טלפון

Hebrew

Etymology

Internationalism, from English telephone and cognates in other languages.

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈtelefon/

Noun

טֵלֵפוֹן • (télefon) m (plural indefinite טֵלֵפוֹנִים, singular construct טֵלֵפוֹן־, plural construct טֵלֵפוֹנֵי־)

1. (countable, telephony) telephone, phone

   שיחת טלפון (sikhát-télefon): a phone call.

   מספר טלפון (mispár-télefon): a phone number.

Usage notes

• (all senses): There is some disagreement about the appropriate niqqud (diacritics) to use for the /e/ sounds. The Hebrew Academy, in its examples of loanword niqqud, uses the tzeirei: טֵלֵפוֹן‎,^[1] as does Reuven Sivan and Edward A. Levenston, The New Bantam-Megiddo Hebrew & English Dictionary, Bantam Books (1975), →ISBN. However, Shimon Zilberman, The Up-to-Date English-Hebrew Hebrew-English Dictionary, Zilberman (1994), uses the segol: טֶלֶפוֹן.

Synonyms

• טל׳

Derived terms

• ט־ל־פ־ן (T-l-p-n)
• טֵלֵפוֹן חוּגָה (télefon khugá)
• טלפון נייד / טֶלֶפוֹן נַיָּד (télefon nayád)
• טֵלֵפוֹן סֶלוּלָרִי (télefon selulári)
• פֶּלֶאפוֹן (pélefon)

Related terms

• טִלְפֵּן (tilpen)

References

• “טלפון” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Further reading

• טלפון on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he