Samsung

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 삼성(三星) (Samseong), literally “tristar” or “three stars”, combined to represent “powerful eternity”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæm.sʌŋ/

• Audio (US)

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• (rare) /ˈsæm.sʊŋ/

Proper noun

Samsung (plural Samsungs)

1. A South Korean conglomerate company which makes electronics and ships.
   • 2008, Alexandra Harney, The China Price: The True Cost, →ISBN, page 13:

     [Some of] them, potentially, are the Sonys and Samsungs of tomorrow. Some companies try to lure customers to their booths with food: a soft ice cream machine maker plies passersby with free cones, a wine fountain maker touts cups of sour red.

   • 2011, Michael Breen, Kim Jong-Il, Revised and Updated, →ISBN, page 134:

     Now they are required to be profitable and may find that North Korea is not worth the risk. Perhaps North Korea will need to found its own Hyundais and Samsungs and hire South Koreans as executives and consultants.

   • 2013, Richard Rosecrance, The Resurgence of the West, →ISBN:

     But without its own respected brands, its Toyotas and Samsungs, China will always languish at the lower end of the value chain.

   • 2015, Panos Mourdoukoutas, Business Strategy in a Semiglobal Economy, →ISBN, page 29:

     The Sonys, Sanyos, and Samsungs of the world — not to mention Chinese upstarts — all have access to the same huge pool of chips, liquid crystal displays, audio pickups, power supplies, and packaging.

Translations

South Korean conglomerate company

• Amharic: ሳምሰንግ m (samsäng)
• Arabic: سَامْسُونْجْ m (sāmsūnj)
• Armenian: Սամսունգ (Samsung)
• Bengali: স্যামসাং (sêmośaṅ)
• Bhojpuri: सैमसंग (saimᵊsaṅg)
• Bulgarian: Са́мсунг m (Sámsung)
• Burmese: ဆမ်ဆောင်း (hcamhcaung:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 三星 (saam¹ sing¹)

  Hakka: 三星 (Sâm-sên)

  Hokkien: ^{(please verify)} 三星 (saⁿ-chheⁿ / saⁿ-chhiⁿ)

  Mandarin: 三星 (zh) (Sānxīng)

• Czech: Samsung
• Finnish: Samsung
• Georgian: სამსუნგი (samsungi)
• Greek: Σάμσουνγκ f (Sámsoungk)
• Gujarati: સેમસંગ m (semsaṅg)
• Hebrew: סָמסוּנגְ m (Sámsung)
• Hindi: सैमसंग m (saimsaṅg)
• Italian: Samsung (it) f
• Japanese: サムスン (Samusun), 三星 (さむすん, Samusun; さんせい, Sansei)
• Kannada: ಸ್ಯಾಮ್‌ಸಂಗ್ (syām‌saṅg‌)
• Korean: 삼성(三星) (ko) (Samseong)
• Lashi: Samsung
• Malayalam: സാംസങ് (sāṁsaṅŭ)
• Marathi: सॅमसंग m (sĕmsaṅga)
• Nepali: सामसुङ (sāmasuṅ)
• Pashto: سامسونگ (Samsung)
• Persian: سامسونگ (sâmsung)
• Polish: Samsung m
• Punjabi: ਸੈਮਸੰਗ m (saimsaṅg)
• Russian: Са́мсунг m (Sámsung)
• Sanskrit: स्याम्सङ्ग् m (syāmsaṅg)
• Spanish: Samsung m
• Tamil: சேம்சங் (cēmcaṅ)
• Telugu: శామ్‌సంగ్ (śām‌saṅg)
• Thai: ซัมซุง (sam-sung)
• Turkish: Samsung (tr)
• Urdu: سیمسنگ m (Sēmsang)
• Uyghur: سامسۇڭ (samsung)
• Vietnamese: Sam-sung

Noun

Samsung (plural Samsungs)

1. A phone manufactured by the South Korean conglomerate company Samsung.
   • 2014, Min Ding, Jie Xu, The Chinese Way, →ISBN, page 337:

     They are wearing pajamas and shouldering pillows, with iPhones in their left hands and Samsungs in their right hands.

   • 2007, Susan Reinhardt, Don't Sleep with A Bubba: Unless Your Eggs Are in Wheelchairs, →ISBN:

     Everywhere Nokias and Samsungs are stapled to eager ears, clipped onto trousers or slipped into purses.

2. An Android smartphone.

Anagrams

• Gusmans, musangs

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzamzʊŋ/

Proper noun

Samsung n (proper noun, strong, genitive Samsungs)

1. Samsung (company)

Noun

Samsung m or f or n (strong, genitive Samsungs or Samsung, plural Samsungs or Samsung)

1. Samsung (device produced by that company)

Usage notes

• The gender typically mirrors that of the implied common noun; for example, der Samsung for a TV because of Fernseher m.

Lashi

Etymology

Borrowed from English Samsung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sam.suŋ/

Proper noun

Samsung

1. Samsung (company)

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 35