עכבר

Hebrew

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʿakbar- (“mouse”), cognate with Arabic عَكْبَر (ʕakbar). The computing term is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

Noun

עַכְבָּר • (akhbár) m (plural indefinite עַכְבָּרִים, singular construct עַכְבַּר־, plural construct עַכְבְּרֵי־)

  1. mouse (any small rodent of the genus Mus)
  2. (computing) mouse ((plural mice or mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display)

References

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.