browser

See also: Browser

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English browse

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsjos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English browser

From browse + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹaʊ.zə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹaʊ.zəɹ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: brows‧er

Noun

browser (plural browsers)

1. One who or which browses.

   Coordinate term: grazer

   • 1988, R. Norman Owen-Smith, Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 14:

     Giraffe have a long, muscular tongue, which aids in gathering leaves into the mouth; and the dentition is typical of browsers.

   1. A person who examines goods for sale but purchases nothing.

      Antonym: nonbrowser

      • 1976 December 18, David Holland, “Dear Santa...”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 11:

        While still in the mood for antique bartering, The Emerald City on the South End section of Dartmouth St. has expanded just in time for browsers and buyers. Allow some time here as it's a poke-and-find shop of 1800's pictures and prints, turn-of-the-century kitchen ware, and some very unusual furnishings and lamps.

2. (Internet) Ellipsis of web browser.
   • [1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)‎^[1]:

     A program which provides access to the hypertext world we call a browser.]

3. (computing, by extension) Any other type of information browser.
   • 2011, Lester Madden, Professional Augmented Reality Browsers for Smartphones: Programming for junaio, Layar and Wikitude, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 10:

     The real strengthof AR browsers is their discoverability. Today, browsers have most of the attention and it's amazing how many people have yet to experience a browser for themselves. Browsers are incredibly useful ways to discover information about places and objects around you.

Derived terms

• browser cache
• browser hijacking
• browserify
• browserish
• browserless
• browser narcotic
• cross-browser
• headless browser
• lockdown browser
• man-in-the-browser
• master browser
• mesobrowser
• microbrowser
• minibrowser
• nonbrowser
• potential browser
• web browser

Descendants

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: brauzer
• → Belarusian: бра́ўзэр (bráwzer)
• → Bengali: ব্রাউজার (braujar)
• → Bulgarian: бра́узър (bráuzǎr)
• → Danish: browser
• → Dutch: browser
• → Estonian: brauser
• → Georgian: ბრაუზერი (brauzeri)
• → German: Browser
• → Hindi: ब्राउज़र (brāuzar)
• → Italian: browser
• → Japanese: ブラウザ (burauza)
• → Korean: 브라우저 (beuraujeo)
• → Kyrgyz: браузер (brauzer)
• → Portuguese: browser
• → Romanian: browser
• → Russian: бра́узер (bráuzer)
• → Scottish Gaelic: brabhsair
• → Sinhalese: බ්‍රව්සර (brawsara)
• → Spanish: browser
• → Tajik: браузер (brauzer)
• → Tatar: браузер (brawzer)
• → Thai: เบราว์เซอร์ (brao-sə̂ə)
• → Ukrainian: бра́узер (bráuzer)
• → Urdu: بَراؤُزَر (barāuzar), بْراؤُزَر (brāuzar)
• → Uzbek: brauzer

Translations

web browser — see web browser

Further reading

• browser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Browers

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English browser. First attested in 1993.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bravsər/, [ˈbɹɑwsɐ]

Noun

browser c (singular definite browseren, plural indefinite browsere)

1. (Internet) web browser

   Synonym: webbrowser

Inflection

Declension of browser

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	browser	browseren	browsere	browserne
genitive	browsers	browserens	browseres	browsernes

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English browser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɑu̯.zər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: brow‧ser

Noun

browser m (plural browsers, no diminutive)

1. (Internet) web browser

   Synonyms: webbrowser, internetbrowser

Related terms

• browsen

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English browser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbraw.zer/

Noun

browser m (invariable)

1. (Internet) web browser

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English browser.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾaw.zeʁ/ [ˈbɾaʊ̯.zeh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾaw.zeʁ/ [ˈbɾaʊ̯.zeh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾaw.zeɾ/ [ˈbɾaʊ̯.zeɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾaw.zeʁ/ [ˈbɾaʊ̯.zeχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾaw.zeɻ/ [ˈbɾaʊ̯.zeɻ]

Noun

browser m (plural browsers or browseres)

1. (Internet) web browser

   Synonyms: navegador < navegador web

Further reading

• “browser”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “browser”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English browser.

Noun

browser m (plural browseres)

1. (Internet) web browser

   Synonyms: navegador < navegador web

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.