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Compound of mother + board. Attested since 1965.
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmʌðɚˌbɔɹd/
motherboard (plural motherboards)
- (computer hardware) The primary circuit board of a personal computer, containing the circuitry for the central processing unit, keyboard, mouse and monitor, together with slots for other devices.
2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 8:
An electronics shop was selling ugly refurbished computers. They were small black and grey things with exposed motherboards and cracked cases.
- → Bengali: মাদারবোর্ড (madarbōrḍ)
- → Japanese: マザーボード (mazābōdo)
- → Chinese: 母板 (mǔbǎn) (calque)
- → Dutch: moederbord (calque)
- → Estonian: emaplaat (calque)
- → Finnish: emolevy (calque)
- → Icelandic: móðurborð (calque)
- → Irish: máthairchlár (calque)
- → Italian: scheda madre (calque)
- → Portuguese: placa-mãe (calque)
- → Russian: матери́нская пла́та (materínskaja pláta) (calque)
- → Ukrainian: матери́нська пла́та (materýnsʹka pláta) (calque)
primary circuit board of a computer
- Afrikaans: moederbord
- Arabic: اللَّوْحَةُ الأُمّ f (al-lawḥatu l-ʔumm)
- Azerbaijani: ana lövhə
- Bengali: মাদারবোর্ড (bn) (madarbōrḍ)
- Catalan: placa mare f, placa base f, targeta mare f
- Chinese:
- Czech: základní deska (cs) f
- Danish: bundkort n, motherboard (da) n
- Dutch: moederbord (nl) n
- Esperanto: ĉefkarto, ĉeftabulo, patrinplato
- Estonian: emaplaat (et)
- Finnish: emolevy (fi)
- French: carte mère (fr) f, carte principale f, carte de fond de panier f
- Georgian: დედაპლატა (dedaṗlaṭa), მაზერი (mazeri) (slang)
- German: Hauptplatine (de) f, Mainboard (de) n, Motherboard (de) n
- Greek: μητρική κάρτα (el) f (mitrikí kárta)
- Hindi: मदरबोर्ड (madarborḍ)
- Hungarian: alaplap (hu)
- Icelandic: móðurborð (is) n
- Ido: matroplako (io), chefoplako
- Irish: máthairchlár m
- Italian: scheda madre (it) f
- Japanese: マザーボード (ja) (mazābōdo), メインボード (ja) (meinbōdo)
- Kazakh: жүйелік тақта (jüielık taqta)
- Khmer: បន្ទះមេ (bɑntĕəh mei)
- Korean: 메인보드 (meinbodeu), 마더보드 (madeobodeu)
- Macedonian: матична плоча f (matična ploča)
- Malay: papan induk
- Polish: płyta główna (pl) f
- Portuguese: placa-mãe (pt) f
- Romanian: placă de bază f
- Russian: матери́нская пла́та (ru) f (materínskaja pláta), ма́ма (ru) f (máma) (slang)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: матична плоча f
- Roman: matična ploča f
- Spanish: placa base f, motherboard (es) (slang), placa madre f
- Swahili: bodimama
- Swedish: moderkort (sv) n
- Thai: แผงวงจรหลัก
- Turkish: anakart (tr)
- Ukrainian: матери́нська пла́та f (materýnsʹka pláta)
- Vietnamese: bo mạch chủ
- “motherboard”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Unadapted borrowing from English motherboard.
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