טלפון

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Hebrew

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Etymology

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Internationalism, from English telephone and cognates in other languages.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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טֵלֵפוֹן (télefonm (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

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  • (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

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Derived terms

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References

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

Further reading

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