Sony

See also: sony, Sonny, and sonny

English

Wordmark

Etymology

A combination of Latin sonus (“sound”) and sonny (“boy”, diminutive).

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊni/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊni/
• Rhymes: -əʊni

Proper noun

Sony

2. (trademark) An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.
   • 1993, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson, Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, Routledge, →ISBN, page 76:

     he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook.

   • 2002, Alexander J. Morin, Classical Music: The Listener's Companion, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 98:

     Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.

   • 2003, Nadine Condon, Hot Hits, Cheap Demos: The Real-World Guide to Music Business Success, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 34:

     Gary’s roster currently has Tritt and two new Sony artists soon to be hugely famous, JEB and Christy Sutherland.

   • 2006, Joseph Finder, Killer Instinct, St. Martin's Press,, →ISBN, page 5:

     Most of the e-mails were blowback from the departure of our divisional vice president, Crawford, who’d just jumped ship to Sony.

Derived terms

• Sony pony

Translations

An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan

• Arabic: سُونِي f (sōni)
• Bengali: সনি (śoni)
• Bulgarian: Со́ни m (Sóni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 索尼 (zh) (Suǒní)

• Estonian: Sony
• Finnish: Sony
• French: Sony (fr)
• Greek: Σόνι (Sóni)
• Hebrew: סוני (soni)
• Hindi: सोनी (hi) (sonī)
• Japanese: ソニー (Sonī)
• Khmer: សូនី (Sonī)
• Korean: 소니 (Soni)
• Marathi: सोनी f (sonī)
• Persian: سونی (soni)
• Polish: Sony n
• Portuguese: Sony f
• Russian: Со́ни m (Sóni)
• Serbo-Croatian: Сони m
• Spanish: Sony
• Thai: โซนี่ (sohnêe)
• Turkish: Sony
• Urdu: سونی (sonī)

Noun

Sony (plural Sonys)

2. A device produced by Sony.
   • 1980, Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus, Ballantine Books,, →ISBN, page 16:

     Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine at the Hyatt House and she was always back by midnight, reciting a final sixty-second radio spot into her Sony or absorbing one last press release before getting a good night’s sleep.

   • 1990, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 255:

     It’s not clear what the witch doctors are doing, but the scientists have been wandering the riverbank with their Sonys or Hitachis, playing the recorded chirpings of newly hatched crocodiles in hopes of either stirring maternal instinct in the (almost surely) female man-eater or tempting her to infanticidal cannibalism, which would be far more likely.

   • 1995, Victor J. Ramraj, Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English, Broadview Press, →ISBN, page 297:

     My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering.

   • 1999, Peter Cook, Archigram, Princeton Architectural Press,, →ISBN, page 113:

     The common threads that exist between the fisherman and his Sony and the project above. Robert Smithson's 'Incidents of mirror travel in the Yucatan' are important.

   • 2001, Carl Hiaasen, edited by Diane Stevenson, Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 18:

     My personal choice would be to drag these vultures from their rental cars and gently disassemble their Sonys.

   • 2010, Bill Sharpsteen, Dirty Water: One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s Most Polluted Bays, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 54:

     He also figured more and more people got their current events from television, and so he put most of his effort into soliciting the unwashed masses who sat bug-eyed before their Sonys.

Translations

device produced by Sony

• German: Sony m or n or f

Further reading

• Sony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Noys, Yons, nosy, noys, syno, syon

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzoːni/, /ˈsoːni/, /ˈsɔʊ̯ni/ (the intermediate form probably being the most common)

Proper noun

Sony n (proper noun, strong, genitive Sonys)

1. (trademark) Sony (an international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan)

Noun

Sony m or n or f (strong, genitive Sonys or Sony, plural Sonys or Sony)

1. Sony (a device produced by Sony)

Usage notes

• The gender typically mirrors that of the implied common noun; for example, der Sony for a TV because of Fernseher m.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Sony.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsõ.ni/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsõ.ni/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈso.ni/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.ni/

• Rhymes: -ɔni, (Brazil) -õni

Proper noun

Sony f

1. (trademark) Sony (an international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan)