laptop

• lap-top (dated)

From lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) +‎ top, modeled after desktop.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlæp.tɒp/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlæp.tɑp/

laptop (plural laptops)

1. (computing) A laptop computer.
   • 2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8:

     Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8847:

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

• (laptop computer): laptop computer, notebook computer

• laptop hobo
• laptronica

• desktop
• palmtop

• applot

Borrowed from English laptop.

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛp.tɔp/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑp.tɔp/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lap‧top

laptop m (plural laptops, diminutive laptopje n)

1. laptop (computer with a clamshell design, portable and foldable)

From English laptop. It may also be considered as a phono-semantic matching of English laptop, its first element reinterpreted as Hungarian lap (“sheet”) due to its being slim.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛptop]
• Hyphenation: lap‧top
• Rhymes: -op

laptop (plural laptopok)

1. laptop

From English laptop.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlaptɔp]
• Hyphenation: lap‧top

laptop (first-person possessive laptopku, second-person possessive laptopmu, third-person possessive laptopnya)

1. (computing) laptop, laptop computer: a portable computer that is small enough and light enough to be used on one's lap, but large enough to have an integrated keyboard.

• “laptop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from English laptop.

laptop m (definite singular laptopen, indefinite plural laptoper, definite plural laptopene)

1. (computing) a laptop
   • 2011, Madrugada by Jan Mehlum, EbnPublish →ISBN

     Forretningsfolk, barnefamilier, unge kvinner med moderne klær, avanserte mobiltelefoner og laptoper.

     Business people, families with children, young women with modern clothes, advanced mobile phones and laptops.

• bærbar datamaskin

• “laptop” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Borrowed from English laptop.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlap.tɔp/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aptɔp
• Syllabification: lap‧top

laptop m inan

1. laptop

• laptop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• laptop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English laptop.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌlɛp.ˈtɔp/

laptop m (plural laptops)

1. (computing) laptop computer (class of portable computers)

   Synonym: notebook

From English laptop.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlep.top/

laptop n (plural laptopuri)

1. laptop

From English laptop.

• IPA^(key): /labˈtop/ [laβ̞ˈt̪op]
• Rhymes: -op
• Syllabification: lap‧top

laptop m or f (plural laptops)

1. laptop

Borrowed from English laptop.

laptop c

1. (computing) laptop