headphone

English

pair of circumaural headphones

Etymology

From head +‎ phone.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdfəʊn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdfoʊn/

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

headphone (plural headphones)

1. A cushioned speaker placed on, over, or inside the ear, normally used in left/right pairs.

   Some joggers wear only one headphone in their ears, to enjoy music while paying attention to their environment.

   • 2017, Mark J. Butler, Electronica, Dance and Club Music:

     From "Little" Louie Vega, David Camacho, and Tyrone Francis I learned about seamless beatmixing, using a so-called lollipop headphone for one ear and a monitor speaker for the other.

Usage notes

Also used as a noun modifier (e.g., headphone plug, headphone socket). The device composed of two is referred to in the plural: headphones.

Derived terms

• circumaural and supra-aural headphones
• headphone concert

Related terms

• earphone

Translations

listening device

• Arabic: سَمَّاعَة f (sammāʕa), سَمَاعَات الرَّأْس f pl (samāʕāt ar-raʔs), أُرْصُوصَة f (ʔurṣūṣa), أَرَاصِيص pl (ʔarāṣīṣ)
• Armenian: ականջակալ (hy) (akanǰakal)
• Azerbaijani: qulaqlıq
• Belarusian: наву́шнікі m pl (navúšniki)
• Bulgarian: слу́шалки (bg) f pl (slúšalki)
• Burmese: နားကြပ် (my) (na:krap)
• Catalan: auricular (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耳機 / 耳机 (zh) (ěrjī), 耳筒 (ěrtǒng)

• Czech: sluchátka n pl
• Danish: hovedtelefon c
• Dutch: hoofdtelefoon (nl) m, koptelefoon (nl) m
• Esperanto: kapaŭskultilo (eo)
• Estonian: kõrvaklapid pl
• Finnish: kuulokkeet (fi) pl
• French: écouteur (fr) m
• German: Kopfhörer (de) m
• Greek: ακουστικό (el) n (akoustikó), ακουστικά (el) n pl (akoustiká)
• Hungarian: fejhallgató (hu)
• Icelandic: heyrnartól (is) n
• Indonesian: penyuara kuping
• Irish: cluasán m
• Japanese: ヘッドフォン (ja) (heddofon), ヘッドホン (ja) (heddohon)
• Kazakh: құлаққап (qūlaqqap), тыңдауыр (tyñdauyr)
• Khmer: កាស (km) (kaah)
• Korean: 헤드폰 (hedeupon)
• Kyrgyz: кулаккап (kulakkap), кулакчын (kulakcın)
• Lao: ຫູຟັງ (hū fang)
• Latin: auscultābulum n, concha auditoria f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: слушалки f pl (slušalki)
• Maori: pokitaringa
• Portuguese: fone de cabeça (pt) m
• Russian: нау́шники (ru) m pl (naúšniki)
• Santali: ᱦᱮᱰᱯᱷᱳᱱ (heḍphon)
• Scottish Gaelic: fòn-cluaise m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слушалице f pl

  Roman: slušalice f pl

• Slovak: slúchadlá n pl
• Slovene: slušalke f pl
• Spanish: auricular (es) m, audífono m, cascos (es) m pl (Spain), audífono circumaural m, audífono supraaural m, circumauricular m, supraauricular m
• Swedish: hörlur (sv) c, hörlurar (sv) c pl
• Tamil: காதொலிப்பான் (kātolippāṉ)
• Thai: หูฟัง (th) (hǔu-fang)
• Tibetan: ཉན་བྱེད་འཕྲུལ་ཆས (nyan byed 'phrul chas)
• Ukrainian: наву́шники m pl (navúšnyky)
• Vietnamese: ống nghe (vi) (𨇹𦖑), tai nghe (vi) (𦖻𦖑)
• Welsh: clustffon m or f