Dvorak

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Dvorak

/ˈdvɔːʒæk/ UK
/ˈdvɔːʒɑːk/ UK
/ˈdvɔɹʒɑk/ US
/ˈdvɔɹʒæk/ US
/ˈdvɔɹæk/ US
/dəˈvɔɹæk/ US

Where it comes from

From Czech Dvořák, from Old Czech dvořák (“attendant, tenant farmer”), equivalent to dvůr (“court, courtyard, estate, farm”) + -ák (“-er, -an: forming related nouns”). The keyboard is named after the American inventor August Dvorak.

proper noun Dvořák

A surname from Czech, especially
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841–1904), Czech composer of Romantic music.

adjective Dvořák

not comparable Describing an optimized keyboard layout for the English language, in which the alphabet is arranged in the order PYFGCRL on the top row, AOEUIDHTNS on the middle, or home row, and QJKXBMWVZ on the bottom row, thus placing the letters most frequently used in the home row. Many variants on Dvorak layouts also exist, including keyboards for right-hand-only and left-hand-only-typists. Dvorak keyboard

Translations

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name Surname

한국어	드보르자크 Deuboreujakeu
日本語	ドヴォルザーク Dovoruzāku, ドヴォジャーク Dovojāku, ドヴォルジャーク Dovorujāku, ドボルザーク Doboruzāku
中文	德沃夏克 Déwòxiàkè
Deutsch	Dvorak
Ελληνικά	Ντβόρζακ Ntvórzak
Русский	Дво́ржак Dvóržak, Дво́рак Dvórak
العربية	دْفُورْجَاك dfūrjāk
עברית	דבוז׳אק

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@misc{dvorak_2026,
  title = {Dvorak},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dvorak},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}