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Etymology [edit]
tele- + -phone. From French téléphone, from Ancient Greek τῆλε (tēle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnē, “voice, sound”)
Pronunciation [edit]
telephone (plural telephones)
- An electronic device used for two-way talking with other people (often shortened to phone).
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from telephone (noun)
Translations [edit]
an electronic device used for two-way talking with other people
- Afrikaans: telefoon (af)
- Albanian: telefon (sq)
- Arabic: تلفون (ar) (tilifūn) m, هاتف (ar) (hātif) m
- Armenian: հեռախոս (hy) (heṙaxos)
- Asturian: teléfonu (ast) m
- Azeri: telefon (az)
- Basque: telefono (eu)
- Belarusian: тэлефон (be) (teljefón) m
- Bengali: দূরভাষা (bn) (doorbhaashaa), ফোন (bn) (phon)
- Breton: pellgomz (br)
- Bulgarian: телефон (bg) (telefón) m
- Burmese: တယ်လီဖုန်း (my) (tè lì pʰóʊ), ဖုန်း (my) (pʰóʊ)
- Catalan: telèfon (ca) m
- Cebuano: telepono
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 電話, 电话 (din6 waa6)
- Dungan: дянхуа (dianhua)
- Mandarin: 電話 (cmn), 电话 (cmn) (diànhuà)
- Min Nan: 電話 (nan), 电话 (nan) (tiān-ōe)
- Wu: 電話, 电话 (diwu)
- Comox: sqʷay
- Czech: telefon (cs)
- Danish: telefon (da)
- Dutch: telefoon (nl) m
- Esperanto: telefono (eo)
- Estonian: telefon (et)
- Faroese: telefon (fo)
- Finnish: puhelin (fi)
- French: téléphone (fr) m
- Friulian: telefon
- Galician: teléfono (gl) m
- Georgian: ტელეფონი (ka) (telep’oni)
- German: Telefon (de) n, Telephon (de) n, Fernsprecher (de) m
- Greek: τηλέφωνο (el) (tiléfono) n
- Greenlandic: oqarasuaat (kl)
- Guaraní: pumbyry (gn)
- Gujarati: દૂરબોલ (gu) (durbol), ટેલિફોન (gu) (ṭelīphon), દૂરભાષ (gu) (doorbhaash)
- Hebrew: טלפון (he) (telefón) m
- Hindi: दूरभाष (hi) (dūrbhāṣ), टेलीफ़ोन (hi) (ṭēlīfōn), फ़ोन (hi) (fōn)
- Hungarian: telefon (hu)
- Icelandic: sími (is) m
- Ido: telefonilo (io)
- Indonesian: telepon (id)
- Inuktitut: uqaalaut (iu)
- Irish: teileafón (ga), guthán (ga) m
- Italian: telefono (it) m
- Japanese: 電話 (ja) (でんわ, denwa)
- Jèrriais: téléphône m
- Kannada: ದೂರವಾಣಿ (kn) (dūravāṇi)
- Kazakh: телефон (kk) (telefon)
- Khmer: ទូរស័ព្ទ (km) (tuurasap)
- Korean: 전화 (ko) (jeonhwa) (電話 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: telefon (ku)
- Sorani: تهليفون (ku) (telefón)
- Kyrgyz: телефон (ky) (telefon)
- Lao: ໂທລະສັບ (lo) (too-la-sap)
- Latin: telephonum (la) n, telephonium (la) n
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- Latvian: telefons (lv) m, tālrunis (lv)
- Lithuanian: telefonas (lt) m
- Lojban: fonxa (jbo)
- Macedonian: телефон (mk) (telefón) m
- Malagasy: telefàonina (mg)
- Malay: telefon (ms)
- Malayalam: ടെലിഫോൺ (ml)
- Maltese: telefon (mt) m, telefown (mt) m
- Manx: çhellvane (gv) m
- Maori: waea (mi), whoounu (mi)
- Marathi: टेलीफोन (mr) (ṭelīphon)
- Mongolian: харилцуур утас (mn) (hariltsuur utas), телефон (mn) (telefón), утас (mn) (utas)
- Nahuatl: mekatlanonotski (nah)
- Navajo: béésh bee haneʼé
- Nepali: टेलिफोन (ne) (ṭeliphon)
- Norwegian: telefon (no) m
- Occitan: telefòn (oc) m
- Papiamentu: telefón
- Pashto: غږلېږدی (ps)
- Persian: تلفن (fa) (telefón), دورواژ (fa) (durvâž)
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: foen
- Polish: telefon (pl) m
- Portuguese: telefone (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਟੈਲੀਫ਼ੋਨ (pa) (ṭailīfon)
- Romanian: telefon (ro) n
- Romansch: telefon (rm) m
- Russian: телефон (ru) (telefón) m
- Sanskrit: दूरभाषं (sa) (dūrabhāṣan)
- Scottish Gaelic: fòn (gd) f, cian-fhuaim (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: телефон (sh) m
- Roman: telefon (sh) m
- Shona: runhare (sn)
- Sinhalese: බණුව (si) (baṇuva)
- Slovak: telefón (sk) m
- Slovene: telefon (sl) m
- Spanish: teléfono (es) m
- Swahili: simu (sw)
- Swedish: telefon (sv) c
- Tagalog: telepono (tl), telépono (tl)
- Tajik: телефон (tg) (telefon)
- Tamil: தொலைபேசி (ta) (tolaipēci)
- Tatar: телефон (tt) (telefon)
- Telugu: దూరవాణి (te) (dooravaani), టెలీఫోను (te) (ṭelīphōnu)
- Thai: โทรศัพท์ (th) (tohrásàp)
- Turkish: telefon (tr)
- Turkmen: telefon (tk)
- Ukrainian: телефон (uk) (telefón) m
- Urdu: ٹیلیفون (ur) (ṭelīfon), ہاتف (ur) (hātef)
- Uyghur: تېلېفون (ug) (tëlëfon)
- Uzbek: telefon (uz)
- Vietnamese: điện thoại (vi) (電話 (vi)), dây nói (vi)
- Volapük: telefonöm (vo), (complete unit) telefonaparat (vo)
- Walloon: telefone (wa)
- Welsh: teliffon (cy)
- West Frisian: tillefoan (fy), telefoan (fy)
- Yiddish: טעלעפאן (yi) (telefon) n
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telephone (third-person singular simple present telephones, present participle telephoning, simple past and past participle telephoned)
- To contact someone by dialing his or her telephone number; to make someone's telephone ring using one's own telephone.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:
- “I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”
Synonyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to call someone
- Arabic: تلفن (ar) (talfána) (لـِ li-)
- Breton: pellgomz (br)
- Catalan: telefonar (ca), trucar (ca), cridar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 打電話 (cmn), 打电话 (cmn) (dǎ diànhuà)
- Czech: telefonovat (cs), volat (cs)
- Danish: telefonere (da), telefonere (da), ringe (da)
- Dutch: telefoneren (nl)
- Esperanto: telefoni (eo)
- Finnish: soittaa (fi) (puhelimella)
- French: téléphoner (fr)
- Galician: telefonar (gl)
- German: telefonieren (de), anrufen (de)
- Greek: τηλεφωνώ (el) (tilefonó), καλώ (el) (kaló)
- Hindi: फ़ोन करना (hi) (fōn karnā)
- Hungarian: telefonál (hu)
- Icelandic: hringja (is), hringja í (is)
- Italian: telefonare (it)
- Japanese: 電話をかける (ja) (でんわをかける, denwa-o kakeru)
- Korean: 전화를 걸다 (ko) (jeonhwa-reul geolda)
- Macedonian: телефонира (mk) (telefoníra), ѕвони (mk) (dzvóni)
- Maltese: ċempel (mt) m
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- Persian: دورواژیدن (fa) (durvâžidan), تلفن کردن (fa) (telefon kardan)
- Polish: dzwonić (pl), telefonować (pl)
- Portuguese: telefonar (pt)
- Romansch: telefonar (rm)
- Russian: звонить (ru) (zvonít’) impf., позвонить (ru) (pozvonít’) pf. (по телефону po telefónu), телефонировать (ru) (telefonírovat’) impf., pf. (rare)
- Scottish Gaelic: fòn (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: телефонирати (sh), назвати на телефон (sh)
- Roman: telefonirati (sh), nazvati na telefon (sh)
- Slovak: telefonovať (sk), zatelefonovať (sk), volať (sk), zavolať (sk)
- Spanish: telefonear (es), llamar por teléfono (es)
- Swahili: piga simu (sw)
- Swedish: ringa (sv)
- Tagalog: tumawag (tl)
- Thai: โทร (th) (toh), ต่อโทรศัพท์ (th) (dtòr tohrásàp)
- Turkish: telefon etmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: дзвонити (uk) (dzvonýty), телефонувати (uk) (telefonuváty)
- Vietnamese: gọi điện thoại (vi), gọi điện (vi), kêu điện thoại (vi)
- Volapük: telefonön (vo)
- Yiddish: טעלעפֿאנירן (yi) (telefonirn)
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