microwave oven - colloquial names

[Encolpius]

Hello, there is a very nice list of microwave oven in different languages here in Wiktionary, but it is such a long word I bet you use some other short words for it. What do you call "microwave oven" in your colloquial language? Thanks.

Hungarian - mikró
Czech - mikrovlnka
English - microwave
Polish - mikrofala

 

[TheCrociato91]

I confirm what the page says about Italian: forno a microonde, or simply microonde.

 

[momai]

Microwave in Syrian Arabic. Mikro is a microbus for us.

 

[swift]

Around here, we say el micro.

 

[AndrasBP]

Russian: микроволно́вка (mikrovolnóvka)

 

[Welsh_Sion]

There will be those who allege that 'popty (< pobi 'to bake' + tŷ 'house') ping' (the English word for a soft, single peal of an alarm bell), is the Welsh 'colloquial' word for a 'microwave oven.'

However, this was a relatively recent coinage by a radio DJ, and as can be seen, is quite nonsensical as it incorporates two separate languages together in its two words. I can not therefore condone this as a true 'Welsh lexical item'.

The 'proper' word is therefore 'popty (or ffwrn < Lat. 'fornax') micro-don', a calque of the English item, with <i> not retaining its usual Welsh value of /ɪ/ but more like /əɪ/.

 

[jazyk]

In Portuguese, at least in Brazil, the abbreviation for micro-ondas is micro, a masculine noun. Nevertheless, I think the full form is more widespread than its shortening.

 

[apmoy70]

In Greek microwave oven is «φούρνος μικροκυμάτων» [ˈfur.nɔs mi.krɔ.ciˈma.tɔn] --> oven of-microwaves.
«Μικροκυμάτων» [mi.krɔ.ciˈma.tɔn] is neuter genitive plural (microwaves') of the noun «μικροκύματα» [mi.krɔˈci.ma.ta] (neut. nom. pl.) --> microwaves.
Colloquially, we just use the noun in genitive when referring to the oven, we say «ο μικροκυμάτων» [ɔ mi.krɔ.ciˈma.tɔn] --> the (definite article masc. nom. sing.) microwaves' (oven is omitted); the definite article is masculine because oven («φούρνος») is masculine.

 

[Circunflejo]

In one of the episodes of Kitchen Nightmares, there was a restaurant in which they called it Chef Mike.

Around here, we say el micro.

Here too.

 

[ThomasK]

Dutch: (Netherlands) magnetron, (Flanders) microgolfoven (golf = wave)

 

[Encolpius]

Oh, very interesting, ThomasK.

 

[merquiades]

I've never heard of another way to say microwave (oven) besides the full form.

 

[AndrasBP]

Dutch: (Netherlands) magnetron

Magnetron??? Was that originally a brand name perhaps?

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Lithuanian: mikrobangė
Full form: mikrobangų krosnelė (bangų = plural genitive of "banga" = wave, + krosnelė = diminutive of "krosnis" (oven, furnace))

 

[amikama]

(Colloquial) Hebrew:
מיקרו mikro, from מיקרוגל mikrogal (גל gal = wave).

 

[elroy]

Microwave in Syrian Arabic. Mikro is a microbus for us.

In Palestinian Arabic I've heard مايكروويڤ (māykrowēv) and ميكرة (mikro). I think ميكروويڤ (mikrowēv) is also used.

 

[Armas]

Finnish: mikro. The colloquial verb is mikrottaa.

 

[TitTornade]

French

Micro-ondes or four micro-ondes

Micro is a microphone, here

 

[nimak]

In Macedonian it is known as микробранова (mikrobránova). Its full name is микробранова печка (mikrobránova péčka).

бран (bran) m. "wave"; -бранова (-branova) adj.f.
печка (péčka) f. "oven"