hearing aid

English

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Noun

hearing aid (plural hearing aids)

1. A device used to help the hard of hearing to hear sounds.

   Synonym: deaf aid

   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     Sadly, the ever-eager Reverend Judith had not been able to conjure up many worshippers, even though it was Father’s Day. There was just one old dear sitting halfway back, her faulty hearing aid letting off a high-pitched whistle.

Translations

hearing assistance device

• Afrikaans: gehoorapparaat, gehoortoestel
• Arabic: سَمَّاعَةُ أُذُن f (sammāʕatu ʔuḏun), مُسَاعَدَات سَمْع f pl (musāʕadāt samʕ)
• Belarusian: слыхавы́ апара́т m (slyxavý aparát)
• Bulgarian: слу́хов апара́т m (slúhov aparát)
• Catalan: audiòfon (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 助聽器／助听器 (zo⁶ ting³ hei³)

  Mandarin: 助聽器／助听器 (zh) (zhùtīngqì)

• Czech: naslouchátko (cs) n, sluchadlo n
• Danish: høreapparat (da) n
• Dutch: gehoorapparaat (nl) n, hoortoestel (nl) n
• Esperanto: aŭdaparato
• Estonian: kuuldeaparaat
• Finnish: kuulolaite (fi)
• French: audioprothèse (fr) f, prothèse auditive f, appareil auditif m, audiophone (fr) m, sonotone (fr) m
• German: Hörgerät (de) n, Hörapparat (de) m
• Hungarian: hallókészülék (hu)
• Ido: askoltilo (io)
• Indonesian: alat bantu dengar (id)
• Interlingua: apparato auditive
• Irish: áis éisteachta f
• Italian: apparecchio acustico m
• Japanese: 補聴器 (ja) (ほちょうき, hochōki)
• Korean: 보청기(補聽器) (ko) (bocheonggi)
• Latvian: dzirdes aparāts m
• Macedonian: слушен апара́т m (slušen aparát), ушило n (ušilo)
• Malayalam: ശ്രവണ സഹായി (śravaṇa sahāyi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: høreapparat (no) n

  Nynorsk: høyreapparat n

• Persian: سمعک (fa) (sam'ak)
• Polish: aparat słuchowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: aparelho auditivo m
• Romanian: aparat auditiv n
• Russian: слухово́й аппара́т (ru) m (sluxovój apparát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слушни апарат m

  Roman: slušni aparat m

• Slovak: naslúchadlo n
• Slovene: slušni aparat m
• Spanish: audífono m, audiófono m, acústico (es) m, sonotone m
• Swedish: hörapparat (sv) c
• Telugu: చెముడు మిషను (cemuḍu miṣanu)
• Thai: เครื่องช่วยฟัง (krʉ̂ʉang-chûai-fang)
• Turkish: işitme cihazı
• Ukrainian: слухови́й апара́т m (sluxovýj aparát)
• Vietnamese: máy trợ thính