phone

See also: -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

Shortening of telephone.

Noun

phone (plural phones)

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

Derived terms

Terms derived from phone (etymology 1—noun)

cell phone clamshell phone flip phone

mobile phone phone sex phone tag

smartphone

Translations

A device for transmitting conversations (telephone)

• Afrikaans: telefoon (af)
• Arabic: تلفون m (tilifuun), هاتف m (haatif)
• Armenian: հեռախոս (heṙaxos)
• Azeri: telefon (az)
• Belarusian: тэлефон m (telefón)
• Bulgarian: телефон m (telefon)
• Catalan: telèfon (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: trad. 電話, simpl. 电话 (din6waa6)

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

• Czech: telefon (cs) m
• Danish: telefon (da) c
• Dutch: telefoon (nl) m
• Esperanto: telefono
• 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 (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: телефон (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: telefono
• Tamil: தொலைபேசி (ta) (tolaipēci)
• Telugu: ఫోను (phōnu)
• Thai: โทรศัพท์ (th) (tohrásàp)
• Ukrainian: телефон (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 it in

phone up

Translations

to call (someone) on the telephone

• Arabic: تلفن (talfána)
• Armenian: զանգել (zangel)
• Belarusian: званіць (zvanícʹ), пазваніць pf (pazvanícʹ); тэлефанаваць impf (teljefanavácʹ), патэлефанаваць pf (pateljefanavácʹ)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: telefonovat (cs), volat (cs)
• Dutch: telefoneren (nl)
• Esperanto: telefoni (eo)
• 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 (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: звонить (ru) impf (zvonít’), позвонить (ru) (pozvonít’) pf (по телефону po telefónu), телефонировать (ru) (telefonírovat’) impf 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 (toh)
• Turkish: aramak (tr)
• Ukrainian: дзвонити impf (dzvonýty), подзвонити 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
• German: Phonem (de) n, Fonem n
• Irish: foghar m

• Italian: fono m
• Japanese: 音素 (ja) (おんそ, onso), 音韻 (おんいん, on'in)
• Polish: głoska (pl) f
• Portuguese: fone 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).