flash drive

English

A flash drive

Etymology

So called because it is a storage device that uses flash memory.

Noun

flash drive (plural flash drives)

2. (computer hardware) A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive.

Synonyms

• disk on key
• jump drive
• key drive
• memory drive
• memory stick
• pen drive
• thumb drive
• USB
• USB drive
• USB flash drive
• USB key
• USB stick

 

Translations

storage device

• Arabic: فِلَاشَة f (filāša), قُرْص وَامِض m (qurṣ wāmiḍ) (a literal translation prescribed by some purists, though virtually unused)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: флашка f (flaška)
• Catalan: llapis de memòria (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 記憶體 / 记忆体 (gei³ jik¹ tai²), 記憶棒 / 记忆棒 (gei³ jik¹ paang⁵), 手指 (sau² zi²) (slang)

  Mandarin: 快閃碟 / 快闪碟 (kuàishǎndié), 閃盤 / 闪盘 (shǎnpán) (mainland China), 優盤 / 优盘 (zh) (yōupán) (mainland China), U盤 / U盘 (zh) (U-pán) (mainland China), 閃存盤 / 闪存盘 (zh) (shǎncúnpán) (mainland China), 快閃記憶體盤 / 快闪记忆体盘 (kuàishǎn jìyìtǐpán) (mainland China), 大拇哥 (zh) (dàmǔgē) (mainland China, slang), 隨身碟 / 随身碟 (zh) (suíshēndié) (Taiwan), 快閃隨身碟 / 快闪随身碟 (kuàishǎn suíshēndié) (Taiwan)

• Cornish: kyv kov m
• Czech: flash disk m, fleška (cs) f (colloquial)
• Danish: usb-stik / USB-stik n, usb-nøgle / USB-nøgle c
• Esperanto: poŝmemorilo, memorbastoneto
• Faroese: geymi m
• Finnish: muistitikku (fi), USB-muisti (fi), flash-asema
• French: clé USB (fr) f, disque flash m, disque à mémoire flash m, disque dur à mémoire flash m, disque dur flash m
• Galician: memoria USB f
• Georgian: ფლეშ-მეხსიერება (pleš-mexsiereba)
• German: USB-Stick (de) m, USB-Massenspeicher m, Flash-Laufwerk n (a literal one, not the usual term for a USB stick)
• Greek: μνήμη USB (mními USB)
• Hebrew: דיסק און קי (he) m (disk on key)
• Hindi: फ़्लैश ड्राइव (flaiś ḍrāiv)
• Hungarian: pendrive (hu), flash-meghajtó
• Icelandic: minnislykill m, USB-minni n, gagnalykill m, þumadrif n
• Irish: méaróg chuimhne f, méaróg USB f
• Italian: pen-drive f, pen drive (it) f, chiavetta (it) f, penna (it) f, pennetta f, penna USB f, chiave USB f, chiavetta USB f, penna USB f, pen drive (it) f, chiavetta (it) f, penna (it) f, pennetta f, penna USB f, chiave USB f, chiavetta USB f, penna USB f
• Japanese: フラッシュドライブ (furasshudoraibu)
• Kabyle: tasarut n USB f
• Khmer: ដ្រាយវ៍ពន្លឺ (drayv៍pន្លឺ)
• Korean: 플래시 드라이브 (peullaesi deuraibeu)
• Macedonian: уесбе n (uesbe)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: badgette dé mémouaithe f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: minnepinne
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: pendrive (pl) m, pendrajw (pl) m, PenDrive m, pamięć USB (pl) f
• Portuguese: pen-drive m, pen (pt) f
• Romanian: stick de memorie n, stick USB n
• Russian: фле́ш-накопи́тель m (fléš-nakopítelʹ), (colloquial) фле́шка (ru) f (fléška)
• Serbo-Croatian: memorijski ključić m
• Spanish: memoria USB f, pendrive m (péndraiv), lápiz de memoria m, lápiz USB m, llave maya (es) f (standard in Costa Rica), pincho (es) m, USB (es) m
• Swedish: USB-minne (sv) n, USB-sticka (sv) c, minnespinne c, minnessticka c
• Thai: แฟลชไดรฟ์ (th), ทัมบ์ไดรฟ์ (tám-drái)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: bellek aygıtı, flash disk, flaş sürücüsü, hafıza ünitesi, USB bellek, USB çubuk
• Vietnamese: USB
• Welsh: ffon gof (cy) f, cof bach m, cofbin m, gyriant fflach m

Further reading

• flash drive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia