notification

English

Etymology

From Middle French notification, from Old French notificacion, from Latin nōtificātiō.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌnəʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

notification (countable and uncountable, plural notifications)

1. (uncountable) The act of notifying.
2. (countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.
3. (countable, computing) A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.

   A notification popped up on my computer.

   I received an e-mail notification on my phone.

   • 2008, “Story Mode”, in Cory in the House: Instruction Booklet, Burbank, California: Disney Interactive Studios; Nintendo, page 9:

     Watch for notifications on the top screen[.]

Derived terms

• casualty notification
• counternotification
• death notification
• denotification
• e-notification
• misnotification
• nonnotification
• notification appliance
• notification area
• notification bell
• prenotification
• push notification
• renotification
• toast notification
• undernotification

Translations

act of notifying

Afrikaans: kennisgewing Arabic: إِشْعَار m (ʔišʕār), إِخْطَار m (ʔiḵṭār), إِبْلَاغ m (ʔiblāḡ), إِخْبَار m (ʔiḵbār), إِعْلَام m (ʔiʕlām), إِعْلَان m (ʔiʕlān) Armenian: ծանուցում (hy) (canucʻum) Azerbaijani: bildiriş (az) Basque: jakinarazpen Belarusian: паведамле́нне n (pavjedamljénnje), паведамле́ньне n (pavjedamljénʹnje), апавяшчэ́нне n (apavjaščénnje), апавяшчэ́ньне n (apavjaščénʹnje) Bulgarian: уведомле́ние (bg) n (uvedomlénie) Catalan: notificació f Chinese: Cantonese: 通知 (tung1 zi1) Mandarin: 通知 (zh) (tōngzhī) Czech: upozornění (cs) n, oznámení (cs) n Dutch: melding (nl) f Esperanto: avizo (eo) Estonian: teadaanne Finnish: tiedoksianto (fi) French: notification (fr) f Georgian: შეტყობინება (šeṭq̇obineba), ცნობება (cnobeba), უწყება (uc̣q̇eba) German: Benachrichtigung (de) f Hindi: अनुज्ञापन (hi) m (anujñāpan) Hungarian: értesítés (hu), közlés (hu) Icelandic: tilkynning (is) f Indonesian: notifikasi (id) Italian: notificazione (it) f Japanese: 通知 (ja) (つうち, tsūchi) Khmer: ការជូនដំណឹង (kaa cuun dɑmnəng) Korean: 통지(通知) (ko) (tongji) Kyrgyz: билдирме (ky) (bildirme) Lao: ແຈ້ງການ (chǣng kān) Latin: notificatio m Latvian: paziņojums m Lithuanian: pranešimas (lt) m Macedonian: известување n (izvestuvanje) Malayalam: അറിയിപ്പ് (ml) (aṟiyippŭ), വിജ്ഞാപനം (ml) (vijñāpanaṁ) Maltese: notifika m Maori: whakaaturanga Northwestern Ojibwa: madwesidoon Norwegian: Bokmål: melding (no) m or f Persian: Dari: اِطِّلَاع (ittilā') Iranian Persian: اِطِّلَاع (ettelâ') Portuguese: notificação (pt) f Romanian: notificare (ro) f, notificațiune (ro) f, notificație (ro) f Russian: уведомле́ние (ru) n (uvedomlénije), оповеще́ние (ru) (opoveščénije) Scottish Gaelic: fios m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: обавештење n Roman: obaveštenje n Slovak: oznámenie n Slovene: obvestilo n, sporočilo (sl) n Spanish: notificación (es) f Swedish: anmälan (sv) c, kungörelse (sv) c Tagalog: abiso (tl), pagpapaunawa, notipikasyon Telugu: ప్రకటించుట (prakaṭiñcuṭa) Thai: การแจ้งเตือน (gaan-gaan-jɛ̂ɛng) Turkish: bildirme (tr), bilgilendirme (tr), tebliğ etme, haber verme (tr), notifikasyon Ukrainian: спові́щення n (spovíščennja), повідо́млення n (povidómlennja), оголо́шення (uk) n (oholóšennja), звідо́млення n (zvidómlennja) Urdu: اِطِّلَاع f (ittilā') White Hmong: ceeb toom Yiddish: אַוויז m (aviz)

a specific piece of information serving to notify

Afrikaans: notifikasie Arabic: تَنْبِيه m (tanbīh), إِشْعَار m (ʔišʕār) Belarusian: паведамле́нне n (pavjedamljénnje), паведамле́ньне n (pavjedamljénʹnje), апавяшчэ́нне n (apavjaščénnje), апавяшчэ́ньне n (apavjaščénʹnje) Bulgarian: съобще́ние (bg) n (sǎobšténie), уведомле́ние (bg) n (uvedomlénie) Catalan: notificació f Chinese: Cantonese: 通知 (tung1 zi1) Mandarin: 通知 (zh) (tōngzhī) Danish: melding (da) c Estonian: teade Finnish: tiedonanto (fi) French: notification (fr) f, renseignement (fr) m Georgian: შეტყობინება (šeṭq̇obineba), ცნობა (cnoba), უწყება (uc̣q̇eba), ნოტიფიკაცია (noṭipiḳacia) (colloquial) German: Nachricht (de) f Greek: γνωστοποίηση (el) f (gnostopoíisi), ειδοποίηση (el) f (eidopoíisi) Hebrew: הוֹדָעָה f (hoda'á) Hindi: अनुज्ञापन (hi) m (anujñāpan), विज्ञप्ति (hi) f (vijñapti) Hungarian: értesítés (hu), értesítő (hu) Icelandic: tilkynning (is) f Indonesian: notifikasi (id) Ingrian: poveska Japanese: お知らせ (ja) (おしらせ, o-shirase), 通知 (ja) (つうち, tsūchi) Korean: 통지(通知) (ko) (tongji) Maori: whakaaturanga, kupu whakaatu Norwegian: Bokmål: varsel (no) n, melding (no) m or f Persian: Iranian Persian: اِعْلان (e'lân), اِطِّلَاع (ettelâ') Polish: powiadomienie (pl) n Portuguese: notificação (pt) f, aviso (pt) m Romanian: notificare (ro) f Russian: извеще́ние (ru) n (izveščénije), уведомле́ние (ru) n (uvedomlénije), сообще́ние (ru) n (soobščénije) Swedish: kungörelse (sv) c, meddelande (sv) n Tagalog: notipikasyon Tajik: иттилоъ (ittilo') Turkish: bildiri (tr), ihtar (tr), tebliğ (tr), notifikasyon Ukrainian: спові́щення n (spovíščennja) Urdu: اِعْلان m (i'lān)

Anagrams

• tonification

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

notification f (plural notifications)

1. notification

Further reading

• “notification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.