telegram

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English

Alternative forms

• telegramme (rare)

Etymology

tele- +‎ -gram. "A friend desires us to […] introduce a new word into the vocabulary. It is telegram, instead of telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic communication." — Albany Evening Journal, April 6, 1852.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

telegram (plural telegrams)

1. A message transmitted by telegraph.
   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:

     There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

Synonyms

• wire, cable

Translations

message sent by telegraph

• Albanian: telegram (sq) m
• Amharic: ቴሌግራም (telegram)
• Arabic: بَرْقِيَّة‎ f (barqiyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: تلغراف‎ m (teleḡrāf)

• Armenian: հեռագիր (hy) (heṙagir)
• Azerbaijani: teleqram
• Belarusian: тэлегра́ма f (teljehráma)
• Bengali: টেলিগ্রাম (ṭeligram)
• Bulgarian: телегра́ма (bg) f (telegráma)
• Burmese: ကြေးနန်း (my) (kre:nan:), သံကြိုးစာ (my) (samkrui:ca), သံကြိုး (my) (samkrui:)
• Catalan: telegrama m
• Chinese:

  Dungan: дянбо (di͡anbo)

  Mandarin: 電報 (zh), 电报 (zh) (diànbào)

• Czech: telegram (cs) m
• Danish: telegram n
• Dutch: telegram (nl) n
• Esperanto: telegramo
• Estonian: telegramm
• Finnish: sähke (fi)
• French: télégramme (fr) m, dépêche (fr) f
• Georgian: დეპეშა (deṗeša), ტელეგრამა (ṭelegrama)
• German: Telegramm (de) n
• Greek: τηλεγράφημα (el) n (tilegráfima)
• Hebrew: מִברָק‎ m (mivrak)
• Hindi: तार (hi) m (tār), टेलीग्राम (ṭelīgrām), टेलिग्राम (hi) m (ṭeligrām)
• Hungarian: távirat (hu)
• Icelandic: símskeyti n
• Ido: telegramo (io)
• Indonesian: telegram (id)
• Italian: telegramma (it) m
• Japanese: 電報 (ja) (でんぽう, denpō), 針金便り (hariganedayori)
• Kazakh: жеделхат (jedelxat), телеграмма (kk) (telegramma)
• Khmer: ខ្សែលួស (khsae luəh), ទូរលេខ (km) (tuurĕəʾleek), តេឡេក្រាម (teeleekraam)
• Korean: 전보 (ko) (jeonbo) (電報 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: телеграмма (ky) (telegramma)
• Lao: ໂທລະເລກ (thō la lēk)

• Latvian: telegramma f
• Lithuanian: telegrama f
• Macedonian: телеграма f (telegrama)
• Malay: telegram
• Maori: kupu-ā-waea
• Mongolian: цахилгаан (mn) (tsahilgaan)
• Navajo: béésh bee haneʼ
• Ngazidja Comorian: simu class 9/10
• Norman: télégramme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: telegram (no) n

• Pashto: تلګرام‎ m (telelgrãm), تلګراف‎ m (telegrāf)
• Persian: تلگرام‎ (fa) (telegrâm), تلگراف‎ (fa) (telegrâf)
• Polish: telegram (pl) m, depesza (pl) f
• Portuguese: telegrama (pt) m
• Romanian: telegramă (ro) f, depeșă (ro) f
• Russian: телегра́мма (ru) f (telegrámma), депе́ша (ru) f (depéša) (dated)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: те̏леграм m, брзојав m

  Roman: tȅlegram (sh) m, bȑzojāv (sh) m

• Slovak: telegram m
• Slovene: telegram m
• Spanish: telegrama (es) m
• Swedish: telegram (sv) n
• Tagalog: pahatid-kawad
• Tajik: телеграмма (telegramma)
• Tamil: தந்தி (ta) (tanti)
• Thai: โทรเลข (th) (too-rá-lêek)
• Turkish: telgraf (tr)
• Turkmen: telegramma
• Ukrainian: телегра́ма f (telehráma)
• Urdu: تار‎ (ur) m (tār), ٹیلیگرام‎ (ṭeligrām)
• Uyghur: تېلېگرامما‎ (tëlëgramma)
• Uzbek: telegramma (uz)
• Vietnamese: điện báo, điện tín (vi), điện văn
• Yiddish: טעלעגראַמע‎ f (telegrame), טעלעגראַם‎ m (telegram)

Verb

telegram (third-person singular simple present telegrams, present participle telegramming, simple past and past participle telegrammed)

1. To send a telegram.

Translations

telegraph — see telegraph

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Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teːləˈɡrɑm/

• Audio

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Noun

telegram n (plural telegrammen, diminutive telegrammetje n)

1. telegram

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈlɛ.ɡram/

• Audio

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Noun

telegram m inan

1. telegram

Declension

declension of telegram

	singular	plural
nominative	telegram	telegramy
genitive	telegramu	telegramów
dative	telegramowi	telegramom
accusative	telegram	telegramy
instrumental	telegramem	telegramami
locative	telegramie	telegramach
vocative	telegramie	telegramy

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têleɡram/
• Hyphenation: te‧le‧gram

Noun

tȅlegram m (Cyrillic spelling те̏леграм)

1. telegram

Declension

Declension of telegram

	singular	plural
nominative	telegram	telegrami
genitive	telegrama	telegrama
dative	telegramu	telegramima
accusative	telegram	telegrame
vocative	telegrame	telegrami
locative	telegramu	telegramima
instrumental	telegramom	telegramima

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Swedish

Etymology

tele- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

telegram n

1. a telegram, a message sent by telegraph

Declension

Declension of telegram
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	telegram	telegrammet	telegram	telegrammen
Genitive	telegrams	telegrammets	telegrams	telegrammens

Related terms

• lyxtelegram
• telegramblankett

See also

• telegraf

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Vilamovian

Noun

telegram n

1. telegram, wire