telegram

See also: Telegram

English

Alternative forms

• telegramme (rare)

Etymology

tele- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

telegram (plural telegrams)

1. A message transmitted by telegraph.

   Synonyms: wire, cable, telegrapheme

   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

     There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

   • 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 394:

     On 20 May 1937 when down in Bradford-on-Avon on business, Bulleid received a telegram with the cryptic news: 'Sir Herbert Walker wishes to see you twelve thirty tomorrow—Gresley'.

Derived terms

• fast telegram
• radiotelegram
• singing telegram

 

Translations

message sent by telegraph

• Afrikaans: telegram
• Albanian: telegram (sq) m
• Amharic: ቴሌግራም (telegram)
• Arabic: بَرْقِيَّة f (barqiyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: تلغراف m (teleḡrāf)

• Armenian: հեռագիր (hy) (heṙagir)
• Azerbaijani: teleqram
• Belarusian: тэлегра́ма f (teljehráma)
• Bengali: টেলিগ্রাম (bn) (ṭeligram)
• Bulgarian: телегра́ма (bg) f (telegráma)
• Burmese: ကြေးနန်း (my) (kre:nan:), သံကြိုးစာ (my) (samkrui:ca), သံကြိုး (my) (samkrui:)
• Catalan: telegrama m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電報／电报 (din⁶ bou³)

  Dungan: дянбо (di͡anbo)

  Hokkien: 電報／电报 (zh-min-nan) (tiān-pò)

  Mandarin: 電報／电报 (zh) (diànbào)

• Czech: telegram (cs) m
• Danish: telegram n
• Dutch: telegram (nl) n
• Esperanto: telegramo (eo)
• Estonian: telegramm
• Finnish: sähke (fi)
• French: télégramme (fr) m, dépêche (fr) f
• Georgian: დეპეშა (deṗeša), ტელეგრამა (ṭelegrama)
• German: Telegramm (de) n
• Greek: τηλεγράφημα (el) n (tilegráfima)
• Hebrew: מִברָק m (mivrák)
• Hindi: तार (hi) m (tār), टेलीग्राम m (ṭelīgrām), टेलिग्राम (hi) m (ṭeligrām)
• Hungarian: távirat (hu)
• Icelandic: símskeyti n
• Ido: telegramo (io)
• Indonesian: telegram (id)
• Ingrian: telegramma
• Italian: telegramma (it) m
• Japanese: 電報 (ja) (でんぽう, denpō), 針金便り (はりがねだより, hariganedayori)
• Kazakh: жеделхат (jedelxat), телеграмма (telegramma)
• Khmer: ខ្សែលួស (khsae luəh), ទូរលេខ (km) (tuurĕəʼleek), តេឡេក្រាម (teeleekraam)
• Korean: 전보(電報) (ko) (jeonbo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: birûske (ku), telegram (ku)

• Kyrgyz: телеграмма (ky) (telegramma)
• Lao: ໂທລະເລກ (thō la lēk)
• Latvian: telegramma f
• Lithuanian: telegrama f
• Macedonian: телеграма f (telegrama)
• Malay: telegram (ms), kawat (ms), surat kawat, berita kawat, khabar sawat
• Maori: kupu-ā-waea
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цахилгаан (mn) (caxilgaan), телеграмм (telegramm)

• Navajo: béésh bee haneʼ
• Ngazidja Comorian: simu class 9/10
• Norman: télégramme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: telegram (no) n

• Pashto: تلګرام m (telegrām), تلګراف m (telegrāf)
• Persian: تلگرام (fa) (telegrâm), تلگراف (fa) (telegrâf)
• Plautdietsch: Tellegraum n
• Polish: telegram (pl) m, depesza (pl) f
• Portuguese: telegrama (pt) m
• Romanian: telegramă (ro) f, depeșă (ro) f
• Russian: телегра́мма (ru) f (telegrámma), депе́ша (ru) f (depéša) (dated)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: те̏леграм m, бр̏зоја̄в m

  Roman: tȅlegram (sh) m, bȑzojāv (sh) m

• Slovak: telegram m
• Slovene: telegram m
• Spanish: telegrama (es) m
• Swahili: telegramu
• Swedish: telegram (sv) n
• Tagalog: pahatid-kawad
• Tajik: телеграмма (telegramma)
• Tamil: தந்தி (ta) (tanti)
• Thai: โทรเลข (th) (too-rá-lêek)
• Tigrinya: ተለግራም (tälägram)
• Turkish: telgraf (tr)
• Turkmen: telegramma
• Ukrainian: телегра́ма f (telehráma)
• Urdu: تار (ur) m (tār), ٹیلیگرام m (ṭeligrām)
• Uyghur: تېلېگرامما (tëlëgramma)
• Uzbek: telegramma (uz)
• Vietnamese: điện báo (vi), điện tín (vi), điện văn (vi)
• Yiddish: טעלעגראַמע f (telegrame), טעלעגראַם m (telegram)

Verb

telegram (third-person singular simple present telegrams, present participle telegramming, simple past and past participle telegrammed)

1. (intransitive) To send a telegram.
   • 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 23:

     He was a very posh chap from Oxfordshire, whose dad had been Chancellor and whose mum was obliged to keep telegramming round to find him a job because little Winnie had flunked out of his very expensive school.

2. (transitive) To send a telegram to (a person).
3. (transitive) To send (a message) in a telegram.

Translations

telegraph — see telegraph

Anagrams

• Great Elm

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English telegram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teːləˈɡrɑm/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: te‧le‧gram
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Noun

telegram n (plural telegrammen, diminutive telegrammetje n)

1. telegram

Derived terms

• telegramstijl

Related terms

• telegraaf
• telegraferen
• telegrafie
• telegrafisch

Descendants

• → Caribbean Javanese: tilgram, setilgram

Polish

Etymology

From tele- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈlɛ.ɡram/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛɡram
• Syllabification: te‧le‧gram

Noun

telegram m inan

1. telegram (message sent by telegraph)

   Synonym: depesza

Declension

Declension of telegram

	singular	plural
nominative	telegram	telegramy
genitive	telegramu	telegramów
dative	telegramowi	telegramom
accusative	telegram	telegramy
instrumental	telegramem	telegramami
locative	telegramie	telegramach
vocative	telegramie	telegramy

Derived terms

adjective

• telegramowy

 

noun

• radiotelegram

 

Further reading

• telegram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• telegram in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Noun

telegram n (plural telegrame)

1. Alternative form of telegramă

Declension

Declension of telegram

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) telegram	telegramul	(niște) telegrame	telegramele
genitive/dative	(unui) telegram	telegramului	(unor) telegrame	telegramelor
vocative	telegramule		telegramelor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têleɡram/
• Hyphenation: te‧le‧gram

Noun

tȅlegram m (Cyrillic spelling те̏леграм)

1. telegram

Declension

Declension of telegram

	singular	plural
nominative	telegram	telegrami
genitive	telegrama	telegrama
dative	telegramu	telegramima
accusative	telegram	telegrame
vocative	telegrame	telegrami
locative	telegramu	telegramima
instrumental	telegramom	telegramima

Swedish

Etymology

tele- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

telegram n

1. a telegram, a message sent by telegraph

Declension

Declension of telegram
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	telegram	telegrammet	telegram	telegrammen
Genitive	telegrams	telegrammets	telegrams	telegrammens

Related terms

• lyxtelegram
• telegramblankett

See also

• telegraf

Vilamovian

Noun

telegram n

1. telegram, wire