SMS

See also: sms, SMs, šms, and sms'

English

Initialism

SMS

1. Short Message Service, a service for sending text messages on a cellular telephone system.
2. (military, nautical) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff – literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German

Noun

SMS (plural SMSes)

1. A text message sent on a cell phone.
2. (numismatics) Initialism of special mint set.
3. (psychology) Initialism of short man syndrome.

Translations

a text message sent on a cell phone

• Afrikaans: SMS
• Arabic: رِسَالَة‎‎ f (risāla), رِسَالَة إِس إِم إِس‎‎ f (risālat ʾes ʾem ʾes)

  Hijazi Arabic: رِسالة‎‎ m (risāla)

  Morocco: ميساج‎‎ (mīsāž)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 短信 (zh) (duǎnxìn), SMS (zh) (es-em-es)

• Czech: esemeska (cs) f, textovka f
• Finnish: tekstiviesti (fi)
• French: SMS (fr) m, texto (fr) m
• Georgian: მოკლე ტექსტური შეტყობინება (moḳle ṭeksṭuri šeṭq̇obineba), SMS შეტყობინება (SMS šeṭq̇obineba), ეს-ემ-ესი (es-em-esi)

• German: SMS (de) f, n, SMS-Nachricht f, Textnachricht f
• Greek: μήνυμα (el) n (mínyma)
• Hebrew: סמס‎‎ (he)
• Japanese: 伝言 (ja) (でんごん, dengon), エス・エム・エス (esu-emu-esu), ＳＭＳ (esu-emu-esu)
• Persian: اس ام اس‎‎ (es-em-es), مسج‎‎ (mesej)
• Polish: SMS (pl) m inan, esemes (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: mensagem de texto f, SMS (pt) m
• Russian: SMS (ru) m (SMS), эс-эм-э́с m (es-em-és), (colloquial) эсэмэ́ска (ru) f (esɛmɛ́ska), сообще́ние (ru) n (soobščénije), (slang) ме́сседж (ru) m (méssedž) , СМС (ru) m (SMS)
• Swedish: sms (sv)
• Turkish: SMS (tr), mesaj (tr), kısa mesaj

Verb

SMS (third-person singular simple present SMSes, present participle SMSing, simple past and past participle SMSed)

1. To send a message on a cell phone.

   I SMSed him and asked why he was late.

   I can't talk to her: she is too busy SMSing her friends.

Synonyms

• text

Translations

to send a message on a cell phone

• Afrikaans: SMS
• Dutch: sms'en (nl)
• Finnish: lähettää tekstiviesti

• Georgian: შეტყობინების გაგზავნა (šeṭq̇obinebis gagzavna), დამესიჯება (damesiǯeba) (colloquial)
• Hebrew: סימס‎‎ (he) (simés)
• Polish: esemesować

Proper noun

SMS

1. (video games) Initialism of Sega Masters System.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of textspeak

Anagrams

• MSS, MSS., Mss, Mss., SSM, mss, mss.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Initialism

SMS

1. Misspelling of sms.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.sɛ.mɛs/

Noun

SMS m (plural SMS)

1. SMS, text, text message

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛsʔɛmˈʔɛs/ (official standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˌɛsɛˈmɛs/, /-se-/, /-zɛ-/, /-ze-/ (common speech, for Etymology 1)

Etymology 1

Noun

SMS f, n (genitive SMS, plural SMS or SMSen or SMSe)

1. SMS (text message)

Usage notes

• The noun is almost exclusively feminine in northern Germany, central Germany, and Luxembourg. The neuter gender is predominant in the southern half of the language area, but the feminine is also heard.
• The unchanged plural SMS is generally used with the neuter gender. The form SMSe is rarer.
• With the feminine, the marked form SMSen is often needed to express the plural, but the unchanged form can be used when the plural is evident from the grammatical construction or the context.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• S. M. S.

Initialism

SMS

1. (nautical, military) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff (His Majesty's Ship)

Usage notes

Used for naval ships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Second Reich of Imperial Germany, for the Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine and Kaiserliche Marine, respectively.

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Hungarian

Etymology

Initialism of Short Message Service.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛʃɛmɛʃ]

• Audio

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Noun

SMS (plural SMS-ek)

1. SMS (a service for sending text messages on a cellular telephone system)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	SMS	SMS-ek
accusative	SMS-t	SMS-eket
dative	SMS-nek	SMS-eknek
instrumental	SMS-sel	SMS-ekkel
causal-final	SMS-ért	SMS-ekért
translative	SMS-sé	SMS-ekké
terminative	SMS-ig	SMS-ekig
essive-formal	SMS-ként	SMS-ekként
essive-modal	SMS-ül	SMS-ekül
inessive	SMS-ben	SMS-ekben
superessive	SMS-en	SMS-eken
adessive	SMS-nél	SMS-eknél
illative	SMS-be	SMS-ekbe
sublative	SMS-re	SMS-ekre
allative	SMS-hez	SMS-ekhez
elative	SMS-ből	SMS-ekből
delative	SMS-ről	SMS-ekről
ablative	SMS-től	SMS-ektől

Possessive forms of SMS
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	SMS-em	SMS-eim
2nd person sing.	SMS-ed	SMS-eid
3rd person sing.	SMS-e	SMS-ei
1st person plural	SMS-ünk	SMS-eink
2nd person plural	SMS-etek	SMS-eitek
3rd person plural	SMS-ük	SMS-eik

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Japanese

Noun

SMS (katakana エスエムエス, rōmaji esu-emu-esu)

1. SMS

Synonyms

• 伝 (でん)言 (ごん) (dengon)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English SMS.

Noun

SMS m (plural SMS)

1. SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)

Synonyms

• mensagem de texto, torpedo

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English SMS.

Noun

SMS n (plural SMS-uri)

1. SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)

Declension

declension of SMS

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) SMS	SMS-ul	(niște) SMS-uri	SMS-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) SMS	SMS-ului	(unor) SMS-uri	SMS-urilor
vocative	SMS-ule		SMS-urilor

Synonyms

• mesaj SMS, mesaj scurt