remote control

English

A remote control (1).

Noun

remote control (countable and uncountable, plural remote controls)

A device used to operate an appliance (such as a television), vehicle or mechanical toy from a short distance away.
- 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian‎:
  A single slice of this could leave you supine in front of the Queen's speech without even the wherewithal to reach for the remote control.
(uncountable) A means of doing something from a distance.
The bomb was detonated by remote control.

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device used to operate an appliance or mechanical toy from a short distance away

Arabic: تَحَكُّم مِن بُعْد‎ m (taḥakkum min buʿd)
Armenian: հեռակառավարման վահանակ (hy) (heṙakaṙavarman vahanak)
Belarusian: пульт дыстанцы́йнага кірава́ння m (pulʹt dystancýjnaha kiravánnja), дыстанцы́йнае кірава́нне n (dystancýjnaje kiravánnje), пульт m (pulʹt)
Bulgarian: дистанцио́нно управле́ние n (distanciónno upravlénie)
Catalan: comandament a distància m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 遙控器 (zh), 遥控器 (zh) (yáokòngqì)
Czech: dálkový ovladač m
Danish: fjernbetjening (da) c
Dutch: afstandsbediening (nl) f
Esperanto: teleregilo
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: kauko-ohjain, kaukosäädin (fi)
French: télécommande (fr) f
Georgian: პულტი (ṗulṭi), გადასართველი (gadasartveli)
German: Fernbedienung (de) f, Fernsteuerung f (vehicles)
Greek: τηλεχειριστήριο (el) n (tilecheiristírio)
Hebrew: שלט‎ (he)-רחוק‎ (he) m (shlat-rakhók), שלט‎ (he) m (shalát)
Hindi: दूरस्थ नियंत्रण (dūrasth niyantraṇ), रिमोट कंट्रोल (rimoṭ kaṇṭrol)
Hungarian: távirányító (hu)
Icelandic: fjarstýring (is) f
Indonesian: pengendali jarak jauh
Irish: cianrialtán m
Italian: telecomando (it) m
Japanese: 遠隔操作 (ja) (えんかくそうさ, enkaku sōsa), リモートコントロール (rimōtokontorōru), リモコン (rimokon)
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Khmer: ទូរបញ្ជា (tuu bɑɲcie)
Korean: 원격 조종 (won-gyeok jojong), 리모컨 (ko) (rimokeon)
Macedonian: дале́чински упра́вувач (mk) m (daléčinski uprávuvač)
Malay: alat kawalan jauh

Maltese: please add this translation if you can
Maori: please add this translation if you can
Marathi: रिमोट n (rimoṭ)
Norman: téléc'mande f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fjernkontroll (no) m (both senses)

Nynorsk: fjernkontroll m (both senses)
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: pilot (pl) m
Portuguese: controle (pt), controlo remoto m, comando (pt) m, telecomando m, controle remoto
Romanian: telecomandă (ro) f, comandă de la distanță f
Russian: пульт дистанцио́нного управле́ния (ru) m (pulʹt distanciónnovo upravlénija), ПДУ (ru) m (PDU), пульт (ru) m (pulʹt), дистанцио́нное управле́ние (ru) n (distanciónnoje upravlénije)
Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: даљински управљач m

Roman: daljinski upravljač m
Slovak: diaľkový ovládač m
Slovene: daljinec m
Spanish: telemando m, control remoto m, mando a distancia m, control (es) m, mando (es) m
Swedish: fjärrkontroll (sv) c
Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
Thai: รีโมตคอนโทรล (rii-mòot-kɔn-trool), รีโมต (rii-mòot)
Tibetan: ཐག་རིང་ནས་ཁ་ལོ་སྒྱུར་པ (thag ring nas kha lo sgyur pa), ཐག་རིང་ཚད་འཛིན (thag ring tshad 'dzin)
Turkish: kumanda (tr), uzaktan kumanda (tr), televizyon kumandası
Ukrainian: пульт дистанці́йного керува́ння m (pulʹt dystancíjnoho keruvánnja), дистанці́йне керува́ння n (dystancíjne keruvánnja), пульт m (pulʹt)
Vietnamese: điều khiển từ xa, điều khiển (vi) (abbreviation)
Walloon: telecmande (wa) f, zapete (wa) f (familiar)
Welsh: teclyn troi (cy) m, teclyn (cy) m
Westrobothnian: häv-om-arn m, heaman m, hé ommar´n m
Zulu: please add this translation if you can

means

Armenian: հեռակառավարում (hy) (heṙakaṙavarum)
Belarusian: дыстанцы́йнае кірава́нне n (dystancýjnaje kiravánnje)
Bulgarian: дистанцио́нно управле́ние n (distanciónno upravlénie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

Finnish: kauko-ohjaus
German: Fernsteuerung f
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Russian: дистанцио́нное управле́ние (ru) n (distanciónnoje upravlénije)
Ukrainian: дистанці́йне керува́ння n (dystancíjne keruvánnja)

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