audiobook

See also: audio-book, audio book, and Audiobook

English

Alternative forms

• audio-book, audio book

Etymology

From audio- +‎ book.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

audiobook (plural audiobooks)

1. A recording, usually made available for sale, of a reading of the full text or of an abridgement of a book.

   Synonym: talking book

   • 2022 October 18, Jamie Gangel, Elizabeth Stuart and Jeremy Herb, “Exclusive: Bob Woodward releasing new audiobook ‘The Trump Tapes’ with eight hours of recorded interviews”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Trump’s take on his relationship with Kim – and his admission that he didn’t have a broader strategy behind the threats he made about having a “much bigger” nuclear button – are part of a new audiobook that Woodward is releasing.

   • 2023 July 2, Brandon Griggs, “We’re multitasking while walking our dogs. Animal experts say this is a problem”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Matt Semrad is an avid reader and devours audiobooks from the library — about one a week. He also spends several hours each day walking his two black doodles, Sirius and Sonny.

Translations

audiobook

• Arabic: كِتَاب مَسْمُوع m (kitāb masmūʕ), كِتَاب سَمْعِيّ m (kitāb samʕiyy)
• Armenian: աուդիոգիրք (hy) (audiogirkʻ)
• Belarusian: аўдыёкні́га f (aŭdyjokníha)
• Breton: levr klevet
• Bulgarian: аудиокни́га f (audiokníga), кни́га за слу́шане f (kníga za slúšane), гово́реща кни́га f (govórešta kníga)
• Catalan: audiollibre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有聲讀物 / 有声读物 (zh) (yǒushēng dúwù), 音像圖書 / 音像图书 (yīnxiàng túshū), 有聲書 / 有声书 (yǒushēngshū), 有聲書籍 / 有声书籍 (yǒushēng shūjí)

• Czech: audiokniha f
• Danish: lydbog c
• Dutch: luisterboek n
• Esperanto: sonlibro
• Estonian: audioraamat
• Faroese: ljóðbók f
• Finnish: äänikirja (fi)
• French: livre audio (fr) m, livre sonore (fr) m
• Georgian: აუდიოწიგნი (audioc̣igni), ხმოვანი წიგნი (xmovani c̣igni)
• German: Hörbuch (de) n, Audiobuch n, Audiobook n
• Greek: ηχητικό βιβλίο n (ichitikó vivlío)
• Hebrew: ספר מוקלט m
• Hindi: श्रव्यपुस्तक f (śravyapustak)
• Hungarian: hangoskönyv (hu)
• Icelandic: hljóðbók (is) f
• Indonesian: buku audio
• Irish: closleabhar m
• Italian: audiolibro (it) m
• Japanese: オーディオブック (ja) (ōdiobukku)
• Korean: 오디오북 (odiobuk)
• Latvian: klausāmgrāmata (lv) f, audiogrāmata f
• Lithuanian: audioknyga f
• Low German: Hörbook n, Höörbook n
• Macedonian: аудио книга f (audio kniga)
• Malay: buku audio
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сонсдог ном (sonsdog nom)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lydbok m or f

  Nynorsk: lydbok f, ljodbok f

• Occitan: audiolibre m
• Persian: کتاب گویا (ketâb-e guyâ), کتاب صوتی (ketâb-e sowti)
• Polish: książka mówiona f, audiobook (pl) m
• Portuguese: audiolivro m, livro falado (pt) m
• Romanian: carte vorbită f, carte audio f
• Russian: аудиокни́га (ru) f (audiokníga), аудио-кни́га f (audio-kníga), аудиобу́к (ru) m (audiobúk) (colloquial)
• Sanskrit: श्रव्यपुस्तक (śravyapustaka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аудиокњига f, звучна књига f

  Roman: audioknjiga f, zvučna knjiga f

• Slovak: zvuková kniha f, audiokniha f, hovoriaca kniha f
• Slovene: zvočna knjiga f
• Spanish: audiolibro m
• Swedish: ljudbok (sv) c, talbok (sv) c
• Tajik: китоби аудио (kitob-i audio)
• Thai: หนังสือเสียง (th) (nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ-sǐiang)
• Turkish: sesli kitap
• Ukrainian: аудіокни́га f (audioknýha), звукова́ кни́га f (zvuková knýha)
• Vietnamese: sách nghe, sách nói

See also

• driveway moment

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English audiobook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.djɔ.buk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -awdjɔbuk
• Syllabification: au‧dio‧book

Noun

audiobook m inan

1. audiobook

   Synonym: książka mówiona

Declension

Declension of audiobook

	singular	plural
nominative	audiobook	audiobooki
genitive	audiobooka	audiobooków
dative	audiobookowi	audiobookom
accusative	audiobook	audiobooki
instrumental	audiobookiem	audiobookami
locative	audiobooku	audiobookach
vocative	audiobooku	audiobooki

Further reading

• audiobook in Polish dictionaries at PWN