telefon
التعريفات والمعاني
== Albanian ==
=== Etymology ===
From English telephone or French téléphone, ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /teleˈfon/, [te.leˈfɔn]
=== Noun ===
telefon m (plural telefona, definite telefoni, definite plural telefonat)
telephone
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
telefonoj
=== Further reading ===
“telefon”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
== Azerbaijani ==
=== Etymology ===
Internationalism; from French téléphone, from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [teleˈfon]
Hyphenation: te‧le‧fon
=== Noun ===
telefon (definite accusative telefonu, plural telefonlar)
telephone
telefon nömrəsi ― phone number
cib telefonu ― mobile phone (literally, “pocket phone”)
telefon vasitəsi ilə ödəmək ― to pay by phone
telefon vasitəsi ilə əlaqə saxlamaq ― to contact by phone
telefon yükləyicisi ― phone charger
==== Declension ====
== Chamorro ==
=== Noun ===
telefon
telephone
== Crimean Tatar ==
=== Etymology ===
From French téléphone.
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: te‧le‧fon
=== Noun ===
telefon
telephone
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
=== References ===
“telefon”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)
== Czech ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈtɛlɛfon]
=== Noun ===
telefon m inan
phone, telephone
po telefonu ― on the phone / over the phone
mobilní telefon ― cellphone
Můžu použít tvůj telefon? ― Can I use your phone?
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
==== Related terms ====
See fón
=== Further reading ===
“telefon”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
“telefon”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
“telefon”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
== Danish ==
=== Etymology ===
From tele- + -fon.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /teləfoːn/, [tˢeləˈfoːˀn]
=== Noun ===
telefon c (singular definite telefonen, plural indefinite telefoner)
telephone (an electronic device used for two-way talking with other people)
phone number, telephone number (digits assigned to a telephone), abbreviated tlf.
call, phone call, telephone call
==== Inflection ====
==== Synonyms ====
(device): (slang) knogle
(phone number): telefonnummer
==== Derived terms ====
telefonere (“to telephone”)
telefonisk (“telephonic, by telephone”)
telefonist (“telephonist”)
(jocular) telefonitis (“telephonitis”)
==== See also ====
telefon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
== Estonian ==
=== Noun ===
telefon (genitive telefoni, partitive telefoni)
telephone (an electronic device used for two-way talking with other people)
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
== Faroese ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from French téléphone, from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /tʰeleˈfoːn/
=== Noun ===
telefon f (genitive singular telefonar, plural telefonir)
telephone
==== Declension ====
==== Synonyms ====
(dated): røðil, fjarrøðil, máltráður
==== Derived terms ====
fartelefon (mobile phone)
== Hungarian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from German Telephon.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈtɛlɛfon]
Hyphenation: te‧le‧fon
Rhymes: -on
=== Noun ===
telefon (plural telefonok)
telephone
Synonym: (dated, practically archaic) távbeszélő
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
telefon in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
== Indonesian ==
=== Pronunciation ===
(Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /teˈlefɔn/ [t̪eˈle.fɔn]
Syllabification: te‧le‧fon
=== Noun ===
telefon
alternative form of telepon
=== Verb ===
telefon (active menelefon, passive ditelefon)
alternative form of telepon
== Karelian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Russian телефо́н (telefón).
=== Noun ===
telefon
telephone
== Kazakh ==
=== Noun ===
telefon
Latin spelling of телефон (telefon, “telephone”)
== Malay ==
=== Alternative forms ===
telepon, talipon, tepon (nonstandard)
=== Etymology ===
From English telephone or Dutch telefoon, by surface analysis, tele- + -fon.
=== Pronunciation ===
(English-based) IPA(key): /tɛˈlifon/ [t̪ɛˈli.fon]
(Baku) IPA(key): /teˈlefon/ [t̪eˈle.fon]
Rhymes: -fon, -on
Hyphenation: te‧le‧fon
=== Noun ===
telefon (Jawi spelling تيليفون, countable and uncountable, plural telefon-telefon or telefon2)
telephone
call (telephone call)
==== Derived terms ====
=== Verb ===
telefon (Jawi spelling تيليفون, active menelefon, third-person passive ditelefon)
(transitive)
to call (with a telephone)
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
"telefon" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
== Maltese ==
=== Etymology ===
From English telephone.
=== Noun ===
telefon
telephone
== Norwegian Bokmål ==
=== Noun ===
telefon m (definite singular telefonen, indefinite plural telefoner, definite plural telefonene)
a telephone or phone
==== Derived terms ====
==== Related terms ====
telefoni
=== References ===
“telefon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
== Norwegian Nynorsk ==
=== Noun ===
telefon m (definite singular telefonen, indefinite plural telefonar, definite plural telefonane)
a telephone or phone
==== Derived terms ====
==== Related terms ====
telefoni
=== References ===
“telefon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
== Polish ==
=== Etymology ===
Internationalism. By surface analysis, tele- + -fon. First attested in 1829. Compare Kashubian telefón and Silesian telefōn.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /tɛˈlɛ.fɔn/
Rhymes: -ɛfɔn
Syllabification: te‧le‧fon
=== Noun ===
telefon m inan (related adjective telefoniczny, abbreviation tel.)
telephone (telecommunication device used for two-way talking with another person)
telephone call (connection established over a telephone network between two parties)
telephone number (sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network)
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
telefon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
telefon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “telefon”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “telefon”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 39
== Romanian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from French téléphone, German Telephon. Equivalent to tele- + -fon.
=== Pronunciation ===
=== Noun ===
telefon n (plural telefoane)
telephone
==== Declension ====
==== Related terms ====
=== References ===
Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
== Romansch ==
=== Noun ===
telefon m (plural telefons)
telephone
== Serbo-Croatian ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /telěfoːn/
=== Noun ===
telèfōn m inan (Cyrillic spelling телѐфо̄н, genitive singular telefóna, nominative plural telefóni, genitive plural telefónā)
telephone
(colloquial) telephone number
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
telèfōnskī
== Swedish ==
=== Etymology ===
tele- + -fon
=== Pronunciation ===
(Sweden) IPA(key): /tɛlɛˈfoːn/
(Finland) IPA(key): /teleˈfuːn/
(Sweden, dialectal) IPA(key): /tɛlɛˈfuːn/
=== Noun ===
telefon c
a phone, a telephone
a cell phone, a mobile phone
Synonyms: mobiltelefon, mobil, (colloquial) lur, (colloquial, somewhat dated) nalle, (humorous, dated) yuppienalle
phone, telephone (as a communication medium)
short for telefonsamtal (“phone call”)
==== Usage notes ====
In some dialects, this word is not conjugated in the definitive, hence "svara i telefon" is equivalent to "answer the phone" rather than the ungrammatical "answer phone".
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
==== See also ====
knappsats (“keypad”)
(telefon)lur (“telephone handset”) (appears in some expressions)
=== References ===
telefon in Svensk ordbok (SO)
telefon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
telefon in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
== Ternate ==
=== Etymology ===
From Dutch telefoon.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [te.ˈle.fon]
=== Noun ===
telefon
telephone
=== References ===
Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
== Tok Pisin ==
=== Etymology ===
From English telephone.
=== Noun ===
telefon
telephone
Synonym: telipon
== Turkish ==
=== Etymology ===
From Ottoman Turkish تلفون, تلهفون (telefon), from French téléphone.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /te.le.fon/
=== Noun ===
telefon (definite accusative telefonu, plural telefonlar)
telephone
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
telefoncu
telefonculuk
cep telefonu
telefon etmek
telefon çakmak
telefonlaşmak
=== Further reading ===
“telefon”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “تلفون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[4] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 399
== Turkmen ==
=== Noun ===
telefon (definite accusative telefony, plural telefonlar)
telephone
==== Declension ====
=== Further reading ===
“telefon” in Enedilim.com
“telefon” in Webonary.org