Translingual

Etymology

A cursive variation of ᾱ or ᾱᾱ, the abbreviation of Greek ἀνά ‎(aná) used in recipes and prescriptions with the meaning "of each", and later extended to accounting. (Other explanations have that it is ā, an abbreviation of Latin ad ‎(“to”), or French à ‎(“to”).)

Symbol

@

1. At the rate of; per.

   7 @ $2 = $14 (that is, seven, at two dollars each, are fourteen dollars).

2. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address ("at" the domain name).

   My e-mail address is psychonaut@example.com.

3. (computing, IRC) The most common choice of configurable prefix symbol to identify a channel operator.
4. (Internet) Prepended to the name of the user to whom a remark is addressed.

   Bob: How can I stop other people from accessing my files when they use my computer?
   Jack: @Bob: You need to protect the files with a password.

Derived terms

• ﹫ (small form variant)

See also

• English: at sign

English

Preposition

@

1. at a rate of (so much each)

   15 items @ $10

   @ 80 km/h (at eighty kilometres per hour)

2. (informal, neologism) at (any sense)

   @ 20°C (at twenty degrees Celsius)

   Text message: "im @ school."

See also

• at sign
• -@

Hebrew

Symbol

@

1. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.

Usage notes

The symbol is called כְּרוּכִית ‎(krukhit, “strudel; at sign, @”), or sometimes colloquially שְׁטְרוּדֶל ‎(“strudel; at sign, @”).

Hungarian

Symbol

@

1. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.

Usage notes

The symbol is called kukac ‎(“worm”) in Hungarian because of its shape.

Japanese

Symbol

@

1. at a rate of

   500@¥5

   500 items at a rate of 5 yen

2. (slang) remaining (stands for あと (ato), mostly used in MMORPG)

   @5個

   @5こ

   @5 ko

   5 items remaining

   @1時間で寝る

   @1じかんでねる

   @1 jikan de neru

   I'll go to bed in a hour

Usage notes

The symbol is called 単価記号, たんかきごう (tanka kigō), アットマーク (attomāku), or アット (atto).

Malagasy

Abbreviation

@

1. (informal) Abbreviation of amin'ny.

Portuguese

Symbol

@

1. The symbol for the arroba unit of weight.

Russian

Symbol

@

1. @

Usage notes

• This symbol is called эт ‎(et), лягу́шка ‎(ljagúška), обезья́нка ‎(obezʹjánka), соба́ка ‎(sobáka), or комме́рческое «эт» ‎(kommérčeskoje “et”).

Serbo-Croatian

Symbol

@

1. @

Usage notes

The sign has several possible names:

• et
• manki (Croatian)
• луда »а« ‎(luda »a«, literally “crazy ‘a’”) (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• мајмун ‎(majmun) (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Spanish

Symbol

@

1. The symbol for the arroba unit of weight and volume.
2. The symbol for o and a to include both masculine and feminine forms.

   l@s alumn@s = los alumnos y las alumnas (the male and female students)

Turkish

@

Symbol

@

1. her biri ‎(“each”)