self-service

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ service.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛlfˈsɜː.vɪs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɛlfˈsɜɹ.vɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vɪs
• Hyphenation: self-ser‧vice

Noun

self-service (uncountable)

1. (often attributive) The practice of serving oneself, usually when purchasing items.

   Antonym: full-service

   Hypernym: service

   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Wakefield Kirkgate”, in RAIL, number 948, page 29:

     On the opposite side of the concourse is the triple-counter ticket office and three self-service machines which are adjacent to a large customer service counter and the gateline.

Related terms

• self-serve (adj)

 

Translations

the practice of serving oneself

• Arabic: خِدْمَة ذَاتِيَّة f (ḵidma(t) ḏātiyya)
• Belarusian: самаабслуго́ўванне n (samaabsluhóŭvannje)
• Bulgarian: самообслу́жване n (samoobslúžvane)
• Catalan: autoservei (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自助服務／自助服务 (zìzhù fúwù), 自助 (zh) (zìzhù), 自我服務／自我服务 (zìwǒ fúwù)

• Czech: samoobsluha (cs) f
• Dutch: zelfbediening (nl) f
• Finnish: itsepalvelu (fi)
• French: self-service (fr) m, libre-service (fr) m
• Galician: autoservizo (gl) m
• Georgian: თვითმომსახურება (tvitmomsaxureba)
• German: Selbstbedienung (de) f
• Greek: αυτοεξυπηρέτηση (el) f (aftoexypirétisi)
• Hungarian: önkiszolgálás (hu)
• Indonesian: swalayan (id)
• Irish: féinseirbhís f, féinfhreastal m
• Italian: autoservizio m, servisol m (Switzerland), fai da te m, tavola calda f, self-service (it) m
• Japanese: セルフサービス (ja) (serufu sābisu), セルフ (serufu)
• Korean: 셀프 서비스 (selpeu seobiseu), 셀프 (ko) (selpeu)
• Lithuanian: savitarna f
• Macedonian: самопослужување n (samoposlužuvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (adjective) selvbetjent

• Polish: samoobsługa (pl) f
• Portuguese: self-service (pt) m, autosserviço m, livre-serviço m
• Russian: самообслу́живание (ru) n (samoobslúživanije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: самопослужи́ва̄ње n

  Roman: samoposlužívānje (sh) n

• Slovak: samoobsluha f
• Spanish: autoservicio m
• Swedish: självbetjäning (sv) c
• Ukrainian: самообслуго́вування n (samoobsluhóvuvannja), самообслу́га f (samoobslúha)
• Vietnamese: tự phục vụ

References

• “self-service”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English self-service.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛw.fiˈsɛʁ.vi.si/ [ˌsɛʊ̯.fiˈsɛɦ.vi.si], /ˌsɛwfˈsɛʁ.vi.si/ [ˌsɛʊ̯fˈsɛɦ.vi.si]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛw.fiˈsɛʁ.vi.si/ [ˌsɛʊ̯.fiˈsɛɦ.vi.si], /ˌsɛwfˈsɛʁ.vi.si/ [ˌsɛʊ̯fˈsɛɦ.vi.si]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛw.fiˈsɛɾ.vi.si/ [ˌsɛʊ̯.fiˈsɛɾ.vi.si], /ˌsɛwfˈsɛɾ.vi.si/ [ˌsɛʊ̯fˈsɛɾ.vi.si]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛw.fiˈsɛʁ.vi.si/ [ˌsɛʊ̯.fiˈsɛʁ.vi.si], /ˌsɛwfˈsɛʁ.vi.si/ [ˌsɛʊ̯fˈsɛʁ.vi.si]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛwfˈsɛɻ.vi.se/ [ˌsɛʊ̯fˈsɛɻ.vi.se], /ˌsɛw.fiˈsɛɻ.vi.se/ [ˌsɛʊ̯.fiˈsɛɻ.vi.se]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛlfˈsɛɾ.vi.sɨ/ [ˌsɛɫfˈsɛɾ.vi.sɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛlfˈsɛɾ.vi.sɨ/ [ˌsɛɫfˈsɛɾ.vi.sɨ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛlfˈsɛɾ.bi.sɨ/ [ˌsɛɫfˈsɛɾ.βi.sɨ]

Noun

self-service m (uncountable)

1. self-service (the practice of serving oneself)

   Synonyms: autosserviço, livre-serviço

Further reading

• “self-service”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “self-service”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
• “self-service”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “self-service”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “self-service”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024