tape recorder

English

Noun

tape recorder (plural tape recorders)

1. (sound engineering) An electromechanical device use to record and play back sound, etc.

   Synonyms: cassette deck, tape deck

   • 1964, European Broadcasting Union, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 83, page 22:

     A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.

Derived terms

• reel-to-reel tape recorder

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: bandopnemer (calque)
• → Bengali: টেপ রেকর্ডার (ṭep rekorḍar)
• → Hindi: टेप रिकॉर्डर (ṭep rikŏrḍar)
• → Dutch: bandopnemer (calque); → bandrecorder (calque)
• → Japanese: テープレコーダー (tēpurekōdā)
• → Korean: 테이프 레코더 (teipeu rekodeo)
• → Pashto: ټېپ ريکارډر (ṭep-rikārḍár)
• → Tok Pisin: teprikoda
• → Urdu: ٹیپ ریکارڈر (ṭep rikārḍar)

Translations

an electromechanical device use to record and play back sound

• Afrikaans: bandopnemer
• Albanian: magnetofon (sq) m
• Arabic: مُسَجِّل m (musajjil)
• Armenian: մագնիտոֆոն (hy) (magnitofon), ձայնարկիչ (jaynarkičʻ)
• Azerbaijani: maqnitofon
• Belarusian: магнітафо́н m (mahnitafón)
• Bengali: টেপ রেকর্ডার (ṭep rekorḍar)
• Bulgarian: магнетофо́н m (magnetofón)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 錄音機／录音机 (luk⁶ jam¹ gei¹)

  Dungan: луйинҗи (luyinži)

  Hokkien: 錄音機／录音机 (zh-min-nan) (lo̍k-im-ki)

  Mandarin: 錄音機／录音机 (zh) (lùyīnjī)

• Czech: magnetofon (cs) m, magneťák m (colloquial), magič m (colloquial)
• Danish: båndoptager c, kassettebåndoptager c
• Dutch: bandopnemer (nl) m (Belgium), bandrecorder (nl) m (Netherlands)
• Esperanto: magnetofono
• Estonian: magnetofon
• Faroese: bandupptakari m
• Finnish: magnetofoni (fi), nauhuri (fi)
• French: magnétophone (fr) m, magnéto (fr) m (colloquial)
• Georgian: მაგნიტოფონი (magniṭoponi)
• German: Tonaufzeichnungsgerät n, Tonaufnahmegerät n, Tonbandgerät (de) n (reel-to-reel tape deck), Kassettenrekorder (de) m
• Greek: μαγνητόφωνο (el) n (magnitófono)
• Greenlandic: båndoptageri
• Hebrew: רְשַׁמְקוֹל (he) m (reshamkól)
• Hindi: टेप रिकॉर्डर (ṭep rikŏrḍar)
• Hungarian: magnetofon (hu), magnó (hu)
• Icelandic: segulbandstæki
• Irish: téipthaifeadán m
• Italian: magnetofono (it) m, registratore a nastro m
• Japanese: テープレコーダー (tēpu rekōdā)
• Kazakh: магнитофон (magnitofon), үнжазба (ünjazba)
• Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនថតសំឡេង (maasɨn thɑɑt sɑmleing), ម៉ាញ៉េ (maañei)
• Korean: 녹음기(錄音器) (ko) (nogeumgi), 록음기(錄音器) (ko) (rogeumgi) (North Korea), 테이프 레코더 (teipeu rekodeo)
• Kyrgyz: магнитофон (magnitofon)
• Lao: ເຄື່ອງບັນທຶກສຽງ (khư̄ang ban thưk sīang), ເຄື່ອງອັດສຽງ (khư̄ang ʼat sīang)
• Latvian: magnetofons m
• Lithuanian: magnetofonas m
• Macedonian: магнетофо́н m (magnetofón)
• Malay: perakam pita
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дуу хурааагч (duu xuraaagč), магнитофон (mn) (magnitofon)

• Norman: enr'gistreux m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: båndopptaker m

• Pashto: ټېپ ريکارډر m (ṭep-rikārḍár)
• Persian: ضبط صوت (fa) (zabt-e sowt), ضبط (fa) (zabt) (colloquial)
• Polish: magnetofon (pl) m
• Portuguese: gravador (pt) m
• Romanian: magnetofon (ro) n, mag (ro) (colloquial)
• Russian: магнитофо́н (ru) m (magnitofón), маг (ru) m (mag) (colloquial), мафо́н (ru) m (mafón) (slang)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: магнето̀фо̄н m

  Roman: magnetòfōn (sh) m

• Slovak: magnetofón m
• Slovene: magnetofon m
• Spanish: tocacintas m, grabadora (es) f, magnetofón m
• Swedish: bandspelare (sv) c, kassettbandspelare (sv)
• Tajik: магнитофон (magnitofon), забти савт (zabti savt)
• Tatar: магнитофон (mağnitofon)
• Telugu: టేపు రికార్డరు (ṭēpu rikārḍaru)
• Thai: เครื่องบันทึกเทป (krʉ̂ʉang-ban-tʉ́k-téep)
• Tok Pisin: teprikoda
• Turkish: teyp (tr), kasetçalar (tr)
• Turkmen: magnitofon
• Ukrainian: магнітофо́н m (mahnitofón)
• Urdu: ٹیپ ریکارڈر (ṭep rikārḍar)
• Uzbek: magnitofon (uz)
• Vietnamese: máy ghi âm (vi), máy ghi tiếng
• Yiddish: מאַגנעטאָפֿאָן m (magnetofon)

See also

• video recorder