iPhone

English

iPhone 15 and 15 Pro models (front)

iPhone 15 and 15 Pro models (back)

Etymology

From i- +‎ phone. Many Apple products have an i- prefix in their names.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪˌfoʊ̯n/
• Homophone: eyephone

Noun

iPhone (plural iPhones)

1. (trademark) A smartphone of a series produced by Apple, which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device.

   Synonym: (humorous) Jesus phone

   Hypernym: smartphone

   His mom bought him an IPhone for his 11th birthday.

   • 2012, “Best iPhone 5 concept photos”, in CNet:

     This concept puts the curve back on the iPhone 5 with a silhouette that's reminiscent of a banana phone.

   • 2020 July 9, Jacob Krol, “Here’s how to get the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 public beta”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 31 March 2023:

     Apple is rolling out the public beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on Thursday. We have a full (and lengthy) preview guide on both operating systems here, and now we’re breaking down how to get the public beta on your iPhone or iPad.

   • 2023 September 19, Yessenia Funes, quoting Robert D. Bullard, “The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity”, in Scientific American‎^[3], archived from the original on 20 December 2023:

     “This is before everyone had [geographic information system] mapping, before iPads, iPhones, laptops, Google,” he says. “This is doing research way back with a hammer and a chisel.”

2. (by extension) Any knockoff or similar high-end smartphone; through trademark genericization.

Coordinate terms

• iPad
• iPod
• iMac
• iDevice

Derived terms

• iPhone moment
• iPhoneography
• iPhoner

Translations

device

• Arabic: آيْفُون m (ʔāyfūn)

  Hijazi Arabic: آيفون m (ʔāyfōn)

• Armenian: այֆոն (ayfon)
• Belarusian: айфо́н m (ajfón)
• Bengali: আইফোন (aiphōn)
• Burmese: အိုင်ဖုန်း (uinghpun:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘋果手機 / 苹果手机 (zh) (Píngguǒ shǒujī), 愛瘋 / 爱疯 (zh) (àifēng) (slang)

• Czech: iPhone m
• Danish: iPhone c
• Dutch: iPhone (nl) c
• Faroese: iPhone m
• Finnish: iPhone
• French: iPhone (fr) m
• Georgian: აიფონი (aiponi)
• German: iPhone (de) n
• Hawaiian: iPona
• Hebrew: אייפון (he) m (ayfon)
• Hindi: आइफ़ोन m (āifon), आईफ़ोन m (āīfon)
• Italian: melafonino (it) m, iPhone (it) m
• Japanese: アイフォン (Aifon) (transliteration), アイホン (Aihon), アイフォーン (Aifōn) (rare)
• Kannada: ಐಫೋನ್ (aiphōn‌)
• Korean: 아이폰 (ko) (Aipon) (transliteration)
• Lao: ໄອໂຟນ (ʼai fōn)
• Lithuanian: aifònas m
• Malayalam: ഐഫോൺ (aiphōṇ)
• Marathi: आयफोन (āyphon)
• Navajo: biłńjoobałí ntsékeesígíí
• Nepali: आइफोन (āiphon)
• Pashto: آيفون m (āyfōn)
• Persian: آی‌فون (ây-fôn)
• Polish: iPhone (pl) m
• Portuguese: iPhone m
• Punjabi: ਆਈਫ਼ੋਨ (āīfon)
• Russian: айфо́н (ru) m (ajfón)
• Spanish: iPhone m
• Tagalog: iPhone
• Tamil: ஐபோன் (aipōṉ)
• Telugu: ఐఫోన్ (aiphōn)
• Thai: ไอโฟน (ai-foon)
• Turkish: iPhone
• Ukrainian: айфо́н m (ajfón)

See also

• iOS
• BlackBerry

Further reading

• iPhone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pinhoe, hopein

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English iPhone.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): āifèng

  (Zhuyin): ㄞ ㄈㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aai¹ fung¹
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹e-fon

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: āifèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄞ ㄈㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: aifòng
    • Wade–Giles: ai¹-fêng⁴
    • Yale: āi-fèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aifenq
    • Palladius: айфэн (ajfɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯⁵⁵ fɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: aai¹ fung¹
    • Yale: āai fūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aai¹ fung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ai¹ fung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːi̯⁵⁵ fʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹e-fon
    • MiniDict: e^平 fon
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹e-fon
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /e⁵⁵ foŋ²¹/

Noun

iPhone

1. iPhone (the Apple iPhone)
2. iPhone (a smartphone)

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English iPhone.

Noun

iPhone c (singular definite iPhonen, plural indefinite iPhones)

1. iPhone

Declension

Declension of iPhone

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	iPhone	iPhonen	iPhones	iPhonesene
genitive	iPhones	iPhonens	iPhones'	iPhonesenes

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English iPhone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aj.fɔn/, /i.fɔn/

• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

  (file)

• Audio (France):

  (file)

Noun

iPhone m (plural iPhones)

1. iPhone (the Apple iPhone)
2. iPhone (any smartphone)

   Synonyms: smartphone, ordiphone

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ̯foːn/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

iPhone n (proper noun, strong, genitive iPhones)

1. iPhone

Hungarian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English iPhone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaːjfoːn]
• Rhymes: -oːn

Noun

iPhone (plural iPhone-ok)

1. (trademark) iPhone (a smartphone of a series produced by Apple)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	iPhone	iPhone-ok
accusative	iPhone-t	iPhone-okat
dative	iPhone-nak	iPhone-oknak
instrumental	iPhone-nal	iPhone-okkal
causal-final	iPhone-ért	iPhone-okért
translative	iPhone-ná	iPhone-okká
terminative	iPhone-ig	iPhone-okig
essive-formal	iPhone-ként	iPhone-okként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	iPhone-ban	iPhone-okban
superessive	iPhone-on	iPhone-okon
adessive	iPhone-nál	iPhone-oknál
illative	iPhone-ba	iPhone-okba
sublative	iPhone-ra	iPhone-okra
allative	iPhone-hoz	iPhone-okhoz
elative	iPhone-ból	iPhone-okból
delative	iPhone-ról	iPhone-okról
ablative	iPhone-tól	iPhone-októl
non-attributive possessive – singular	iPhone-é	iPhone-oké
non-attributive possessive – plural	iPhone-éi	iPhone-okéi

Possessive forms of iPhone

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	iPhone-om	iPhone-jaim
2nd person sing.	iPhone-od	iPhone-jaid
3rd person sing.	iPhone-ja	iPhone-jai
1st person plural	iPhone-unk	iPhone-jaink
2nd person plural	iPhone-otok	iPhone-jaitok
3rd person plural	iPhone-juk	iPhone-jaik

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English iPhone. Genericized trademark.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

iPhone m (invariable)

1. iPhone

Polish

iPhone'y

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English iPhone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj.fɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ajfɔn
• Syllabification: i‧Phone

Noun

iPhone m animal

1. iPhone (smartphone of a series produced by Apple Inc., which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device)

Declension

Declension of iPhone

	singular	plural
nominative	iPhone	iPhone'y
genitive	iPhone'a	iPhone'ów
dative	iPhone'owi	iPhone'om
accusative	iPhone'a	iPhone'y
instrumental	iPhone'em	iPhone'ami
locative	iPhonie	iPhone'ach
vocative	iPhonie	iPhone'y

Further reading

• “iPhone”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Noun

iPhone m (plural iPhones)

1. iPhone (smartphone produced by Apple Inc.)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English iPhone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aiˈfon/ [ai̯ˈfõn]
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

iPhone m (plural iPhones)

1. iPhone
   • 2015 October 28, “Google tiene 3,8 millones de GB de nuestras fotos”, in CNN en Español‎^[5]:

     Necesitarías cuando menos 238,080 iPhones S6 con 16 gigabytes de memoria para guardarlas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)