écran

See also: ecran and êcran

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French écran, from Old French escran, escren, borrowed from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e.kʁɑ̃/
Audio: (file)

Noun

écran m (plural écrans)

screen
un écran de télévision ― a television screen

Usage notes

Not to be confused with écrin (“jewel box”).

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Albanian: ekran
→ Azerbaijani: ekran
→ Bulgarian: екра́н (ekrán)
→ Crimean Tatar: ekran
→ Khmer: អេក្រង់ (eekrɑŋ)
→ Polish: ekran
→ Portuguese: ecrã, écran
→ Romanian: ecran
→ Russian: экран (ekran), экра́нъ (ekrán) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
- → Armenian: էկրան (ēkran)
- → Estonian: ekraan
- → Lithuanian: ekranas
- → Georgian: ეკრანი (eḳrani)
- → Kazakh: экран (ékran)
- → Uyghur: ئېكران (ëkran)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: екран
- Latin script: ekran
→ Turkish: ekran
→ Ukrainian: екра́н (ekrán)

Further reading

“écran”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

ancre, ancré, cerna, crâne, encra, nacre, rance

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French écran.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.kɾɐ̃/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.kɾɐn/

Hyphenation: é‧cran

Noun

écran m (plural écrans)

alternative form of ecrã