laptop

• lap-top (dated)

From lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) +‎ top, modeled after desktop.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlæp.tɒp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlæp.tɑp/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

laptop (plural laptops)

1. (computing) A laptop computer.

   He was playing Minecraft on his laptop.

   • 2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8:

     Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 408, number 8847:

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

• (laptop computer): laptop computer, notebook computer

• desktop
• palmtop

• → Dutch: laptop
• → Hungarian: laptop
• → Indonesian: laptop
• → Malay: laptop

laptop (not comparable)

1. Designed for use on a lap.
   • 1984 November, Gregg Williams, Ken Sheldon, “The Data General/One”, in BYTE, volume 9, number 12, McGraw-Hill Inc., →ISSN, page 105, column 1:

     At NCC, however, laptop portables such as the Gavilan were stealing the show, and when Miyashita returned to japan, his list of possible projects included a proposal for a portable computer.

   • 1988 March 29, John Dickinson, “The Quest for the ‘Least Computer’”, in PC Magazine, volume 7, number 6, →ISSN, page 134, column 2:

     Otherwise, the keyboard feel and layout are good for a laptop machine but, as with most portables, I wouldn’t want to use the T1000 to write the entire great American novel—just a chapter or two at a time.

   • 1999 July, Chris O’Malley, “Little laptops”, in Popular Science, volume 255, number 1, →ISSN, page 73:

     Nestled snugly into a cattle-class seat aboard a 737, you drop your tray table and open your laptop PC.

• laptop computer

• applot

Unadapted borrowing from English laptop.

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛp.tɔp/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑp.tɔp/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lap‧top

laptop m (plural laptops, diminutive laptopje n)

1. laptop (computer with a clamshell design, portable and foldable)

From English laptop. It may also be considered as a phono-semantic matching of English laptop, its first element reinterpreted as Hungarian lap (“sheet”) due to its being slim.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛptop] (phonetic respelling: leptop)
• Hyphenation: lap‧top
• Rhymes: -op

laptop (plural laptopok)

1. laptop
   • 2022 February 26, Drevenyák Dávid, Laptop vagy asztali számítógép‎^[2]:

     A PC-k gyakran masszívabb felépítésűek, és a mozgatás hiánya miatt kevesebb „atrocitásnak” is vannak kitéve, mint a laptopok.

     PCs are often more ruggedly built and, because of their lack of mobility, are also less subject to "atrocities" than laptops.

Borrowed from English laptop.

• (Standard Indonesian)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈleptop/ [ˈlep̚.t̪ɔp̚]
    • Rhymes: -eptop
  • IPA^(key): (less common) /ˈlaptop/ [ˈlap̚.t̪ɔp̚]
    • Rhymes: -aptop
• Syllabification: lap‧top

laptop (plural laptop-laptop)

1. (computing) laptop, laptop computer

   Synonym: (neologism) komputer jinjing

• “laptop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Unadapted borrowing from English laptop.

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈlaptop/ [ˈlap̚.t̪op̚]

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈleptop/ [ˈlep̚.t̪op̚] (colloquial)
• Hyphenation: lap‧top

laptop (plural laptop-laptop)

1. laptop

   Synonym: komputer riba

   • 2024 April 22, Nursyafikah, boleh letak dlm poket 🤭siapa nk tgok pika unboxing komen part 2‎^[3], archived from the original on 21 June 2025:

     Akak, cuba beli laptop mini.

     Sis, try buying a mini laptop.

   • 2024 August 23, Hannani Juhari, “10 Laptop Murah Bawah RM2000 Terbaik (2024)”, in eCentral‎^[4], archived from the original on 28 August 2024:

     Asus […] merupakan laptop yang direka khas untuk pengguna yang mementingkan kecekapan dan mobiliti.

     The Asus […] is a laptop specially designed for users who value efficiency and mobility.

   • 2025 June 20, @ariffmac, “(Ulasan) HP Omen Transcend 14 - Laptop Gaming Dengan Bateri Tahan Lama”, in wiser.my‎^[5], archived from the original on 21 June 2025:

     Pengguna masa kini bukan sahaja mencari prestasi terbaik dalam sesebuah laptop, […]

     Today's users are not only looking for the best performance in a laptop, […]

Borrowed from English laptop.

laptop m (definite singular laptopen, indefinite plural laptoper, definite plural laptopene)

1. (computing) a laptop
   • 2011, Jan Mehlum, Madrugada‎^[6], EbnPublish, →ISBN:

     Forretningsfolk, barnefamilier, unge kvinner med moderne klær, avanserte mobiltelefoner og laptoper.

     Business people, families with children, young women with modern clothes, advanced mobile phones and laptops.

• bærbar datamaskin

• “laptop” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Borrowed from English laptop.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlap.tɔp/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aptɔp
• Syllabification: lap‧top

laptop m inan or m animal (related adjective laptopowy)

1. (computing) laptop, laptop computer (portable computer that is small enough and light enough to be used on one's lap, but large enough to have an integrated keyboard)

   Synonym: lapek

   Hypernym: komputer

   Hyponyms: netbook, notebook

• laptop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• laptop in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• laptop in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from English laptop.

laptop m (plural laptops)

1. (computing) laptop computer (class of portable computers)

   Synonym: notebook

Borrowed from English laptop.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlep.top/

laptop n (plural laptopuri)

1. laptop

Unadapted borrowing from English laptop.

• IPA^(key): /labˈtop/ [laβ̞ˈt̪op]
• Rhymes: -op
• Syllabification: lap‧top

laptop m or f same meaning (plural laptops)

1. laptop

• Per the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, the term is predominantly feminine in most of Latin America, but masculine in Ecuador and Argentina, and either gender in Chile. When used in Spain, it is masculine, although the term is rare there.

Borrowed from English laptop.

laptop c

1. (computing) a laptop

   Synonyms: bärbar dator, portföljdator

• laptop in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• laptop in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)