megaphone

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) A portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction.
 * 2)  Mouthpiece or promoter; one who speaks for or publicizes on behalf of another.
 * 1)  Mouthpiece or promoter; one who speaks for or publicizes on behalf of another.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مُكَبِّر صَوْت, بُوق
 * Moroccan Arabic: بوق
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: megafon
 * Belarusian: мегафо́н, ру́пар, гучнагавары́цель
 * Bulgarian:, мегафо́н,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: megàfon
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 大聲公
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: megafon
 * Danish: megafon
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: megafono
 * Estonian: megafon
 * Finnish:, huutotorvi
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: megáfono
 * Georgian: მეგაფონი
 * German:, , Sprechtrichter,
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मेगाफ़ोन
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 伝音器
 * Kazakh: мегафон
 * Khmer: គ្រឿងបំពងសំឡេង
 * Korean: 메가폰, 전음기(傳音器), 경음기(警音機) ,
 * Kyrgyz: мегафон
 * Latin: megaphonum, megaphonium
 * Latvian: megafons
 * Lithuanian: megafonas
 * Luxembourgish: Megaphon
 * Malay: megafon
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: megafon
 * Nynorsk: megafon
 * Persian: مگافون
 * Plautdietsch: Spräakjrua
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ме̏гафо̄н
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: megafón
 * Slovene: megafón
 * Spanish: megáfono
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: panalingagngag
 * Tajik: мегафон
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: мегафо́н, ру́пор, гучномо́вець
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: loa phóng thanh,
 * Volapük: spikamahorn, spikamarüd
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: megaffon

Verb

 * 1)  To use a megaphone; to speak through a megaphone.

Etymology 2
Named for the root.

Noun

 * 1)  A cytotoxic neolignan obtained from the laurel Aniba megaphylla.