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Google-éi	—

Possessive forms of Google
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Google-öm	—
2nd person sing.	Google-öd	—
3rd person sing.	Google-je	—
1st person plural	Google-ünk	—
2nd person plural	Google-ötök	—
3rd person plural	Google-jük	—

or

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Google	—
accusative	Google-t	—
dative	Google-nek	—
instrumental	Google-lel	—
causal-final	Google-ért	—
translative	Google-lé	—
terminative	Google-ig	—
essive-formal	Google-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Google-ben	—
superessive	Google-en	—
adessive	Google-nél	—
illative	Google-be	—
sublative	Google-re	—
allative	Google-hez	—
elative	Google-ből	—
delative	Google-ről	—
ablative	Google-től	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Google-é	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Google-éi	—

Possessive forms of Google
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Google-em	—
2nd person sing.	Google-ed	—
3rd person sing.	Google-je	—
1st person plural	Google-ünk	—
2nd person plural	Google-etek	—
3rd person plural	Google-jük	—

Derived terms

• guglizható (“googleable”)
• guglizhatatlan (“ungoogleable”)
• (gugliz →) kigugliz, meggugliz, rágugliz (“to google up”, approximately)
• guglizik (“to google”)

References

1. Text in the empty search field in a new page opened in Chrome: Keressen a Google-on, vagy írjon be egy URL-t (“Search Google or type a URL”).

Further reading

• Kiguglizhatatlan at latillad.org
• Collection of posts in this topic at moly.hu
• Melyik a helyes? Google-lal vagy google-val? at gyakorikerdesek.hu
• Google-on at e-nyelv.hu

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɡol/[1]
• Rhymes: -uɡol

Proper noun

Google m

1. Google (search engine or company)

Derived terms

• googlare

References

1. Google in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Google.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuɡl/
• Rhymes: -uɡl
• Syllabification: Google

Proper noun

Google m inan

1. Google

Declension

Declension of Google

	singular
nominative	Google
genitive	Google'a
dative	Google'owi
accusative	Google
instrumental	Google'em
locative	Google'u
vocative	Google'u

or

Indeclinable.

Derived terms

verb

• googlować

 

Further reading

• Google in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Google in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Google.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɡow/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɡɔɫ/

Proper noun

Google m or f

1. Google (search engine or company)

Usage notes

When referring to the search engine the noun is often treated as masculine, when referring to the company itself as feminine.[1]

Derived terms

• googlear, googlar

References

1. “Qual a diferença entre “o Google” e “a Google”?”, in Portuguese Language Stack Exchange‎, accessed November 05, 2015