telefon bimbit

Malay

Etymology

telefon (“telephone”) +‎ bimbit (“to hold something with one's fingers”) - the bimbit in this sense once referred to old portable telephone models that had to be carried around in the manner of suitcases.

Noun

telefon bimbit (Jawi spelling تيليفون بيمبيت, plural telefon-telefon bimbit or telefon² bimbit)

1. mobile phone, cell phone