telefon

From English telephone or French téléphone, ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”).

• IPA^(key): /teleˈfon/,

telefon m (plural telefona, definite telefoni, definite plural telefonat)

1. telephone

• telefonoj

Internationalism; from French téléphone, from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”).

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• Hyphenation: te‧le‧fon

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telefon (definite accusative telefonu, plural telefonlar)

1. telephone

   telefon nömrəsi ― phone number

   cib telefonu ― mobile phone (literally, “pocket phone”)

   telefon vasitəsi ilə ödəmək ― to pay by phone

   telefon vasitəsi ilə əlaqə saxlamaq ― to contact by phone

   telefon yükləyicisi ― phone charger

telefon

1. telephone

From French téléphone.

• Hyphenation: te‧le‧fon

telefon

1. telephone

• “telefon”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

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telefon m inan

1. phone, telephone

   po telefonu ― on the phone / over the phone

   mobilní telefon ― cellphone

   Můžu použít tvůj telefon? ― Can I use your phone?

• See fón

• “telefon”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “telefon”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “telefon”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

From tele- +‎ -fon.

• IPA^(key): /teləfoːn/,

telefon c (singular definite telefonen, plural indefinite telefoner)

1. telephone (an electronic device used for two-way talking with other people)
2. phone number, telephone number (digits assigned to a telephone), abbreviated tlf.
3. call, phone call, telephone call

• (device): (slang) knogle
• (phone number): telefonnummer

• telefonere (“to telephone”)
• telefonisk (“telephonic, by telephone”)
• telefonist (“telephonist”)
• (jocular) telefonitis (“telephonitis”)

• telefon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

telefon (genitive telefoni, partitive telefoni)

1. telephone (an electronic device used for two-way talking with other people)

Borrowed from French téléphone, from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”).

• IPA^(key): /tʰeleˈfoːn/

telefon f (genitive singular telefonar, plural telefonir)

1. telephone

• (dated): røðil, fjarrøðil, máltráður

• fartelefon (mobile phone)

Borrowed from German Telephon.^[1]

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• Hyphenation: te‧le‧fon
• Rhymes: -on

telefon (plural telefonok)

1. telephone

   Synonym: (dated, practically archaic) távbeszélő

• telefon in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /teˈlefɔn/
• Syllabification: te‧le‧fon

telefon

1. Alternative form of telepon

telefon (active menelefon, passive ditelefon)

1. Alternative form of telepon

Borrowed from Russian телефо́н (telefón).

telefon

1. telephone

• telepon

From English telephone or Dutch telefoon,^[1] by surface analysis, tele- +‎ -fon.

• (English-based) IPA^(key):
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• Rhymes: -fon, -on
• Hyphenation: te‧le‧fon

telefon (Jawi spelling تيليفون)

1. telephone
2. call (telephone call)

telefon (Jawi spelling تيليفون, active menelefon, 3rd person passive ditelefon)

1. (transitive) to call

• “telefon” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From English telephone.

telefon

1. telephone

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

telefon

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telefon m (definite singular telefonen, indefinite plural telefoner, definite plural telefonene)

1. a telephone or phone

• telefoni

• “telefon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

telefon

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telefon m (definite singular telefonen, indefinite plural telefonar, definite plural telefonane)

1. a telephone or phone

• telefoni

• “telefon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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telefon

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Internationalism. By surface analysis, tele- +‎ -fon.^[1][2][3] First attested in 1829.^[4] Compare Kashubian telefón and Silesian telefōn.

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈlɛ.fɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛfɔn
• Syllabification: te‧le‧fon

telefon m inan (related adjective telefoniczny, abbreviation tel.)

1. telephone (telecommunication device used for two-way talking with another person)
2. telephone call (connection established over a telephone network between two parties)
3. telephone number (sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network)

• telefon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• telefon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “telefon”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “telefon”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 39

Borrowed from French téléphone, German Telephon. Equivalent to tele- +‎ -fon.

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telefon n (plural telefoane)

1. telephone

• telefona
• telefonare
• telefonat

• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

telefon m (plural telefons)

1. telephone

• IPA^(key): /telěfoːn/

telèfōn m (Cyrillic spelling телѐфо̄н)

1. telephone
2. (colloquial) telephone number

• telèfōnskī

tele- +‎ -fon

• (Sweden) IPA^(key): /tɛlɛˈfoːn/

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• (Finland) IPA^(key): /teleˈfuːn/
• (Sweden, dialectal) IPA^(key): /tɛlɛˈfuːn/

telefon c

1. a phone, a telephone

   ringa någon med en telefon

   call someone with a telephone

2. phone, telephone (as a communication medium)

   kontakta någon per telefon

   contact someone by phone

   prata/sitta/stå/etc. i telefon

   be on the phone

   • 1986, Michael B. Tretow (lyrics and music), “Telefånen [The telefool [Incredible contraptions]‎:

     Ja, jag står i telefon ute på gatan utanför. Jag kan se din siluett genom gardin. Och jag står förstås och drömmer som jag nästan alltid gör när jag har satt i mig några flaskor vin.

     Yes, I'm on the phone out on the street outside. I can see your silhouette through the curtain. And I'm standing here dreaming, of course , like I almost always do when I've downed a few bottles of wine.

3. Short for telefonsamtal (“phone call”).

   Du har telefon

   You have a phone call

• In some dialects, this word is not conjugated in the definitive, hence "svara i telefon" is equivalent to "answer the phone" rather than the ungrammatical "answer phone".

• knapptelefon
• mobiltelefon
• smarttelefon
• telefonbok
• telefonkatalog
• telefonnummer

• telefon in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• telefon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• telefon in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Dutch telefoon.

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telefon

1. telephone

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From English telephone.

telefon

1. telephone

   Synonym: telipon

From Ottoman Turkish تلفون (telefon), from French téléphone.

• IPA^(key): /te.le.fon/

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telefon (definite accusative telefonu, plural telefonlar)

1. telephone

• telefoncu
• telefonculuk
• cep telefonu
• telefon etmek

• “telefon”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تلفون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 399

telefon (definite accusative telefony, plural telefonlar)

1. telephone

• “telefon” in Enedilim.com
• “telefon” in Webonary.org