Bluetooth

See also: bluetooth

English

Etymology

From the nickname of Harold “Bluetooth” Gormsson, a king of Denmark and Norway, which in English is a calque of Old Norse blátǫnn (modern Danish Blåtand); so called because the technology unites computers and mobile devices similar to the way Bluetooth united Danish tribes.

Proper noun

Bluetooth

An industrial specification for wireless personal area networks.

Derived terms

Translations

personal area wireless network

Arabic: بْلُوتُوث‎‎ m (blūtuṯ)
Bulgarian: блуту́т m (blutút), блюту́т m (bljutút)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 藍牙, 蓝牙 (laam⁴ ngaa⁴)

Mandarin: 藍牙 (zh), 蓝牙 (zh) (lányá)
Czech: Bluetooth m
Danish: Bluetooth
Dutch: Bluetooth
Finnish: bluetooth
French: Bluetooth (fr) m
Georgian: ბლუთუზი (blutuzi), Bluetooth (Bluetooth)
German: Bluetooth (de) n
Hebrew: בלוטות׳‎‎
Hindi: ब्लूटूथ (blūṭūth)
Hungarian: Bluetooth (hu)
Italian: Bluetooth
Japanese: ブルートゥース (ja) (burūtūsu)

Korean: 블루투스 (beullutuseu)
Macedonian: бљуту́т m (bljutút), блуту́т m (blutút)
Malayalam: ബ്ലൂടൂത്ത് (blūṭūttŭ)
Norwegian: Blåtann
Polish: Bluetooth m
Portuguese: Bluetooth m
Russian: блюту́с (ru) m (bljutús), блюту́з (ru) m (bljutúz), блюту́т m (bljutút), блуту́т m (blutút), (colloquial) синезу́б (ru) m (sinezúb)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: блутут m, бљутут m

Roman: blutut m
Spanish: Bluetooth m
Swedish: Bluetooth
Tamil: புளுடூத் (puḷuṭūt)
Thai: บลูทูธ (bàlŏo-tôot)
Uyghur: كۆكچىش‎‎ (kökchish)
Yiddish: בלו טוט‎‎ (blu tut)

nickname of a Danish king

Danish: Blåtand (Harald Blåtand)
Norwegian: Blåtann

Swedish: Blåtand

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English Bluetooth.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌbluw.ˈtuf/, /blu.ˈtu/

Proper noun

Bluetooth m

(networking) Bluetooth (a personal area wireless network standard)

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