טלפון

Etymology
, from and cognates in other languages.

Noun

 * 1) A phone, telephone.
 * : a phone call.
 * : a phone number.

Usage notes

 * There is some disagreement about the appropriate niqqud (diacritics) to use for the sounds. The Hebrew Academy, in its examples of loanword niqqud, uses the tzeirei: טֵלֵפוֹן&lrm;,  as does Reuven Sivan and Edward A. Levenston, The New Bantam-Megiddo Hebrew &amp; English Dictionary, Bantam Books (1975), ISBN 0-553-26387-0. However, Shimon Zilberman, The Up-to-Date English-Hebrew Hebrew-English Dictionary, Zilberman (1994), uses the segol: טֶלֶפוֹן.