microwave oven

English

A microwave oven, manufactured c. 1988.

Etymology

From microwave and oven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪkɹə(ʊ)ˌweɪv ˈʌv(ə)n/
• enPR: mī'krōwāv" ŭ'v(ə)n, mī'krəwāv" ŭ'v(ə)n

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Noun

microwave oven (plural microwave ovens)

1. An oven that uses microwave energy to heat food or other items placed within it.

   Synonym: microwave

   Meronym: carousel

   Coordinate terms: conventional oven, convection oven, induction oven

   • 1985, Dire Straits (lyrics and music), “Money for Nothing”, in Brothers in Arms:

     We got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries. We got to move these refrigerators, we got to move these color TVs.

Derived terms

• convection microwave oven

Translations

oven using microwave energy

• Afrikaans: mikrogolfoond
• Albanian: mikrovalë
• Arabic: مَيْكْرُووَيْف m (maykrūwayf), فُرْن مَيْكْرُووَيْف m (furn maykrūwayf), فُرْن كَهْرُومَغْنَاطِيسِيّ m (furn kahrūmaḡnāṭīsiyy)
• Armenian: միկրոալիքային վառարան (hy) (mikroalikʻayin vaṙaran)
• Azerbaijani: mikrodalğalı soba
• Basque: mikrouhin labe
• Belarusian: мікрахва́левая печ f (mikraxváljevaja pječ), мікрахва́леўка f (mikraxváljeŭka) (colloquial)
• Bengali: মাইক্রোওয়েভ ওভেন (maikrōōẇebh ōbhen)
• Bulgarian: микровъ́лнова фу́рна f (mikrovǎ́lnova fúrna)
• Burmese: မိုက်ခရိုဝေ့မီးဖို (muikhka.ruiwe.mi:hpui)
• Catalan: forn de microones (ca) m, forn microones m, microones (ca) m
• Cheyenne: nêševâhá'eneo'o
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 微波爐／微波炉 (mei⁴ bo¹ lou⁴)

  Hakka: 微波爐／微波炉 (mì-pô-lù)

  Hokkien: 微波爐／微波炉 (zh-min-nan) (bî‑pho‑lôo)

  Mandarin: 微波爐／微波炉 (zh) (mainland China: wēibōlú; Taiwan: wéibōlú), 微波烤箱 (mainland China: wēibō kǎoxiāng; Taiwan: wéibō kǎoxiāng)

• Cornish: forn gorrdon f
• Czech: mikrovlnná trouba (cs) f, mikrovlnka (cs) f
• Danish: mikrobølgeovn c, mikroovn c
• Dutch: magnetron (nl) m (Netherlands), magnetronoven (nl) m (Netherlands), microgolf (nl) m (Flanders), microgolfoven (nl) m (Flanders)
• Esperanto: mikroondilo
• Estonian: mikrolaineahi
• Finnish: mikroaaltouuni (fi), mikro (fi)
• French: four à micro-ondes (fr) m, micro-ondes (fr) m
• Georgian: მიკროტალღური ღუმელი (miḳroṭalɣuri ɣumeli)
• German: Mikrowellenherd (de) m, Mikrowelle (de) f, Mikrowellenofen m
• Greek: φούρνος μικροκυμάτων (el) m (foúrnos mikrokymáton)
• Hebrew: מִיקְרוֹגַל (he) m (mikrogál)
• Hindi: सूक्ष्मतरंग चूल्हा m (sūkṣmatraṅg cūlhā), माइक्रोवेव चूल्हा m (māikrovev cūlhā)
• Hungarian: mikrohullámú sütő (hu), mikró (hu)
• Icelandic: örbylgjuofn (is) m
• Indonesian: oven gelombang mikro
• Irish: oigheann micreathonnach m, micreathonnán m
• Italian: forno a microonde m, microonde (it) m
• Japanese: 電子レンジ (ja) (でんしレンジ, denshi renji), 電子レンジオーブン (でんしレンジオーブン, denshi renji-ōbun), レンジ (ja) (renji), チン (ja) (chin) (colloquial)
• Kannada: ಮೈಕ್ರೋವೇವ್ ಓವನ್ (maikrōvēv ōvan)
• Kazakh: микротолқынды пеш (mikrotolqyndy peş)
• Khmer: មីក្រូវ៉េវ (miikrouveew)
• Korean: 전자레인지 (jeonjareinji)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mîkrofirne, mîkro (ku)

• Lao: ເຕົາອົບໄມໂຄເວຟ (tao ʼop mai khō wēp), ເຕົາໄມໂຄເວຟ (tao mai khō wēp), ເຕົາໄມໂຄຣ​ເວບ (tao mai khlō wēp)
• Latin: clībanus mīcrocȳmaticus m, furnulus mīcroündārius m
• Latvian: mikroviļņu krāsns m
• Lithuanian: mikrobangų krosnelė f
• Luxembourgish: Mikrowell
• Macedonian: микробра́нова пе́чка f (mikrobránova péčka), микробра́нова f (mikrobránova) (ellipsis)
• Malay: ketuhar gelombang mikro
• Malayalam: മൈക്രോവേവ് ഓവൻ (maikrōvēvŭ ōvaṉ)
• Manx: oghe meegra-honn f
• Maori: umu tira
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бичил долгионы зуух (bičil dolgiony zuux), богино долгионы зуух (bogino dolgiony zuux), печь (pečʹ) (Mongolia popular), БДЗ (BDZ)

• Navajo: bee naʼniildóhó
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mikrobølgeovn m, mikroovn m, mikro m

  Nynorsk: mikrobølgjeomn m, mikrobylgjeomn m

• Persian: تندپز (fa) (tondpaz), زودپز (fa) (zudpaz)
• Polish: kuchenka mikrofalowa (pl) f, mikrofalówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: forno de micro-ondas (pt) m, micro-ondas (pt) m
• Romanian: cuptor cu microunde n
• Russian: микроволно́вая печь (ru) f (mikrovolnóvaja pečʹ), микроволно́вка (ru) f (mikrovolnóvka) (colloquial)
• Scottish Gaelic: àmhainn meanbh-thonnach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: микроталасна пећ f, микровална пећница f

  Roman: mikrotalasna peć f, mikrovalna pećnica f

• Slovak: mikrovlnná rúra f
• Slovene: mikrovalovna pečica f
• Spanish: horno de microondas m, microondas (es) m
• Swahili: oveni ya mikrowevu, maikrowevu
• Swedish: mikrovågsugn (sv) c, mikro (sv) c
• Tajik: микромавҷӣ (tg) (mikromavji)
• Tamil: நுண்ணலை அடுப்பு (nuṇṇalai aṭuppu)
• Telugu: మైక్రోవేవ్ ఓవెన్ (maikrōvēv ōven)
• Thai: เตาอบไมโครเวฟ (dtao-òp-mai-kroo-wéep)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: mikrodalga fırın (tr)
• Ukrainian: мікрохвильо́ва піч f (mikroxvylʹóva pič), мікрохвильо́вка f (mikroxvylʹóvka) (colloquial)
• Uyghur: مىكرو دولقۇنلۇق ئوچاق (mikro dolqunluq ochaq), مىكرو دولقۇنلۇق دۇخوپكا (mikro dolqunluq duxopka)
• Uzbek: mikrotoʻlqinli pech
• Vietnamese: lò vi ba, lò vi sóng
• Welsh: meicrodon (cy) f, ffwrn feicrodon, popty meicrodon
• Yiddish: מיקראָכוואַלניק m (mikrokhvalnik)

Further reading

• microwave oven on Wikipedia.Wikipedia