ブザー

ブザー · buzaa · JLPT N1 · noun

doorbell

Loan from English buzzer: ブ = buzz, ザー = -zer, ー marks the long vowel.

The sound it makes is a buzz, and the English word buzzer is borrowed nearly unchanged. Japanese writes it in katakana, with ー for the long vowel.

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