malware

From mal- +‎ -ware.^[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.weə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mal‧ware

malware (usually uncountable, plural malwares)

1. (computing) Software which has been designed to operate in a malicious, undesirable manner.

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:malware

   • 2020 October 19, “U.S. Charges Russian Intelligence Officers in Major Cyberattacks”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In a follow-up attack that hit Kyiv’s power grid a year later, the suspects used a second piece of malware, called Industroyer, to cut power for an hour, the indictment said. The malware, according to experts, posed one of the greatest digital threats to critical infrastructure since Stuxnet, the computer attack by the United States and Israel that took out Iran’s uranium centrifuges in 2009.

• malware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English malware.

malware m inan

1. (computing) malware

   Synonym: škodlivý software

Borrowed from English malware.

malware (singular definite ?, plural indefinite malware)

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonym: skadelig software

• malware on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Borrowed from English malware.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑl.ʋɛːr/ (usually pronounced in a way approximating the English)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mal‧ware

malware m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. malware

Borrowed from English malware.

• IPA^(key): /ma.lwɛʁ/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France):

  (file)

malware m (plural malwares)

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonyms: maliciel, logiciel malveillant, (rare) logiciel nuisible, (rare) pourriciel

• logiciel malveillant on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Borrowed from English malware.

malware m (countable and uncountable, invariable)

1. (computing) malware (“software developed to harm a computer system”)

   Synonym: software dannoso

• malware on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Unadapted borrowing from English malware.

malware m (plural malwares)

1. (computer security) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonym: software malicioso

• malware on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “malware”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English malware.

malware n (plural (rare) malware-uri)

1. (computing) malware

   Synonyms: software rău intenționat, (rare) software dăunător

• software rău intenționat on the Romanian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ro

Unadapted borrowing from English malware.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalweɾ/ [ˈmal.weɾ]
• Rhymes: -alweɾ

malware m (plural malwares)

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonym: software malicioso

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• malware on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Unadapted borrowing from English malware. Used due to Tagalog-English code-switching (Taglish).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmalwejɾ/ [ˈmal.weɪ̯ɾ]
• Rhymes: -alwejɾ
• Syllabification: mal‧ware

malware (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎ᜔ᜏᜒᜌ᜔ᜇ᜔)

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

• malware on the Tagalog Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tl