telegram

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• telegramme (rare)

EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/

• Audio (US)

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NounEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

• wire, cable

TranslationsEdit

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:)
• Chinese:

  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)
• German: Telegramm (de) n
• Greek: τηλεγράφημα (el) n (tilegráfima)
• Hebrew: מִברָק‎‎ m (mivrak)
• Hindi: तार (hi) m (tār), टेलीग्राम (ṭelīgrām)
• 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 (ksae luǝh)
• 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, điện văn
• Yiddish: טעלעגראַמע‎‎ f (telegrame), טעלעגראַם‎‎ m (telegram)

VerbEdit

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

1. To send a telegram.

TranslationsEdit

telegraph — see telegraph

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /teːləˈɡrɑm/

• Audio

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NounEdit

telegram n (plural telegrammen, diminutive telegrammetje n)

1. telegram

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

NounEdit

telegram m inan

1. telegram

DeclensionEdit

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-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

tȅlegram m (Cyrillic spelling те̏леграм)

1. telegram

DeclensionEdit

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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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

tele- +‎ -gram.

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

NounEdit

telegram n

1. a telegram, a message sent by telegraph

DeclensionEdit

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

Related termsEdit

• lyxtelegram
• telegramblankett

See alsoEdit

• telegraf

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VilamovianEdit

NounEdit

telegram n

1. telegram, wire