Windows

See also: windows

English

The Windows logo

Etymology

From windows, in reference to the user-interface display elements.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndoʊz/

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndəʊz/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndoz/
• (Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndouz/
• (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndəz/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndəʉz/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈwəndɐʉz/
• Rhymes: -ɪndəʊz
• Hyphenation: Win‧dows

Proper noun

Windows (usually uncountable, plural Windows)

1. (operating systems, trademark) Microsoft Windows, an operating system with a WIMP graphical user interface that dominates the personal computer market.

   Synonym: Win

2. (computing) Ellipsis of Windows key.

Derived terms

• PWI
• UWP
• W95
• W98
• WAMP
• WASAPI
• WCF
• WDI
• WDM
• WF
• WIA
• Win
• Win10
• Win11
• Win16
• Win2000
• Win32
• Win64
• Win7
• Win8
• Winblows
• Windows-1252
• Windows key
• Windows tax
• Windoze
• Windross
• Windvocate
• WinJS
• Winkey
• WinMe
• Winmodem
• WinNT
• WinRT
• Winsock
• wintard
• Wintel
• Wintroll
• WinVNC
• WinXP
• WISA
• WMA
• WMF
• WMI
• WMV
• WoW
• WP
• WPA
• WPF
• WRP
• WSS
• WU

Translations

Microsoft Windows

• Arabic: ويندوز m
• Bulgarian: Уи́ндоус (Uíndous)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 視窗 / 视窗 (zh) (Shìchuāng)，微軟視窗 / 微软视窗 (wēiruǎnshìchuāng, wéiruǎnshìchuāng)

• Esperanto: Vindozo
• Finnish: Windows (fi)
• French: Windows (fr)
• German: Windows (de)
• Greek: Windows
• Hindi: विन्डोज़ (vinḍoz)
• Japanese: ウィンドウズ, Windows (ja) (Windows)
• Korean: 윈도우 (ko) (Windou), 윈도 (Windo), 윈도스 (Windoseu)
• Macedonian: Виндоус (Vindous), Виндоуз (Vindouz)
• Persian: ویندوز (vindovz)
• Polish: Windows (pl) m
• Portuguese: Windows m
• Romanian: Windows
• Russian: виндовс (ru) m (vindovs), Уиндоус (Uindous), Виндоус (Vindous), Уиндоуз (Uindouz), Виндоуз (Vindouz)
• Spanish: Windows
• Tamil: விண்டோஸ் (viṇṭōs)
• Thai: วินโดวส์
• Turkish: Windows (tr)
• Ukrainian: віндовс (vindovs)

Further reading

• Microsoft Windows on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• (Europe) IPA^(key): /windoz/

Proper noun

Windows m

1. (operating systems, trademark) Microsoft Windows, an operating system.

Further reading

• Microsoft Windows on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪndoːs/, /vɪndoːs/
• IPA^(key): /wɪndɔs/, /vɪndɔs/ (influenced by the predecessor MS-DOS)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Windows n (proper noun, strong, genitive Windows)

1. (operating systems, trademark) Microsoft Windows, an operating system with a graphical user interface that dominates the personal computer market.

Further reading

• Microsoft Windows on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Japanese

Etymology

From English Windows.

Proper noun

Windows(ウィンドウズ) • (Windōzu) 

1. Windows

Further reading

• Microsoft Windows on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja

Polish

Windows

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂wḗh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts

Proto-Germanic *windaz

Old Norse vindr

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der.

Proto-Germanic *augô

Proto-Norse *ᚨᚢᚷᚨ (*auga)

Old Norse auga

Old Norse vindaugabor.

Middle English wyndowe

English window

English Windowsubor.

Polish Windows

Unadapted borrowing from English Windows.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwin.dɔws/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -indɔws
• Syllabification: Win‧dows

Proper noun

Windows m animal (indeclinable, related adjective windowsowy)

1. (operating systems) Microsoft Windows (product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft)

Declension

Declension of Windows

	singular
nominative	Windows
genitive	Windowsa
dative	Windowsowi
accusative	Windowsa
instrumental	Windowsem
locative	Windowsie
vocative	Windowsie

Or indeclinable

Noun

Windows m animal (indeclinable, related adjective windowsowy)

1. (operating systems) Windows (operating system with a WIMP graphical user interface that dominates the personal computer market)

   Synonym: (humorous) winda

Declension

Declension of Windows

	singular	plural
nominative	Windows	Windowsy
genitive	Windowsa	Windowsów
dative	Windowsowi	Windowsom
accusative	Windowsa	Windowsy
instrumental	Windowsem	Windowsami
locative	Windowsie	Windowsach
vocative	Windowsie	Windowsy

Or indeclinable

Further reading

• “Windows”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)
• Windows in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂wḗh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts

Proto-Germanic *windaz

Old Norse vindr

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der.

Proto-Germanic *augô

Proto-Norse *ᚨᚢᚷᚨ (*auga)

Old Norse auga

Old Norse vindaugabor.

Middle English wyndowe

English window

English Windowsubor.

Portuguese Windows

Unadapted borrowing from English Windows.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈĩ.dows/ [uˈĩ.doʊ̯s], (faster) /ˈwĩ.dows/ [ˈwĩ.doʊ̯s], /uˈĩ.dus/, (faster) /ˈwĩ.dus/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈĩ.dows/ [uˈĩ.doʊ̯s], (faster) /ˈwĩ.dows/ [ˈwĩ.doʊ̯s], /uˈĩ.dus/, (faster) /ˈwĩ.dus/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /uˈĩ.dowʃ/ [uˈĩ.doʊ̯ʃ], (faster) /ˈwĩ.dowʃ/ [ˈwĩ.doʊ̯ʃ], /uˈĩ.duʃ/, (faster) /ˈwĩ.duʃ/

Proper noun

Windows m

1. (operating systems) Windows

Derived terms

• Ruindows

Noun

Windows m (invariable)

1. (computing) Windows key