טלפון
Hebrew
Etymology
From English telephone and cognates in other languages.
Pronunciation
- (Modern Israeli) IPA: /ˈtɛlɛfɔn/
Noun
טלפון (télefon) m (plural indefinite form טלפונים, singular construct form טלפון, plural construct form טלפוני)
- A phone, telephone.
- =שיחת טלפון (sikhát-télefon): a phone call.
- =מספר טלפון (mispár-télefon): a phone number.
Usage notes
- (all senses): There is some disagreement about the appropriate niqqud (diacritics) to use for the /e/ sounds. The Hebrew Academy, in its examples of loanword niqqud, uses the tzeirei: טֵלֵפוֹן,[1] as does Reuven Sivan and Edward A. Levenston, The New Bantam-Megiddo Hebrew & English Dictionary, Bantam Books (1975), ISBN 0-553-26387-0. However, Shimon Zilberman, The Up-to-Date English-Hebrew Hebrew-English Dictionary, Zilberman (1994), uses the segol: טֶלֶפוֹן.
Derived terms
- ט־ל־פ־ן (T-l-p-n)
Related terms
- טִלְפֵּן (tilpen)