microphone

Etymology
From.

Noun



 * 1) A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.

Usage notes

 * Metaphors for many microphones (such as can be observed at a press conference) include and .  Wall of microphones is used both figuratively (of a group of reporters) and literally (a wall covered with microphones).

Translations

 * Afrikaans: mikrofoon
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مِيكْرُوفُون, مَيْكْرُوفُون, مِذْيَاع
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: mikrofon
 * Bashkir: микрофон
 * Basque: mikrofono
 * Belarusian: мікрафо́н
 * Bengali: মাইক্রোফোন
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 咪高峯, 咪高峰, 傳聲器, 咪, 咪頭
 * Hakka: 麥克
 * Hokkien: 話筒, mài-kù, mái-khù, mái-khó-hong
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Crimean Tatar: mikrofon
 * Czech:
 * Danish: mikrofon
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: mikrofono
 * Estonian: mikrofon
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: micrófono
 * Georgian: მიკროფონი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: માઇક્રોફોન
 * Haitian Creole: mikwofòn
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: अणुभाष, माइक्रोफ़ोन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, míkrófónn , mæk
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: micreafón
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: микрофон
 * Khmer: មីក្រូ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: میکرۆفۆن
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ໄມໂຄຣໂຟນ
 * Latvian: mikrofons
 * Lithuanian: mikrofonas
 * Luganda: omuzindaalo
 * Luxembourgish: Mikro
 * Macedonian: микрофо́н
 * Malay:
 * Maori: hopuoro
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: microphône
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: mikrofon
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * S'gaw Karen: ကလုၢ်ဒၢ
 * Scottish Gaelic: microfòn, togair-fuaime
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ми̏крофо̄н
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: මයික්‍රොපෝනය, මෛක්‍රොනය, ශබ්දවාහිනිය
 * Slovak: mikrofón
 * Slovene: mikrofon
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kinasa sauti, mikrofoni
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: miktinig
 * Tajik: микрофон
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: микрофон
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: mikrofon
 * Ukrainian: мікрофо́н
 * Urdu: مائکروفون
 * Uyghur: مىكروفون
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: máy vi âm, micrô
 * Volapük: mikrofon
 * Yiddish: מיקראָפֿאָן
 * Zazaki:

Verb

 * 1)  To put one or more microphones on or in.

Synonyms

 * ,, , wire up

Translations

 * Spanish: microfonear, microfonar

Etymology
From.