telegram

English

Alternative forms

• telegramme (rare)

Etymology

tele- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

telegram (plural telegrams)

1. A message transmitted by telegraph.

   Synonyms: wire, cable, telegrapheme

   • 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.

   • 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw and Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 394:

     On 20 May 1937 when down in Bradford-on-Avon on business, Bulleid received a telegram with the cryptic news: 'Sir Herbert Walker wishes to see you twelve thirty tomorrow—Gresley'.

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 (eo)
• 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) (tuurĕəʼleik), តេឡេក្រាម (teileikraam)
• 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, kawat (ms), surat kawat, berita kawat, khabar sawat
• Maori: kupu-ā-waea
• Mongolian: цахилгаан (mn) (tsakhilgaan)
• Navajo: béésh bee haneʼ
• Ngazidja Comorian: simu 9 or 10
• Norman: télégramme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: telegram (no) n

• Pashto: تلګرام‎ m (telelgrãm), تلګراف‎ m (telegrāf)
• Persian: تلگرام‎ (fa) (telegrâm), تلگراف‎ (fa) (telegrâf)
• Plautdietsch: Tellegraum n
• 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)
• Tigrinya: ተለግራም (tälägram)
• 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. (intransitive) To send a telegram.
2. (transitive) To send a telegram to (a person).
3. (transitive) To send (a message) in a telegram.

Translations

telegraph — see telegraph

Anagrams

• Great Elm

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English telegram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teːləˈɡrɑm/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: te‧le‧gram
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Noun

telegram n (plural telegrammen, diminutive telegrammetje n)

1. telegram

Derived terms

• telegramstijl

Related terms

• telegraaf
• telegraferen
• telegrafie
• telegrafisch

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈlɛɡ.ram/

• 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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Romanian

Noun

telegram n (plural telegrame)

1. Alternative form of telegramă

Declension

Declension of telegram

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) telegram	telegramul	(niște) telegrame	telegramele
genitive/dative	(unui) telegram	telegramului	(unor) telegrame	telegramelor
vocative	telegramule		telegramelor

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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