Bluetooth
See also: bluetooth
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Etymology tree
From blue + tooth. Calque of Old Norse Blátǫnn (compare modern Danish Blåtand).
The networking standard is named after the king, since the technology unites computers and mobile devices similarly to the way he united the Danish tribes.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbluː.tuːθ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈblu.tuθ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: Blue‧tooth
Proper noun
Bluetooth
- The nickname of Harald Gormsson, a king of Denmark and Norway.
- (networking, trademark) An short-range wireless technology standard for personal area networks.
- Hyponym: BLE
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: بُلُوتُوث (bulūtūṯ), بْلُوتُوث (blūtūṯ)
- Gulf Arabic: بلوتوث (blūtūṯ)
- → Bulgarian: блуту́т (blutút), блюту́т (bljutút)
- Chinese:
- → Czech: Bluetooth
- → Danish: Bluetooth
- → Dutch: Bluetooth
- → Esperanto: Bludento (calque)
- → Finnish: bluetooth
- → French: Bluetooth
- → Georgian: ბლუთუზი (blutuzi)
- → German: Bluetooth
- → Hebrew: בלוטות׳
- → Hindi: ब्लूटूथ (blūṭūth), → नीलादाँत (nīlādā̃t) (calque)
- → Hungarian: Bluetooth
- → Italian: bluetooth
- → Japanese: ブルートゥース (Burūtūsu), → 青歯 (Aoba) (calque)
- → Mongolian: блүтүүт (blütüüt)
- Norwegian:
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: blåtann (calque)
- → Persian: بلوتوث
- → Polish: Bluetooth, m
- → Portuguese: Bluetooth, m
- → Russian: блюту́с (bljutús), блюту́з (bljutúz), → синезу́б (sinezúb) (calque)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- → Cyrillic script: блутут, бљутут
- → Latin script: blutut
- → Spanish: Bluetooth
- → Swedish: blåtand (calque)
- → Tamil: புளுடூத் (puḷuṭūt)
- → Thai: บลูทูธ (bluu-tûut)
- → Uyghur: كۆكچىش (kökchish) (calque)
- → Vietnamese: bluetooth
- → Yiddish: בלו טוט (blu tut)
Translations
Danish king
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short-range wireless technology standard
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Verb
Bluetooth (third-person singular simple present Bluetooths, present participle Bluetoothing, simple past and past participle Bluetoothed)
- (ambitransitive, networking) To transmit or communicate by Bluetooth.
- 2009, Seema Gupta, Branding and Advertising, page 303:
- The widespread use of mobile phones which support free Bluetoothing has enabled promotional videos to be distributed virally between handsets.
- 2010, Katie Taylor, Confessions of a Teenager: The Diaries of Three Troubled Teens, page 92:
- Everyone's bluetoothing each other the latest ring tones and pictures. Telling the most crazy stories ever.
French
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Bluetooth.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bluetooth m
- (networking) Bluetooth (short-range wireless technology standard)
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Bluetooth.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bluˈtut/
Proper noun
Bluetooth m
- (networking) Bluetooth (short-range wireless technology standard)
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Bluetooth.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblu.tuf/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -utuf
- Syllabification: Blue‧tooth
Proper noun
Bluetooth n (indeclinable)
- (networking) Bluetooth (short-range wireless technology standard)
Further reading
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Bluetooth.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌbluˈtu.fi/, /ˌbluˈtu/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌbluˈtu/
- Rhymes: -ufi, -u
Proper noun
Bluetooth m
- (networking) Bluetooth (short-range wireless technology standard)
Further reading
- “Bluetooth”, in Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss [Houaiss Electronic Dictionary] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: UOL, 2004–2026
- “Bluetooth”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “Bluetooth”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “Bluetooth”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026