walkie-talkie

walkie-talkie

See also: walkie talkie

English

Alternative forms

• walkie talkie
• walky-talky

Etymology

From walking +‎ talking.

Noun

walkie-talkie (plural walkie-talkies)

walkie-talkie

1. A portable, bi-directional radio transceiver, usually as a pair.
   • 1962 July, “The Irish Scene”, in Modern Railways, page 11:

     It is intended to equip the yard foremen and shunters with "walkie-talkie" apparatus to keep them in close touch with the control office.

   • 2009, L. K. Bandyopadhyay; S. K. Chaulya; P. K. Mishra, Wireless Communication in Underground Mines: RFID-based Sensor Networking, Springer,, →ISBN:

     A walkie-talkie is a handheld, portable, two-way radio transceiver. It includes a half-duplex channel (only one radio transmits at a time, though any number can listen) and a push-to-talk switch that starts transmission.

2. (rare) A walk and talk.
   • 1947, Nero Wolfe, Too Many Women: A Nero Wolfe Novel:

     It could be that her walkie-talkie with Naylor had concerned a private matter not connected with what was about to happen to him, ...

   • 1993, B. Kaye Olson, Energy Secrets for Tired Mothers on the Run, Health Communications,, →ISBN, page 153:

     Go on a walkie-talkie. Everyone goes on a 15-minute brisk walk and talks about their day.

Translations

portable radio

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܪܵܣܡܲܠܵܠܵܐ‎ m (prasmālala) Belarusian: ра́цыя f (rácyja) Chinese: Mandarin: 步話機／步话机 (zh) (bùhuàjī), 對講機／对讲机 (zh) (duìjiǎngjī) Czech: vysílačka f Danish: walkie-talkie c Dutch: walkie-talkie Finnish: radiopuhelin (fi) French: talkie-walkie (fr) m, portatif (fr) m, walkie-talkie (fr) m Galician: walkie-talkie m German: Walkie-Talkie (de) n, Handfunkgerät (de) n Greenlandic: radioaraq angallattagaq Hungarian: adóvevő (hu) Icelandic: labbrabbtæki n Japanese: トランシーバー (toranshībā), ウォーキートーキー (wōkītōkī) Korean: 워키토키 (wokitoki) Malay: walkie-talkie Polish: krótkofalówka f Portuguese: walkie-talkie (pt) m Russian: ра́ция (ru) f (rácija), приёмопереда́тчик (ru) m (prijomoperedátčik), уо́ки-то́ки (ru) n (uóki-tóki), во́ки-то́ки (ru) n (vóki-tóki) Spanish: walkie-talkie m, radio portátil m Turkish: telsiz (tr) Ukrainian: ра́ція (uk) f (rácija) Vietnamese: máy bộ đàm (vi)

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Danish

Etymology

From English walkie-talkie, from walk and talk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔːrkitɔːrki/, [ˌwɒːɡ̊iˈtˢɒːɡ̊i]

Noun

walkie-talkie c (singular definite walkie-talkien, plural indefinite walkie-talkier)

1. walkie-talkie

Inflection

Declension of walkie-talkie

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	walkie-talkie	walkie-talkien	walkie-talkier	walkie-talkierne
genitive	walkie-talkies	walkie-talkiens	walkie-talkiers	walkie-talkiernes

Synonyms

• walkie

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French

Etymology

From English walkie-talkie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɔ.ki.tɔ.ki/

Noun

walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)

1. (Canada, obsolete) walkie-talkie

Further reading

• “walkie-talkie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Galician

Etymology

From English walkie-talkie.

Noun

walkie-talkie m (plural [please provide])

1. walkie-talkie

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.

Noun

walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)

1. walkie-talkie (portable communication radio)

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.

Noun

walkie-talkie n (plural walkie-talkie)

1. walkie-talkie

Declension

Declension of walkie-talkie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) walkie-talkie	walkie-talkiele	(niște) walkie-talkie	walkie-talkiele
genitive/dative	(unui) walkie-talkie	walkie-talkielui	(unor) walkie-talkie	walkie-talkielor
vocative	walkie-talkie		walkie-talkielor