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English
Etymology
From voice + mail, genericized trademark.
Pronunciation
Noun
voicemail (countable and uncountable, plural voicemails)
- (uncountable) A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.
- Synonym: voice mailbox
- (countable, by extension) An individual message on such a system.
- Synonym: voice message
Derived terms
Translations
system
- Arabic: بَرِيد صَوْتِيّ m (barīd ṣawtiyy)
- Armenian: ձայնային փոստ (jaynayin pʻost)
- Belarusian: галасава́я по́шта f (halasavája póšta), аўтаадка́зчык m (aŭtaadkázčyk)
- Bulgarian: гла́сова по́ща f (glásova póšta), телефо́нен секрета́р m (telefónen sekretár)
- Catalan: bústia de veu f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 語音信箱 / 语音信箱 (zh) (yǔyīn xìnxiāng), 話音郵件 / 话音邮件 (huàyīn yóujiàn)
- Czech: hlasová schránka f
- Dutch: voicemail (nl) m or f
- Estonian: kõnepost
- Finnish: puheposti
- French: boîte vocale (fr) f, messagerie vocale (fr) f, répondeur (fr) m
- German: Voicemail f, Anrufbeantworter (de) m
- Greek: φωνητικό ταχυδρομείο n (fonitikó tachydromeío)
- Hindi: ध्वनि मेल f (dhvani mel), आवाज़ मेल f (āvāz mel)
- Hungarian: hangposta (hu)
- Irish: glórphost m
- Italian: voicemail m, messaggeria vocale f
- Japanese: ボイスメール (boisu mēru), ヴォイスメール (voisu mēru), 留守番電話 (ja) (るすばんでんわ, rusuban denwa), 留守電 (ja) (るすでん, rusuden)
- Korean: 음성 사서함(音聲私書函) (eumseong saseoham)
- Macedonian: говорна пошта f (govorna pošta)
- Malay: mel suara
- Persian: پست صوتی (fa) (post-e sowti)
- Polish: poczta głosowa (pl) f
- Portuguese: correio de voz m, voice mail m
- Romanian: voicemail n, mesagerie vocală f
- Russian: голосова́я по́чта (ru) f (golosovája póčta), автоотве́тчик (ru) m (avtootvétčik), войс-ме́йл m (vojs-mɛ́jl), во́йс-мейл m (vójs-mɛjl)
- Slovak: hlasová schránka f
- Spanish: buzón de voz m
- Swedish: röstbrevlåda (sv) c
- Tajik: почтаи овозӣ (počta-yi ovozi)
- Thai: จดหมายเสียง (jòt-mǎai-sǐiang)
- Ukrainian: голосова́ по́шта f (holosová póšta), автовідповіда́ч m (avtovidpovidáč)
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Verb
voicemail (third-person singular simple present voicemails, present participle voicemailing, simple past and past participle voicemailed)
- To leave a message on voicemail.
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