firmware

Etymology
From, coined in a 1967 article as an intermediary term between and.

Noun

 * 1)  Something in between hardware and software. Like software, it is created from source code, but it is closely tied to the hardware it runs on.
 * 2) Software intended for such embedded computer applications.

Translations

 * Arabic: بَرْنَامِج ثَابِت
 * Armenian: ներկառուցված ծրագրային ապահովում, ներկառուցված ծրագրաշար, պռաշիվկա
 * Belarusian: прашыўка, убудаванае ПЗ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 塑體
 * Esperanto: mikroprogramaro, integrita programaro, firmprogramo, firmvaro
 * Finnish: laiteohjelmisto,, firmis (colloquial); sulautettu ohjelma, laiteohjelma
 * French:,  , logiciel interne,
 * Georgian: მიკროპროგრამა
 * German:
 * Hebrew: קושחה
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: perangkat tegar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ファームウェア
 * Korean: 펌웨어
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: вграден софтвер, фирмвер
 * Maori: pūmanamārō
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fastvare
 * Nynorsk: fastvare
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: firmware
 * Russian:, , фи́рмвер, фирмве́р, встроенное ПО
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: ugrađeni softver, firmver
 * Slovene: strojna programska oprema
 * Spanish: firmware, soporte lógico inalterable
 * Swedish:, , inbyggd programvara
 * Thai: เฟิร์มแวร์
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: мікропрограма, вбудоване ПЗ
 * Vietnamese: phần lõi
 * Welsh: cadarnwedd

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  firmware

Declension
The inflection of this word is problematic. Joukahainen puts it in nalle-category, but it would really require Finnicized pronunciation: /ˈfirmˌʋɑre̞/. As most people tend to pronounce the word more or less like in English, it should rather be of risti-type. It's probably advisable to avoid using the inflected forms in writing and use the provided Finnish synonyms instead.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   software closely tied to the hardware on which it runs

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   software closely tied to the hardware on which it runs