telegram

See also: Telegram

English

Alternative forms

• (rare) telegramme

Etymology

From tele- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

telegram (plural telegrams)

1. A message transmitted by telegraph.

   Synonyms: wire, cable, telegrapheme

   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

     There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

   • 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 394:

     On 20 May 1937 when down in Bradford-on-Avon on business, Bulleid received a telegram with the cryptic news: 'Sir Herbert Walker wishes to see you twelve thirty tomorrow—Gresley'.

   • 2013 July 15, Monica Sarkar, “The day telegrams came to a final STOP”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Indians awoke on Monday to find their 162-year-old telegram service rendered obsolete, superseded by SMS, e-mail and Twitter.
     Arguably one of the oldest victims of the digital age, telegrams were the fastest communication method from the 19th century.

Derived terms

• cablegram
• circular telegram
• fast telegram
• letter telegram
• radiotelegram
• singing telegram

Translations

message sent by telegraph

• Afrikaans: telegram
• Albanian: telegram (sq) m
• Amharic: ቴሌግራም (telegram)
• Arabic: بَرْقِيَّة f (barqiyya), تِلِغْرَاف m (tiliḡrāf), تَلِغْرَاف m (taliḡrāf)

  Egyptian Arabic: تلغراف m (teleḡrāf)

• Armenian: հեռագիր (hy) (heṙagir)
• Azerbaijani: teleqram
• Belarusian: тэлегра́ма f (teljehráma)
• Bengali: টেলিগ্রাম (bn) (ṭeligram)
• Bulgarian: телегра́ма (bg) f (telegráma)
• Burmese: ကြေးနန်း (my) (kre:nan:), သံကြိုးစာ (my) (samkrui:ca), သံကြိုး (my) (samkrui:)
• Catalan: telegrama m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電報 / 电报 (din⁶ bou³)

  Dungan: дянбо (di͡anbo)

  Eastern Min: 電報 / 电报 (diêng-bó̤)

  Hakka: 電報 / 电报 (thien-po)

  Hokkien: 電報 / 电报 (zh-min-nan) (tiān-pò)

  Jin: 電報 / 电报 (die³ bau³)

  Mandarin: 電報 / 电报 (zh) (diànbào)

  Wu: 電報 / 电报 (⁶di-pau)

• Czech: telegram (cs) m
• Danish: telegram n
• Dutch: telegram (nl) n
• Esperanto: telegramo (eo)
• Estonian: telegramm
• Finnish: sähke (fi)
• French: télégramme (fr) m, dépêche (fr) f
• Georgian: დეპეშა (deṗeša), ტელეგრამა (ṭelegrama)
• German: Telegramm (de) n
• Greek: τηλεγράφημα (el) n (tilegráfima)
• Hebrew: מִברָק m (mivrák)
• Hindi: तार (hi) m (tār), टेलीग्राम m (ṭelīgrām), टेलिग्राम (hi) m (ṭeligrām)
• Hungarian: távirat (hu)
• Icelandic: símskeyti n
• Ido: telegramo (io)
• Indonesian: telegram (id)
• Ingrian: telegramma
• Italian: telegramma (it) m
• Japanese: 電報 (ja) (でんぽう, denpō), 針金便り (はりがねだより, hariganedayori)
• Kazakh: жеделхат (jedelxat), телеграмма (telegramma)
• Khmer: ខ្សែលួស (khsae luəh), ទូរលេខ (km) (tuurĕəʼleek), តេឡេក្រាម (teeleekraam)
• Korean: 전보(電報) (ko) (jeonbo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: birûske (ku), telegram (ku)

• Kyrgyz: телеграмма (ky) (telegramma)
• Lao: ໂທລະເລກ (thō la lēk)
• Latvian: telegramma f
• Lithuanian: telegrama f
• Macedonian: телеграма f (telegrama)
• Malay: telegram (ms), kawat (ms), surat kawat, berita kawat, khabar sawat
• Maori: kupu-ā-waea
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цахилгаан (mn) (caxilgaan), телеграмм (telegramm)

• Navajo: béésh bee haneʼ
• Ngazidja Comorian: simu class 9/10
• Norman: télégramme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: telegram (no) n

  Nynorsk: telegram n

• Pannonian Rusyn: телеграма f (telehrama), телеґрам m (telegram) (obsolete)
• Pashto: تلګرام m (telegrām), تلګراف m (telegrāf)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تِلِگْرام (telegrâm), تِلِگْراف (telegrâf) (telegraph)

• Plautdietsch: Tellegraum n
• Polish: telegram (pl) m, depesza (pl) f
• Portuguese: telegrama (pt) m
• Romanian: telegramă (ro) f, depeșă (ro) f
• Russian: телегра́мма (ru) f (telegrámma), депе́ша (ru) f (depéša) (dated)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: те̏леграм m, бр̏зоја̄в m

  Roman: tȅlegram (sh) m, bȑzojāv (sh) m

• Sikkimese: ཏར (tar)
• Slovak: telegram m
• Slovene: telegram m
• Spanish: telegrama (es) m
• Swahili: telegramu (sw)
• Swedish: telegram (sv) n
• Tagalog: pahatid-kawad
• Tajik: телеграмма (telegramma)
• Tamil: தந்தி (ta) (tanti)
• Thai: โทรเลข (th) (too-rá-lêek)
• Tigrinya: ተለግራም (tälägram)
• Turkish: telgraf (tr)
• Turkmen: telegramma
• Ukrainian: телегра́ма f (telehráma)
• Urdu: تار (ur) m (tār), ٹیلی گِرام m (ṭelī girām), ٹیلی گْرام m (ṭelī grām), ٹیلِیگْرام m (ṭelīgrām), بَرْقِیَہ m (barqiya)
• Uyghur: تېلېگرامما (tëlëgramma)
• Uzbek: telegramma (uz)
• Vietnamese: điện báo (vi) (電報), điện tín (vi) (電信), điện văn (vi) (電文)
• Yiddish: טעלעגראַמע f (telegrame), טעלעגראַם m (telegram)

Verb

telegram (third-person singular simple present telegrams, present participle telegramming, simple past and past participle telegrammed)

1. (intransitive) To send a telegram.
   • 1984 August 5, “Women Lawyers Unit Describes Its Role”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     In the brouhaha over the reappointment of Superior Court Judge Sylvia Pressler, we organized massive support - telegramming, telephoning and writing to encourage the State Senate to exercise its advise and consent function responsibly.

   • 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 23:

     He was a very posh chap from Oxfordshire, whose dad had been Chancellor and whose mum was obliged to keep telegramming round to find him a job because little Winnie had flunked out of his very expensive school.

2. (transitive) To send a telegram to (a person).
   • 2015 March 5, Douglas Brinkley, “Selma’s historic bridge deserves a better name”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”

3. (transitive) To send (a message) in a telegram.

Translations

telegraph — see telegraph

Anagrams

• Great Elm

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English telegram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teːləˈɡrɑm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: te‧le‧gram
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Noun

telegram n (plural telegrammen, diminutive telegrammetje n)

1. telegram

Derived terms

• telegramstijl

Related terms

• telegraaf
• telegraferen
• telegrafie
• telegrafisch

Descendants

• → Indonesian: telegram
• → Caribbean Javanese: tilgram, setilgram

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch telegram, from English telegram.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /teˈleɡram/ [t̪eˈle.ɡram]
• Rhymes: -eɡram
• Syllabification: te‧le‧gram

Noun

telegram (plural telegram-telegram)

1. telegram
   1. a written or printed telegraph message

      Synonyms: kabar kawat, kawat, surat kawat

   2. an instant messenger service

Alternative forms

• telgram

Derived terms

• menelegram

• telegram indah

Related terms

• telegraf
• telegrafi
• telegrafis

Further reading

• “telegram”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Polish

Etymology

From tele- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈlɛ.ɡram/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛɡram
• Syllabification: te‧le‧gram

Noun

telegram m inan (related adjective telegramowy, abbreviation (rare) tel.)

1. telegram (message sent by telegraph)

   Synonym: depesza

Declension

Declension of telegram

	singular	plural
nominative	telegram	telegramy
genitive	telegramu	telegramów
dative	telegramowi	telegramom
accusative	telegram	telegramy
instrumental	telegramem	telegramami
locative	telegramie	telegramach
vocative	telegramie	telegramy

Derived terms

adjective

• telegramowy

noun

• radiotelegram

Further reading

• telegram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• telegram in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.leˈɡram/

Noun

telegram n (plural telegrame)

1. alternative form of telegramă

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	telegram	telegramul		telegrame	telegramele
genitive-dative	telegram	telegramului		telegrame	telegramelor
vocative	telegramule			telegramelor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têleɡram/
• Hyphenation: te‧le‧gram

Noun

tȅlegram m inan (Cyrillic spelling те̏леграм)

1. telegram

Declension

Declension of telegram

	singular	plural
nominative	telegram	telegrami
genitive	telegrama	telegrama
dative	telegramu	telegramima
accusative	telegram	telegrame
vocative	telegrame	telegrami
locative	telegramu	telegramima
instrumental	telegramom	telegramima

Swedish

Etymology

tele- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

telegram n

1. a telegram, a message sent by telegraph

Declension

Declension of telegram

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	telegram	telegrams
	definite	telegrammet	telegrammets
plural	indefinite	telegram	telegrams
	definite	telegrammen	telegrammens

Related terms

• lyxtelegram
• telegramblankett

See also

• telegraf

Vilamovian

Noun

telegram n

1. telegram, wire