hardware

See also: Hardware

English

Etymology

; attested since the mid-15th century.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːdˌwɛə/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

  Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

hardware (uncountable)

1. Fixtures, equipment, tools and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.

   He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the hardware store.

2. (informal) Equipment.

   military hardware
3. (computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.
   • 1952, "Binary Arithmetic", R.L. Michaelson, in The Incorporated Statistician, vol. 3, no. 1 (Feb. 1952), pp 35-40.

     Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.

4. (technology) Electronic equipment.
5. Metal implements.
6. (slang) A firearm.

Related terms

• software
• hardware store

Translations

fixtures, equipment, tools and devices

• Danish: udstyr n, isenkram n
• Finnish: rakennustarvikkeet pl
• German: Eisenwaren (de) f pl
• Greek: δομικά υλικά n pl (domiká yliká)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jernvare m or f

  Nynorsk: jarnvare f, jernvare f

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: echipament (ro) n, componente fizice f pl, componente materiale f pl
• Serbo-Croatian: sklopovlje (sh), čvrstovlje, tvrdovlje, strojevina, tvrdotvorina

equipment

• Finnish: kalusto (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

material part of a computer

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: হার্ডওয়্যার (harḑ-owar)
• Catalan: maquinari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 硬件 (ngaang⁶ gin^6-2)

  Mandarin: 硬件 (zh) (yìngjiàn) (mainland China), 硬體／硬体 (zh) (yìngtǐ), 硬体 (zh) (yìngtǐ) (Taiwan), 硬設備／硬设备, 硬设备 (yìngshèbèi) (mainland China)

  Min Nan: 硬體／硬体 (zh-min-nan), 硬体 (ngē-thé, ngī-thé)

• Czech: hardware (cs) m
• Danish: hardware (da) c, maskinel n, isenkram (slang)
• Dutch: hardware (nl)
• Esperanto: aparataro
• Finnish: laitteisto (fi), hardware (fi); (slang) rauta (fi), hardis
• French: matériel (fr) m
• German: Hardware (de) f
• Greek: υλισμικό (el) n (ylismikó)
• Ido: hardwaro, aparataro
• Irish: crua-earraí m pl
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: hardware (it) m
• Japanese: ハードウェア (ja) (hādou~ea), ハード (ja) (hādo)
• Korean: 하드웨어 (ko), 굳은모
• Malay: perkakasan (ms)
• Maltese: ħardwer m
• Norman: hardware m
• Norwegian: maskinvare m
• Polish: sprzęt (pl) m
• Portuguese: hardware (pt) m
• Romanian: hardware (ro) f or n, aparatură (ro) f, aparataj (ro) n
• Russian: аппарату́ра (ru) f (apparatúra), хардве́р (ru) m (xardvér)
• Scottish Gaelic: bathar-cruaidh m
• Serbo-Croatian: čvrstovlje, tvrdovlje, strojevina, tvrdotvorina, sklopovlje (sh) n, hardver (sh) m, računalna sklopovska podrška f, strojna oprema f
• Spanish: hardware (es) m
• Swedish: hårdvara (sv) c, maskinvara c
• Turkish: donanım (tr)

electronic equipment

• Bengali: হার্ডওয়্যার (harḑ-owar)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 硬件 (ngaang⁶ gin^6-2)

  Mandarin: 硬件 (zh) (yìngjiàn) (mainland China), 硬體／硬体 (zh) (yìngtǐ), 硬体 (zh) (yìngtǐ) (Taiwan)

  Min Nan: 硬體／硬体 (zh-min-nan), 硬体 (ngē-thé, ngī-thé)

• Czech: hardware (cs) m
• Danish: maskine (da)r pl, maskinel n
• Finnish: laitteisto (fi), elektroniikka (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: ηλεκτρονικός εξοπλισμός m (ilektronikós exoplismós)
• Polish: sprzęt (pl) m
• Romanian: hardware (ro) n, aparatură (ro) f
• Russian: аппарату́ра (ru) f (apparatúra), хардве́р (ru) m (xardvér), обору́дование (ru) n (oborúdovanije)
• Serbo-Croatian: sklopovlje (sh) n, hardver (sh) m
• Sindhi: ڳڻپيوگري (sd)
• Turkish: donanım (tr)

metal implements

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} železářské zboží n
• Danish: udstyr n
• Finnish: rautatavara
• French: quincaillerie (fr) f
• Greek: σιδηρικά n pl (sidiriká), είδη κιγκαλερίας n pl (eídi kigkalerías)
• Manx: yiarnrey
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: artykuły metalowe pl
• Portuguese: ferragens f pl
• Serbo-Croatian: željezarija (sh) f
• Sindhi: سامگري (sâmagarī)
• Spanish: fierros (es) m pl

slang: firearm

• Czech: zbraň (cs) f
• Danish: våben (da) n
• Finnish: tykki (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: arme à feu (fr) f
• Greek: βαρύς στρατιωτικός εξοπλισμός m (varýs stratiotikós exoplismós)
• Spanish: arma de fuego (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} maquinari (ca) m
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} نرم‌افزار (narmafzar)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 기계설비 (gigyeseolbi)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} donanım (tr)

External links

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /aʁdwɛʁ/

Noun

hardware m (uncountable)

1. (computing) hardware

Synonyms

• matériel

External links

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

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Norman

Etymology

Template:borrowing.

Noun

hardware m (uncountable)

1. (Jersey, computing) hardware

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Portuguese

Noun

hardware m (plural hardwares)

1. (computing) hardware (parts of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification)

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Spanish

Noun

hardware m (plural hardwares)

1. (computing) hardware