hairdryer

See also: hair-dryer and hair dryer

English

Hairdryer

Alternative forms

Etymology

hair +‎ dryer

Noun

hairdryer (plural hairdryers)

(chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.

Usage notes

Hair dryer is most common form in US.

Synonyms

(appliance for drying hair): blow-dryer, blow dryer, blowdryer (all mostly US)

Derived terms

hairdryer treatment

Translations

electrical appliance for drying hair

Albanian: tharëse e flokëve f, fen m
Arabic: مُجَفِّف شَعْر m (mujaffif šaʕr)
Gulf Arabic: سِشْوَار m (sišwār), اِسْتِشْوَار m (istišwār).

Hijazi Arabic: سِشْوَار m (sišwār), اِسْتِشْوَار m (istišwār).
Armenian: ֆեն (hy) (fen), վարսահարդարիչ (hy) (varsahardaričʻ)
Asturian: secador m
Azerbaijani: saçqurudan, fen (az)
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: фен m (fjen)
Bulgarian: сешоа́р m (sešoár)
Carpathian Rusyn: фен m (fen), су́шіч m (súšič)
Catalan: eixugacabells (ca) m, eixugador (ca) m, assecador (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 風筒／风筒 (fung¹ tung²)

Hakka: 吹風機／吹风机 (chhôi-fûng-kî)

Hokkien: 吹風機／吹风机 (chhoe-hong-ki, chhe-hong-ki), 電吹／电吹 (tiān-chhoe, tiān-chhe)

Mandarin: 電吹風／电吹风 (zh) (diànchuīfēng), 吹風機／吹风机 (zh) (chuīfēngjī)
Czech: fén (cs) m
Danish: hårtørrer c, føntørrer c
Dutch: haardroger (nl) m, föhn (nl) m
Esperanto: hararsekigilo
Estonian: föön
Faroese: hárturkari m, fønari m
Finnish: hiustenkuivaaja (fi), hiustenkuivain, (colloquial) fööni (fi)
French: sèche-cheveux (fr) m, séchoir à cheveux m (Canada, Missouri, New England, Louisiana), séchoir (fr) m (Canada, Missouri, New England, Louisiana), foehn (fr) m (Switzerland, Alsace)
Galician: secador m
Georgian: თმის საშრობი (tmis sašrobi), ფიონი (pioni)
German: Föhn (de) m, Haartrockner (de) m, Fön (de) m, Heißluftdusche f, Luftdusche f
Greek: πιστολάκι (el) n (pistoláki), σεσουάρ (el) n (sesouár)
Hebrew: מייבש שיער / מְיַבֵּשׁ שֵׂעָר m (meybésh seár)
Hindi: हेयर ड्रायर m (heyar ḍrāyar)
Hungarian: hajszárító (hu)
Icelandic: hárþurrka (is) f, hárblásari (is) m
Indonesian: pengering rambut (id)
Irish: triomadóir gruaige m
Italian: asciugacapelli (it) m, fon (it) m
Japanese: ヘアドライヤー (ja) (headoraiyā), ブロードライヤー (burōdoraiyā), ドライヤー (ja) (doraiyā)
Kazakh: фен (fen)
Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនផ្លុំសក់ (maasɨn phlom sɑk)
Korean: 드라이기 (ko) (deuraigi), 헤어드라이어 (ko) (heeodeuraieo)
Kyrgyz: фен (fen)
Lao: ອັນເປົ່າຜົມ (lo) (ʼan pao phom)
Latvian: fēns (lv) m
Lithuanian: plaukų džiovintuvas m
Macedonian: фен m (fen), сушач m (sušač)
Malay: pengering rambut
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: үсний сэнс (üsnii sens)
Nepali: हेयर ड्रायर (heyar ḍrāyar)
Norman: s'tcheux m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: føner m, hårføner m, hårtørker m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: سِشُوارِ مو (sešovâr-e mu), سِشُوار (fa) (sešovâr), مو خُشْک‌کُن (mu xošk-kon)
Polish: suszarka (pl) f
Portuguese: secador de cabelo (pt) m, secador (pt) m
Romanian: foehn (ro) n
Russian: фен (ru) m (fen)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сушилица f, сушило за косу m, фен за косу m

Roman: sušilica f, sušilo za kosu n, fen za kosu n
Slovak: sušič m, fön m, fén (sk) m, föhn m
Slovene: fen (sl) m, sušilnik za lase m
Spanish: secador m, secador de pelo m
Swedish: hårtork (sv) c, fön (sv) c, hårfön (sv) c
Tajik: фен (fen)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: ไดร์ (th) (dai), เครื่องเป่าผม (krʉ̂ʉang-bpào-pǒm)
Tibetan: སྐྲ་སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར (skra skam yag 'phrul 'khor)
Turkish: saç kurutma makinesi (tr)
Turkmen: suşilka, fen
Ukrainian: фен m (fen)
Urdu: ہَیر ڈْرائیر m (hair ḍrāer)
Uzbek: fen (uz)
Vietnamese: máy sấy tóc
Volapük: heremisägüköm
Welsh: sychwr gwallt m