silencer

English

Etymology

silence +‎ -er

Noun

silencer (plural silencers)

1. An attachment to a gun or an exhaust pipe that reduces the sound it emits.
2. Something that silences another thing.

Synonyms

• (attachment): suppressor

Translations

attachment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消聲器 (cmn), 消声器 (cmn) (xiāoshēngqì), 消音器 (cmn) (xiāoyīnqì)

• Czech: tlumič (cs)
• Dutch: demper (nl)
• Finnish: äänenvaimennin (fi)
• French: silencieux (fr) m
• German: Schalldämpfer (de) m

• Hungarian: hangtompító (hu)
• Japanese: 消音器 (ja) (しょうおんき, shōonki), サイレンサー (ja) (sairensā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lyddemper (no) m

  Nynorsk: lyddempar (nn) m

• Russian: глушитель (ru) (glušítelʹ) m
• Turkish: susturucu (tr)

something that silences another thing

• Estonian: summuti (et)
• Finnish: äänenvaimennin (fi)

• Serbian: prigušivač m

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