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

Noun

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

Adjective

mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)

1. Capable of being moved.

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) Dutch: beweeglijk (nl), mobiel (nl) French: mobile (fr) German: beweglich (de), mobil (de) Greek: κινητός m., ευμετακίνητος m. Interlingua: mobile Italian: mobile (it) Japanese: 可動(かどう, kadou) Latin: mōbilis (la)

Lithuanian: mobilus m., mobili f., mobilu n. 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), подвижной (ru), передвижной (ru) Spanish: móvil (es) Turkish: (literally) taşınabilir (tr) c. Volapük: golovik, vabovik

Noun

Wikipedia mobile (plural mobiles)

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

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) 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. Cf. meuble.

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Adjective

mobile (epicene, 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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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.