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English
Etymology
Clipping of intercommunicator.
Pronunciation
Noun
intercom (plural intercoms)
- An electronic communication system, especially one between rooms in a building.
emergency intercom
talk on the intercom
Derived terms
Translations
an electronic communication system
- Afrikaans: interkom
- Catalan: intèrfon m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 對講機/对讲机 (zh) (duìjiǎngjī)
- Danish: samtaleanlæg n
- Esperanto: pordotelefono
- Finnish: sisäpuhelin
- French: interphone (fr) m, portier électronique m, parlophone (fr) m (Belgium)
- Galician: porteiro automático m
- Georgian: ინტერკომი (inṭerḳomi), ორმხრივი კავშირი (ormxrivi ḳavširi), ორმხრივი შიდა კავშირი (ormxrivi šida ḳavširi)
- German: Gegensprechanlage (de) f, Sprechanlage (de) f
- Greek: θυροτηλέφωνο (el) n (thyrotiléfono)
- Hungarian: (doorphone, entryphone) kaputelefon (hu); (between rooms in a building) belső telefon/-hálózat, házi telefon/-hálózat
- Italian: citofono (it) m
- Japanese: インターホン (intāhon), インカム (inkamu), インターカム (intākamu)
- Korean: 인터폰 (ko) (inteopon)
- Polish: domofon (pl) m (entryphone)
- Portuguese: interfone (pt)
- Russian: интерко́м (ru) m (intɛrkóm), систе́ма двусторо́нней свя́зи f (sistéma dvustorónnej svjázi), перегово́рное устро́йство n (peregovórnoje ustrójstvo), домофо́н (ru) m (domofón) (entryphone), вну́тренняя связь f (vnútrennjaja svjazʹ)
- Spanish: portero automático m, telefonillo m, intercomunicador m, citófono m
- Swedish: porttelefon (sv)
- Turkish: interkom
- Ukrainian: домофо́н m (domofón)
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Verb
intercom (third-person singular simple present intercoms, present participle intercomming, simple past and past participle intercommed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To communicate (with) by intercom.
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English intercom.
Noun
intercom n (uncountable)
- intercom
- Synonym: interfon
Declension