telegram

See also: Telegram

English

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Telegram

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

telegramme (rare)

Etymology

tele- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

telegram (plural telegrams)

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'.

Derived terms

Translations

message sent by telegraph

Afrikaans: telegram
Albanian: telegram (sq) m
Amharic: ቴሌግራም (telegram)
Arabic: بَرْقِيَّة f (barqiyya)
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)

Hokkien: 電報／电报 (zh-min-nan) (tiān-pò)

Mandarin: 電報／电报 (zh) (diànbào)
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
Pashto: تلګرام m (telegrām), تلګراف m (telegrāf)
Persian: تلگرام (fa) (telegrâm), تلگراف (fa) (telegrâf)
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
Slovak: telegram m
Slovene: telegram m
Spanish: telegrama (es) m
Swahili: telegramu
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), ٹیلیگرام m (ṭeligrām)
Uyghur: تېلېگرامما (tëlëgramma)
Uzbek: telegramma (uz)
Vietnamese: điện báo (vi), điện tín (vi), điện văn (vi)
Yiddish: טעלעגראַמע f (telegrame), טעלעגראַם m (telegram)

Verb

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

(intransitive) To send a telegram.
- 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.
(transitive) To send a telegram to (a person).
(transitive) To send (a message) in a telegram.

Translations

telegraph — see telegraph

References

^ Albany Evening Journal, 1852 April 6: “A friend desires us to […] introduce a new word into the vocabulary. It is telegram, instead of telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic communication.”

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)

telegram

Derived terms

telegramstijl

Related terms

Descendants

→ Caribbean Javanese: tilgram, setilgram

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

telegram

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

From tele- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛˈlɛ.ɡram/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɛɡram
Syllabification: te‧le‧gram

Noun

telegram m inan

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

Romanian

Noun

telegram n (plural telegrame)

Alternative form of telegramă

Declension

Declension of telegram

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) telegram	telegramul	(niște) telegrame	telegramele
genitive/dative	(unui) telegram	telegramului	(unor) telegrame	telegramelor
vocative	telegramule		telegramelor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tȅlegram m (Cyrillic spelling те̏леграм)

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 (file)

Noun

telegram n

a telegram, a message sent by telegraph

Declension

Declension of telegram
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	telegram	telegrammet	telegram	telegrammen
Genitive	telegrams	telegrammets	telegrams	telegrammens

Related terms

Vilamovian

Noun

telegram n

telegram, wire

[1] Albany Evening Journal, 1852 April 6: “A friend desires us to […] introduce a new word into the vocabulary. It is telegram, instead of telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic communication.”

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