malware
English
Etymology
Blend of malicious + software or from mal- + -ware.
Pronunciation
Noun
malware (usually uncountable, plural malwares)
- (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 New York Times[1]:
- 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.
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
See also
Further reading
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English malware.
Noun
malware m inan
- (computing) malware
- Synonym: škodlivý software
Declension
Further reading
malware on the Czech Wikipedia.Wikipedia cs
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English malware.
Noun
malware (singular definite ?, plural indefinite malware)
- (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)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English malware.
Pronunciation
Noun
malware m (plural malwares)
- (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 (uncountable)
Further reading
malware on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English malware.
Pronunciation
Noun
malware m (plural malwares)
- (computer security) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)
Further reading
malware on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English malware.
Noun
malware n (plural (rare) malware-uri)
- (computing) malware
- Synonyms: software rău intenționat, (rare) software dăunător
Declension
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) malware | malware-ul | (niște) malware-uri | malware-urile |
genitive/dative | (unui) malware | malware-ului | (unor) malware-uri | malware-urilor |
vocative | malware-ule | malware-urilor |
Further reading
software rău intenționat on the Romanian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ro
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English malware.
Pronunciation
Noun
malware m (plural malwares)
- (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)
Further reading
malware on the Tagalog Wikipedia.Wikipedia tl
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- pt:Computer security
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- Rhymes:Spanish/alweɾ
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- es:Computing
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- Rhymes:Tagalog/alwejɾ
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- tl:Computing