keyboard

See also: Keyboard

English

A computer keyboard (noun sense 1)

A piano keyboard (noun sense 2)

An electronic keyboard (noun sense 3)

Etymology

From key +‎ board.

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) enPR: kē'bôrd, IPA^(key): /ˈki.bɔɹd/

  • Audio (US):

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  • Audio (Canada):

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkiːbɔːd/
• (Standard Southern British, Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪjboːd/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈkiboɾd/, [ˈkiboːɾd]

Noun

keyboard (plural keyboards)

2. (computing, computer hardware) A set of keys laid out in a gridlike pattern, used for typing on a typewriter, computer, etc.
4. (music) A component of many instruments, including the piano, organ, and harpsichord, consisting of usually black and white keys that cause different tones to be produced when struck.
6. (music) An electronic device containing a keyboard (preceding sense), especially one that is capable of producing musical sounds when the keys are played.

   Synonyms: electronic keyboard, synthesizer

Derived terms

typing-related terms (noun sense 1)

• butterfly keyboard
• chiclet keyboard
• extended keyboard
• keyboard army
• keyboard cowboy
• keyboard diarrhea
• keyboard distance
• keyboarder
• keyboard layout
• keyboard shortcut
• keyboard smash
• keyboard warrior
• kezboard
• mechanical keyboard
• membrane keyboard
• policy keyboard
• slip of the keyboard
• space-cadet keyboard
• virtual keyboard

music-related terms (noun sense 2 and noun sense 3)

• Jankó keyboard
• keyboard bass
• keyboard instrument
• keyboardist, keyboarder
• pedal keyboard

unsorted terms

• 40% keyboard
• keyboardable
• keyboardful
• keyboard glockenspiel
• keyboardism
• keyboarditis
• keyboardless
• keyboardlike
• keytar
• multikeyboard
• nonkeyboard
• rekeyboard
• thumbboard

Related terms

• key
• keypad
• keys

Translations

set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.

• Afrikaans: sleutelbord (af)
• Albanian: tastierë (sq) f
• Amharic: ቁልፍ ሰሌዳ (ḳulf säleda)
• Arabic: لَوْحَةُ مَفَاتِيح f (lawḥatu mafātīḥ)
• Armenian: ստեղնաշար (hy) (steġnašar)
• Assamese: কীব'ৰ্ড (kib'rdo)
• Asturian: tecláu m
• Azerbaijani: klaviatura
• Basque: teklatu (eu)
• Belarusian: клавіяту́ра f (klavijatúra)
• Bengali: কিবোর্ড (bn) (kibōrḍo)
• Breton: klavier m, touchennaoueg
• Bulgarian: клавиату́ра (bg) f (klaviatúra)
• Burmese: ခလုတ်ခုံ (my) (hka.luthkum), လက်ကွက် (lakkwak)
• Catalan: teclat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鍵盤 / 键盘 (gin⁶ pun⁴, gin⁶ pun^4-2)

  Hakka: 鍵盤 / 键盘 (khien-phàn)

  Hokkien: 鍵盤 / 键盘 (kiān-pôaⁿ)

  Mandarin: 鍵盤 / 键盘 (zh) (jiànpán)

• Czech: klávesnice (cs) f
• Danish: tastatur (da) n
• Dutch: toetsenbord (nl) n, klavier (nl) n
• Esperanto: klavaro (eo)
• Estonian: klaviatuur
• Faroese: knappaborð n
• Finnish: näppäimistö (fi)
• French: clavier (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: kaaiboerd

• Friulian: tastiere
• Fula:

  Adlam: 𞤼𞤢𞤨𞥆𞤭𞤪𞤺𞤢𞤤

  Latin: tappirgal

• Galician: teclado (gl) m
• Georgian: კლავიატურა (ḳlaviaṭura)
• German: Tastatur (de) f
• Greek: πληκτρολόγιο (el) n (pliktrológio)
• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} tairenda

• Haitian Creole: klavye
• Hebrew: מִקְלֶדֶת (he) f (miklédet)
• Hindi: कीबोर्ड m (kīborḍ), कुंजीपटल (hi) m (kuñjīpṭal)
• Hungarian: billentyűzet (hu), klaviatúra (hu)
• Icelandic: lyklaborð n, hnappaborð n (dated), leturborð n (dated)
• Ido: klavaro (io)
• Indonesian: papan ketik (id), papan tombol (id), papan tik (id)
• Irish: méarchlár (ga) f, eochairchlár m, luibheanchlár m
• Italian: tastiera (it) f
• Japanese: キーボード (ja) (kībōdo), 鍵盤 (ja) (けんばん, kenban)
• Javanese: kibor
• Kalmyk: товчлур (tovçlur)
• Kannada: ಕೀಲಿಮಣೆ (kn) (kīlimaṇe)
• Kashmiri: کُنٛز بوڈ (kunz bōḍ)
• Kazakh: пернетақта (kk) (pernetaqta)
• Khmer: ក្ដារចុច (km) (kdaa coc)
• Korean: 자판(字板) (ko) (japan), 키보드 (ko) (kibodeu), 글쇠판 (geulsoepan)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پیتلێدەر (pîtlêder)

  Northern Kurdish: klavye (ku)

• Kyrgyz: клавиатура (ky) (klaviatura), колбаскыч (kolbaskıc)
• Lao: ແປ້ນພິມ (pǣn phim), ຄີບອດ (khī bǭt)
• Latin: plectrologium n, clāviatūra
• Latvian: tastatūra
• Lingala: mángolá
• Lithuanian: klaviatūra (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Tastatur
• Macedonian: тастату́ра f (tastatúra)
• Malay: papan kekunci (ms)
• Malayalam: കീബോഡ് (kībōḍŭ)
• Maltese: tastiera f
• Māori: papapato, papa pātuhi
• Marathi: कीबोर्ड m (kīborḍa)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: даруул (mn) (daruul), гар (mn) (gar)

• Nepali: किबोर्ड (kiborḍ)
• Northern Sotho: khiipote
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tastatur (no) n

  Nynorsk: tastatur n

• Occitan: clavièr (oc)
• Pannonian Rusyn: тастатура f (tastatura)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: صَفْحِه‌کِلید (safhe-kelid), کیبورْد (kibord)

• Polish: klawiatura (pl) f
• Portuguese: teclado (pt) m
• Romanian: tastatură (ro) f
• Russian: клавиату́ра (ru) f (klaviatúra)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: boallobeavdi

• Scottish Gaelic: meur-chlàr m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тастату́ра f, типко́вница f

  Latin: tastatúra (sh) f, tipkóvnica (sh) f

• Slovak: klávesnica f
• Slovene: tipkovnica (sl) f
• Spanish: teclado (es) m
• Swedish: tangentbord (sv) n
• Tagalog: teklado, tipaan (tl), palapindutan
• Tajik: клавиатура (tg) (klaviatura), сафҳакалид (tg) (safhakalid)
• Tamil: விசைப்பலகை (ta) (vicaippalakai)
• Tatar: санак төймәсары (sanaq töymäsarı), клавиатура (klawiyatura)
• Thai: แป้นพิมพ์ (th) (bpɛ̂n-pim)
• Turkish: klavye (tr)
• Turkmen: klawiatura
• Ukrainian: клавіату́ра (uk) f (klaviatúra)
• Urdu: کی بورْڈ m (kī borḍ), کَلِیدی تَخْتَہ m (kalīdī taxta)
• Uyghur: كۇنۇپكا تاختىسى (ug) (kunupka taxtisi)
• Uzbek: klaviatura (uz)
• Venetan: tastiera
• Vietnamese: bàn phím (vi)
• Walloon: taprece (wa) f
• Welsh: bysellfwrdd (cy) m
• Yiddish: קלאַוויאַטור f (klavyatur)

component of many instruments

• Armenian: ստեղնաշար (hy) (steġnašar)
• Asturian: tecláu m
• Belarusian: клавіяту́ра f (klavijatúra)
• Bengali: কিবোর্ড (bn) (kibōrḍo)
• Breton: klavier m
• Bulgarian: клавиату́ра (bg) f (klaviatúra)
• Catalan: teclat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鍵盤 / 键盘 (gin⁶ pun⁴, gin⁶ pun^4-2)

  Hakka: 鍵盤 / 键盘 (khien-phàn)

  Hokkien: 鍵盤 / 键盘 (kiān-pôaⁿ)

  Mandarin: 鍵盤 / 键盘 (zh) (jiànpán)

• Czech: klávesnice (cs) f, klaviatura f
• Danish: klaviatur (da) n
• Dutch: klavier (nl) n, keyboard (nl) n
• Faroese: knappaborð n
• Finnish: koskettimisto (fi), koskettimet (fi), sormio (fi)
• French: clavier (fr) m
• Galician: teclado (gl) m
• Georgian: კლავიატურა (ḳlaviaṭura)
• German: Tastatur (de) f, Klaviatur (de) f, Manual (de) n
• Greek: κλαβιέ (el) n (klavié), πλήκτρα (el) n pl (plíktra)
• Icelandic: hljómborð n
• Irish: eochairchlár m, luibheanchlár m, méarchlár (ga) m
• Italian: tastiera (it) f
• Japanese: 鍵盤 (ja) (けんばん, kenban)
• Korean: 건반(鍵盤) (ko) (geonban)
• Latin: clāviatūra f
• Macedonian: клавијату́ра f (klavijatúra)
• Malay: papan nada (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klaviatur n, tastatur (no) n

• Pannonian Rusyn: клавиятура f (klavijatura), тастатура f (tastatura)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: صَفْحِه‌کِلید (safhe-kelid), کِلاوِیِه (kelâviye)

• Portuguese: teclado (pt) m
• Romanian: claviatură (ro) f
• Russian: клавиату́ра (ru) f (klaviatúra)
• Scottish Gaelic: meur-chlàr m
• Slovak: klávesnica f, klaviatúra f
• Slovene: klaviatura f
• Spanish: teclado (es) m
• Swedish: klaviatur (sv) c
• Tagalog: teklado
• Thai: ลิ่มนิ้ว (lîm-níu)
• Turkish: klavye (tr)
• Ukrainian: клавіату́ра (uk) f (klaviatúra)
• Welsh: allweddell (cy) f

electronic device with keys of a musical keyboard

• Afrikaans: klawerbord
• Azerbaijani: klaviatura
• Catalan: teclat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電子琴 / 电子琴 (din⁶ zi² kam⁴)

  Mandarin: 電子琴 / 电子琴 (zh) (diànzǐqín), 鍵盤 / 键盘 (zh) (jiànpán)

• Czech: klávesy f pl
• Dutch: keyboard (nl) n
• Finnish: koskettimisto (fi), koskettimet (fi)
• French: clavier électronique
• Galician: teclado (gl) m
• Georgian: კლავიატურა (ḳlaviaṭura)
• German: Keyboard (de) n
• Hebrew: קְלִידִים m pl (klidím), מִקְלֶדֶת אֶלֶקְטְרוֹנִית (he) f (miklédet elektrónit)
• Icelandic: hljómborð n
• Indonesian: kibor
• Irish: eochairchlár m, luibheanchlár m, méarchlár (ga) m
• Italian: tastiera (it)
• Japanese: キーボード (ja) (kībōdo)
• Javanese: kibor
• Macedonian: синтиса́јзер m (sintisájzer)
• Māori: papapatooro
• Marathi: कीबोर्ड m (kīborḍa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: elektronisk orgel n, keyboard (no) n

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کیبورْد (kibord)

• Polish: klawiatura (pl) f, keyboard (pl) m
• Portuguese: teclado (pt) m
• Russian: клавиату́ра (ru) f (klaviatúra), синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor), кла́вишные (ru) m pl (klávišnyje)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: електрични клавир m

  Latin: električni klavir m

• Slovene: klaviatura f
• Spanish: teclado (es) m
• Swedish: keyboard (sv) n
• Tagalog: teklado
• Turkish: klavye (tr)
• Turkmen: klawiatura
• Vietnamese: organ (vi) (Vietnam), đàn phím
• Welsh: allweddell (cy) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} keyboard (id)

Verb

keyboard (third-person singular simple present keyboards, present participle keyboarding, simple past and past participle keyboarded)

1. (intransitive) To type on a computer keyboard.

   Keyboarding is the part of this job I hate the most.

   • 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 16:

     The earliest hardcore hackers would not stumble in to their predawn keyboarding for another two hours.

Translations

to type in

• Bulgarian: наби́рам (bg) (nabíram)
• Catalan: teclejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 打字 (daa² zi⁶)

  Hakka: 打字 (tá-sṳ)

  Hokkien: 拍字 (phah-jī, phah-lī), 打字 (táⁿ-jī, táⁿ-lī)

  Mandarin: 打字 (zh) (dǎzì)

• Finnish: kirjoittaa (fi), naputella (fi), naputtaa (fi), näpytellä, näppäillä (fi)
• Greek: πληκτρογραφώ (pliktrografó), πληκτρολογώ (el) (pliktrologó)
• Icelandic: vélrita
• Italian: digitare (it)
• Macedonian: чука (čuka), типка (tipka)
• Portuguese: teclar (pt)
• Russian: печа́тать (ru) impf (pečátatʹ), напеча́тать (ru) pf (napečátatʹ); набира́ть (ru) impf (nabirátʹ), набра́ть (ru) pf (nabrátʹ); набива́ть (ru) impf (nabivátʹ), наби́ть (ru) pf (nabítʹ)
• Spanish: teclear (es)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English keyboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.bɔrt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: key‧board

Noun

keyboard n (plural keyboards or keyboarden, diminutive keyboardje n)

1. (music) keyboard (electrical keyboard instrument)
2. (computing) keyboard (input device for a computer)

Usage notes

• The plural keyboarden is rare, at least in writing.

Synonyms

• (computing): toetsenbord

Derived terms

• keyboardspeelster
• keyboardspeler

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English keyboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.bɔrt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ibɔrt
• Syllabification: key‧board

Noun

keyboard m inan

1. keyboard (electronic device with keys of a musical keyboard)

   Synonym: klawiatura

Declension

Declension of keyboard

	singular	plural
nominative	keyboard	keyboardy
genitive	keyboardu	keyboardów
dative	keyboardowi	keyboardom
accusative	keyboard	keyboardy
instrumental	keyboardem	keyboardami
locative	keyboardzie	keyboardach
vocative	keyboardzie	keyboardy

Derived terms

adjective

• keyboardowy

nouns

• keyboardzista
• keyboardzistka

Further reading

• “keyboard”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “keyboard”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Swedish

Noun

keyboard c or n

1. (music) an electronic keyboard

   Hypernym: klaver (“keyboard instrument”)

Declension

Declension of keyboard

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	keyboard	keyboards
	definite	keyboarden	keyboardens
plural	indefinite	keyboards, keyboardar	keyboards, keyboardars
	definite	keyboardarna	keyboardarnas

Declension of keyboard

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	keyboard	keyboards
	definite	keyboardet	keyboardets
plural	indefinite	keyboards, keyboard	keyboards
	definite	keyboarden	keyboardens

See also

• elorgel (“electric organ”)
• klaviatur (“keyboard (on a piano, organ, harpsichord, etc.)”)
• synthesizer (“synthesizer”)
• tangentbord (“keyboard (for typing)”)

References

• “keyboard”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “keyboard”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)