mobile

See also Mobile, and -mobile

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK)

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Adjective

(UK) IPA: /ˈməʊ.baɪl/, X-SAMPA: /"m@U.baIl/ Audio (UK) (file) Rhymes: -əʊbaɪl (US) enPR: mōʹbəl, IPA: /ˈmoʊbəl/, X-SAMPA: /"moUb@l/ Rhymes: -əʊbəl

Noun

(UK) IPA: /ˈməʊ.baɪl/, X-SAMPA: /"m@U.baIl/ Audio (UK) (file) Rhymes: -əʊbaɪl (US, phone) enPR: mōʹbəl, IPA: /ˈmoʊbəl/, X-SAMPA: /"moUb@l/ Rhymes: -əʊbəl (US, sculpture) enPR: mōʹbēl, IPA: /ˈmoʊbiːl/, X-SAMPA: /"moUbi:l/ Rhymes: -oʊbiːl Homophone: Mobile

Adjective

mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)

1. Capable of being moved.
2. By agency of mobile phones.
   • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly): 

     A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

Antonyms

• fixed
• immobile
• sessile

Derived terms

• MASH
• mobile library
• mobile phone
• mobile station

Translations

capable of being moved

• Arabic: مُنْتَقِل (muntaqil), مُتَنَقِّل (mutanaqqil)
• Armenian: շարժական (hy) (šaržakan), շարժուն (hy) (šaržun)
• Czech: mobilní (cs)
• Dutch: beweeglijk (nl), mobiel (nl)
• French: mobile (fr)
• German: beweglich (de), mobil (de)
• Greek: κινητός m, ευμετακίνητος m
• Hebrew: נַיָּד (he)
• Interlingua: mobile
• Italian: mobile (it)
• Japanese: 可動(かどう, kadou)

• Latin: mōbilis (la)
• Lithuanian: mobilus
• Norwegian: bevegelig (no), mobil (no)
• Polish: przenośny (pl) m, mobilny (pl) m, ruchomy (pl) m
• Portuguese: móvel m and f
• Romanian: mobil (ro)
• Russian: мобильный (ru) (mobilʹnyj), подвижной (ru) (podvižnoj), передвижной (ru) (peredvižnoj)
• Spanish: móvil (es)
• Turkish: (literally) taşınabilir (tr) c
• Volapük: golovik, vabovik

Noun

mobile (plural mobiles)

1. A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other (Wikipedia).
2. A mobile phone (Wikipedia).
3. Something that can move.

Translations

decoration

• Finnish: mobile (fi)
• French: mobile (fr) m
• German: Mobile (de) n
• Greek: μόμπιλ (el) (mómpil) n

• Norwegian: uro (no) m
• Swedish: mobil (sv)
• Turkish: dekorasyon (tr) n

mobile phone

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手機 (cmn), 手机 (cmn) (shǒujī), (formal/technical) 移動電話 (cmn), 移动电话 (cmn) (yídòng diànhuà), (formal/technical) 手提電話 (cmn), 手提电话 (cmn) (shǒutí diànhuà), (slang) 大哥大 (cmn) (dàgēdà)

• Czech: mobil (cs) m
• Finnish: kännykkä (fi)
• French: portable (fr) m
• German: Handy (de) n
• Greek: κινητό (el) (kinitó) n
• Hungarian: mobil (hu)
• Icelandic: farsími (is) m, gemsi (is) m, GSM-sími (is) m

• Italian: telefonino (it) m, cellulare (it) m
• Japanese: 携帯電話 (ja) (けいたいでんわ, keitaidenwa), (colloquial) ケータイ (ja) (kētai)
• Navajo: biłńjoobałí
• Norwegian: mobil (no) m
• Persian: موبایل (fa) (mobâil)
• Polish: komórka (pl) f
• Portuguese: celular (pt) m, telemóvel (pt) m
• Romanian: mobil (ro) n
• Spanish: móvil (es) m
• Swedish: mobil (sv), mobiltelefon (sv)
• Volapük: telefonöm polovik (vo)

Related terms

• mobility
• mobilize
• mobilization
• move

External links

• mobile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• mobile in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• mobile at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• emboli

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Danish

Adjective

mobile

1. definite of mobil
2. plural of mobil

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mobilis. Compare meuble.

Pronunciation

• audio

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Adjective

mobile (masculine and feminine, plural mobiles)

1. mobile
2. moving
3. movable

Derived terms

• fête mobile
• téléphone mobile

Noun

mobile m (plural mobiles)

1. (physics) moving body
2. mobile (decoration)
3. motive (for an action, for a crime)
4. mobile phone

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German

Adjective

mobile

1. inflected form of mobil

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin mobilis.

Adjective

mobile m and f (m and f plural mobili)

1. movable, mobile
2. moving

Antonyms

• immobile

Noun

mobile m (plural mobili)

1. (singular) item of furniture
2. (plural) furniture
3. mobile (cellular phone)

Synonyms

• (furniture): mobilia, mobilio, arredamento
• (cellular phone): cellulare, telefonino

Antonyms

• (cellular phone): fisso

Related terms

• mobilia / mobilio
• mobiliare
• mobilificio
• mobilità
• mobilitare

Anagrams

• emboli

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Latin

Adjective

mōbile

1. nominative neuter singular of mōbilis
2. accusative neuter singular of mōbilis
3. vocative neuter singular of mōbilis

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Swedish

Adjective

mobile

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of mobil.