operating system

English

Etymology

From operating + system. First use appears c. the 1950s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtɪŋ ˌsɪstəm/
• (General American) enPR: ŏp′ə-rāt'ĭng sĭs'təm, IPA^(key): /ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɪŋ ˌsɪstəm/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: o‧pe‧ra‧ting sys‧tem

Noun

operating system (plural operating systems)

2. (computing, software) Software that is designed for controlling the allocation and the use of various hardware resources to tasks and remote terminals.

   Synonyms: OS (initialism), platform

   Hypernym: system

   • 1959, United States, National Bureau of Standards, NBS Technical Note, page 55:

     The operating system is the key mediator of access by processes within a computer system.

Hyponyms

• asynchronous operating system
• atomic operating system
• back-end operating system
• cloud-based operating system
• database operating system
• disk operating system
• distributed database operating system
• distributed operating system
• embedded operating system
• front-end operating system
• fuzzy operating system
• guest operating system
• in-memory operating system
• library operating system
• logical operating system
• logic operating system
• middleware operating system
• mobile operating system
• network operating system
• safety-critical operating system
• security-evaluated operating system
• security-focused operating system
• synchronous operating system
• templated operating system
• trusted operating system
• Web operating system

Translations

software which controls the computer

• Afrikaans: bedryfstelsel
• Albanian: sistem operativ m
• Arabic: نِظَام تَشْغِيل m (niẓām tašḡīl)
• Armenian: օպերացիոն համակարգ (ōperacʻion hamakarg)
• Asturian: sistema operativu m
• Azerbaijani: əməliyyat sistemi
• Bangala: পরিচালন সিস্টেম
• Basque: sistema eragile
• Belarusian: аперацы́йная сістэ́ма f (apjeracýjnaja sistéma), апэрацы́йная сыстэ́ма f (aperacýjnaja systéma)
• Bengali: অপারেটিং সিস্টেম (opareṭiṅ śisṭem)
• Bulgarian: операцио́нна систе́ма f (operaciónna sistéma)
• Burmese: စက်မောင်းစနစ် (cakmaung:ca.nac), အော်ပရေးတင်းစစ်စတမ် (aupa.re:tang:cacca.tam)
• Carpathian Rusyn: операчна сістема f (operačna sistema)
• Catalan: sistema operatiu m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 作業系統 / 作业系统 (zok³ jip⁶ hai⁶ tung²), 操作系統 / 操作系统 (cou¹ zok³ hai⁶ tung²) (China)

  Hokkien: 操作系統 / 操作系统 (chok-gia̍p hē-thóng)

  Mandarin: 操作系統 / 操作系统 (zh) (cāozuò xìtǒng), 作業系統 / 作业系统 (zh) (zuòyè xìtǒng)

• Corsican: sistema operativu m
• Czech: operační systém (cs) m
• Danish: styresystem n, operativsystem n
• Dutch: besturingssysteem (nl) n
• Esperanto: operaciumo (eo)
• Estonian: operatsioonisüsteem
• Finnish: käyttöjärjestelmä (fi)
• French: système d’exploitation (fr) m
• Galician: sistema operativo m
• Georgian: ოპერაციული სისტემა (oṗeraciuli sisṭema)
• German: Betriebssystem (de) n
• Greek: λειτουργικό σύστημα (el) n (leitourgikó sýstima)
• Haitian Creole: sistèm operasyon
• Hebrew: מַעֲרֶכֶת הַפְעָלָה (he) f (ma'arékhet haf'alá)
• Hindi: प्रचालन तंत्र m (pracālan tantra), ऑपरेटिंग सिस्टम (hi) m (ŏpreṭiṅg sisṭam)
• Hungarian: operációs rendszer (hu)
• Icelandic: stýrikerfi (is) n, stjórnkerfi n (rare)
• Ido: operaco-sistemo
• Indonesian: sistem operasi, sistem operasional, sistem pengoperasian
• Interlingua: systema de operation
• Irish: córas oibriúcháin m
• Italian: sistema operativo (it) m
• Japanese: オペレーティングシステム (ja) (opēretingu shisutemu)
• Kashubian: òperacjowô systema
• Kazakh: операциялық жүйе (operacıyalıq jüye)
• Khmer: ប្រព័ន្ធប្រតិបត្តិការ (prɑpŏən prɑtebattekaa)
• Korean: 운영체제(運營體制) (unyeongcheje), 오퍼레이팅 시스템 (opeoreiting siseutem), 조작체계(操作體系) (jojakchegye) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sîstema şixulandinê

• Kyrgyz: операциялык тутум (operatsiyalık tutum)
• Lao: ລະບົບປະຕິບັດການ (la bop pa ti bat kān)
• Latin: systema internum n, systema operationis n
• Latvian: operacionālā sistēma
• Lithuanian: operacinė sistema (lt)
• Low German: Bedriefsysteem
• Macedonian: операти́вен систем m (operatíven sistem)
• Malagasy: mpandrindra milina (mg)
• Malay: sistem pengendalian, sistem pengoperasian
• Malayalam: ഓപറേറ്റിങ്ങ് സിസ്റ്റം (ōpaṟēṟṟiṅṅŭ sisṟṟaṁ)
• Maltese: sistema operattiva f
• Māori: pūnaha mahi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: үйлдлийн систем (üildliin sistem)

  Mongolian script: ᠦᠢᠯᠡᠳᠦᠯ
  ᠦᠨ
  ᠰᠢᠰᠲ᠋ᠧᠮ (üyiledül ün sistēm)

• Norman: système d'opéthâtion m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: operativsystem n

  Nynorsk: operativsystem n

• Pashto: چلوونکی سیسټم m (čalawūnkay sīsṭam), عامل سیسټم m ('āmil sīsṭam), عملیاتي سیسټم m ('amalīyātī sīsṭam)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: سیسْتِم عامِل (sistem âmel), سامانِهٔ کُنِش (sâmâne-ye koneš)

• Polish: system operacyjny (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: (Portugal) sistema operativo (pt) m, (Brazil) sistema operacional (pt) m
• Romanian: sistem de operare n, sistem operațional n (dated)
• Russian: операцио́нная систе́ма (ru) f (operaciónnaja sistéma), операцио́нка (ru) f (operaciónka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оперативни систем m, опера́цӣјскӣ су́став m

  Latin: operativni sistem m, operácījskī sústav m

• Slovak: operačný systém (sk) m
• Slovene: operacijski sistem m
• Spanish: sistema operativo (es) m
• Swahili: mfumo wa uendeshaji (sw)
• Swedish: operativsystem (sv) n
• Tajik: низоми амалиётӣ (nizom-i amaliyoti)
• Tamil: இயங்குதளம் (iyaṅkutaḷam)
• Tatar: операцион система (operatsiyon sistema)
• Thai: ระบบปฏิบัติการ (th) (rá-bòp-bpà-dtì-bàt-gaan), โอเอส
• Turkish: işletim sistemi (tr)
• Turkmen: basiýa ulgamy, operasiýa ulgamy
• Ukrainian: операці́йна систе́ма f (operacíjna systéma)
• Urdu: آپْریٹِن٘گ سِسْٹَم m (āpreṭiṅg sisṭam), اِشْتِغالی نِظام m (iśtiġālī nizām)
• Uyghur: مەشغۇلات سىستېمىسى (meshghulat sistëmisi)
• Uzbek: ishlatuv tizimi
• Vietnamese: hệ điều hành (vi)
• Welsh: system weithredu
• Zhuang: cauhcoz haehdungj, hidungj
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

References

• List of operating systems on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• operating system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia