tape recorder

English

Noun

tape recorder (plural tape recorders)

(sound engineering) An electromechanical device use to record and play back sound, etc.
Synonyms: cassette deck, tape deck
- 1964, European Broadcasting Union, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 83, page 22:
  A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.

Derived terms

reel-to-reel tape recorder

Descendants

→ Afrikaans: bandopnemer (calque)
→ Bengali: টেপ রেকর্ডার (ṭep rekorḍar)
→ Hindi: टेप रिकॉर्डर (ṭep rikŏrḍar)
→ Dutch: bandopnemer (calque); → bandrecorder (calque)
→ Japanese: テープレコーダー (tēpurekōdā)
→ Korean: 테이프 레코더 (teipeu rekodeo)
→ Pashto: ټېپ ريکارډر (ṭep-rikārḍár)
→ Tok Pisin: teprikoda
→ Urdu: ٹیپ ریکارڈر (ṭep rikārḍar)

Translations

an electromechanical device use to record and play back sound

Afrikaans: bandopnemer
Albanian: magnetofon (sq) m
Arabic: مُسَجِّل m (musajjil)
Armenian: մագնիտոֆոն (hy) (magnitofon), ձայնարկիչ (jaynarkičʻ)
Azerbaijani: maqnitofon
Belarusian: магнітафо́н m (mahnitafón)
Bengali: টেপ রেকর্ডার (ṭep rekorḍar)
Bulgarian: магнетофо́н m (magnetofón)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 錄音機／录音机 (luk⁶ jam¹ gei¹)

Dungan: луйинҗи (luyinži)

Hokkien: 錄音機／录音机 (zh-min-nan) (lo̍k-im-ki)

Mandarin: 錄音機／录音机 (zh) (lùyīnjī)
Czech: magnetofon (cs) m, magneťák m (colloquial), magič m (colloquial)
Danish: båndoptager c, kassettebåndoptager c
Dutch: bandopnemer (nl) m (Belgium), bandrecorder (nl) m (Netherlands)
Esperanto: magnetofono
Estonian: magnetofon
Faroese: bandupptakari m
Finnish: magnetofoni (fi), nauhuri (fi)
French: magnétophone (fr) m, magnéto (fr) m (colloquial)
Georgian: მაგნიტოფონი (magniṭoponi)
German: Tonaufzeichnungsgerät n, Tonaufnahmegerät n, Tonbandgerät (de) n (reel-to-reel tape deck), Kassettenrekorder (de) m
Greek: μαγνητόφωνο (el) n (magnitófono)
Greenlandic: båndoptageri
Hebrew: רְשַׁמְקוֹל (he) m (reshamkól)
Hindi: टेप रिकॉर्डर (ṭep rikŏrḍar)
Hungarian: magnetofon (hu), magnó (hu)
Icelandic: segulbandstæki
Irish: téipthaifeadán m
Italian: magnetofono (it) m, registratore a nastro m
Japanese: テープレコーダー (tēpu rekōdā)
Kazakh: магнитофон (magnitofon), үнжазба (ünjazba)
Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនថតសំឡេង (maasɨn thɑɑt sɑmleing), ម៉ាញ៉េ (maañei)
Korean: 녹음기(錄音器) (ko) (nogeumgi), 록음기(錄音器) (ko) (rogeumgi) (North Korea), 테이프 레코더 (teipeu rekodeo)
Kyrgyz: магнитофон (magnitofon)
Lao: ເຄື່ອງບັນທຶກສຽງ (khư̄ang ban thưk sīang), ເຄື່ອງອັດສຽງ (khư̄ang ʼat sīang)
Latvian: magnetofons m
Lithuanian: magnetofonas m
Macedonian: магнетофо́н m (magnetofón)
Malay: perakam pita
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: дуу хурааагч (duu xuraaagč), магнитофон (mn) (magnitofon)
Norman: enr'gistreux m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: båndopptaker m
Pashto: ټېپ ريکارډر m (ṭep rikārḍár)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: ضَبْطِ صُوْت (fa) (zabt-e sowt), ضَبْط (fa) (zabt) (colloquial)
Polish: magnetofon (pl) m
Portuguese: gravador (pt) m
Romanian: magnetofon (ro) n, mag (ro) (colloquial)
Russian: магнитофо́н (ru) m (magnitofón), маг (ru) m (mag) (colloquial), мафо́н (ru) m (mafón) (slang)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: магнето̀фо̄н m

Roman: magnetòfōn (sh) m
Slovak: magnetofón m
Slovene: magnetofon m
Spanish: tocacintas m, grabadora (es) f, magnetofón m
Swedish: bandspelare (sv) c, kassettbandspelare (sv)
Tajik: магнитофон (magnitofon), забти савт (zabti savt)
Tatar: магнитофон (mağnitofon)
Telugu: టేపు రికార్డరు (ṭēpu rikārḍaru)
Thai: เครื่องบันทึกเทป (krʉ̂ʉang-ban-tʉ́k-téep)
Tok Pisin: teprikoda
Turkish: teyp (tr), kasetçalar (tr)
Turkmen: magnitofon
Ukrainian: магнітофо́н m (mahnitofón)
Urdu: ٹیپ ریکارْڈَر (ṭep rekārḍar)
Uzbek: magnitofon (uz)
Vietnamese: máy ghi âm (vi), máy ghi tiếng
Yiddish: מאַגנעטאָפֿאָן m (magnetofon)

tape recorder

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