password

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EtymologyEdit

pass +‎ word

PronunciationEdit

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæswɜːɹd/
• (Southern England) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːswɜː(ɹ)d/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈpæswɜːd/

NounEdit

password ‎(plural passwords)

1. A word used to gain admittance or to gain access to information; watchword.
2. (computing) A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, etc.

SynonymsEdit

• (word used to gain admittance): watchword
• passcode
• (abbreviation): pw, pwd, pword, pass

See alsoEdit

• passphrase

TranslationsEdit

word used to gain admittance

• Afrikaans: wagwoord
• Albanian: fjalëkalim m, parullë (sq) f
• Arabic: كَلِمَةُ الْمُرُور f ‎(kalimatu l-murūr), كَلِمَةُ السِّرّ f ‎(kalimatu s-sirr)
• Armenian: գաղտնաբառ (hy) ‎(gałtnabaṙ)
• Azeri: parol
• Belarusian: паро́ль m ‎(parólʹ)
• Bengali: পাসওয়ার্ড ‎(pas'oẏarḑ)
• Bulgarian: паро́ла (bg) f ‎(paróla)
• Burmese: စကားဝှက် (my) ‎(ca.ka:hwak)
• Catalan: contrasenya f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密碼 (zh), 密码 (zh) ‎(mìmǎ), 口令 (zh) ‎(kǒulìng)

• Czech: heslo (cs) n
• Danish: kodeord n, løsen n, feltråb n
• Dutch: wachtwoord (nl) n
• Estonian: salasõna, parool
• Finnish: salasana (fi), tunnussana (fi)
• French: mot de passe (fr) m
• Georgian: პაროლი ‎(ṗaroli)
• German: Codewort (de) m, Passwort (de) n, Parole (de) f, Kennwort (de) n
• Greek: συνθηματικό (el) n ‎(synthimatikó), κωδικός (el) m ‎(kodikós)
• Hebrew: סִסְמָה (he) f ‎(sisma)
• Hindi: पासवर्ड ‎(pāsvarḍ)
• Hungarian: jelszó (hu)
• Icelandic: lykilorð n
• Indonesian: kata sandi
• Irish: focal faire m, pasfhocal m
• Italian: parola d'ordine (it) f, parola chiave f
• Japanese: パスワード ‎(pasuwādo), 合い言葉 ‎(あいことば, aikotoba)
• Kazakh: пароль ‎(parolʹ)
• Khmer: ការពាក្យសម្ងាត់ ‎(kaa piek sɑmŋat), ពាក្យទាក់ទងគ្នា ‎(piek teak tɔɔŋ knie), ពាក្យសំគាល់ ‎(piek sɑmkoal), ពាក្យសំងាត់ ‎(piek sɑmŋat)
• Korean: 암호 (ko) ‎(amho)
• Kyrgyz: пароль (ky) ‎(parolʹ)

• Lao: ລະຫັດຜ່ານ (lo) ‎(la hat phān)
• Latvian: parole f
• Lithuanian: slaptažodis (lt) m
• Macedonian: ло́зинка f ‎(lózinka)
• Malay: kata laluan
• Maori: kupu karanga, kupu whakahipa
• Mongolian: нууц үг ‎(nuuts üg), лоозон (mn) ‎(loozon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: passord (no) n

  Nynorsk: passord n

• Old English: lēafnesword n
• Persian: گذرواژه (fa)
• Polish: hasło (pl) n
• Portuguese: senha (pt) f, palavra-passe f
• Romanian: parolă (ro) f
• Russian: паро́ль (ru) m ‎(parólʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: facal-faire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лозинка f, ге̏сло n

  Roman: lòzīnka (sh) f, gȅslo (sh) n

• Slovak: heslo (sk) n
• Slovene: geslo (sl) n
• Spanish: contraseña (es)
• Swahili: nywila (sw)
• Swedish: lösen (sv) n, lösenord (sv)
• Tajik: калимаи убур ‎(kalimayi ubur), парол ‎(parol)
• Thai: รหัสผ่าน ‎(rá-hàt-pàan)
• Turkish: parola (tr), şifre (tr)
• Turkmen: parol
• Ukrainian: паро́ль (uk) m ‎(parólʹ)
• Urdu: پاس ورڈ ‎(pās varḍ), پارلفظ
• Uzbek: parol (uz)
• Vietnamese: mật khẩu
• West Frisian: wachtwurd n

computing: string of characters known only to a user

• Albanian: fjalëkalimi
• Armenian: գաղտնաբառ (hy) ‎(gałtnabaṙ)
• Basque: pasahitza
• Catalan: contrasenya f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密碼 (zh), 密码 (zh) ‎(mìmǎ)

• Czech: heslo (cs) n
• Danish: kodeord n, adgangskode (da) c, password (da) n
• Dutch: wachtwoord (nl) n
• Esperanto: pasvorto
• Estonian: salasõna
• Faroese: loyniorð
• Finnish: salasana (fi)
• French: mot de passe (fr) m
• Georgian: პაროლი ‎(ṗaroli)
• German: Passwort (de) n
• Greek: κωδικός (el) m ‎(kodikós), συνθηματικό (el) n ‎(synthimatikó), κωδικός πρόσβασης m ‎(kodikós prósvasis)
• Greenlandic: isissutissaq
• Hebrew: סיסמה (he)
• Hungarian: jelszó (hu)
• Icelandic: lykilorð n, leyniorð n, aðgangsorð n
• Ido: pasovorto (io)
• Irish: focal faire, pasfhocal m
• Italian: parola chiave f, password (it) f
• Japanese: パスワード ‎(pasuwādo)
• Korean: 암호 (ko) ‎(amho)

• Lao: ລະຫັດຜ່ານ (lo) ‎(la hat phān)
• Latvian: parole f
• Lithuanian: slaptažodis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Passwuert n
• Macedonian: ло́зинка f ‎(lózinka)
• Malay: kata laluan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: passord (no) n

  Nynorsk: passord n

• Polish: hasło (pl) n
• Portuguese: senha (pt) f, palavra-passe f
• Romanian: parolă (ro) f
• Russian: паро́ль (ru) m ‎(parólʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: facal-faire m
• Serbo-Croatian: javka f, lòzīnka (sh) f, gȅslo (sh) n
• Slovak: heslo (sk)
• Slovene: geslo (sl)
• Spanish: contraseña (es) f
• Swahili: nywila (sw)
• Swedish: lösenord (sv) n
• Tagalog: password
• Thai: รหัสผ่าน ‎(rá-hàt-pàan)
• Welsh: cyfrinair
• West Frisian: wachtwurd n

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} javka f, ^{(please verify)} geslo n, ^{(please verify)} lozinka f
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} heslo n
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} şifre

VerbEdit

password ‎(third-person singular simple present passwords, present participle passwording, simple past and past participle passworded)

1. (computing, transitive) To protect with a password.

See alsoEdit

• login
• passphrase
• PIN

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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

First attested in 1983, borrowing from English password.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰɑːsˌwœːd̥]

NounEdit

password n (singular definite passwordet, plural indefinite password or passwords)

1. (computing) password

InflectionEdit

Inflection of password

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	password	passwordet	password passwords	passwordene
genitive	passwords	passwordets	passwords passwords'	passwordenes

SynonymsEdit

• adgangskode

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English password.

NounEdit

password f ‎(invariable)

1. (computing) password

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

password f (plural passwords)

1. (computing) password (secret string of characters used to access a system)

SynonymsEdit

• senha

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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

password m ‎(plural passwords)

1. password