ahize

Meaning

headset

Concepts

handset

receiver

telephone receiver

radio

📻

telephone receiver

Translations

récepteur

Muschel

cornet

Telefonhörer

telefoonhoorn

combiné téléphonique

Hörer

Funkempfänger

ràdio

📻

Radioapparat

Radiogerät

📻

Rundfunkgerät

📻

Radio

📻

ασύρματος

Empfangsgerät

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ɑːhize]

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: آجذه

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آخذه (ahize), from Arabic آخِذَة f (ʔāḵiḏa, literally “the taking one, which receives”). The sense is a calque from French récepteur.