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English

Alternative forms

• Taser

Etymology

Acronym of Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle. Coined in the early 1970s by inventor Jack Cover, after the fictional character created by Edward Stratemeyer in 1910 and especially the volume Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (1911). Genericization of the trademark Taser.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?te?.z?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?te?.z?/
• Rhymes: -e?z?(?)

Noun

taser (plural tasers)

1. A Taser, a handheld device made by Taser International intended to immobilize another by delivering an electric shock.

   Synonym: stun gun

2. (by extension) Any electroshock stun gun.

Translations

Derived terms

• taser (verb)
• tase

See also

• stun gun
• cattle prod (“an electric shock device used to herd cattle”)
• electric fence (“a fixed installation electric shock barrier used to control livestock”)
• mace (“a self-defense chemical spray used to fend off attackers, similar use to personal tasers”)
• pepper spray (“a self-defense chemical spray used to fend off attackers, similar use to personal tasers”)

Verb

taser (third-person singular simple present tasers, present participle tasering, simple past and past participle tasered)

1. To shock a person, thing, individual, or animal with a handheld device with the electric shock that it delivers; to stun with a stun gun.
2. (figuratively) To strike verbally or gesturally with ill intents.

Synonyms

• tase

See also

• laser
• maser
• phaser

Further reading

• taser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• 'earts, -aster, Aters, Sater, Tesar, arets, arste, aster, earst, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, stear, tares, tarse, tears, teras

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English taser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te?.z?r/
• Hyphenation: ta?ser
• Rhymes: -e?z?r

Noun

taser m (plural tasers)

1. A taser (electro-stun weapon).

   Synonym: stroomstootwapen

French

Etymology

English taser

Noun

taser m (plural tasers)

1. taser, a Taser
2. taser, by generalization, any electroshock stun gun

Synonyms

• (generalized): pistolet à impulsion électrique / PIE / PIÉ

Hypernyms

• arme à impulsion électrique / AIE / AIÉ

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English taler, equivalent to tale +? -er.

Noun

taler (plural talers)

1. (archaic) A talker; a teller
   • 2000, Taimi Anne Olsen, Transcending Space:

     Earth writes from the point of view of " 'Baylor' the Taler of Behler the Failer" who tells Scheherazade's story (to Death, her "familiar stranger") of Somebody's last voyage.

   • 2007, Barbara A. Hanawalt, The Wealth of Wives:

     She had a series of aliases: “longa mariona wode alias Birde alias taler” [long Mariona Wode, alias Birdie, alias taler, perhaps tale teller].

Etymology 2

From German Taler, (older) Thaler. Doublet of dollar.

Alternative forms

• thaler

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?l?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??l?/

Noun

taler (plural talers)

2. (historical) Germanic unit of currency used between the 15th and 19th centuries.

Anagrams

• Alert, alert, alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, telar

Cebuano

Etymology

From the reverse spelling of the second syllable of bilat.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta?ler

Noun

taler

1. the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina

Danish

Etymology 1

From tale (“to speak”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?l?r/, [?t?æ?l?]

Noun

taler c (singular definite taleren, plural indefinite talere)

1. speaker

Inflection

Etymology 2

See tale (“speech”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?l?r/, [?t?æ?l?]

Noun

taler c

1. indefinite plural of tale

Etymology 3

See tale (“to speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?l?r/, [?t?æ??l?]

Verb

taler

1. present of tale

French

Etymology 1

From German Taler, (older) Thaler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.l??/

Noun

taler m (plural talers)

1. taler (currency)

Etymology 2

From Frankish *t?l?n (“to tear away, rip off”), via Latin, compare Spanish talar, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *t?l? (“persecution, deceit”). Cognate with Old High German zâlôn (“to root up, remove”), Old English t?l (“reproof, calumny, mockery”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.le/

Verb

taler

1. (transitive) to damage (a fruit)

Conjugation

Further reading

• “taler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French tout à l'heure

Adverb

taler

1. later

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From tale +? -er

Noun

taler m (definite singular taleren, indefinite plural talere, definite plural talerne)

1. a speaker (person who speaks, or who makes a speech)

Derived terms

• buktaler
• høyttaler

See also

• talar (Nynorsk)

References

• “taler” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology 2

Noun

taler m

1. indefinite plural of tale

Etymology 3

Verb

taler

1. present of tale

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (of both) talar

Noun

taler m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of tale

Verb

taler

1. present of tala
2. present of tale

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?tal?r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ta?l?r/, /?tal?r/

Verb

taler

1. (literary) subjunctive impersonal of talu
2. (literary) imperative impersonal of talu

Mutation