SMS

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

SMS (disambiguation)

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• S.M.S., S. M. S.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛs ɛm ˈɛs/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛs

Etymology 1

Abbreviation

Noun

SMS (plural SMSes)

1. (telecommunications) Initialism of Short Message Service. A service to send text messages on a cell phone.
2. (numismatics) Initialism of special mint set.
3. Initialism of salesman sample.
4. (psychology) Initialism of short man syndrome.
5. (neurology) Initialism of stiff man syndrome.

   Synonym: SPS

6. Abbreviation of Safety Management System., a system for identifying and managing risk used in the aviation industry.

Translations

Verb

SMS (third-person singular simple present SMSes, present participle SMSing, simple past and past participle SMSed)

1. To send a message on a cell phone.

   I SMSed him and asked why he was late.

   I can't talk to her: she is too busy SMSing her friends.

Synonyms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of textspeak

Proper noun

SMS

1. (video games) Initialism of Sega Master System.

Etymology 2

German SMS

Noun

SMS (uncountable)

1. (military, nautical, initialism) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff – literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German;

   Coordinate terms: HM, HMS, HBMS, HSMS, HSwMS, HDMS, HDaMS, HNLMS, HNMS, HNoMS

   Coordinate terms: SM, Zr.Ms., Hr.Ms.

   1. A ship prefix for a ship in the navy of the Empire of Germany (usually for the period leading to WWI and WWI)

      Synonym: HIGMS

Anagrams

• MSS, MSS., MSs, Mss, Mss., SSM, mss, mss.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

SMS

1. Misspelling of sms.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.sɛ.mɛs/, /e.se.mɛs/

• Audio

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Noun

SMS m (plural SMS)

1. SMS, text, text message

   Synonym: (France) texto

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛsʔɛmˈʔɛs/ (official standard)

• Audio

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛsɛˈmɛs/, /-se-/, /-zɛ-/, /-ze-/ (common speech, for Etymology 1)

Etymology 1

Noun

SMS f or n (strong or mixed, genitive SMS, plural SMS or SMSen or SMSe)

1. SMS (text message)

Usage notes

• The noun is almost exclusively feminine in northern Germany, central Germany, and Luxembourg. The neuter gender is predominant in the southern half of the language area, but the feminine is also heard.
• The unchanged plural SMS is generally used with the neuter gender. The form SMSe is rarer.
• With the feminine, the marked form SMSen is often needed to express the plural, but the unchanged form can be used when the plural is evident from the grammatical construction or the context.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• S. M. S.

Noun

SMS

1. (nautical, military) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff (His Majesty's Ship)

Usage notes

Used for naval ships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Second Reich of Imperial Germany, for the Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine and Kaiserliche Marine, respectively.

Descendants

• English: SMS

Hungarian

Etymology

Initialism of Short Message Service.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Noun

SMS (plural SMS-ek)

1. SMS, text message (a service for sending text messages on a cellular telephone system)

Declension

Derived terms

Italian

Noun

SMS m

1. SMS (text message)

Japanese

Noun

SMS(エスエムエス) • (esu-emu-esu) 

1. SMS

Synonyms

• 伝言(でんごん) (dengon)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

SMS

Wikipedia ^pl

Alternative forms

• sms

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English SMS.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ɛmˈɛs/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛmɛs
• Syllabification: S‧M‧S

Noun

SMS m animal or m inan (related adjective SMS-owy)

1. (countable) SMS, text message (brief electronic message sent between mobile phones)

   Synonyms: es, esek, esemes, eska

2. (uncountable, telecommunications) short message service (system for transmitting text messages on mobile phones)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English SMS.

Noun

SMS m or f (invariable)

1. SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)

   Synonyms: mensagem de texto, (Brazil) torpedo

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English SMS.

Noun

SMS n (plural SMS-uri)

1. SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)

Declension

Synonyms

• mesaj SMS, mesaj scurt

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌese ˌeme ˈese/

Noun

SMS m (plural SMS)

1. (telecommunications) SMS

Further reading

• “SMS”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014