alarm clock

See also: alarmclock

English

A digital alarm clock

Alternative forms

• alarum clock (archaic)

Pronunciation

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Noun

alarm clock (plural alarm clocks)

1. A clock designed to sound an alert at a preset time, primarily to wake someone from sleep.
   • 1929, Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery:

     "I should suggest an alarum clock," he said briskly. "I always use one myself for fear of oversleeping.[…]"

Derived terms

• alarm clock headache
• radio alarm clock

Translations

type of clock

• Afrikaans: wekker (af)
• Albanian: orë me zile f
• Arabic: مُنَبِّه (ar) m (munabbih), سَاعَة مُنَبِّهَة f (sāʕa munabbiha)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܙܲܗܪܵܢܵܐ m (mzahrānā), ܫܵܥܬܵܐ ܡܙܲܗܪܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ f (šāˁtā mzahrānītā)

• Armenian: զարթուցիչ (hy) (zartʻucʻičʻ)
• Azerbaijani: zəngli saat
• Belarusian: будзі́льнік m (budzílʹnik)
• Bengali: এলার্ম ঘড়ি (bn) (êlarmghoṛi)
• Breton: dihuner (br) m
• Bulgarian: буди́лник (bg) m (budílnik)
• Burmese: နှိုးစက်နာရီ (hnui:caknari)
• Catalan: despertador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鬧鐘 / 闹钟 (naau⁶ zung¹)

  Eastern Min: 鬧鐘 / 闹钟 (nâu-cṳ̆ng)

  Gan: 鬧鐘 / 闹钟 ('lau⁵ zung¹)

  Hakka: 鬧鐘 / 闹钟 (nau-chûng)

  Hokkien: 鬧鐘 / 闹钟 (nāu-cheng), 鬧鐘仔 / 闹钟仔 (nāu-cheng-á), 亂鐘 / 乱钟 (lōan-cheng), 亂鐘仔 / 乱钟仔 (zh-min-nan) (lōan-cheng-á), 叫鐘 / 叫钟 (kiò-cheng)

  Mandarin: 鬧鐘 / 闹钟 (zh) (nàozhōng)

• Chinook Jargon: gitəp-tʰiktʰik, tintin-tʰiktʰik
• Cornish: dyfuna
• Czech: budík (cs) m
• Danish: vækkeur (da) n
• Dutch: wekker (nl) m
• Esperanto: vekhorloĝo
• Estonian: äratuskell
• Faroese: vekjaraklokka f
• Finnish: herätyskello (fi), vekkari (fi)
• French: réveil (fr) m, réveille-matin (fr) m, cadran (fr) m (Canada)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: needklok c

• Galician: alarma f
• Georgian: მაღვიძარა (maɣviʒara)
• German: Wecker (de) m, Weckuhr (de) f
• Greek: ξυπνητήρι (el) n (xypnitíri)
• Hebrew: שָׁעוֹן מְעוֹרֵר (he) m (sha'ón m'orér)
• Hindi: अलार्म घड़ी f (alārm ghaṛī), अलार्म क्लॉक m (alārm klŏk)
• Hungarian: ébresztőóra (hu), vekker (hu), csörgőóra
• Icelandic: vekjaraklukka f
• Indonesian: beker (id)
• Ingrian: budilnikka
• Italian: sveglia (it) f
• Japanese: 目覚まし時計 (ja) (めざましどけい, mezamashidokei)
• Kalmyk: серүләч (serüläç)
• Kazakh: оятқыш сағат (oätqyş sağat), оятқыш (oätqyş), оятар (oätar)
• Khmer: នាឡិការោទ៍ (niəlekaa roo)
• Korean: 자명종(自鳴鐘) (ko) (jamyeongjong), 알람시계 (ko) (allamsigye)
• Kyrgyz: будильник (budilnik), ойготкуч саат (oygotkuc saat), ойготкуч (oygotkuc)
• Lao: ນາລິກາປຸກ (nā li kā puk)
• Latvian: modinātājs m, modinātājpulkstenis m
• Lithuanian: žadintuvas m
• Macedonian: будилник m (budilnik)
• Malay: penggera, jam loceng (ms)
• Maltese: żveljarin
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сэрүүлэгтэй цаг (serüülegtej cag)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vekkerklokke (no) m or f, vekkeklokke m or f

  Nynorsk: vekkarklokke f, vekkjarklokke f

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: ساعَتِ زَنْگ‌دار (sâ'at-e zang-dâr), ساعَتِ شَمّاطِه‌دار (sâ'at-e šammâte-dâr)

• Polish: budzik (pl) m
• Portuguese: despertador (pt) m, alarme (pt)
• Romanian: ceas cu alarmă n, ceas deșteptător (ro) n
• Russian: буди́льник (ru) m (budílʹnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: uaireadair-dùsgaidh m, alàram f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бу̀дӣлнӣк m, ве̏кер m, ве̏керица f, бу̀дилица f

  Latin: bùdīlnīk (sh) m, vȅker (sh) m, vȅkerica (sh) f, bùdilica (sh) f

• Sicilian: sveglia f
• Silesian: weker m
• Slovak: budík (sk) m
• Slovene: budilka (sl) f
• Spanish: despertador (es) m, reloj despertador (es) m
• Swedish: väckarklocka (sv) c
• Tagalog: alarma orasan, despertador (tl)
• Tajik: соати зангдор (soat-i zangdor)
• Thai: นาฬิกาปลุก (naa-lí-gaa-bplùk)
• Turkish: çalar saat (tr)
• Turkmen: jaňly sagat
• Ukrainian: буди́льник (uk) m (budýlʹnyk)
• Urdu: اَلارَم گَھڑی f (alāram ghaṛī), اَلارَم کْلاک m (alāram klāk), جَرَس گَھڑی f (jaras ghaṛī)
• Uzbek: qoʻngʻiroqli soat, budilʼnik
• Vietnamese: đồng hồ reo, đồng hồ báo thức
• Welsh: cloc larwm (cy)
• Yiddish: וועקער m (veker)
• Yoruba: wọnranran, àláàmù

Further reading

• alarm clock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia