motherboard

English

motherboard

Etymology

Compound of mother ‎ board. Attested since 1965.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌðɚˌbɔɹd/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

motherboard (plural motherboards)

1. (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.

   Synonyms: mainboard, mobo

   • 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.

Derived terms

• daughterboard

Related terms

• mothercard

Descendants

• → 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)

Translations

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:

  Cantonese: 主機板／主机板 (zyu² gei¹ baan²), 主板 (zyu² baan²), 母板 (mou⁵ baan²), 底板 (dai² baan²)

  Mandarin: 主板 (zh) (zhǔbǎn), 母板 (zh) (mǔbǎn), 主機板／主机板 (zh) (zhǔjībǎn), 系統板／系统板 (xìtǒngbǎn), 底板 (zh) (dǐbǎn)

• 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

References

• “motherboard”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English motherboard.

Noun

motherboard

1. (computer hardware) motherboard