phone

See also: phoné, -phone, and 'phone

English

Wikipedia

A rotary-dial phone

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəʊ̯n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /foʊ̯n/

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• Rhymes: -əʊn, -oʊn

Etymology 1

Short for telephone.

Noun

phone ‎(plural phones)

1. A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances.

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of phone

• cell phone
• clamshell phone

• flip phone
• mobile phone

• smartphone

• speakerphone

Derived terms

• speakerphone

Related terms

• phone sex
• phone tag

Translations

A device for transmitting conversations (telephone)

• Afrikaans: telefoon (af)
• Arabic: تِلِفُون m ‎(tilifūn), هَاتِف (ar) m ‎(hātif)
• Armenian: հեռախոս (hy) ‎(heṙaxos)
• Azeri: telefon (az)
• Belarusian: тэлефо́н m ‎(teljefón)
• Bulgarian: телефон m ‎(telefon)
• Catalan: telèfon (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏗᎵᏃ⁠ᎮᏗ ‎(dilino⁠hedi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電話, 电话 ‎(din⁶ waa⁶)

  Mandarin: 電話 (zh), 电话 (zh) ‎(diànhuà)

  Min Nan: 電話 (zh-min-nan), 电话 ‎(tiān-ōe)

• Czech: telefon (cs) m
• Danish: telefon (da) c
• Dutch: telefoon (nl) m
• Esperanto: telefono
• Faroese: telefon f
• Finnish: puhelin (fi)
• French: téléphone (fr) m
• German: Telefon (de) n, Telephon (de) n, Fernsprecher (de) m
• Greek: τηλέφωνο (el) n ‎(tiléfono)
• Guaraní: pumbyry
• Hebrew: טלפון (he) m ‎(telefon)
• Hindi: फ़ोन m ‎(fōn), टेलीफ़ोन m ‎(ṭēlīfōn), दूरभाष ‎(dūrbhāṣ)
• Hungarian: telefon (hu)
• Icelandic: sími (is) m
• Indonesian: telepon (id)
• Interlingua: telephono
• Irish: fón m
• Italian: telefono (it) m

• Japanese: 電話 (ja) ‎(でんわ, denwa)
• Khmer: ទូរសព្ទ (km) ‎(tuurasap)
• Korean: 전화 (ko) ‎(jeonhwa) (電話 (ko))
• Latvian: telefons m, tālrunis m
• Lithuanian: telefonas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Telefon n, Telephon n
• Macedonian: телефон m ‎(telefon)
• Navajo: béésh bee haneʼé
• Persian: تلفن (fa) ‎(telefón), دورواژ ‎(dōrvâzh)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: foen
• Polish: telefon (pl) m
• Portuguese: telefone (pt) m
• Romanian: telefon (ro) n
• Russian: телефо́н (ru) m ‎(telefón)
• Sindhi: ڏُور وايو m ‎(Ddoor Vio)
• Slovak: telefón m
• Slovene: telefonu m
• Sotho: mohala, telefono
• Spanish: teléfono (es) m
• Swahili: simu (sw)
• Swedish: telefon (sv) c
• Tagalog: telepono (tl)
• Tamil: தொலைபேசி (ta) ‎(tolaipēci)
• Telugu: ఫోను ‎(phōnu)
• Thai: โทรศัพท์ (th) ‎(tohrásàp)
• Ukrainian: телефо́н (uk) m ‎(telefón)
• Urdu: ٹیلیفون m ‎(ṭelīfon), فون m ‎(fon)
• Vietnamese: điện thoại (vi) (電話), dây nói
• Welsh: ffôn (cy) f

See also

• Wikisaurus:phone

Verb

phone ‎(third-person singular simple present phones, present participle phoning, simple past and past participle phoned)

1. (transitive) To call (someone) on the telephone.

Synonyms

• call, ring, telephone

Derived terms

Terms derived from phone (etymology 1—verb)

phone in

phone up

Translations

to call (someone) on the telephone

• Arabic: تَلْفَنَ ‎(talfana)
• Armenian: զանգել (hy) ‎(zangel)
• Belarusian: звані́ць ‎(zvanícʹ), пазвані́ць pf ‎(pazvanícʹ); тэлефанава́ць impf ‎(teljefanavácʹ), патэлефанава́ць pf ‎(pateljefanavácʹ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打電話 (zh), 打电话 (zh) ‎(dǎ diànhuà)

• Czech: telefonovat (cs), volat (cs)
• Danish: ringe (da)
• Dutch: telefoneren (nl)
• Esperanto: telefoni (eo)
• Faroese: ringja
• Finnish: soittaa (fi) (puhelimella)
• French: téléphoner (fr), appeler (fr)
• German: anrufen (de), telefonieren (de)
• Greek: καλώ (el) ‎(kaló), τηλεφωνώ (el) ‎(tilefonó)
• Guaraní: mopumbyry
• Hindi: फ़ोन करना ‎(fon karnā)
• Hungarian: telefonál (hu)
• Icelandic: hringja (is)
• Indonesian: telepon (id)
• Interlingua: telephonar
• Italian: telefonare (it)
• Japanese: 電話をかける (ja) ‎(でんわをかける, denwa-o kakeru), 電話する ‎(でんわする, denwa-suru)

• Khmer: ទូរសព្ទ (km) ‎(tuurasap)
• Korean: 전화를 걸다 ‎(jeonhwareul geolda), 전화하다 (ko) ‎(jeonhwahada)
• Latvian: telefonēt, zvanīt, piezvanīt
• Lithuanian: skambinti
• Luxembourgish: telefonéieren, uruffen
• Persian: دورواژیدن ‎(durvâžidan), تلفن کردن (fa) ‎(telefon kardan)
• Polish: dzwonić (pl), telefonować (pl)
• Portuguese: telefonar (pt), chamar (pt)
• Russian: звони́ть (ru) impf ‎(zvonítʹ), позвони́ть (ru) pf ‎(pozvonítʹ) (по телефону po telefónu), телефони́ровать (ru) impf ‎(telefonírovatʹ) pf (rare)
• Scottish Gaelic: fòn
• Sindhi: ڏُور وائڻُ ‎(Ddoor Vaainn)
• Slovak: telefonovať, zatelefonovať, volať, zavolať
• Spanish: telefonear (es), llamar por teléfono
• Swedish: ringa (sv), telefonera (sv)
• Thai: โทร (th) ‎(toh)
• Turkish: aramak (tr)
• Ukrainian: дзвони́ти impf ‎(dzvonýty), подзвони́ти pf ‎(podzvonýty)
• Urdu: فون کرنا ‎(fon karnā)
• Vietnamese: gọi điện thoại, gọi điện, kêu điện thoại
• Welsh: ffonio (cy)
• Yiddish: טעלעפֿאָנירן ‎(telefonirn)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek φωνή ‎(phōnḗ, “sound”).

Noun

phone ‎(plural phones)

1. (phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.

Related terms

• phonetic
• phonetically
• phonetics
• phonology
• phoneme

Translations

speech segment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音素 (zh) ‎(yīnsù), 音位 (zh) ‎(yīnwèi)

• Czech: hláska (cs) f
• Estonian: häälik, foon
• Finnish: äänne (fi)
• French: phone (fr) m
• Georgian: ფონემა ‎(ponema)
• German: Phonem (de) n, Fonem n
• Irish: foghar m

• Italian: fono (it) m
• Japanese: 音素 (ja) ‎(おんそ, onso), 音韻 ‎(おんいん, on'in)
• Polish: głoska (pl) f
• Portuguese: fone (pt) m
• Russian: фо́на f ‎(fóna), фоне́ма (ru) f ‎(fonéma)
• Scottish Gaelic: foghar m
• Spanish: fono (es) m
• Swedish: fon (sv) c

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Noun

phone m ‎(plural phones)

1. phon (a unit of apparent loudness)
2. (linguistics) phone

Verb

phone

1. first-person singular present indicative of phoner
2. third-person singular present indicative of phoner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of phoner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of phoner
5. second-person singular imperative of phoner

External links

• “phone” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).