TV

See also: tv, .tv, and tv.

Translingual

Etymology 1

Symbol

TV

1. (metrology) Symbol for teravolt, an SI unit of electromotive force equal to 10¹² volts.

Etymology 2

Symbol

TV

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Tuvalu since 1977.

   Synonym: TUV (alpha-3)

English

Alternative forms

• T.V.

Etymology

Abbreviation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tē'vē', IPA^(key): /ˈtiːˈviː/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /ˈti.vi/
• Rhymes: -iː, (South American English) -iːvi

Noun

TV (countable and uncountable, plural TVs)

1. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of television.

   I saw an ad for that on TV.

   • 1985, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (lyrics and music), “The Sun Always Shines on T.V.”, in Hunting High and Low, performed by a-ha:

     Believe me, the sun always shines on TV

2. (countable) Abbreviation of transvestite.
   • 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     She spoke of her male side as her "brother" as do older, more conventional TVs.

   • 1996, Forced Womanhood, number 20, page 32:

     TV's who dominate and TV's who are dominated! TV's who are hot, sexy and horny as hell!

3. (physiology) Initialism of tidal volume.
4. Initialism of tax value.
5. (pop culture, music) Initialism of Taylor's Version.

Derived terms

• cable TV
• linear TV
• made-for-TV
• TVaholic
• TV dinner
• TV evangelism
• TV evangelist
• TV land
• VBTV

 

Descendants

• → Thai: ทีวี (tii-wii)

Translations

abbreviation for television

• Assamese: টিভি (tibhi)
• Belarusian: ТБ n (TB)
• Burmese: တီဗီ (tibi)
• Catalan: TV (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電視／电视 (zh) (diànshì)

• Danish: tv (da) n
• Dutch: tv (nl) f, teevee (nl) f
• Finnish: TV (fi)
• French: télé (fr) f
• German: TV (de) n
• Hebrew: טלוויזיה‎ (he) f (televizia)
• Hindi: टीवी m (ṭīvī)
• Ido: TV (io)
• Interlingua: TV
• Italian: TV (it) f, tivù f
• Japanese: テレビ (ja) (terebi), テレビジョン (ja) (terebijon)
• Korean: 텔레비 (tellebi), 티브이 (ko) (tibeu'i), 티비 (tibi), 텔레비전 (ko) (tellebijeon), 티뷔 (tibwi)
• Latvian: TV
• Norwegian: TV, teve
• Portuguese: TV f, tevê (pt) f
• Russian: ТВ (ru) n (TV)
• Scottish Gaelic: tbh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ТВ

  Roman: TV

• Sinhalese: ටීවී (ṭīwī)
• Spanish: tele (es), tv f
• Swedish: tv (sv), teve (sv)
• Tagalog: TV
• Telugu: టీ.వీ. (ṭī.vī.)
• Thai: ทีวี (th) (tii-wii)
• Turkish: TV (tr)
• Ukrainian: ТБ n (TB)
• Vietnamese: truyền hình (vi) (傳形), TV (vi)
• Walloon: tévé (wa) f
• Welsh: teli m
• White Hmong: this vis
• Yup'ik: tiiviiq

abbreviation for transvestite

• Dutch: travo (nl) m
• Finnish: transu (fi)
• German: Transe (de) f
• Swedish: T (sv)

See also

• telly

Anagrams

• VT, Vt., v.t., vt, vt.

Finnish

Etymology

televisio (“television”)

Noun

TV

1. TV (abbreviation for television)

Declension

Declension of TV (type filee) singular plural nominative TV TV:t genitive TV:n TV:iden TV:itten partitive TV:tä TV:itä accusative TV TV:n TV:t inessive TV:ssä TV:issä elative TV:stä TV:istä illative TV:hen TV:seen TV:ihin TV:isiin adessive TV:llä TV:illä ablative TV:ltä TV:iltä allative TV:lle TV:ille essive TV:nä TV:inä translative TV:ksi TV:iksi instructive – TV:in abessive TV:ttä TV:ittä comitative – TV:ineen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.ve/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

TV f (plural TV)

1. (Canada and Belgium, informal) television

   Synonym: télé

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^**/tivˈvu/^*, ^**/tiˈvu/^*
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

TV f (invariable)

1. (informal) television

   Synonyms: televisione, tivù

Japanese

Noun

TV(テレビ) • (terebi) 

1. Abbreviation of テレビ (“TV”).

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• tv

Etymology

Abbreviation of televisjon

Noun

TV m (definite singular TV-en, indefinite plural TV-er, definite plural TV-ene)

1. TV (television set)
2. television (program broadcasting)

   Han vil se på TV.

   He wants to watch television.

Synonyms

• fjernsyn

References

• “TV” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• tv

Etymology

Abbreviation of televisjon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːˈʋeː/
• (Standard Eastern) IPA^(key): [ˈtêːˈʋěː]

Noun

TV m (definite singular TV-en, indefinite plural TV-ar, definite plural TV-ane)

1. TV (television set)
2. television (program broadcasting)

   Dei likar ikkje å sjå på TV.

   They don't like to watch television.

Synonyms

• fjernsyn

References

• “TV” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tevê
• tv

Etymology

Initialism of televisão.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /teˈve/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨˈve/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨˈve/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨˈbe/ [tɨˈβe]

Noun

TV f (plural TVs)

1. TV

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

TV m (Cyrillic spelling ТВ)

1. TV

Swedish

Alternative forms

• teve, tv

Etymology

Abbreviation of television, borrowed from English television, attested since 1923.

Noun

TV c

1. TV

   Synonyms: television, televisionsapparat

   Holonym: etermedia

   Han såg det på TV:en.

   He saw it on the TV.

Derived terms

• TV-antenn (“TV antenna”)
• TV-apparat (“TV set”)
• TV-bevakning (“CCTV”)
• TV-hus (“TV building; TV station”)
• TV-kanal (“TV channel”)
• TV-mast (“TV tower”)
• TV-program (“TV programme”)
• TV-reklam (“TV ad”)
• TV-shop (“TV shop”)
• TV-station (“TV station”)
• TV-studio (“TV studio”)
• TV-sändare (“TV broadcaster”)
• TV-sändning (“TV broadcast”)

References

• TV in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• TV in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from English TV.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ti˧˧ vi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tɪj˧˧ vɪj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tɪj˧˧ vɪj˧˧] ~ [tɪj˧˧ jɪj˧˧]
• Phonetic: ti vi

Noun

(classifier chiếc) TV

1. Initialism of ti-vi.

Synonyms

• vô tuyến truyền hình [無線傳形]
• truyền hình (VN)