English Explanatory Dictionary

Dvorak

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Czech, especially
  2. Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841–1904), Czech composer of Romantic music.
adj
  1. Describing an optimized keyboard layout for the English language, in which the alphabet is arranged in the order PYFGCRL on the top row, AOEUIDHTNS on the middle, or home row, and QJKXBMWVZ on the bottom row, thus placing the letters most frequently used in the home row. Many variants on Dvorak layouts also exist, including keyboards for right-hand-only and left-hand-only-typists.

Pronunciation

/ˈdvɔːʒæk/ /ˈdvɔːʒɑːk/ /ˈdvɔɹʒɑk/ /ˈdvɔɹʒæk/ /ˈdvɔɹæk/ /dəˈvɔɹæk/ En-us-Dvorak.ogg

Word forms

Dvorak Dvořák

Etymology

From Czech Dvořák, from Old Czech dvořák (“attendant, tenant farmer”), equivalent to dvůr (“court, courtyard, estate, farm”) + -ák (“-er, -an: forming related nouns”). The keyboard is named after the American inventor August Dvorak.

Derived words

Dvorakian

Translations

Arabic: دْفُورْجَاك Armenian: Դվորժակ Azerbaijani: Dvorjak Bengali: দ্ভরাক Chinese Cantonese: 德伏札克 Chinese Mandarin: 德沃夏克 Czech: Dvořák Finnish: Dvořák Georgian: დვორჟაკი German: Dvorak Greek: Ντβόρζακ Hebrew: דבוז׳אק Japanese: ドヴォルザーク Japanese: ドヴォジャーク Japanese: ドヴォルジャーク Japanese: ドボルザーク Korean: 드보르자크 Latvian: Dvoržāks Lithuanian: Dvoržakas Macedonian: Дво́ржак Malayalam: ഡ്വാറക് Marathi: द्वोराक Newar: ड्वोराक Persian: دورژاک Polish: Dworzak Punjabi: ਡਵੋਜ਼ਾਕ Russian: Дво́ржак Russian: Дво́рак Samogitian: Dvuoržaks Tamil: டுவோராக் Thai: ดโวชาก Ukrainian: Дво́ржак Urdu: دووزاک Veps: Dvoržak Yiddish: דוואָרזשאַק
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