headphones

headphones

English

pair of circumaural headphones

Etymology

head +‎ phones

Noun

headphones pl (plural only)

1. A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.

   Circumaural headphones enclose the ear, supra-aural headphones rest on the ear's surface, and earbuds are placed inside the ear.

   Synonyms: can(slang), heads

Translations

pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound

Albanian: kufje (sq) f Arabic: سَمَّاعَة‎ f (sammāʿa), سَمَاعَات الرَّأْس‎ f pl (samāʿāt ar-raʾs) Armenian: ականջակալ (hy) (akanǰakal) Azerbaijani: qulaqlıq Belarusian: наву́шнікі f pl (navúšniki) Bulgarian: слу́шалки (bg) f pl (slúšalki) Burmese: နားကြပ် (my) (na:krap) Catalan: auriculars (ca) m pl Chinese: Mandarin: 耳機／耳机 (zh) (ěrjī), 耳筒 (ěrtǒng) Czech: sluchátka f pl Danish: hovedtelefoner pl, høretelefoner pl Dutch: hoofdtelefoon (nl) m, koptelefoon (nl) m Elfdalian: ärlur m Estonian: kõrvaklapid Faroese: oyralurtitól n Finnish: kuulokkeet (fi), luurit pl French: casque (fr) m, écouteurs (fr) m German: Kopfhörer (de) m pl Greek: ακουστικά (el) n pl (akoustiká) Greenlandic: naalaarutit siutaasat pl Hebrew: אָזְנִית / אוזניות‎ (he) Hindi: आकर्णक m (ākarṇak), हेडफ़ोन m (heḍfon) Hungarian: fejhallgató (hu), fülhallgató (hu) Icelandic: heyrnartól (is) n Irish: cluasáin m pl Italian: cuffie (it) f Japanese: ヘッドフォン (heddofon), ヘッドホン (heddohon), イヤフォン (iyafon) Kazakh: құлаққап (qūlaqqap) Khmer: កាស (km) (kaah) (French "casque") Korean: 헤드폰 (hedeupon), 이어폰 (ieopon) Kyrgyz: кулаккап (kulakkap) Lao: ຫູຟັງ (hū fang) Latvian: austiņas Luxembourgish: Casque m Macedonian: слушалки f pl (slušalki) Malay: fon kepala (ms) Northern Sami: oaivetelefovdna Norwegian: Bokmål: hodetelefoner pl, høretelefoner pl Nynorsk: hovudtelefonar pl, høyretelefonar pl Persian: هدفون‎ (fa) (hedfon), گوشی‎ (fa) (guši) Polish: słuchawki (pl) pl Portuguese: fones m pl, fones de cabeça m pl, auscultadores m pl Romanian: cască (ro) f Romansch: ureglier m Russian: нау́шники (ru) m pl (naúšniki) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: слушалице pl Roman: slušalice pl Sinhalese: හෙඩ්ෆෝන් (heḍfōn) Slovak: slúchadlá pl Slovene: slušalke f pl Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: słuchatko n Spanish: cascos (es) m pl, auriculares (es) m pl, audífonos (es) m pl Swedish: hörlurar (sv) c pl Thai: หูฟัง (th) (hǔu-fang) Turkish: kulaklık (tr) Ukrainian: наву́шники f pl (navúšnyky) Uzbek: naushnik (uz) Vietnamese: ống nghe (vi), tai nghe (vi) Welsh: clustffonau (cy)

See also

• headphone
• earbud
• earphones
• earpiece
• headset

Further reading

• Headphones (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• headphones at OneLook Dictionary Search