malware

See also: Malware

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *(s)molos?

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus

Latin maleder.

Old French mal-

English mal-

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Indo-European *-yos

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English malware

From mal- + -ware.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.wɛː/, /ˈmæl.wɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.wɛəɹ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mal‧ware

Noun

malware (usually uncountable, plural malware or (nonstandard) malwares)

1. (computing) Software which has been designed to operate in a malicious, undesirable manner.

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:malware

   • 2020 October 19, “U.S. Charges Russian Intelligence Officers in Major Cyberattacks”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     In a follow-up attack that hit Kyiv’s power grid a year later, the suspects used a second piece of malware, called Industroyer, to cut power for an hour, the indictment said. The malware, according to experts, posed one of the greatest digital threats to critical infrastructure since Stuxnet, the computer attack by the United States and Israel that took out Iran’s uranium centrifuges in 2009.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

Derived terms

• antimalware
• bossware

Descendants

• → Amharic: ማልዌር (malwer)
• → Bengali: মালওয়্যার (malōẇyar)
• → Czech: malware
• → Danish: malware
• → Dutch: malware
• → French: malware; → maliciel (calque)
• → German: Malware
• → Hindi: मैलवेयर m (mailveyar)
• → Italian: malware
• → Japanese: マルウェア (maruwea)
• → Korean: 맬웨어 (maerweeo)
• → Macedonian: малвер m (malver)
• → Portuguese: malware
• → Romanian: malware
• → Serbo-Croatian: malver m
• → Slovak: malvér m
• → Spanish: malware
• → Tagalog: malware
• → Thai: มัลแวร์ (mal-wɛɛ)

Translations

software developed to cause harm to a computer system

• Afrikaans: skadelike programmatuur
• Amharic: ማልዌር (malwer)
• Arabic: برنامج ضار
• Armenian: վնասագիր (vnasagir), վնասակար ծրագրային ապահովում (vnasakar cragrayin apahovum), վնասարար ծրագրաշար (vnasarar cragrašar)
• Azerbaijani: ziyankar proqram, ziyanverici proqram
• Basque: software kaltegarria
• Belarusian: шкоднасная праграма f (škódnasnaja prahrama)
• Bengali: মালওয়্যার (bn) (malōẇyar), ক্ষতিকর সফটওয়্যার (khotikor śophoṭōẇyar)
• Bulgarian: злонамерен софтуер m (zlonameren softuer)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流氓軟件 / 流氓软件 (zh) (liúmáng ruǎnjiàn), 惡意軟件 / 恶意软件 (zh) (èyì ruǎnjiàn)

• Czech: malware (cs) m, škodlivý software (cs) m
• Danish: malware (da) ?, skadelig software ?
• Dutch: malware (nl) m, schadelijke software m
• Esperanto: fiprogramaro
• Estonian: pahavara, ründevara
• Finnish: haittaohjelma (fi)
• French: maliciel (fr) m, logiciel malveillant m
• Georgian: მავნე პროგრამა (mavne ṗrograma), საზიანო პროგრამა (saziano ṗrograma)
• German: Schadsoftware (de) f, Malware (de) f, Schadprogramm (de) n
• Greek: κακόβουλο λογισμικό n (kakóvoulo logismikó), επιβλαβές λογισμικό n (epivlavés logismikó)
• Hebrew: תוכנות מזיקות f, תוכנה זדונית f
• Hindi: मैलवेयर (hi) ? (mailveyar), दुर्भावनापूर्ण सॉफ़्टवेयर ? (durbhāvnāpūrṇ sŏfṭaveyar)
• Hungarian: rosszindulatú szoftver, kártevő szoftver, kártékony szoftver
• Indonesian: peranti perusak, peranti lunak berbahaya, perangkat lunak jahat, malwer
• Italian: malware (it) m, software dannoso m
• Japanese: マルウェア (ja) (maruwea), 悪意のソフトウェア (akui no sofutowea), 不正ソフトウェア (fusei sofutowea), 有害なソフトウェア (yūgai na sofutowea)
• Javanese: piranti pangrusak
• Korean: 맬웨어 (maerweeo), 악성 소프트웨어 (akseong sopeuteuweeo), 유해한 소프트웨어 (yuhaehan sopeuteuweeo)
• Latvian: ļaunprogrammatūra f, ļaunatūra f
• Lithuanian: kenkėjiška programa f
• Macedonian: злонамерен софтвер m (zlonameren softver), штетен софтвер m (šteten softver)
• Malay: perisian berniat jahat, perisian berbahaya, perisian hasad
• Māori: pūmanawa kino
• Marathi: मालवेअर m (mālvear), दूर्भावनापूर्ण सॉफ्टवेअर ? (dūrbhāvnāpūrṇa sŏphṭavear)
• Nepali: मालवेयर (mālaveyar)
• Norwegian: skadelig programvare f, skadevare f
• Persian: بدافزار (fa), نرم افزار مخرب
• Polish: szkodliwe oprogramowanie (pl) n, złośliwe oprogramowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: malware (pt) m, programa malicioso m
• Punjabi: ਮਾਲਵੇਅਰ ? (mālvear), ਦੁਰਭਾਵਨਾਪੂਰਣ ਸੌਫਟਵੇਅਰ ? (durbhāvnāpūraṇ sauphaṭvear)
• Romanian: malware n, software rău intenționat n
• Russian: вредоно́сная програ́мма f (vredonósnaja prográmma), зловре́дная програ́мма f (zlovrédnaja prográmma), вредоно́с (ru) m (vredonós), зловре́д (ru) m (zlovréd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: малвер m, штетни со̏фтве̄р m, злонамјерни со̏фтве̄р m / злонамерни со̏фтве̄р m

  Latin: malver (sh) m, štetni sȍftvēr (sh) m, zlonamjerni sȍftvēr (sh) m / zlonamerni sȍftvēr m

• Slovak: malvér (sk) m, škodlivý softvér m
• Slovene: škodljivo programje n, zlonamerno programje n
• Spanish: malware (es) m, programa malicioso m
• Swedish: skadlig programvara c, sabotageprogram (sv) n
• Thai: มัลแวร์ (mal-wɛɛ), ซอฟต์แวร์ที่เป็นอันตราย
• Turkish: zararlı yazılım
• Turkmen: zyýanly programma
• Ukrainian: шкідлива програма f (škidlyva prohrama)
• Uzbek: zararli dastur
• Vietnamese: mã độc, phần mềm độc hại, phần mềm ác ý, phần mềm ác tính, phần mềm gây hại
• Welsh: maleiswedd f

See also

• backdoor
• exploit
• URL injection
• wabbit
• -ware

Further reading

• malware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *(s)molos?

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus

Latin maleder.

Old French mal-

English mal-

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Indo-European *-yos

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English malwarebor.

Czech malware

Borrowed from English malware.

Noun

malware m inan

1. (computing) malware

   Synonym: škodlivý software

Declension

Declension of malware (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	malware	malwary
genitive	malwaru	malwarů
dative	malwaru	malwarům
accusative	malware	malwary
vocative	malware	malwary
locative	malwaru	malwarech
instrumental	malwarem	malwary

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Noun

malware (singular definite ?, plural indefinite malware)

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonym: skadelig software

Further reading

• malware on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑl.ʋɛːr/ (usually pronounced in a way approximating the English)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mal‧ware

Noun

malware m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. malware

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.lwɛʁ/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France):

  (file)

Noun

malware m (plural malwares)

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonyms: maliciel, logiciel malveillant, (rare) logiciel nuisible, (rare) pourriciel

Further reading

• logiciel malveillant on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English malware.

Noun

malware m (countable and uncountable, invariable)

1. (computing) malware (“software developed to harm a computer system”)

   Synonym: software dannoso

Further reading

• malware on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *(s)molos?

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus

Latin maleder.

Old French mal-

English mal-

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Indo-European *-yos

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English malwareubor.

Portuguese malware

Unadapted borrowing from English malware.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mawˈwɛʁ/ [maʊ̯ˈwɛh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mawˈwɛʁ/ [maʊ̯ˈwɛh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /mawˈwɛɾ/ [maʊ̯ˈwɛɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /mawˈwɛʁ/ [maʊ̯ˈwɛχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /mawˈwɛɻ/ [maʊ̯ˈwɛɻ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /maˈlwɛɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /maˈlwɛɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /maˈlwɛ.ɾi/

Noun

malware m (plural malwares)

1. (computer security) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonym: software malicioso

Further reading

• malware on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “malware”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *(s)molos?

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus

Latin maleder.

Old French mal-

English mal-

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Indo-European *-yos

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English malwareubor.

Romanian malware

Unadapted borrowing from English malware.

Noun

malware n (plural (rare) malware-uri)

1. (computing) malware

   Synonyms: software rău intenționat, (rare) software dăunător

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	malware	malware-ul	malware-uri	malware-urile
genitive-dative	malware	malware-ului	malware-uri	malware-urilor
vocative	malware-ule		malware-urilor

Further reading

• software rău intenționat on the Romanian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ro

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *(s)molos?

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus

Latin maleder.

Old French mal-

English mal-

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Indo-European *-yos

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English malwareubor.

Spanish malware

Unadapted borrowing from English malware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalweɾ/ [ˈmal.weɾ]
• Rhymes: -alweɾ

Noun

malware m (plural malwares)

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

   Synonym: software malicioso

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• malware on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Tagalog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English malware. Used due to Tagalog-English code-switching (Taglish).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmalwejɾ/ [ˈmal.weɪ̯ɾ]
• Rhymes: -alwejɾ
• Syllabification: mal‧ware

Noun

malware (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎ᜔ᜏᜒᜌ᜔ᜇ᜔)

1. (computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)

Further reading

• malware on the Tagalog Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tl