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pair of circumaural headphones
From head + phones .
headphones pl (normally plural , singular headphone )
A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.
Synonyms: cans ( slang ) , heads
Circumaural headphones enclose the ear, supra-aural headphones rest on the ear's surface, and earbuds are placed inside the ear.
2005 , Richard Corliss, Time , Profile of A.R. Rahman :Toward the end of the film Nazu rushes into her bedroom, clamps on headphones and listens to the technopoppy "I Wanna Be Free." The picturization shows her moving convulsively, desperately to the funky beat, turning ever more agitated, until we wonder what she wants to be free from: free from her domestic vise, or free from life?
2021 May 31, Alexandra Marvar, “The New Detectorists”, in The New York Times [1] , →ISSN :Detectorists may also carry headphones , a metal detecting shovel, hand tools such as a hori-hori (a serrated, steel hand shovel), a “finds pouch,” and a hand-held precision detector called a pinpointer.
pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound
Albanian: kufje (sq) f
Arabic: سَمَّاعَة f ( sammāʕa ) , سَمَاعَات الرَّأْس f pl ( samāʕāt ar-raʔs )
Armenian: ականջակալ (hy) ( akanǰakal )
Azerbaijani: qulaqlıq
Belarusian: наву́шнікі f pl ( navúšniki )
Bulgarian: слу́шалки (bg) f pl ( slúšalki )
Burmese: နားကြပ် (my) ( na:krap )
Catalan: auriculars (ca) m pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 耳機 / 耳机 (zh) ( ěrjī ) , 耳筒 ( ěrtǒng )
Czech: sluchátka f pl
Danish: hovedtelefoner pl , høretelefoner pl
Dutch: hoofdtelefoon (nl) m , koptelefoon (nl) m
Elfdalian: ärlur m
Estonian: kõrvaklapid
Faroese: oyralurtitól n
Finnish: kuulokkeet (fi) , luurit pl
French: casque (fr) m , écouteurs (fr) m
German: Kopfhörer (de) m pl
Greek: ακουστικά (el) n pl ( akoustiká )
Greenlandic: naalaarutit siutaasat pl
Hebrew: אָזְנִית / אוזניות (he)
Hindi: आकर्णक m ( ākarṇak ) , हेडफ़ोन m ( heḍfon )
Hungarian: fejhallgató (hu) , fülhallgató (hu)
Icelandic: heyrnartól (is) n
Irish: cluasáin m pl
Italian: cuffie (it) f
Japanese: ヘッドフォン (ja) ( heddofon ) , ヘッドホン (ja) ( heddohon ) , イヤフォン (ja) ( iyafon )
Kazakh: құлаққап ( qūlaqqap )
Khmer: កាស (km) ( kaah ) ( French "casque" )
Korean: 헤드폰 ( hedeupon ) , 이어폰 ( ieopon )
Kyrgyz: кулаккап ( kulakkap )
Lao: ຫູຟັງ ( hū fang )
Latin: auscultābulum n
Latvian: austiņas
Luxembourgish: Casque m
Macedonian: слушалки f pl ( slušalki )
Malay: fon kepala (ms)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: чихэвч (mn) ( čixevč )
Mongolian: ᠴᠢᠬᠢᠪᠴᠢ ( čikibči )
Northern Sami: oaivetelefovdna
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hodetelefoner pl , høretelefoner pl
Nynorsk: hovudtelefonar pl , høyretelefonar pl
Persian: هدفون (fa) ( hedfon ) , گوشی (fa) ( guši )
Polish: słuchawki (pl) pl
Portuguese: fones m pl , fones de cabeça m pl , auscultadores m pl
Romanian: cască (ro) f
Romansch: ureglier m
Russian: нау́шники (ru) m pl ( naúšniki )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: слушалице pl
Roman: slušalice pl
Sinhalese: හෙඩ්ෆෝන් ( heḍfōn )
Slovak: slúchadlá pl
Slovene: slušalke f pl
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: słuchatko n
Spanish: cascos (es) m pl , auriculares (es) m pl , audífonos (es) m pl
Swedish: hörlurar (sv) c pl
Thai: หูฟัง (th) ( hǔu-fang )
Turkish: kulaklık (tr)
Ukrainian: наву́шники m pl ( navúšnyky )
Uzbek: naushnik (uz)
Vietnamese: ống nghe (vi) , tai nghe (vi)
Welsh: clustffonau (cy)