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bilgisayar

Sentences
Concepts

data processor

electronic computer

computing machine

computing device

information processing system

electronic computers

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bil.ɟi.sɑˈjɑɾ/
Etymology

Coined by Turkish software engineer and linguist Aydın Köksal in 1969, from bilgi (“information”) + say- (“to count”) + -ar (simple present tense suffix), literally “information counter, knowledge counter”. Possibly modelled after French ordinateur.

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