keyboard

See also: Keyboard

English

A computer keyboard

A piano keyboard

An electronic keyboard instrument

Etymology

From key +‎ board.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: kē'bôrd, IPA^(key): /ˈki.bɔɹd/
• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkiː.bɔːd/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Audio (CA)

  (file)

Noun

keyboard (plural keyboards)

1. (computing, etc.) A set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.
2. (music) A component of many instruments including the piano, organ, and harpsichord consisting of usually black and white keys that cause different tones to be produced when struck.
3. (music) A device with keys of a musical keyboard, used to control electronic sound-producing devices which may be built into or separate from the keyboard device.

Synonyms

• (electronic musical device): electronic keyboard

Derived terms

Derived terms

• chiclet keyboard
• keyboard instrument
• keyboardist, keyboarder
• keyboard shortcut
• keyboard warrior
• policy keyboard
• space-cadet keyboard
• kezboard

Related terms

• key
• keypad
• keys

Translations

set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.

• Afrikaans: sleutelbord (af)
• Albanian: tastierë (sq) f
• Amharic: ቁልፍ ሰሌዳ (ḳulf säleda)
• Arabic: لَوْحَةْ مَفَاتِيح‎ f (lawḥat mafātīḥ)
• Armenian: ստեղնաշար (hy) (stełnašar)
• Assamese: কীব'ৰ্ড (kib'rdo)
• Asturian: tecláu m
• Azerbaijani: klaviatura
• Basque: teklatu (eu)
• Belarusian: клавіяту́ра f (klavijatúra)
• Bengali: কীবোর্ড (bn) (kībōrḍo)
• Breton: klavier m, touchennaoueg
• Bulgarian: клавиату́ра (bg) f (klaviatúra)
• Burmese: ခလုတ်ခုံ (my) (hka.luthkum), လက်ကွက် (lakkwak)
• Catalan: teclat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鍵盤／键盘 (gin⁶ pun⁴, gin⁶ pun^4-2)

  Hakka: 鍵盤／键盘 (khien-phàn)

  Mandarin: 鍵盤／键盘 (zh) (jiànpán)

  Min Nan: 鍵盤／键盘 (kiān-pôaⁿ)

• Czech: klávesnice (cs) f
• Danish: tastatur (da)
• Dutch: toetsenbord (nl) n, klavier (nl) n
• Esperanto: klavaro (eo)
• Estonian: klaviatuur
• Faroese: knappaborð n
• Finnish: näppäimistö (fi)
• French: clavier (fr) m
• Friulian: tastiere
• Fula:

• Adlam: 𞤼𞤢𞤨𞥆𞤭𞤪𞤺𞤢𞤤‎
• Latin: tappirgal

• Galician: teclado (gl) m
• Georgian: კლავიატურა (ḳlaviaṭura)
• German: Tastatur (de) f
• Greek: πληκτρολόγιο (el) n (pliktrológio)
• Haitian Creole: klavye
• Hebrew: מִקְלֶדֶת‎ (he) f (mikledet)
• Hindi: कीबोर्ड (kīborḍ), कुञ्जीपटल (kuñjīpṭal)
• Hungarian: billentyűzet (hu), klaviatúra (hu)
• Icelandic: lyklaborð n, hnappaborð n (dated), leturborð n (dated)
• Ido: klavaro (io)
• Indonesian: papan ketik (id), papan tombol (id), papan tik (id)
• Irish: méarchlár (ga) f, eochairchlár m, luibheanchlár m
• Italian: tastiera (it) f
• Japanese: キーボード (ja) (kībōdo), 鍵盤 (ja) (けんばん, kenban)
• Javanese: kibor
• Kalmyk: товчлур (tovchlur)
• Kannada: ಕೀಲಿಮಣೆ (kn) (kīlimaṇe)
• Kashmiri: کُنٛز بوڈ‎ (kunz bōḍ)
• Kazakh: пернетақта (kk) (pernetaqta)
• Khmer: ក្ដារចុច (km) (kdaa coc)
• Korean: 자판(字板) (ko) (japan), 키보드 (ko) (kibodeu), 글쇠판 (geulsoepan)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پیتلێدەر‎ (pîtlêder)

• Kyrgyz: клавиатура (ky) (klaviatura)
• Lao: ແປ້ນພິມ (pǣn phim), ຄີບອດ (khī bǭt)
• Latin: plectrologium n
• Latvian: tastatūra
• Lingala: mángolá
• Lithuanian: klaviatūra (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: tastatur
• Macedonian: тастату́ра f (tastatúra)
• Malay: papan kekunci (ms)
• Malayalam: കീബോഡ് (kībōḍŭ)
• Maltese: tastiera f
• Maori: papapato, papa pātuhi
• Marathi: कीबोर्ड m (kīborḍa)
• Mongolian: даруул (mn) (daruul)
• Nepali: किबोर्ड (kiborḍ)
• Northern Sami: boallobeavdi
• Northern Sotho: khiipote
• Norwegian: tastatur (no) n
• Occitan: clavièr (oc)
• Persian: صفحه‌کلید‎ (safhe-kelid), کیبورد‎ (kibord)
• Polish: klawiatura (pl) f
• Portuguese: teclado (pt) m
• Romanian: tastatură (ro) f, claviatură (ro) f
• Russian: клавиату́ра (ru) f (klaviatúra)
• Scottish Gaelic: meur-chlàr m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тастатура f, типковница

  Roman: tastatura (sh) f, tipkovnica (sh)

• Slovak: klávesnica f
• Slovene: tipkovnica (sl) f
• Spanish: teclado (es) m
• Swedish: tangentbord (sv) n
• Tagalog: teklado, tipaan (tl), palapindutan
• Tajik: клавиатура (tg) (klaviatura), сафҳакалид (tg) (safhakalid)
• Tamil: விசைப்பலகை (ta) (vicaippalakai)
• Thai: แป้นพิมพ์ (th) (bpɛ̂n-pim)
• Turkish: klavye (tr)
• Turkmen: klawiatura
• Ukrainian: клавіату́ра (uk) f (klaviatúra)
• Urdu: کیبوڈ‎ (kībōḍ), کلیدی تختہ‎ (kalīdī taxtā)
• Uzbek: klaviatura (uz)
• Venetian: tastiera
• Vietnamese: bàn phím
• Walloon: taprece (wa) f
• Welsh: bysellfwrdd (cy) m
• West Frisian: kaaiboerd
• Yiddish: קלאַוויאַטור‎ f (klavyatur)

component of many instruments

• Armenian: ստեղնաշար (hy) (stełnašar)
• Asturian: tecláu m
• Breton: klavier m
• Bulgarian: клавиату́ра (bg) f (klaviatúra)
• Catalan: teclat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鍵盤／键盘 (gin⁶ pun⁴, gin⁶ pun^4-2)

  Hakka: 鍵盤／键盘 (khien-phàn)

  Mandarin: 鍵盤／键盘 (zh) (jiànpán)

  Min Nan: 鍵盤／键盘 (kiān-pôaⁿ)

• Czech: klávesnice (cs) f, klaviatura f
• Danish: klaviatur (da) n
• Dutch: klavier (nl) n, keyboard (nl) n
• Faroese: knappaborð n
• Finnish: koskettimisto (fi), koskettimet, sormio (fi)
• French: clavier (fr) m
• Galician: teclado (gl) m
• Georgian: კლავიატურა (ḳlaviaṭura)
• German: Tastatur (de) f, Klaviatur (de) f, Manual (de) n
• Greek: κλαβιέ (el) n (klavié), πλήκτρα (el) n pl (plíktra)
• Irish: eochairchlár m, luibheanchlár m, méarchlár (ga) m
• Italian: tastiera (it) f
• Japanese: 鍵盤 (ja) (けんばん, kenban)
• Korean: 건반 (ko) (geonban)
• Latin: clāviatūra f
• Macedonian: клавијату́ра f (klavijatúra)
• Norwegian: klaviatur n, tastatur (no) n
• Persian: صفحه‌کلید‎ (safhe-kelid), کلاویه‎ (fa) (klâvie)
• Portuguese: teclado (pt) m
• Romanian: claviatură (ro) f
• Russian: клавиату́ра (ru) f (klaviatúra)
• Scottish Gaelic: meur-chlàr m
• Slovak: klávesnica f, klaviatúra f
• Slovene: klaviatura f
• Spanish: teclado (es) m
• Swedish: klaviatur (sv) c
• Tagalog: teklado
• Thai: ลิ่มนิ้ว (lîm-níu)
• Turkish: klavye (tr)
• Welsh: allweddell (cy) f

electronic device with keys of a musical keyboard

• Azerbaijani: klaviatura
• Catalan: teclat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電子琴／电子琴 (din⁶ zi² kam⁴)

  Mandarin: 電子琴／电子琴 (zh) (diànzǐqín), 鍵盤／键盘 (zh) (jiànpán)

• Czech: klávesy f pl
• Dutch: keyboard (nl) n
• Finnish: koskettimisto (fi), koskettimet
• French: clavier électronique
• Galician: teclado (gl) m
• Georgian: კლავიატურა (ḳlaviaṭura)
• German: Keyboard (de) n
• Hebrew: קלידים‎ m pl (klidím), מקלדת אלקטרונית‎ (he) f
• Icelandic: hljómborð n
• Indonesian: kibor
• Irish: eochairchlár m, luibheanchlár m, méarchlár (ga) m
• Italian: tastiera (it)
• Japanese: キーボード (ja) (kībōdo)
• Javanese: kibor
• Macedonian: синтиса́јзер m (sintisájzer)
• Maori: papapatooro
• Norwegian: elektronisk orgel n, keyboard (no) n
• Persian: کیبورد‎ (kibord)
• Polish: klawiatura (pl) f, keyboard (pl) m
• Portuguese: teclado (pt) m
• Russian: клавиату́ра (ru) f (klaviatúra), синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: електрични клавир m

  Roman: električni klavir m

• Slovene: klaviatura f
• Spanish: teclado (es) m
• Swedish: keyboard (sv) n
• Tagalog: teklado
• Turkish: klavye (tr)
• Turkmen: klawiatura
• Vietnamese: organ (vi) (Vietnam), đàn phím
• Welsh: allweddell (cy) f

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Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} keyboard (id)

Verb

keyboard (third-person singular simple present keyboards, present participle keyboarding, simple past and past participle keyboarded)

1. (intransitive) To type on a computer keyboard.

   Keyboarding is the part of this job I hate the most.

Translations

to type in

• Bulgarian: наби́рам (bg) (nabíram)
• Catalan: teclejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 打字 (daa² zi⁶)

  Hakka: 打字 (tá-sṳ)

  Mandarin: 打字 (zh) (dǎzì)

  Min Nan: 拍字 (phah-jī, phah-lī), 打字 (táⁿ-jī, táⁿ-lī)

• Finnish: kirjoittaa (fi), naputella (fi), naputtaa (fi), näpytellä, näppäillä (fi)
• Greek: πληκτρογραφώ (pliktrografó), πληκτρολογώ (el) (pliktrologó)
• Italian: digitare (it)
• Macedonian: чука (čuka), типка (tipka)
• Portuguese: teclar (pt)
• Russian: печа́тать (ru) impf (pečátatʹ), напеча́тать (ru) pf (napečátatʹ); набира́ть (ru) impf (nabirátʹ), набра́ть (ru) pf (nabrátʹ); набива́ть (ru) impf (nabivátʹ), наби́ть (ru) pf (nabítʹ)
• Spanish: teclear (es)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English keyboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.bɔrt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: key‧board

Noun

keyboard n (plural keyboards or keyboarden, diminutive keyboardje n)

1. (music) keyboard (electrical keyboard instrument)
2. (computing) keyboard (input device for a computer)

Usage notes

• The plural keyboarden is rare, at least in writing.

Synonyms

• (computing): toetsenbord

Derived terms

• keyboardspeelster
• keyboardspeler

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English keyboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.bɔrt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ibɔrt
• Syllabification: key‧board

Noun

keyboard m inan

1. keyboard (electronic device with keys of a musical keyboard)

   Synonym: klawiatura

Declension

Declension of keyboard

	singular	plural
nominative	keyboard	keyboardy
genitive	keyboardu	keyboardów
dative	keyboardowi	keyboardom
accusative	keyboard	keyboardy
instrumental	keyboardem	keyboardami
locative	keyboardzie	keyboardach
vocative	keyboardzie	keyboardy

Derived terms

adjective

• keyboardowy

 

nouns

• keyboardzista
• keyboardzistka

 

Further reading

• keyboard in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• keyboard in Polish dictionaries at PWN