klaxon

Etymology


From the trademark Klaxon, based on (from, from ). The word was coined by Franklyn Hallett Lovell Jr., the founder of the Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Co. of Newark, New Jersey, USA, which in 1908 obtained a licence of the patent to the machine generating the sound from American inventor (1876–1944).

Noun

 * 1) A loud electric alarm or horn.

Translations

 * Arabic: بُوق, كْلَاكْسُون
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: клаксо́н, кла́ксан
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Czech:, klaxon
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: aŭtokorno
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, claxon
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: क्लाक्सोन
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 클락션
 * Latvian: klaksons
 * Mandarin:
 * Mongolian:
 * Persian: کلاکسون,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, cláxon
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: klaksón
 * Spanish: claxon,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: клаксо́н, кла́ксон
 * Uzbek: klakson
 * Vietnamese:, còi điện

Verb

 * 1)  To produce a loud, siren-like wail.

Noun

 * 1) horn loud alarm, especially on a motor vehicle

Alternative forms

 * klakson

Etymology
. Genericized trademark.

Noun

 * 1) horn of car

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  a type of loud electric horn