port

en-verb

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

ports (present singular third-person)
porting (participle present)
ported (participle past)
ported (past)

From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

If you submit a request to port a number, and you list the name on the account as Bob Smith, but your local carrier has the number listed under your wife's name Mary Mahoney, the porting request is rejected.

2011, Stephen P. Olejniczak, Telecom For Dummies, page 131:

(telephony, transitive) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one telephone service provider to another.


mobile

en-adj

mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)

more mobile (comparative)
most mobile (superlative)

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).

der

mobile number

mobile internet

A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.

matkapuhelin-

pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones


mobile

→ Japanese: モバイル (mobairu)

→ Kurtöp: མོ་བའིལ (mobail)

→ Persian: موبایل (mobâil)

Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run

2000, “Idioteque”, in Kid A, performed by Radiohead:

(telephony, UK, Ireland) Ellipsis of mobile phone.

there are many business opportunities in mobile

(uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.


mobile

Learned borrowing from Latin mōbilis. Doublet of meuble.

téléphone mobile
téléphone mobile#French

mobile phone; Ellipsis of téléphone mobile.


mobile phone

A portable telephone that connects with the telephone network over radio wave transmission.

行動電話 /行动电话

hàng-thung thien-fa, hàng-thûng thien-fa

GSM

note: often used for mobile phones that are not technically GSM


SMS

SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)


GSM

(mobile telephony) Initialism of Global System for Mobile communications.


leg

→ Finnish: legi

→ Hungarian: leg

From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).

piss on someone's leg and tell them it's raining

(telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.


teléfono

→ Bikol Central: telepono

→ Cebuano: telepono

→ Hiligaynon: telepono

→ Tagalog: telepono

→ Waray-Waray: telepono

telephone number (the sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network)


met

met (prepositional)
mee (adverb postpositional)
ermee
hiermee
daarmee
waarmee
ergens mee
nergens mee
overal mee

Berbice Creole Dutch: mete

Jersey Dutch: met, mät

Negerhollands: met, mi, mit, mee

Skepi Creole Dutch: met

From Middle Dutch met, from Old Dutch mit, variant of *midi (from which mee, mede), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

Met Jan de Vries.
Hello, this is Jan de Vries.

(telephony) Used to answer a telephone call, followed by one's name, shortened from "u spreekt met..."


machine

→ Ainu: マシン

→ Bengali: মেশিন (meśin)

→ Cowlitz: məšín

→ Hindustani: मशीन (maśīn) / مشین (maśīn)

→ Irish: meaisín

→ Japanese: マシン (mashin)

→ Korean: 머신 (meosin)

→ Maori: mīhini

→ Punjabi

Gurmukhi script: ਮਸ਼ੀਨ (maśīn)

Shahmukhi script: مشین (maśīn)

→ Swahili: mashine

→ Tok Pisin: masin

Borrowed from Middle French machine, from Latin māchina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́), cognate with Attic Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ, “a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from which comes mechanical. Displaced native Old English searu.

cog

perpetual motion machine of the first kind

perpetual motion machine of the second kind

Outline of machines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.

(telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.


cell

Ellipsis of cell phone, itself a clipping of cellular phone, from cellular + phone.

(US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.

selfoon

informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone


cell

Clipping of cellulaire; influenced by North American English cell

téléphone cellulaire
téléphone cellulaire#French

(Quebec, colloquial) cellular phone, mobile phone; clipping of téléphone cellulaire.


入

Ideogram (指事) - an arrowhead indicating "to enter".
Compare 人 (rén).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nup ~ nip. Cognate with Tibetan ནུབ (nub, “to fall (gradually), sink, to set; to decay, to decline”) and Burmese နိပ် (nip, “to decline (e.g. price); to be suppressed, to settle, to be quelled”).
Chinese characters belonging to the same word family include:
* 納 (OC *nuːb, “to make enter”)
* 內 (OC *nuːbs, “inside”)
* 軜 (OC *nuːb, “reins on the inside of the horse”)
* 妠 (OC *nuːms, *nuːb, *rnoːd, “to marry (a girl)”)
* 躡 (OC *neb, “to tiptoe, tread”)
* 攝 (OC *neːb, *ʔnjeb, “to take in, photograph, grasp”)
* 鑷 (OC *neb, “tweezers, forceps”)
* and potentially Cantonese 擸 (laap3, “to bring together, to collect”)
The regular Mandarin pronunciation as predicted from Middle Chinese is rì. The irregular sound change is for taboo reasons - to avoid homophony with its derived vulgar meaning "to enter > to have sexual intercourse", nowadays represented by 日 (rì).


on hold

I have been on hold for 45 minutes listening to a recording about how important my call is to them.


NSA

(mobile telephony) Initialism of non-standalone architecture.


通

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l̥ʰoːŋ): semantic 辶 + phonetic 甬 (OC *loŋʔ).

Han compound

I tried to call several times but couldn't get through.

ngo⁵ daa² zo² gei² ci³ dou¹ daa² m⁴ tung¹.

我打咗幾次都打唔通。

我打咗几次都打唔通。

to pass through; to travel through; to go through; or, to allow passage


mobil

mobilen (definite singular)
mobiler (indefinite plural)
mobilene (definite plural)

Han sitter på mobilen hele tida.

cell phone, mobile (short for mobile phone)


mobil

mobilen (definite singular)
mobilar (indefinite plural)
mobilane (definite plural)


country code

A short alphabetic or numeric geographical code representing a specific country or area.


tu

Tu Janek!

(colloquial, telephony) used by the speaker to introduce themselves on the telephone; speaking


telephone

en-noun

telephone (countable and uncountable, plural telephones)

First used by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 to refer to the modern instrument, but previous devices had been given this name, which was borrowed from French téléphone. Ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”).

ателефон

a device used for two-way talking with other people

talk to Ralph on the big white telephone

(countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).


spim

spim (usually uncountable, plural spims)

(telephony) Unsolicited messages sent to cellular phones.


rubber

en-verb

rubber (third-person singular simple present rubbers, present participle rubbering, simple past and past participle rubbered)

rubbers (present singular third-person)
rubbering (participle present)
rubbered (participle past)
rubbered (past)

"There's a lot of nostalgia about the phone and how it was the way to get the local news," said Jane Beck of the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. One way was "rubbering," or listening in on a neighbor's conversations ...

1999, Los Angeles Times, "Party's Over for Rural Phone Customers in Green Mountain State," (Jan. 31, 1999)

(telephony) To eavesdrop on a telephone call


cellular phone

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cellular phone.wav

A mobile phone using cellular technology.

(informal) A mobile phone using any technology (such as PCS).


Based on the telephone number used in North America to obtain telephone numbers of listed subscribers.

(Canada, US, telephony) The telephonic information service.


exchange

en-noun

exchange (countable and uncountable, plural exchanges)

From Middle English eschaunge, borrowed from Anglo-Norman eschaunge, from Old French eschange (whence modern French échange), from the verb eschanger, from Vulgar Latin *excambiāre (from Latin ex with Late Latin cambiō). Spelling later changed on the basis of ex- in English. By surface analysis, ex- + change.

The 555 exchange is reserved for use by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films.

NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange.

(telephony, US) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).


電話

→ Bouyei: dianqhuaq

desc

→ Lü: ᦶᦎᧃᧈᦧᦱᧈ (ṫaen¹ẋwaa¹)

→ Lü: ᦶᦎᧃᧈᦧᦱᧈ (ṫaen¹ẋwaa¹)

→ Zhuang: denva

/ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ä⁵¹/

/ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ɑɻ⁵¹/

/tiːn²² waː²²⁻³⁵/

/en³² va³²⁻³²⁵/

/tʰiɛn⁵³⁻⁵⁵ fa⁵³/

/tieŋ²⁴²⁻⁵³ ^((Ø-))ŋuɑ²⁴²/

/tiɛn³³⁻¹¹ ue³³/

/tiɛn³³⁻²¹ ue³³/

/tiɛn⁴¹⁻²² ue⁴¹/

/tiɛn²²⁻²¹ ue²²/

/tiɛn²²⁻²¹ ua²²/

/tiaŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ ue¹¹/

/tieŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ ue¹¹/

/ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ä⁵¹/

/ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ɑɻ⁵¹/

/tiːn²² waː²²⁻³⁵/

/en³² va³²⁻³²⁵/

/tʰiɛn⁵³⁻⁵⁵ fa⁵³/

/tieŋ²⁴²⁻⁵³ ^((Ø-))ŋuɑ²⁴²/

/tiɛn³³⁻¹¹ ue³³/

/tiɛn³³⁻²¹ ue³³/

/tiɛn⁴¹⁻²² ue⁴¹/

/tiɛn²²⁻²¹ ue²²/

/tiɛn²²⁻²¹ ua²²/

/tiaŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ ue¹¹/

/tieŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ ue¹¹/

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 電(でん)話(わ) (denwa) (Liu et al., 1984; Huang, 2020), first attested in 《遊歷日本圖經》 by Fu Yunlong in 1889 (Huang, 2020).

wasei kango

電話民調

电话民调

車載電話

车载电话

來電話了。

来电话了。

電話佔線。

电话占线。

你不在的時候，電話響了。

你不在的时候，电话响了。

Could you please connect me to the secretary's office?

Máfan nín bāng wǒ jiētōng shūjì bàngōngshì de diànhuà, hǎo ma?

麻煩您幫我接通書記辦公室的電話，好嗎？

麻烦您帮我接通书记办公室的电话，好吗？

公共電話

公共电话

(countable) telephone; phone (Classifier: 部 m c)

接通電話

接通电话

騷擾電話

骚扰电话

電話接通了。

电话接通了。

我給你打電話。

我给你打电话。

打個電話俾佢

打个电话俾佢

(countable) telephone call; phone call; call (Classifier: 通 m mn; 個／个 m c)

你的電話是多少？

你的电话是多少？

(colloquial) telephone number; phone number; number


電話

→ Amis: tingwa, dingwa

→ Atayal: renwa'

→ Bunun: ding-ua, zing-ua

→ Chinese: 電話 /电话 (diànhuà)

→ Kavalan: dingwa

→ Korean: 전화 (jeonhwa)

→ Okinawan: 電話 (でぃんわ, dinwa)

→ Paiwan: dingwa

→ Pingelapese: dengiwa

→ Pohnpeian: dengwa

→ Puyuma: dingwa

→ Rukai: dingwa, dinva

→ Taroko: dengwa

→ Tsou: tenva

→ Vietnamese: điện thoại

→ Yami: dingwa

Wasei kango, from 電 (den, “electric”) + 話 (wa, “conversation”). See also 話す (hanasu).

携帯電話: a cellular [mobile] phone

携帯電話 けいたいでんわ

衛星電話

衛星電話 えいせいでんわ

公衆電話

公衆電話 こうしゅうでんわ

脅迫電話

脅迫電話 きょうはくでんわ

国際電信電話

国際電信電話 こくさいでんしんでんわ

国際電話: international phone

国際電話 こくさいでんわ

自動車電話

自動車電話 じどうしゃでんわ

卓上電話

卓上電話 たくじょうでんわ

長距離電話

長距離電話 ちょうきょりでんわ

直通電話

直通電話 ちょくつうでんわ

通常加入電話

通常加入電話 つうじょうかにゅうでんわ

転送電話

転送電話 てんそうでんわ

内線電話

内線電話 ないせんでんわ

留守番電話

留守番電話 るすばんでんわ

電話会社

電話会社 でんわがいしゃ

電話回線

電話回線 でんわかいせん

電話交換局

電話交換局 でんわこうかんきょく

電話交換手

電話交換手 でんわこうかんしゅ

電話交換台

電話交換台 でんわこうかんだい

電話世論調査

電話世論調査 でんわせろんちょうさ

電話調査

電話調査 でんわちょうさ

電話番号

電話番号 でんわばんごう

電話加入者

電話加入者 でんわかにゅうしゃ

悪戯電話

悪戯電話 いたずらでんわ

共同電話

共同電話 きょうどうでんわ

電話を掛ける

電話が掛かって来る

電話を切る


a-lô

[ʔaː˧˧ lo˧˧]

[ʔaː˧˧ low˧˧]

[ʔaː˧˧ low˧˧]

Peter. Phước yêu… Alô? Alô, anh còn đó không?

2012, Joe Ruelle, “Chuyện Linh và Lucy [Linh or Lucy?]”, in Ngược chiều vun vút [Whooshing toward the Other Way]:

Peter. Phước dear… Hello? Hello, you're still there?

(telephony) hello (when answering the telephone)


duplex

(telephony) telephone or telephone user on a party line


data

→ Turkish: data

Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give”). Doublet of date.

run out of data

(mobile telephony) Ellipsis of mobile data: digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi.


data

head

data m (definite singular dataen, indefinite plural data or dataar or dataer, definite plural dataane or dataene)

dataen (definite singular)
data (indefinite plural)
dataar (indefinite plural)
dataer (indefinite plural)
dataane (definite plural)
dataene (definite plural)

(collective, uncountable, mobile telephony) short for mobildata (“mobile data”)


allô

→ Hijazi Arabic: ألو

→ Persian: الو (alo)

→ Romanian: alo

→ Russian: алло́ (alló)

→ Spanish: aló

→ Turkish: alo

→ Vietnamese: a-lô

(telephony) hello (when answering at the beginning of a call)

Allô? Tu m’entends?

(telephony) used to confirm that the person being addressed is listening, or to confirm if anyone is listening


facsimile

en-noun

facsimile (countable and uncountable, plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

→ Japanese: ファクシミリ

From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).

To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?

1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in James Matheson Thompson, editor, Twentieth Century Theories of Art, published 1990, § VIII, 540:

A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.


facsimile

en-verb

facsimile (third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing or facsimiling, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied)

facsimiles (present singular third-person)
facsimileing (participle present)
facsimiling (participle present)
facsimiled (participle past)
facsimiled (past)
facsimilied (participle past)
facsimilied (past)

(transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.


もしもし

A reduplication of もし (moshi), a shortened form of 申し (mōshi), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of humble verb 申す (mōsu, “to say, to speak”).

もしもし。こちらは、山田エージェンシーです。ご用件は？

Moshi moshi. Kochira wa, Yamada ējenshī desu. Go-yōken wa?

(on the phone) Hello. This is Yamada Agency. May I help you?

(telephony) a common Japanese telephone greeting: hello; used when answering the telephone


fax

fax (third-person singular simple present faxes or (rare) faxxes, present participle faxing or (rare) faxxing, simple past and past participle faxed or (rare) faxxed)

faxes (present singular third-person)
faxxes (present rare singular third-person)
faxing (participle present)
faxxing (participle present rare)
faxed (participle past)
faxed (past)
faxxed (participle past rare)
faxxed (past rare)

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, I faxxed my credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place.

1990, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, page 82:

Plaintiff contented that in a game show in London, England, in January of 1988, Mr. Steinberg entered into an oral agreement with Atari representatives to become the exclusive distributor of Atari Games’ products; that the proposed agreement was dictated at this meeting; and that within two days Mr. Steinberg sent defendant a faxxed confirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.

1991, Jury Verdicts Weekly, volume 35, page 10:

SENATOR BAUCUS, IT IS THE THIRD STATEMENT, YOUR CHALLENGE, THAT HAS LED TO THE MOST FRUSTRATION FOR THE PEOPLE I AM REPRESENTING TODAY. WE TOOK YOU AT YOUR WORD AND HAVE RALLIED AND CONVOYED TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF US, TELEPHONED, WRITTEN LETTERS, FAXXED YOU, AND SPOKE WITH YOU PERSONALLY TO LET YOU KNOW HOW WE FEEL.

1992, Montana National Forest Management Act of 1991: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session on S. 1696; October 22, 1991, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, pages 140–141:

A few of the corporations involved have frankly acknowledged the roadblock: their own fear of the POW/MIA movement. Some companies scheduled for a trade mission to Vietnam dropped out after receiving a faxxed message from the National P.O.W. Strike Force summed up by its leader: “We will go out of our way to destroy your company because you want to do business with filthy Communists who are holding American prisoners.”

1993, H. Bruce Franklin, M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America, revised and expanded paperback edition, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 194:

Thanks to Franz Amador and Tony Barrett for helpful discussions. We gratefully acknowledge Oren Etzioni’s emergency faxxing service. This research was funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant IRI-8957302, Office of Naval Research Grant 90-J-1904, and a grant from the Xerox corporation.

1993, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 737, column 1:

His logistic: to dress in the skin of the worker, / the technician, the programmer, / infiltrating himself in their milieu, / their offices, their plants, & their boards, / a bug in their systems, / crossing up the controls and the panels, / the wiring, the wave lengths, / the faxxing of messages, the spy-satellites / & their receptors, / changing their conceptions, their charts.

1994, Olga Elena Mattei, “Part One: Poetry [§] The Angel of the Millennium (Accident at the Nuclear Plant)”, in Roberta Fernández, editor, In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 139:

He already has the copy of the other fingerprints that Leo faxxed to him for comparison.

1995, Lucha Corpi, Cactus Blood: A Mystery Novel, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 151:

On May 12, 1995, Julie Hirshen (GAO) faxxed a draft portion of the GAO Cooperative Threat Reduction report dealing with MPCA.

1995 May 17, Ken Luongo, “Comments on GAO Report on CTR Program Concerning MPCA (note to Ken Sanders)”, in Weapons of Mass Destruction: Reducing the Threat From the Former Soviet Union: An Update (United States General Accounting Office, Report to Congressional Requesters), published June 1995, “Background”, page 76:

[162] / Faxxing from Israel / 03-695-0132 / [163] / Calling from abroad / 972-3-695-6868 / Faxxing from abroad / 972-3-695-0132

1996, Middle East Peace Process: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session; September 20, 1995, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, page 25:

Please advise how one faxxes from the Pilot Pro. Faxxing would greatly enhance my use of the Pilot. / Thanks!

1997 May 18, Mike Story, “Confirmed....Pilot Modem Has FAX capability!!”, in alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (Usenet):

Please have Georgia Dixon of Sen Craig’s office have a current copy of the Canadian Endangered Species list faxxed to her from Ottawa, Canada.

1999, Appendix E: Response to Public Comments: Final Environmental Impact Statement For Open Road and Open Motorized Trail Analysis (Motorized Road and Trail Travel Plan):


fax

fax (nominative singular)
faksy (nominative plural)
faksu (genitive singular)
faksów (genitive plural)
faksowi (dative singular)
faksom (dative plural)
fax (accusative singular)
faksy (accusative plural)
faksem (instrumental singular)
faksami (instrumental plural)
faksie (locative singular)
faksach (locative plural)
faksie (singular vocative)
faksy (plural vocative)

(telephony) Alternative spelling of faks


telefon

sq-noun

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

telefona (plural)
telefoni (definite)
telefonat (definite plural)
telefon (indefinite nominative singular)
telefoni (definite nominative singular)
telefona (indefinite nominative plural)
telefonat (definite nominative plural)
telefon (accusative indefinite singular)
telefonin (accusative definite singular)
telefona (accusative indefinite plural)
telefonat (accusative definite plural)
telefoni (dative indefinite singular)
telefonit (dative definite singular)
telefonave (dative indefinite plural)
telefonave (dative definite plural)
telefoni (ablative indefinite singular)
telefonit (ablative definite singular)
telefonash (ablative indefinite plural)
telefonave (ablative definite plural)

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


telefon

az-noun

telefon (definite accusative telefonu, plural telefonlar)

telefonu (accusative definite)
telefonlar (plural)
telefon (nominative singular)
telefonlar (nominative plural)
telefonu (accusative definite singular)
telefonları (accusative definite plural)
telefona (dative singular)
telefonlara (dative plural)
telefonda (locative singular)
telefonlarda (locative plural)
telefondan (ablative singular)
telefonlardan (ablative plural)
telefonun (definite genitive singular)
telefonların (definite genitive plural)
telefonum (first-person nominative possessive singular)
telefonlarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
telefonun (nominative possessive second-person singular)
telefonların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
telefonu (nominative possessive singular third-person)
telefonları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
telefonumuz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
telefonlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
telefonunuz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
telefonlarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
telefonu (nominative plural possessive third-person)
telefonları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
telefonumu (accusative first-person possessive singular)
telefonlarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
telefonunu (accusative possessive second-person singular)
telefonlarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
telefonunu (accusative possessive singular third-person)
telefonlarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
telefonumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessive)
telefonlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
telefonunuzu (accusative plural possessive second-person)
telefonlarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
telefonunu (accusative plural possessive third-person)
telefonlarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
telefonuma (dative first-person possessive singular)
telefonlarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
telefonuna (dative possessive second-person singular)
telefonlarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
telefonuna (dative possessive singular third-person)
telefonlarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
telefonumuza (dative first-person plural possessive)
telefonlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
telefonunuza (dative plural possessive second-person)
telefonlarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
telefonuna (dative plural possessive third-person)
telefonlarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
telefonumda (first-person locative possessive singular)
telefonlarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
telefonunda (locative possessive second-person singular)
telefonlarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
telefonunda (locative possessive singular third-person)
telefonlarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
telefonumuzda (first-person locative plural possessive)
telefonlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
telefonunuzda (locative plural possessive second-person)
telefonlarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
telefonunda (locative plural possessive third-person)
telefonlarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
telefonumdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
telefonlarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
telefonundan (ablative possessive second-person singular)
telefonlarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
telefonundan (ablative possessive singular third-person)
telefonlarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
telefonumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
telefonlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
telefonunuzdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
telefonlarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
telefonundan (ablative plural possessive third-person)
telefonlarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
telefonumun (first-person genitive possessive singular)
telefonlarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
telefonunun (genitive possessive second-person singular)
telefonlarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
telefonunun (genitive possessive singular third-person)
telefonlarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
telefonumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessive)
telefonlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
telefonunuzun (genitive plural possessive second-person)
telefonlarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
telefonunun (genitive plural possessive third-person)
telefonlarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)

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

telefon nömrəsi

cib telefonu

mobile phone (literally, “pocket phone”)

telefon vasitəsi ilə ödəmək

telefon vasitəsi ilə əlaqə saxlamaq

telefon yükləyicisi


telefon

telefon (nominative singular)
telefonlar (nominative plural)
telefonnıñ (genitive singular)
telefonlarnıñ (genitive plural)
telefonğa (dative singular)
telefonlarğa (dative plural)
telefonnı (accusative singular)
telefonlarnı (accusative plural)
telefonda (locative singular)
telefonlarda (locative plural)
telefondan (ablative singular)
telefonlardan (ablative plural)


telefon

telefon (nominative singular)
telefony (nominative plural)
telefonu (genitive singular)
telefonů (genitive plural)
telefonu (dative singular)
telefonům (dative plural)
telefon (accusative singular)
telefony (accusative plural)
telefone (singular vocative)
telefony (plural vocative)
telefonu (locative singular)
telefonech (locative plural)
telefonem (instrumental singular)
telefony (instrumental plural)

po telefonu

mobilní telefon

Můžu použít tvůj telefon?


telefon

head

telefon c (singular definite telefonen, plural indefinite telefoner)

telefonen (definite singular)
telefoner (indefinite plural)
telefon (indefinite nominative singular)
telefonen (definite nominative singular)
telefoner (indefinite nominative plural)
telefonerne (definite nominative plural)
telefons (genitive indefinite singular)
telefonens (definite genitive singular)
telefoners (genitive indefinite plural)
telefonernes (definite genitive plural)

phone number, telephone number (digits assigned to a telephone), abbreviated tlf.


telefon

telefon (genitive telefoni, partitive telefoni)

telefoni (genitive)
telefoni (partitive)
telefon (nominative singular)
telefonid (nominative plural)
telefon (accusative nominative singular)
telefonid (accusative nominative plural)
telefoni (accusative genitive singular)
telefonid (accusative genitive plural)
telefoni (genitive singular)
telefonide (genitive plural)
telefoni (partitive singular)
telefone (partitive plural)
telefonisid (partitive plural)
telefoni (illative singular)
telefonisse (illative singular)
telefonidesse (illative plural)
telefonesse (illative plural)
telefonis (inessive singular)
telefonides (inessive plural)
telefones (inessive plural)
telefonist (elative singular)
telefonidest (elative plural)
telefonest (elative plural)
telefonile (allative singular)
telefonidele (allative plural)
telefonele (allative plural)
telefonil (adessive singular)
telefonidel (adessive plural)
telefonel (adessive plural)
telefonilt (ablative singular)
telefonidelt (ablative plural)
telefonelt (ablative plural)
telefoniks (singular translative)
telefonideks (plural translative)
telefoneks (plural translative)
telefonini (singular terminative)
telefonideni (plural terminative)
telefonina (essive singular)
telefonidena (essive plural)
telefonita (abessive singular)
telefonideta (abessive plural)
telefoniga (comitative singular)
telefonidega (comitative plural)

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


telefon

fo-noun

telefon f (genitive singular telefonar, plural telefonir)

telefonar (genitive singular)
telefonir (plural)
telefon (indefinite nominative singular)
telefonin (definite nominative singular)
telefonir (indefinite nominative plural)
telefonirnar (definite nominative plural)
telefon (accusative indefinite singular)
telefonina (accusative definite singular)
telefonir (accusative indefinite plural)
telefonirnar (accusative definite plural)
telefon (dative indefinite singular)
telefonini (dative definite singular)
telefonum (dative indefinite plural)
telefonunum (dative definite plural)
telefonar (genitive indefinite singular)
telefonarinnar (definite genitive singular)
telefona (genitive indefinite plural)
telefonanna (definite genitive plural)

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


telefon

telefonok (plural)
telefon (nominative singular)
telefonok (nominative plural)
telefont (accusative singular)
telefonokat (accusative plural)
telefonnak (dative singular)
telefonoknak (dative plural)
telefonnal (instrumental singular)
telefonokkal (instrumental plural)
telefonért (causal-final singular)
telefonokért (causal-final plural)
telefonná (singular translative)
telefonokká (plural translative)
telefonig (singular terminative)
telefonokig (plural terminative)
telefonként (essive-formal singular)
telefonokként (essive-formal plural)
telefonban (inessive singular)
telefonokban (inessive plural)
telefonon (singular superessive)
telefonokon (plural superessive)
telefonnál (adessive singular)
telefonoknál (adessive plural)
telefonba (illative singular)
telefonokba (illative plural)
telefonra (singular sublative)
telefonokra (plural sublative)
telefonhoz (allative singular)
telefonokhoz (allative plural)
telefonból (elative singular)
telefonokból (elative plural)
telefonról (delative singular)
telefonokról (delative plural)
telefontól (ablative singular)
telefonoktól (ablative plural)
telefoné (singular)
telefonoké (plural)
telefonéi (singular)
telefonokéi (plural)
telefonom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
telefonjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
telefonod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
telefonjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
telefonja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
telefonjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
telefonunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
telefonjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
telefonotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
telefonjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
telefonjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
telefonjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


telefon

Borrowed from Russian телефо́н (telefón).


telefon

تيليفون (Jawi)

From English telephone or Dutch telefoon, by surface analysis, tele- + -fon.


telefon

telefonen (definite singular)
telefoner (indefinite plural)
telefonene (definite plural)


telefon

telefonen (definite singular)
telefonar (indefinite plural)
telefonane (definite plural)


telefon

pl-noun

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

telefoniczny (adjective)
tel. (abbreviation)
telefon (nominative singular)
telefony (nominative plural)
telefonu (genitive singular)
telefonów (genitive plural)
telefonowi (dative singular)
telefonom (dative plural)
telefon (accusative singular)
telefony (accusative plural)
telefonem (instrumental singular)
telefonami (instrumental plural)
telefonie (locative singular)
telefonach (locative plural)
telefonie (singular vocative)
telefony (plural vocative)

Internationalism. By surface analysis, tele- + -fon. First attested in 1829. Compare Kashubian telefón and Silesian telefōn.

ref

Saint-Clair, czyli Wygnańcy na wyspie Barra : romans historyczny (in Polish), volume 4, 1829, page 9

telephone call (connection established over a telephone network between two parties)

telephone number (sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network)


telefon

telefoane (plural)
telefon (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
telefonul (accusative definite nominative singular)
telefoane (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
telefoanele (accusative definite nominative plural)
telefon (indefinite singular)
telefonului (definite singular)
telefoane (indefinite singular)
telefoanelor (definite plural)
telefonule (singular vocative)
telefoanelor (vocative)

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


telefon

telèfōn (canonical masculine)
телѐфо̄н (Cyrillic)
telefon (nominative singular)
telefoni (nominative plural)
telefona (genitive singular)
telefona (genitive plural)
telefonu (dative singular)
telefonima (dative plural)
telefon (accusative singular)
telefone (accusative plural)
telefone (singular vocative)
telefoni (plural vocative)
telefonu (locative singular)
telefonima (locative plural)
telefonom (instrumental singular)
telefonima (instrumental plural)


telefon

telefon (indefinite nominative singular)
telefons (genitive indefinite singular)
telefonen (definite nominative singular)
telefonens (definite genitive singular)
telefoner (indefinite nominative plural)
telefoners (genitive indefinite plural)
telefonerna (definite nominative plural)
telefonernas (definite genitive plural)

kontakta någon per telefon

prata/sitta/stå/etc. i telefon

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

1986, Michael B. Tretow (lyrics and music), “Telefånen [The telefool [blend of telefonen (“the telephone”) and fånen (“the (silly) fool”)]”, in Makalösa manickar [more commonly "manicker"] [Incredible contraptions]:

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

phone, telephone (as a communication medium)


telefon

telefonu (accusative definite)
telefonlar (plural)
telefon (nominative singular)
telefonlar (nominative plural)
telefonu (accusative definite singular)
telefonları (accusative definite plural)
telefona (dative singular)
telefonlara (dative plural)
telefonda (locative singular)
telefonlarda (locative plural)
telefondan (ablative singular)
telefonlardan (ablative plural)
telefonun (genitive singular)
telefonların (genitive plural)
telefonum (first-person nominative singular)
telefonlarım (first-person nominative singular)
telefonun (nominative second-person singular)
telefonların (nominative second-person singular)
telefonu (nominative singular third-person)
telefonları (nominative singular third-person)
telefonumuz (first-person nominative plural)
telefonlarımız (first-person nominative plural)
telefonunuz (nominative plural second-person)
telefonlarınız (nominative plural second-person)
telefonları (nominative plural third-person)
telefonumu (accusative definite first-person singular)
telefonlarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
telefonunu (accusative definite second-person singular)
telefonlarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
telefonunu (accusative definite singular third-person)
telefonlarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
telefonumuzu (accusative definite first-person plural)
telefonlarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
telefonunuzu (accusative definite plural second-person)
telefonlarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
telefonlarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
telefonuma (dative first-person singular)
telefonlarıma (dative first-person singular)
telefonuna (dative second-person singular)
telefonlarına (dative second-person singular)
telefonuna (dative singular third-person)
telefonlarına (dative singular third-person)
telefonumuza (dative first-person plural)
telefonlarımıza (dative first-person plural)
telefonunuza (dative plural second-person)
telefonlarınıza (dative plural second-person)
telefonlarına (dative plural third-person)
telefonumda (first-person locative singular)
telefonlarımda (first-person locative singular)
telefonunda (locative second-person singular)
telefonlarında (locative second-person singular)
telefonunda (locative singular third-person)
telefonlarında (locative singular third-person)
telefonumuzda (first-person locative plural)
telefonlarımızda (first-person locative plural)
telefonunuzda (locative plural second-person)
telefonlarınızda (locative plural second-person)
telefonlarında (locative plural third-person)
telefonumdan (ablative first-person singular)
telefonlarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
telefonundan (ablative second-person singular)
telefonlarından (ablative second-person singular)
telefonundan (ablative singular third-person)
telefonlarından (ablative singular third-person)
telefonumuzdan (ablative first-person plural)
telefonlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
telefonunuzdan (ablative plural second-person)
telefonlarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
telefonlarından (ablative plural third-person)
telefonumun (first-person genitive singular)
telefonlarımın (first-person genitive singular)
telefonunun (genitive second-person singular)
telefonlarının (genitive second-person singular)
telefonunun (genitive singular third-person)
telefonlarının (genitive singular third-person)
telefonumuzun (first-person genitive plural)
telefonlarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
telefonunuzun (genitive plural second-person)
telefonlarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
telefonlarının (genitive plural third-person)

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


telefon

head

telefon (definite accusative telefony, plural telefonlar)

telefony (accusative definite)
telefonlar (plural)
telefon (nominative singular)
telefonlar (nominative plural)
telefony (accusative singular)
telefonlary (accusative plural)
telefonuň (genitive singular)
telefonlaryň (genitive plural)
telefona (dative singular)
telefonlara (dative plural)
telefonda (locative singular)
telefonlarda (locative plural)
telefondan (ablative singular)
telefonlardan (ablative plural)


pronto

(telephony) hello (when answering the phone)


pronto

(telephony) hello (greeting when picking up the phone)


telephone number

en-noun

telephone number (plural telephone numbers)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-telephone number.wav

The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network.


phone number

telephone number
telephone number#English

(informal) Clipping of telephone number.


tot

tot (prepositional)
toe (adverb postpositional)
ertoe
hiertoe
daartoe
waartoe
ergens toe
nergens toe
overal toe

Afrikaans: tot

Berbice Creole Dutch: tutu

Jersey Dutch: tut, tût

Negerhollands: tot, tee

From Middle Dutch tot, tōte, from Old Dutch tote, toti (“to, until”), equivalent to toe + te. Compare Old Saxon tōte (“to, until”), Old Frisian tot (“until”), Old High German zuo ze.

Gaat een telefoon over ergens in Paramaribo. "Ja, halloo tot Rabin."

2020 August 25, Gerold Rozenblad, “Tafra drai [The table has turned]”, in De Ware Tijd, retrieved 2021-07-14:

A phone rings somewhere in Paramaribo. "Yes, hello. This is Rabin."

(telephony, Suriname) Used to answer a telephone call, followed by one's name, shortened from "u spreekt tot..."


call collect

en-verb

call collect (third-person singular simple present calls collect, present participle calling collect, simple past and past participle called collect)

calls collect (present singular third-person)
calling collect (participle present)
called collect (participle past)
called collect (past)

prank

method for limited but free communication

In the days of payphones, if you had no coins, you could call collect and hope that the callee would accept the charges.

(US, intransitive) To make a telephone call in which the cost of the call is paid by the person receiving the call.

soittaa vastapuhelu

to make a phone call paid by the person receiving the call


mobile telephone

en-noun

mobile telephone (plural mobile telephones)

cell phone (US)/mobile phone, mobile (UK)


paster

(telephony) A diagram of the circuitry of a telephone, glued inside the telephone itself.


release

en-verb

release (third-person singular simple present releases, present participle releasing, simple past and past participle released)

releases (present singular third-person)
releasing (participle present)
released (participle past)
released (past)

From Middle English relesen, relessen, from Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).

If you continue to use abusive language, I will need to release the call.


dog and bone

Oi, keep the noise down! I'm talking to my old lady on the dog and bone.

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

Australian rhyming slang
Australian rhyming slang

(Cockney rhyming slang, Australian rhyming slang) A telephone.


speaking

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

(telephony) Indication that the person requested is the same as the one who is currently speaking.

на телефона

indication that the person requested is the same as the one who is currently speaking


wake-up call

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wake-up call.wav

She requested a five a.m. wake-up call from the front desk.

A telephone call to awaken someone at a certain time, especially one requested by the person while staying at a hotel.


telefonnummer

head

telefonnummer n (singular definite telefonnummeret, plural indefinite telefonnumre)

telefonnummeret (definite singular)
telefonnumre (indefinite plural)
telefonnummer (indefinite nominative singular)
telefonnummeret (definite nominative singular)
telefonnumre (indefinite nominative plural)
telefonnumrene (definite nominative plural)
telefonnummers (genitive indefinite singular)
telefonnummerets (definite genitive singular)
telefonnumres (genitive indefinite plural)
telefonnumrenes (definite genitive plural)


telefonnummer

telefonnummeret (definite singular)
telefonnummer (indefinite plural)
telefonnummera (definite plural)
telefonnummerene (definite plural)


telefonnummer

telefonnummer (indefinite nominative singular)
telefonnummers (genitive indefinite singular)
telefonnumret (definite nominative singular)
telefonnumrets (definite genitive singular)
telefonnummer (indefinite nominative plural)
telefonnummers (genitive indefinite plural)
telefonnumren (definite nominative plural)
telefonnumrens (definite genitive plural)


torpedo

Borrowed from Latin torpēdō (“a torpedo fish”), from torpēdō (“numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpeō (“to be stiff, numb, torpid; to be astounded; to be inactive”) + -dō (noun suffix). Compare Portuguese torpor.

bor+

(Brazil) SMS (a text message sent on a cell phone)


burner

→ Japanese: バーナー (bānā)

From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).

(chemistry) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.

горелка

(computing) A device that allows data or music to be stored on a CDR or CD-ROM.

brander

computing: device that allows data or music to be stored on a CD

No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless

2007, “Paper Planes”, in Kala, performed by M.I.A.:

(slang) Ellipsis of burner phone; a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.

burner phone

(computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.


STD

en-noun

STD (countable and uncountable, plural STDs)

subscriber trunk dialling
subscriber trunk dialling#English

subscriber toll dialing
subscriber toll dialing#English

(telephony) Initialism of subscriber trunk dialling or subscriber toll dialing.


telefono

telefono (absolutive indefinite)
telefonoa (absolutive indefinite singular)
telefonoak (absolutive indefinite plural)
telefonok (ergative indefinite)
telefonoak (ergative indefinite singular)
telefonoek (ergative indefinite plural)
telefonori (dative indefinite)
telefonoari (dative indefinite singular)
telefonoei (dative indefinite plural)
telefonoren (genitive indefinite)
telefonoaren (genitive indefinite singular)
telefonoen (genitive indefinite plural)
telefonorekin (comitative indefinite)
telefonoarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
telefonoekin (comitative indefinite plural)
telefonorengatik (causative indefinite)
telefonoarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
telefonoengatik (causative indefinite plural)
telefonorentzat (benefactive indefinite)
telefonoarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
telefonoentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
telefonoz (indefinite instrumental)
telefonoaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
telefonoez (indefinite instrumental plural)
telefonotan (indefinite inessive)
telefonoan (indefinite inessive singular)
telefonoetan (indefinite inessive plural)
telefonotako (indefinite locative)
telefonoko (indefinite locative singular)
telefonoetako (indefinite locative plural)
telefonotara (allative indefinite)
telefonora (allative indefinite singular)
telefonoetara (allative indefinite plural)
telefonotaraino (indefinite terminative)
telefonoraino (indefinite singular terminative)
telefonoetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
telefonotarantz (directive indefinite)
telefonorantz (directive indefinite singular)
telefonoetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
telefonotarako (destinative indefinite)
telefonorako (destinative indefinite singular)
telefonoetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
telefonotatik (ablative indefinite)
telefonotik (ablative indefinite singular)
telefonoetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
telefonorik (indefinite partitive)
telefonotzat (indefinite prolative)


telefono

eo-head

telefono (accusative singular telefonon, plural telefonoj, accusative plural telefonojn)

telefonon (accusative singular)
telefonoj (plural)
telefonojn (accusative plural)

Borrowed from French téléphone, from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”). Compare English telephone, Yiddish טעלעפֿאָן (telefon), German Telefon, Polish telefon, Russian телефо́н (telefón), Italian telefono.


telefono

From tele- + -fono, influenced by English telephone and French téléphone.

chiamare qualcuno al telefono

numero di telefono


留守番電話

ja-noun

留(る)守(す)番(ばん)電(でん)話(わ) • (rusuban denwa)

留守番電話 (canonical)
rusuban denwa (romanization)

[ɾɯ̟sɨba̠n dẽ̞ɰ̃β̞a̠]

From 留守番 (rusuban, “house-sitting”) + 電話 (denwa, “telephone”).


tinkle

en-noun

tinkle (countable and uncountable, plural tinkles)

From Middle English tinclen, equivalent to tink + -le (frequentative suffix).

Give me a tinkle when you arrive.


portable

Borrowed from Latin portābilis. By surface analysis, porter + -able.

téléphone portable
téléphone portable#French

a mobile phone; Ellipsis of téléphone portable.

ordinateur portable
ordinateur portable#French

a laptop; Ellipsis of ordinateur portable.


VoIP

The VoIP Forum is dedicated to enabling and promoting industry-wide interoperability between products that send telephony over the Internet and private IP enterprise networks. This interoperability will allow seamless transmission of Internet phone calls regardless of the telephony application used by callers and call recipients. At present, applications from different vendors are incompatible due to fundamental differences in voice coding, silence suppression, addressing and dialing plans, call management and other related functions.

1996 November 12, IMTC, Inc., comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-03, message-ID <telecom16.627.2@massis.lcs.mit.edu>:

VoIP "represents a group of competing companies who've gotten together to agree on standards," Pulver says. "It's very important," and is good news for users, because their co-operation will move Internet telephony forward, he says.

1996 November 13, Rebecca Sykes, “Group forms to spur Internet telephony”, in Computerworld New Zealand, archived from the original on 2016-11-03:

(Internet, telephony) Voice over Internet Protocol, a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls.


fisso

From Latin fixus, from figō. In this modern form, it may be an early borrowing or semi-learned term; however as the one of the variant archaic past participles of the verb figgere, it may be inherited. Doublet of fitto.


9/11 attacks
Federal Communications Commission
National Emergency Number Association
United States

Chosen by the United States in the 1960s in place of the older British 999 number as a better way to avoid accidental calls from push-button telephones. It is officially pronounced "nine-one-one," not "nine-eleven," since "nine-eleven" refers to the 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. 9/11 is universally distinguished from 911 to refer the September 11, 2001 attacks. Officially written as 9-1-1 in regulations and materials from the United States National Emergency Number Association and Federal Communications Commission, which is also advocated by some media style guides.

When you call 911 in the United States, a local dispatcher usually answers the phone with "911" or "911. What's your emergency?"

I don't know why they couldn't just keep it as it was! How hard is it to remember 911?
You mean 999...
I mean 999!
That's the American one!
Yeah!

2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 2

Well, look, I wear a mask, I try not to be a maskhole about it. If I see — if I see somebody who doesn't have a mask, I don't call 911.

2021 March 18, John Kennedy, quotee, “SEN. JOHN KENNEDY (R-LA) IS INTERVIEWED ON FOX NEWS”, in Political Transcript Wire, Lanham:

The telephone number for emergency services in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Liberia, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Anguilla, Palau, and Tonga.

000(Mongolia) 105(China, Iran) 110(New Zealand) 111(European Union) 112(Japan, South Korea) 119(UK, Ireland) 999


(US, Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Philippines, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, telephony) 911


engaged tone

(UK, Ireland, telephony) An audible signal to the calling party that indicates failure to complete the requested connection; a busy signal


ex-directory

(UK, Ireland) Of a telephone number or its owner: not in the directory; unlisted.


off the hook

Referring to the candlestick phone, which in order to hang up, the receiver must be hung on a hook. Leaving the receiver off the hook would prevent it from being able to receive calls.

I think he left the phone off the hook so that nobody would call him.

Of a telephone, having an open connection; not hung up.

The phone was ringing off the hook all night.


landline

vezetékes

(attributively) connected by a fixed communications cable

(by extension) A telephone connected by such a fixed wire, specifically not wireless/mobile.


kiosk

kiosken (definite singular)
kiosker (indefinite plural)
kioskene (definite plural)

From French kiosque (“kiosk”), from Italian chiosco (“kiosk”), from Turkish köşk (“villa, summer mansion; garden pavillion”), from Ottoman Turkish كوشك (köşk, “villa, small palace; pavillion”), from Persian کوشک (kôšk, “kiosk; palace, portico”), from Middle Persian kwšk' (kōšk, “pavillion, palace”).

der

Å gå i kiosken for å kjøpe pastiller.

jeg læste journalerne i kiosken idag

1990, Halfdan Kjerulf, Halfdan Kjerulfs dagbøker for årene 1833, 1840, 1850, 1851, page 58:

en kiosk til salg av frukt og cigaretter

a kiosk for the sale of fruit and cigarettes

a kiosk (a small enclosed structure, often freestanding, open on one side or with a window, used as a booth to sell newspapers, cigarettes, food, etc.)

fantasiens små kineserdukker, som sidder i kioskens ly

1873, Henrik Ibsen, Kærlighedens komedie, page 93:

the little Chinese dolls of the imagination, who sit in the pavillion's shelter

nu bygger jeg en kiosk til mig alene et stykke borte fra gaarden

1997, Knut Hamsun, Knut Hamsuns brev IV, page 117:

now I am building a garden pavillion for myself alone some distance away from the farm

(of the Orient) a garden pavilion; gazebo, garden house; garden castle

Jeg ringer deg senere fra en kiosk, er det greit?

I'll call you later from a telephone booth, is that okay?

a telephone booth (a small enclosure housing a public telephone)

a smaller transformer station e.g. for the distribution of electrical energy to a small area


cold call

I got a cold call in the middle of dinner from someone trying to sell roofing and siding because they're allegedly working in my area this week.

A sales call either by telephone or personal presence, made without a referral or without preparing the recipient of the call.


ERC

(telephony) Initialism of easily-recognizable code.


coup de fil

Passe-moi un coup de fil.

(informal) telephone call, ring, call, bell


alio

Borrowed from French allô, ultimately from English hello. Possibly via Russian алло́ (alló), алё (aljó).

Alio? Kaip viskas?


cell phone

(chiefly Canada, US, New Zealand, Philippines) A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection.


unlock

en-verb

unlock (third-person singular simple present unlocks, present participle unlocking, simple past and past participle unlocked)

unlocks (present singular third-person)
unlocking (participle present)
unlocked (participle past)
unlocked (past)

From Middle English unloken, unlouken, onlouken, from Old English onlūcan (“to unlock”), equivalent to un- + lock. Cognate with Dutch ontluiken (“to unlock”).

(transitive, mobile telephony) To configure (a mobile phone) so that it is not bound to any particular carrier.


glare

en-noun

glare (countable and uncountable, plural glares)

From Middle English glaren, from Old English *glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glāʀōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.

cog

(telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.


receiver

From Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive + -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.

curator

person appointed to settle financial affairs

прыёмнік

electronic device that receives and converts signal

The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece.


ringtone

I set my favorite song as my ringtone.

So even if the primary purpose of a ringtone is to notify the user of an incoming call, the effect of a ringtone played in public cannot be ignored if the reason users choose ringtones is, in part, in order to impress others .

2004, The Entertainment and Sports Lawyer; Volume 22:

This actually downloads the ringtone onto your handheld and displays a screen allowing you to save it, shown in Figure 8.12.

2005, Bill Foust, Mobile Guide to BlackBerry, page 121121:

There's only music so that there's new ringtones

2006, Alex Turner (lyrics and music), “A Certain Romance”, in Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, performed by Arctic Monkeys:

Using simple audio tools in the iTunes program, you could buy a song for $1, choose a 30-second chunk, pay $1 more for the ringtone, and sync the result to your iPhone.

2012, David Pogue, iPhone: The Missing Manual, page 152:

My boy's got his own ringtone / It's the only one I know, it's the only one I know

2019, 100 gecs (lyrics and music), “ringtone”, in 1000 gecs:

A customizable tone used to indicate an incoming call on a telephone, especially a mobile phone.


ringtone

ringtone (sound made by a ringing telephone)


cellular

From New Latin cellulāris, from cellula (“cell”) + -āris.

MULDER: Yeah, Eddie, this is all good stuff. Yeah, see what else you can find on him from the N.C.I.C. and call me back. At, at this number or on my cellular.

1994, "Red Museum", (episode of The X-Files TV series)

(US, informal) A cellular phone (mobile phone).


llamar

es-verb

llamar (first-person singular present llamo, first-person singular preterite llamé, past participle llamado)

llamo (first-person present singular)
llamé (first-person preterite singular)
llamado (participle past)
llamar (infinitive)
llamando (gerund)
llamado (masculine participle past singular)
llamada (feminine participle past singular)
llamados (masculine participle past plural)
llamadas (feminine participle past plural)
llamo (first-person indicative present singular)
llamas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
llamás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
llama (indicative present singular third-person)
llamamos (first-person indicative plural present)
llamáis (indicative plural present second-person)
llaman (indicative plural present third-person)
llamaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
llamabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
llamaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
llamábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
llamabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
llamaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
llamé (first-person indicative preterite singular)
llamaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
llamó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
llamamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
llamasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
llamaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
llamaré (first-person future indicative singular)
llamarás (future indicative second-person singular)
llamará (future indicative singular third-person)
llamaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
llamaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
llamarán (future indicative plural third-person)
llamaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
llamarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
llamaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
llamaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
llamaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
llamarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
llame (first-person present singular subjunctive)
llames (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
llamés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
llame (present singular subjunctive third-person)
llamemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
llaméis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
llamen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
llamara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
llamaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
llamara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
llamáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
llamarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
llamaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
llamase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
llamases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
llamase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
llamásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
llamaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
llamasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
llamare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
llamares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
llamare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
llamáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
llamareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
llamaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
llama (imperative informal second-person singular)
llamá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
llame (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
llame (imperative singular third-person)
llamemos (first-person imperative plural)
llamad (imperative plural second-person)
llamen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
llamen (imperative plural third-person)
llames (imperative negative second-person singular)
llame (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
llame (imperative negative singular third-person)
llamemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
llaméis (imperative negative plural second-person)
llamen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
llamen (imperative negative plural third-person)
llamarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
llamarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
llamarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
llamarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
llamarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
llamaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
llamarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
llamarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
llamarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
llamarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
llamarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
llamarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
llamarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
llamarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
llamaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
llamarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
llamarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
llamarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
llamándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
llamándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
llamándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
llamándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
llamándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
llamándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
llamándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
llamándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
llamándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
llamándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
llamándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
llamándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
llamándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
llamándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
llamándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
llamándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
llamándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
llamándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
llámame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
llámate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
llámale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
llámanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
llámales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
llámame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
llámate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
llámalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
llámala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
llámanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
llámalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
llámalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
llamame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
llamate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
llamale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
llamanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
llamales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
llamame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
llamate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
llamalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
llamala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
llamanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
llamalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
llamalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
llámeme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
llámele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
llámese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
llámenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
llámeles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
llámeme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
llámelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
llámela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
llámese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
llámenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
llámelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
llámelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
llamémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
llamémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
llamémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
llamémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
llamémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
llamémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
llamémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
llamémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
llamémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
llamémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
llamémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
llamémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
llamadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
llamadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
llamadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
llamaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
llamadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
llamadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
llamadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
llamadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
llamadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
llamaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
llamadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
llamadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
llámenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
llámenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
llámennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
llámenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
llámense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
llámenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
llámenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
llámenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
llámennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
llámenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
llámenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
llámense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
llamarse (infinitive)
llamándose (gerund)
llamado (masculine participle past singular)
llamada (feminine participle past singular)
llamados (masculine participle past plural)
llamadas (feminine participle past plural)
llamarme (first-person infinitive singular)
llamarte (infinitive second-person singular)
llamarse (infinitive singular third-person)
llamarnos (first-person infinitive plural)
llamaros (infinitive plural second-person)
llamarse (infinitive plural third-person)
llamándome (first-person gerund singular)
llamándote (gerund second-person singular)
llamándose (gerund singular third-person)
llamándonos (first-person gerund plural)
llamándoos (gerund plural second-person)
llamándose (gerund plural third-person)
me llamo (first-person indicative present singular)
te llamas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
te llamás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
se llama (indicative present singular third-person)
nos llamamos (first-person indicative plural present)
os llamáis (indicative plural present second-person)
se llaman (indicative plural present third-person)
me llamaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
te llamabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
se llamaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
nos llamábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
os llamabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
se llamaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
me llamé (first-person indicative preterite singular)
te llamaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
se llamó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
nos llamamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
os llamasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
se llamaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
me llamaré (first-person future indicative singular)
te llamarás (future indicative second-person singular)
se llamará (future indicative singular third-person)
nos llamaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
os llamaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
se llamarán (future indicative plural third-person)
me llamaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
te llamarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
se llamaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
nos llamaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
os llamaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
se llamarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
me llame (first-person present singular subjunctive)
te llames (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
te llamés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
se llame (present singular subjunctive third-person)
nos llamemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
os llaméis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
se llamen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
me llamara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
te llamaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
se llamara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
nos llamáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
os llamarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
se llamaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
me llamase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
te llamases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
se llamase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
nos llamásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
os llamaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
se llamasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
me llamare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
te llamares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
se llamare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
nos llamáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
os llamareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
se llamaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
llámate (imperative informal second-person singular)
llamate (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
llámese (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
llámese (imperative singular third-person)
llamémonos (first-person imperative plural)
llamaos (imperative plural second-person)
llámense (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
llámense (imperative plural third-person)
te llames (imperative negative second-person singular)
se llame (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
se llame (imperative negative singular third-person)
nos llamemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
os llaméis (imperative negative plural second-person)
se llamen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
se llamen (imperative negative plural third-person)

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

Inherited from Old Spanish lamar, from Latin clāmāre (“cry out”), whence also the borrowed Spanish doublet clamar. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”). Cognate with English claim and clamor.

como-se-llame

what's-his-name, what's-his-face, what's-her-name, what's-her-face

Te llaman desde París.

Que me llamen a las siete.

Ha llamado a Maribel.
[He] has called Maribel.

to summon, to call
to call (on the telephone)


hunting

en-noun

hunting (countable and uncountable, plural huntings)

desc

→ Korean: 헌팅 (heonting, “flirting with strangers, pickup”)

From Middle English hunting, from Old English huntung, equivalent to hunt + -ing.

(telephony) The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.


Android

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(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system currently developed by Google.


Android

Both Androids and iPhones have a timer that can delay taking a photo by up to 10 seconds.

2016, Technology Made Easy: Simple Ways to Use Your Computer, Phone, and Other Electronic Devices, Peachtree City, Ga.: FC&A Publishing, →ISBN, page 317:

(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile phone running on Android OS.


Android

de-proper noun

Android n (proper noun, strong, genitive Androids or Android)

Androids (genitive)
Android (genitive)
Android (nominative singular)
Androids (genitive singular)
Android (genitive singular)
Android (dative singular)
Android (accusative singular)

Unadapted borrowing from English android.

ubor

(computing, mobile telephony) Android (operating system)


Apple

en-proper noun

Apple (countable and uncountable, plural Apples)

From apple. As a surname, also an Americanized form of Appel or Apfel.

(rare, countable) A female given name from English.


Apple

Apple (nominative singular)
Apple'a (genitive singular)
Apple'owi (dative singular)
Apple (accusative singular)
Apple'em (instrumental singular)
Apple'u (locative singular)
Apple (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English Apple. Doublet of jabłko.

Apple (company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content)


Handy

de-noun

Handy n (strong, genitive Handys, plural Handys or (now nonstandard) Handies)

Handys (genitive)
Handys (plural)
Handies (nonstandard plural)
Handy (nominative singular)
Handys (definite nominative plural)
Handies (definite nominative plural proscribed)
Handys (genitive singular)
Handys (definite genitive plural)
Handies (definite genitive plural proscribed)
Handy (dative singular)
Handys (dative definite plural)
Handies (dative definite plural proscribed)
Handy (accusative singular)
Handys (accusative definite plural)
Handies (accusative definite plural proscribed)

→? English: handy

Some sources claim the existence of an early English preform. Perhaps from English handie-talkie, apparently used as a Motorola product name based on walkie-talkie. Or perhaps derived from English handheld transceiver, coined by CB radio users, later informally applied to the first mobile phones, and soon found in product names.
Others assert the use for a phone is exclusively German, possibly as a short form of Handfunktelefon, as which it was marketed by firms like Bosch and Hagenuk. Thus equivalent to an anglicisation of Hand (“hand”) + -i (diminutive suffix).

Alle paar Minuten hängt er am Handy und macht Termine klar.

1994 May 11, Ralf Schlüter, “Stimmungen frei Hand”, in Berliner Zeitung:

Every few minutes he's on his cell phone arranging appointments.

Bluetooth ist eine drahtlose Kommunikationstechnologie. Der Ursprung dieser Technologie liegt im Jahre 1994, als die Firma Ericsson eine Alternative zu Kabeln für die Verbindung ihrer Handys zum Zubehör wie Headsets suchte.

2008, Ulrich Breymann, Heiko Mosemann, Java me, Hanser Verlag, →ISBN, page 283:

Bluetooth is a wireless communication technology. This technology originated in 1994, when Ericsson was looking for an alternative to cables for connecting their cell phones to accessories like headsets.

Der Kunde hält sein Handy zum Bezahlen einfach an ein Lesegerät und der Betrag wird von seinem Konto abgebucht.

2009, Ernst Stahl, E-Commerce-Leitfaden, ibi research, →ISBN, page 123:

To pay, the customer just holds his cell phone up to a reader and the amount is deducted from his account.

Es gab noch keine Handys / Es war alles Gegenwart

2018, “Unwiederbringlich”, in Die Unendlichkeit, performed by Tocotronic:

(mobile telephony) mobile phone, mobile, cell phone, phone (portable, wireless telephone)


Telefon

Telefon n (strong, genitive Telefons, plural Telefone)

Telefons (genitive)
Telefone (plural)
Telefon (nominative singular)
Telefone (definite nominative plural)
Telefons (genitive singular)
Telefone (definite genitive plural)
Telefon (dative singular)
Telefonen (dative definite plural)
Telefon (accusative singular)
Telefone (accusative definite plural)


Nokia

A town and municipality of Finland near Tampere.


TCAP

en-noun

TCAP (countable and uncountable, plural TCAPs)

(telephony) Transaction Capabilities Application Part (SS7)


WP

(mobile telephony) Initialism of Windows Phone.


UC

UC (countable and uncountable, plural UCs)

(mobile telephony) Initialism of ultra capacity.


telegraph post

From their original purpose of carrying telegraph lines, first used around 1843 by William Fothergill Cooke.

Here the protection consists of a 50lb per mile cadmium copper trip-wire mounted on short telegraph posts on both sides of the line, 4ft above rail level.

1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Aircraft on rail tracks”, in Trains Illustrated, page 650:

A pole, usually wooden, that carries telephone lines above a street.


telephone call

A connection established over a telephone network between two parties.


telephone directory

telephone directory (plural telephone directories)

A listing of telephone subscribers in a specific geographical area, together with their telephone numbers and, sometimes, a street address.


yellow pages

From such directories being printed on yellow paper.

A telephone directory that lists commercial organizations, organized by type of organization.

黃頁 /黄页

telephone directory that lists commercial organisations


telephone exchange

telephone exchange (plural telephone exchanges)

(telephony) Any equipment that establishes connections between telephones.

(telephony) The rooms housing such equipment.


telephone operator

telephone operator (plural telephone operators)

Since the outbreak of war women have been recruited for many grades of railway work. The number of women clerks has been increased greatly, and women are performing invaluable work as porters, motor drivers, carriage cleaners, and telephone operators, as well as in a variety of other capacities.

1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 207:

A person who operates a telephone switchboard.

telefonista

a person who operates a telephone switchboard


telephone booth

telephone booth (plural telephone booths)

Then it occurred to me that I might be doing a rash thing in going off to an unknown house in a seedy suburb. So I went into a public telephone-booth, rang up the Club, and told the porter that if Colonel Arbuthnot called, I was at 4 Palmyra Square, N.W.—I made him write down the address—and would be back before ten o'clock.

1924 July, John Buchan, “The House in Gospel Oak”, in The Three Hostages, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 85:

A small enclosure housing a public telephone.


app

A visual tool can be thought of as a graphics app that generates most of your program's GUI code for you

1999 February, Maximum PC, volume 4, number 2:

So is a spreadsheet app, but I'm not going to put those on a web site any time soon.

1999, Jerry Bradenbaugh, JavaScript application cookbook, page xi:

The Web browser was the killer app that kickstarted the Internet and, in turn, enabled it to be embedded in everything

1999 November, AUUGN, volume 20, number 4, page 9:

Want realtime flight and gate updates? A calorie counter? A remote for your DVD player? Chances are there's an app for it. Smartphones separate themselves in another key area: connectivity

2005 May, Popular Science, volume 266, number 5, page 78:

(computing, mobile telephony) An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.


app

nl-noun

app f or m (plural apps, diminutive appje n)

From English app. The senses pertaining to text messaging are influenced by the app name WhatsApp.

Ze ruzieden in de app van het studentenhuis.

They had a fight in the student accommodation chat.

(Netherlands) a chat on a text messaging app, particularly a group chat


locked

(mobile telephony, of a phone) Bound to a carrier.


Ameche

After Don Ameche, who played Alexander Graham Bell in a 1939 film.

Alexander Graham Bell
Don Ameche
en:The Story of Alexander Graham Bell


pulse dialing

(US, telephony) A system of telephone dialing in which each digit is transmitted as the equivalent number of pulses.


touch-tone dialing

(US, telephony) A system of telephone dialing in which each digit is transmitted as a tone or combination of tones of specific pitch.


double talk

From double + talk. Compare Middle English twispeche, Old English twīspǣċ, twīsprǣċ.

(telephony) A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals.


telephony

en-noun

telephony (usually uncountable, plural telephonies)

The act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum.


unlocked

an unlocked iPhone

(mobile telephony, of a phone) Not bound to any particular carrier.


sími

is-noun

sími m (genitive singular síma, nominative plural símar)

síma (genitive singular)
símar (nominative plural)
sími (indefinite nominative singular)
síminn (definite nominative singular)
símar (indefinite nominative plural)
símarnir (definite nominative plural)
síma (accusative indefinite singular)
símann (accusative definite singular)
síma (accusative indefinite plural)
símana (accusative definite plural)
síma (dative indefinite singular)
símanum (dative definite singular)
símum (dative indefinite plural)
símunum (dative definite plural)
síma (genitive indefinite singular)
símans (definite genitive singular)
síma (genitive indefinite plural)
símanna (definite genitive plural)


Vermittlung

de-noun

Vermittlung f (genitive Vermittlung, plural Vermittlungen)

Vermittlung (genitive)
Vermittlungen (plural)
Vermittlung (nominative singular)
Vermittlungen (definite nominative plural)
Vermittlung (genitive singular)
Vermittlungen (definite genitive plural)
Vermittlung (dative singular)
Vermittlungen (dative definite plural)
Vermittlung (accusative singular)
Vermittlungen (accusative definite plural)

/fɛʁˈmɪtlʊŋ/

[fɛɐ̯ˈmɪtlʊŋ]


GPRS

General Packet Radio Service
General Packet Radio Service#English

(mobile telephony) Initialism of General Packet Radio Service.


tone dialing

(US, telephony) A system of telephone dialing in which each digit is transmitted as a burst of a single audio frequency.


autodialer

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(computing) malicious software, embedded in a website, that routes dial-up Internet connections to a different telephone number charged at a premium rate


jingle

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/

The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.

Give me a jingle when you find out something.


voicemail

en-noun

voicemail (countable and uncountable, plural voicemails)

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From voice + mail, genericized trademark.

(uncountable) A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.


handsfree

a handsfree phone

That can be used without using the hands, hands-free.


mobiltelefon

mobiltelefonok (plural)
mobiltelefon (nominative singular)
mobiltelefonok (nominative plural)
mobiltelefont (accusative singular)
mobiltelefonokat (accusative plural)
mobiltelefonnak (dative singular)
mobiltelefonoknak (dative plural)
mobiltelefonnal (instrumental singular)
mobiltelefonokkal (instrumental plural)
mobiltelefonért (causal-final singular)
mobiltelefonokért (causal-final plural)
mobiltelefonná (singular translative)
mobiltelefonokká (plural translative)
mobiltelefonig (singular terminative)
mobiltelefonokig (plural terminative)
mobiltelefonként (essive-formal singular)
mobiltelefonokként (essive-formal plural)
mobiltelefonban (inessive singular)
mobiltelefonokban (inessive plural)
mobiltelefonon (singular superessive)
mobiltelefonokon (plural superessive)
mobiltelefonnál (adessive singular)
mobiltelefonoknál (adessive plural)
mobiltelefonba (illative singular)
mobiltelefonokba (illative plural)
mobiltelefonra (singular sublative)
mobiltelefonokra (plural sublative)
mobiltelefonhoz (allative singular)
mobiltelefonokhoz (allative plural)
mobiltelefonból (elative singular)
mobiltelefonokból (elative plural)
mobiltelefonról (delative singular)
mobiltelefonokról (delative plural)
mobiltelefontól (ablative singular)
mobiltelefonoktól (ablative plural)
mobiltelefoné (singular)
mobiltelefonoké (plural)
mobiltelefonéi (singular)
mobiltelefonokéi (plural)
mobiltelefonom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
mobiltelefonjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
mobiltelefonod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
mobiltelefonjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
mobiltelefonja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
mobiltelefonjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
mobiltelefonunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
mobiltelefonjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
mobiltelefonotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
mobiltelefonjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
mobiltelefonjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
mobiltelefonjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

(mobile telephony) mobile, mobile phone, cell phone (portable, wireless telephone capable of changing antenna connections during travel)


mobiltelefon

mobiltelefonen (definite singular)
mobiltelefoner (indefinite plural)
mobiltelefonene (definite plural)

(telephony) cell phone or cellphone (US), or mobile phone (UK)


mobiltelefon

mobiltelefonen (definite singular)
mobiltelefonar (indefinite plural)
mobiltelefonane (definite plural)


mobiltelefon

mobiltelefon (indefinite nominative singular)
mobiltelefons (genitive indefinite singular)
mobiltelefonen (definite nominative singular)
mobiltelefonens (definite genitive singular)
mobiltelefoner (indefinite nominative plural)
mobiltelefoners (genitive indefinite plural)
mobiltelefonerna (definite nominative plural)
mobiltelefonernas (definite genitive plural)

Compound of mobil (“mobile”) + telefon (“telephone”). First attested in 1958.

com+

I en bil kan besökarna stifta bekantskap med s k mobiltelefon, som genom […]

1958 April 15, Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning, page 6:

In a car, visitors can get acquainted with the so-called mobile phone, which through […]

Det tar för lång tid för polisen att tömma en misstänkt persons mobiltelefon på information, och det drabbar brottsutredningarna.

2021 August 23, Simon Andrén, “Åklagare: Tar för lång tid att analysera misstänktas mobiler [Prosecutor: It takes too long to analyze suspects' mobile phones]”, in Ekot, Sveriges Radio:

It takes too long for the police to empty a suspect's mobile phone of information, and that affects criminal investigations.

(mobile telephony) cell phone or cellphone (US), or mobile phone (UK)


break up

en-verb

break up (third-person singular simple present breaks up, present participle breaking up, simple past broke up, past participle broken up)

breaks up (present singular third-person)
breaking up (participle present)
broke up (past)
broken up (participle past)

You're breaking up. Can you repeat that?

what did you say? you're breaking up on me

2009, Lady Gaga et al. (lyrics and music), “Telephone”:

(intransitive, telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.

hävitä

of a telephone conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection


UMTS

w:Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

(mobile telephony) Initialism of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System.


mouthpiece

A part of any device that functions in or near the mouth, especially:

The part of a telephone that is held close to the mouth.

The part of a wind instrument that is held in or against the mouth.

The novel's protagonist serves as a mouthpiece for the author's political views.

Seeming “real” has been the aim since the earliest police procedurals, which began a long tradition of Hollywood productions acting as a mouthpiece for police departments.

2021 April 24, Adrian Horton, “‘The uprisings opened up the door’: the TV cop shows confronting a harmful legacy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Xi Jinping has told the People’s Liberation Army to “focus all its energy on fighting” in preparation for war, a Chinese Communist party mouthpiece has reported.

2022 November 9, Verna Yu, “Xi Jinping tells China’s army to focus on preparation for war”, in The Guardian:

A spokesman; one who speaks on behalf of someone else.

глашатай

spokesman who speaks on behalf of someone else


hang up

hang up (third-person singular simple present hangs up, present participle hanging up, simple past and past participle hung up)

hangs up (present singular third-person)
hanging up (participle present)
hung up (participle past)
hung up (past)

When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her.

And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me.

1974, Harry Chapin and Sandra Chapin (lyrics and music), “Cat's in the Cradle”, in Verities & Balderdash, performed by Harry Chapin:

(intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.


gancho

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).


prepaid

prepaid (nominative singular)
prepaidy (nominative plural)
prepaidu (genitive singular)
prepaidów (genitive plural)
prepaidowi (dative singular)
prepaidom (dative plural)
prepaid (accusative singular)
prepaidy (accusative plural)
prepaidem (instrumental singular)
prepaidami (instrumental plural)
prepaidzie (locative singular)
prepaidach (locative plural)
prepaidzie (singular vocative)
prepaidy (plural vocative)


stage-phoner

One who fakes a cell-phone conversation.


алло

head

алло́ • (alló)

→ Eastern Mari: алло (allo)

Borrowed from French allô, ultimately from English hello.

Бесстыжая горничная, поставив одну ногу на стул, сняла трубку с рычажка и сказала в нее:
— Алло!

1973, Михаил Булгаков, “Глава XVIII. Неудачливые визитёры”, in Мастер и Маргарита; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Master and Margarita, London: Penguin Books, 1997:

The shameless maid put one foot on a chair, picked up the receiver, and into it said:
‘Hello!’

Besstyžaja gorničnaja, postaviv odnu nogu na stul, snjala trubku s ryčažka i skazala v neje:
— Allo!

usually used to render the pronunciation of the speaker


алло

алло́ • (alló)

гальо́

used to render the pronunciation of the speaker


телефон

bg-noun

телефо́н • (telefón) m (relational adjective телефо́нен)

телефо́н (canonical)
telefón (romanization)
телефо́нен (adjective relational)
телефо́н (indefinite singular)
телефо́ни (indefinite plural)
телефо́нът (definite singular subjective)
телефо́ните (definite plural subjective)
телефо́на (definite objective singular)
телефо́ните (definite objective plural)
телефо́на (count-form plural)


телефон

mn-noun

телефон • (telefon) (Mongolian spelling ᠲᠧᠯᠧᠹᠣᠨ (tēlēfon))

telefon (romanization)
ᠲᠧᠯᠧᠹᠣᠨ (Mongolian)

/tʰʲɵɮʲɵˈfɔŋ/

Borrowed from Russian телефо́н (telefón).


телефон

head

телефон (telefon) m inan (related adjective телефонски)

telefon (romanization)
телефонски (adjective)
телефон (nominative singular)
телефони (nominative plural)
телефона (genitive singular)
телефону (genitive singular)
телефонох (genitive plural)
телефону (dative singular)
телефоном (dative plural)
телефон (accusative singular)
телефони (accusative plural)
телефоном (instrumental singular)
телефонами (instrumental plural)
телефону (locative singular)
телефонох (locative plural)
телефону (singular vocative)
телефони (plural vocative)

rsk-decl-noun-table

телефона / телефону

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

прейґ телефона