telephone

Etymology
First used by in 1876 to refer to the modern instrument, but previous devices had been given this name, which was borrowed from. Ultimately from +.

Noun

 * 1)  A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to ).
 * 2)  The receiver of such a device.
 * 3)  The game of Chinese whispers.
 * 4)  Chinese whispers; a situation in which an initial message has been distorted and misunderstood by being passed from person to person.
 * 1)  The game of Chinese whispers.
 * 2)  Chinese whispers; a situation in which an initial message has been distorted and misunderstood by being passed from person to person.
 * 1)  Chinese whispers; a situation in which an initial message has been distorted and misunderstood by being passed from person to person.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: ателефон
 * Afrikaans:
 * Alabama: maanaaɬihilka, masnaaɬiilka, naaɬiikapalki
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ስልክ, ቴሌፎን
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: تليفون
 * Hijazi Arabic: تِلِفون
 * Moroccan Arabic: تلفون, تليفون
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: টেলিফোন
 * Assiniboine: masʾápabi
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܘܼܛܵܡܲܠܵܠܵܐ, ܬܸܠܸܦ̮ܘܿܢ
 * Asturian:
 * Atayal: renwa'
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Abjad: تلفون
 * Roman:
 * Bashkir: телефон
 * Basque: telefono
 * Belarusian: тэлефо́н
 * Bengali:, ,
 * Bouyei: dianqhuaq
 * Breton:
 * Brunei Malay: talipun
 * Bulgarian: телефо́н
 * Burmese:, ,
 * Buryat: телефон
 * Carpathian Rusyn: телефо́н
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: telepono
 * Central Dusun: telefon
 * Chechen: телефон
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎾᎦᎵᏍᎩ ᎠᏏᎳᏛ, ᏗᎵᏃᎮᏗ
 * Cheyenne: aseéestsestôtse
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 電話
 * Dungan: дянхуа, телефон
 * Eastern Min: 電話
 * Hakka: 電話
 * Hokkien:
 * Jin: 電話
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 電話
 * Chukchi: вэтгавъёԓгын
 * Chuvash: телефон
 * Comox: sqʷay
 * Corsican: telefonu
 * Crimean Tatar: telefon
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, beltoestel
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: telefon
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: telefon
 * Fula:
 * Adlam: 𞤼𞤢𞤤𞤭𞤬𞤮𞤲
 * Roman: talifon
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ტელეფონი
 * German:, ,
 * Central Franconian: Fäänshpräscho
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: oqarasuaat
 * Guaraní: pumbyry
 * Gujarati: દૂરબોલ, ટેલિફોન, દૂરભાષ
 * Hawaiian: kelepona
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: दूरभाष, टेलीफ़ोन, फ़ोन, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: telefona
 * Inuktitut: uqaalaut
 * Irish: teileafón,, fón
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: утцн
 * Kannada: ,
 * Kapampangan: teleponu
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:, តេឡេហ្វូន
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ته‌له‌فۆن
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lakota: omás’apȟe
 * Lao:, ໂທຣະສັບ, ເຕເລໂຟນ
 * Latin: tēlephōnum, tēlephōnium
 * Latvian: telefons,
 * Lingala: ebengeli
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lü: ᦶᦎᧃᧈᦧᦱᧈ
 * Macedonian: телефо́н
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:, ദൂരശ്രാവി
 * Malecite-Passamaquoddy: mattoktihikon
 * Maltese: telefon, telefown
 * Manx: çhellvane
 * Maori: waea, whoounu, waeakōrero, terepōno, terewhōno
 * Marathi: टेलीफोन, फोन, दूरध्वनी
 * Minjungbal: gulgun biral
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, , дянхуа
 * Mongolian: ᠤᠲᠠᠰᠤ, ᠲ᠋ᠧᠯᠧᠹᠣᠨ, ᠳ᠋ᠢᠶᠠᠩᠬᠤᠸᠠ
 * Nahuatl: mekatlanonotski, huehcacaquiztli
 * Navajo: béésh bee haneʼé
 * Nepali: टेलिफोन
 * Norman: téléphône
 * Northern Sami: telefovdna
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: telefon
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: giigidowin
 * Oromo: bilbila
 * Ottoman Turkish: تلفون, دور شنید
 * Papiamentu: telefón
 * Pashto:
 * Pawnee: rarácawakataku
 * Pennsylvania German: Faernschwetzer
 * Persian:
 * Dari: تیلِفون, فون
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Pitcairn-Norfolk: foen
 * Plains Cree: ᓭᐁᐧᐱᒋᑲᐣ, ᐊᔭᒫᑲᐣ
 * Plautdietsch: Tellefoon
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਟੈਲੀਫ਼ੋਨ, ਫ਼ੋਨ
 * Quechua: karu rimay
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: telefon
 * Russian:
 * Samoan:
 * Sanskrit: दूरभाषा, दूरवाणी
 * Sardinian: telèfonu
 * Scots: telephone
 * Scottish Gaelic: fòn, cian-fhuaim
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: телѐфо̄н
 * Roman:
 * Shan: တႄႇလီႇၾူၼ်း
 * Shona: runhare
 * Sicilian:, , talèfunu
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese: බණුව, දුරකථනය
 * Slovak: telefón
 * Slovene:
 * Southern East Cree: ᑖᐦᑳᐱᐦᒉᓂᑲᓐ
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, ,
 * Tahitian: niuniu paraparau
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: телефон
 * Telugu:, టెలీఫోను, ఫోను
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཁ་པར, ཞལ་པར
 * Tigrinya: ተለፎን, ስልኪ
 * Tok Pisin: telipon
 * Turkish:, alısün
 * Turkmen: telefon
 * Ukrainian:
 * Unami: sëkahsën
 * Urdu: ٹیلی فون, ہاتِف, فون
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Venda: luṱingo
 * Vietnamese: (電話), dây nói,
 * Volapük: ,
 * Walloon:, tèlèfone
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Flemish: telefoeng, teelefoeng
 * West Frisian: telefoan, tillefoan
 * Xhosa: umnxeba
 * Yakut: телефон
 * Yami: dingwa
 * Yiddish: טעלעפֿאָן
 * Yup'ik: qanercuun
 * Yurok: 'o chweeegeen
 * Zhuang: denva
 * Zulu:

Verb

 * 1)  To (attempt to) contact someone using a telephone.
 * 2)  To convey (a message) via telephone.
 * 1)  To convey (a message) via telephone.
 * 1)  To convey (a message) via telephone.
 * 1)  To convey (a message) via telephone.

Synonyms

 * , drop a line, ,
 * See also Thesaurus:telephone

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: تَلْفَنَ (ل|لـِ li-)
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Azerbaijani: zəng etmək, zəng vurmaq
 * Belarusian: звані́ць, пазвані́ць; тэлефанава́ць, патэлефанава́ць
 * Bengali: টেলিফোন করা
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese: ဖုန်းဆက်
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Cherokee: ᎦᎸᏛᏂᎭ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: telefon etmek
 * Czech:, zatelefonovat, ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:, alvoki
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: soittaa (puhelimella)
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: დარეკვა
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: फ़ोन करना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, hringja í
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: телефон соғу, қоңырау шалу
 * Khmer: និយាយទូរសព្ទ
 * Korean: 전화를 걸다,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: шыңгыратуу
 * Lao: ຕີເຕເລໂຟນ
 * Latvian: telefonēt, zvanīt, piezvanīt
 * Lithuanian: telefonuoti, skambinti
 * Macedonian: телефони́ра, ѕвони, заѕвони
 * Malay: menelefon, memanggil
 * Maltese: ċempel
 * Maori: rīngi, waea
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Pashto: تېلېفون کول
 * Persian: دورواژیدن,, ,
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: telefonar
 * Russian:, позвони́ть по телефо́ну,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fòn
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: телефони́рати, назвати на телефон
 * Roman:, nazvati na telefon
 * Slovak: telefonovať, zatelefonovať, volať, zavolať
 * Slovene: telefonirati
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: piga simu
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: телефон кардан
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཁ་དཔར་གཏོང་བ
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: дзвони́ти, подзвони́ти,, зателефонува́ти
 * Urdu: فون کرنا, ملانا
 * Uyghur: تېلېفون بەرمەك
 * Uzbek: telefon qilmoq, qoʻngʻiroq qilmoq
 * Vietnamese: gọi điện thoại, gọi điện, kêu điện thoại, ,
 * Volapük:
 * Yiddish: טעלעפֿאָנירן