television

See also: televisión, télévision, and télévîsion

English edit

An early television (sense 2)

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television

Etymology edit

tele- +‎ vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/, /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/
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Rhymes: -ɪʒən

Noun edit

television (countable and uncountable, plural televisions)

(uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
It's a good thing that television doesn't transmit smell.
(countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
I have an old television in the study.
(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
(uncountable, dated) Vision at a distance.
- 1929, Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue:
  Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer television a vivid picture of the manager himself.
- 1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165:
  […] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country

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Descendants edit

→ Japanese: テレビジョン (terebijon)
→ Korean: 텔레비전 (tellebijeon)
→ Malay: televisyen
→ Maltese: televixin
→ Sanskrit: दूरदर्शन (dūradarśana) (semantic loan)
- → Thai: โทรทัศน์ (too-rá-tát)
- → Lao: ໂທລະທັດ (thō la that)
- → Khmer: ទូរទស្សន៍ (tuurĕəʼtŭəh)
→ Swahili: televisheni
→ Yoruba: tẹlifíṣọ̀n

Translations edit

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Afrikaans: televisie
Albanian: televizion (sq) m
Amharic: ቴሌቪዥን (televižn)
Arabic: تِلْفَاز (ar) m (tilfāz), تِلِفِزْيُون (ar) m (tilifizyūn), تَلْفَزَة f (talfaza)
Hijazi Arabic: تلفزيون m (tilfizyōn)

Moroccan Arabic: تلفزة (talfaza)
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܪܵܣܚܸܙܘܵܐ m (prasḳizwa)

Classical Syriac: ܦܪܣ ܚܙܘܐ
Armenian: հեռուստատեսություն (hy) (heṙustatesutʻyun)
Assamese: টিভি (tibhi), দূৰদৰ্শন (durodorxon)
Asturian: televisión f, televisor m, televisión f
Azerbaijani:
Cyrillic: телевизија

Latin: televiziya (az)
Bashkir: телевидение (televideniye)
Basque: telebista
Belarusian: тэлеба́чанне n (teljebáčannje), тэлеві́зія f (teljevízija)
Bengali: টেলিভিশন (bn) (ṭelibhiśon), টিভি (bn) (ṭibhi), দূরদর্শন (bn) (durdorśon)
Breton: skinwel (br)
Bulgarian: телеви́зия (bg) f (televízija)
Burmese: တယ်လီဗီးရှင်း (my) (tailibi:hrang:), ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား (my) (rupmrangsamkra:), တယ်လီဗစ်ရှင်း (tailibachrang:), တီဗီ (tibi), တီဗွီ (tibwi)
Buryat: телевиз (tjeljeviz)
Carpathian Rusyn: телеві́зія f (televízija)
Catalan: televisió (ca) f
Central Melanau: telibisien
Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏴᎳᏛᏍᎩ (adayvladvsgi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 電視／电视 (din⁶ si⁶)

Dungan: дяншы (di͡anšɨ), телевидение (ti͡əli͡əvidi͡ənii͡ə)

Eastern Min: 電視／电视 (diêng-sê)

Hakka: 電視／电视 (thien-sṳ)

Hokkien: 電視／电视 (zh-min-nan) (tiān-sī)

Mandarin: 電視／电视 (zh) (diànshì)

Wu: 電視／电视
Chuvash: телекурӑм (telek̬urăm)
Cia-Cia: 뗄레ᄫᅵ시 (televisi)
Cornish: pellwolok f, televisyon m
Crimean Tatar: telekörüv
Czech: televize (cs) f
Danish: tv (da) n, fjernsyn (da) n, television (da) c, tv-skærm c
Dutch: televisie (nl) f, kijkbuis (nl) (colloquial), beeldomroep m (dated)
Esperanto: televido, (attributive) televida
Estonian: televisioon (et)
Faroese: sjónvarp n
Finnish: televisio (fi)
French: télévision (fr) f, télé (fr) f
Fula:
Adlam: 𞤼𞤫𞤤𞤫𞤱𞤭𞤧𞤭𞤴𞤮𞤲

Latin: telewisiyon
Galician: televisión (gl) f, tele (gl) f
Georgian: ტელევიზია (ṭelevizia)
German: Fernsehen (de) n, Television (de) f
Gilbertese: te tamnei
Greek: τηλεόραση (el) f (tileórasi)
Guaraní: terevi, ta'ãngambyry
Guiqiong: diɐnsi
Gujarati: દૂરદર્શન (dūrdarśan)
Haitian Creole: televizyon
Hebrew: טלוויזיה / טֶלֶוִיזְיָה (he) f (televízya)
Hindi: टेलिविजन (hi) (ṭelivijan), टेलीविज़न (ṭelīvizan), दूरदर्शन (hi) (dūrdarśan), टीवी (ṭīvī)
Hungarian: televízió (hu), tévé (hu)
Icelandic: sjónvarp (is) n, imbakassi m
Ido: televiziono (io)
Iloco: telebision
Indonesian: televisi (id)
Ingrian: televizora
Interlingua: television
Irish: teilifís (ga) f
Italian: televisione (it) f, tivù f
Japanese: テレビジョン (ja) (terebijon), テレビ (ja) (terebi), 電視 (ja) (でんし, denshi) (obsolete)
Kalmyk: телеүзгдл (teleüzgdl)
Kannada: ದೂರದರ್ಶನ (kn) (dūradarśana)
Kazakh: теледидар (kk) (teledidar), телевидение (televidenie)
Khmer: តេឡេ (teelee), ទូរទស្សន៍ (km) (tuurĕəʼtŭəh)
Korean: 텔레비전 (ko) (tellebijeon), 텔레비죤 (ko) (tellebijon) (North Korea), 티브이 (ko) (tibeu'i), 티비 (tibi), 티뷔 (tibwi), 테레비 (ko) (terebi), 텔레비 (tellebi), 전시(電視) (ko) (jeonsi) (obsolete)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: televizyon (ku) f
Kyrgyz: сыналгы (ky) (sınalgı), телевидение (ky) (televideniye)
Lao: ໂທລະທັດ (lo) (thō la that), ທີວີ (thī wī), ໂທລະພາບ (thō la phāp)
Latin: tēlevīsiō f
Latvian: televīzija f, tālrāde f
Lithuanian: televizija f
Low German:
German Low German: Feernseher
Lü: ᦶᦎᧃᧈᦉᦹᧈ (ṫaen¹ṡue¹)
Luxembourgish: Televisioun (lb)
Macedonian: телевизија f (televizija)
Malagasy: fahitalavitra (mg)
Malay: televisyen (ms) (Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore), televisi (ms) (Riau and Sumatra)
Malayalam: ടെലിവിഷൻ (ml) (ṭeliviṣaṉ)
Maltese: televixin, televiżjoni f
Manx: chellveeish f
Maori: pouaka whakaata
Marathi: दूरचित्रवाणी (dūrcitravāṇī)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: телевиз (mn) (televiz), зурагт (mn) (zuragt)
Nahuatl: huehcaīxipcaxitl (nah)
Navajo: níłchʼi naalkidí
Nepali: टेलिभिजन (ne) (ṭelebhidzan), टीभि (ṭibhi), दूरदर्शन (durdarsan)
Norman: télévîsion f
Northern Sami: televišuvdna
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fjernsyn (no) n, TV m, televisjon m

Nynorsk: fjernsyn n, TV m, televisjon (sv)
Occitan: television (oc) f
Odia: ଦୂରଦର୍ଶନ (or) (durôdôrśônô)
Papiamentu: televishon
Pashto: تلويزيون (ps) m (talwizyun)
Pennsylvania German: guckbax
Persian:
Dari: تَلوِیزْیُون (fa) (talwīzyūn)

Iranian Persian: تِلِویزْیون (fa) (televizyon)
Polish: telewizja (pl) f
Portuguese: televisão (pt) f
Quechua: tiliwisiyun, ñawikaruy
Romanian: televiziune (ro) f
Russian: телеви́дение (ru) n (televídenije), ТВ (ru) n (TV)
S'gaw Karen: ကွဲၤဟူဖျါ (kweh̄ hoo hplah)
Samoan: televise
Santali: ᱧᱮᱱᱮᱞᱚᱢ (ñenelôm)
Scots: televeesion
Scottish Gaelic: telebhisean m, cian-dhealbh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: телеви́зија f

Roman: televízija (sh) f
Shona: tiivhii
Sicilian: tilivisiuni f, tivvù f
Sinhalese: රූපවාහිනිය (rūpawāhiniya), ටීවී (ṭīwī), ටෙලි (ṭeli)
Slovak: televízia f
Slovene: televizija (sl) f
Sotho: televishene
Spanish: televisión (es) f, tele (es) f
Sranan Tongo: teifei, teilefisi, telefisi
Swahili: televisheni (sw), runinga (sw)
Swedish: television (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠐꠤꠜꠤ (ṭibí)
Tagalog: telebisyon
Tajik: телевизион (tg) (televizion)
Tamil: தொலைக்காட்சி (ta) (tolaikkāṭci), (Singapore) தொலைநோக்கி (ta) (tolainōkki)
Tatar: телевидение (telewideniye)
Telugu: టెలివిజన్ (te) (ṭelivijan), దూరదర్శిని (te) (dūradarśini)
Thai: โทรทัศน์ (th) (too-rá-tát), ทีวี (th) (tii-wii), สื่อโทรทัศน์
Tibetan: བརྙན་འཕྲིན (brnyan 'phrin)
Tigrinya: ተለቪዥን (tälävižn)
Tsonga: mavonakule
Turkish: televizyon (tr)
Turkmen:
Cyrillic: телевидение

Latin: televideniýe
Ukrainian: телеба́чення n (telebáčennja), телеві́зія f (televízija)
Urdu: ٹیلی وِیژَن f (ṭelī vīźan), بَعِید نُما (ba'īd numā), دُور نُمائی f (dūr numāī)
Uyghur: تېلېۋىزىيە (tëlëwiziye)
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: телевидение (uz) (televideniye)

Latin: televideniye (uz)
Vietnamese: truyền hình (vi) (傳形), TV (vi), ti vi (vi), vô tuyến truyền hình (無線傳形)
Volapük: televid
Welsh: teledu (cy) m
West Frisian: televyzje
Yakut: телевидение (televideniye)
Yiddish: טעלעוויזיע f (televizye)
Yoruba: àfigbéwòran, tẹlifíṣọ̀n
Zhuang: densi
Zulu: thelevishini

device for receiving television signals

Afrikaans: televisie
Albanian: televizor (sq) m
Arabic: تِلْفَاز (ar) m (tilfāz), تِلِفِزْيُون (ar) m (tilifizyūn), جِهَاز تِلِفِزْيُون m (jihāz tilifizyūn)
Armenian: հեռուստացույց (hy) (heṙustacʻuycʻ)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܪܵܣܚܸܙܘܵܐ m (prasḳizwa)
Asturian: televisor m, televisión f, televisor m
Azerbaijani:
Cyrillic: телевизор

Latin: televizor (az)
Bashkir: телевизор (televizor)
Basque: telebista
Bavarian: Fernseha m
Belarusian: тэлеві́зар m (teljevízar)
Bengali: টেলিভিশন সেট (ṭelibhiśon seṭ), টেলিভিশন (bn) (ṭelibhiśon)
Bulgarian: телеви́зор (bg) m (televízor)
Catalan: televisió (ca) f, televisor (ca) m
Central Dusun: televisyen
Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏴᎳᏛᏍᎩ (adayvladvsgi)
Chichewa: wailesi ya kanema
Chinese:
Cantonese: 電視機／电视机 (din⁶ si⁶ gei¹)

Dungan: дяншыҗи (di͡anšɨži), телевизор (ti͡əli͡əvizor)

Hokkien: 電視機／电视机 (zh-min-nan) (tiān-sī-ki)

Mandarin: 電視機／电视机 (zh) (diànshìjī)

Wu: 電視機／电视机 (⁶di-zy-ci)

Xiang: 電視機／电视机 (dienn⁴ shr⁴ ji¹)
Cia-Cia: 뗄레ᄫᅵ시 (televisi)
Cornish: pellwolok f, televisyon m
Cree: ᒋᑲᐢᑌᐸᔨᒋᑲᐣ (cikastepayicikan)
Czech: televizor (cs) m, televize (cs) f, televizní přijímač m
Danish: fjernsyn (da) n, tv (da) n, tv-apparat n
Dutch: televisie (nl) m
Esperanto: televidilo
Estonian: televiisor, teler
Faroese: sjónvarpstól n
Finnish: televisio (fi)
French: téléviseur (fr) m, télévision (fr) f (fam.), télé (fr) f, poste de télévision (fr) m, poste (fr) m
Galician: televisor (gl) m, televisión (gl) f, tele (gl) f
Georgian: ტელევიზორი (ṭelevizori)
German: Fernseher (de) m, Fernsehgerät (de) n, Fernsehapparat (de) m, Glotze (de) f (informal)
Greek: τηλεόραση (el) f (tileórasi)
Greenlandic: fjernsyni
Guaraní: terevi
Hebrew: טלוויזיה \ טֶלֶוִיזְיָה (he) f (televízya)
Hindi: दूरदर्शन (hi) (dūrdarśan), टेलिविजन सेट (ṭelivijan seṭ)
Hungarian: tévékészülék (hu), tévé (hu), televízió (hu), tv (hu)
Icelandic: sjónvarp (is), sjónvarpstæki (is) n
Ido: televidilo (io), televiziono (io)
Iloco: telebisor
Indonesian: televisi (id)
Ingrian: televizora
Interlingua: televisor
Irish: teilifíseán (ga) m
Italian: televisore (it) m, tivù f
Japanese: テレビ (ja) (terebi), テレビセット (terebisetto), 受像機 (じゅぞうき, juzōki)
Kalmyk: зургт (zurgt)
Kamba: tivii, tivii
Kazakh: телевизор (televizor), теледидар (kk) (teledidar)
Khmer: ទូរទស្សន៍ (km) (tuurĕəʼtŭəh)
Kikuyu: tivii
Korean: 텔레비전 (ko) (tellebijeon), 텔레비죤 (ko) (tellebijon) (North Korea), 티비 (tibi), 티뷔 (tibwi), 텔레비 (tellebi)
Kyrgyz: телевизор (ky) (televizor)
Lao: ເຄື່ອງທີວີ (khư̄ang thī wī)
Latin: tēlevīsōrium n, tēlevīstrum n, tēlevīsiō f
Latvian: televizors m tālrādis (lv) m
Lithuanian: televizorius (lt) m
Lü: ᦶᦎᧃᧈᦉᦹᧈ (ṫaen¹ṡue¹)
Luhya: etivii
Luxembourgish: Televisiounsapparat
Macedonian: телеви́зор m (televízor)
Malay: televisyen (ms), peti gambar
Malayalam: ടെലിവിഷൻ (ml) (ṭeliviṣaṉ)
Maltese: televiżjoni f
Manx: çhellveeishan m
Maori: taonga whakaata
Meru: tivii
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: телевизор (mn) (televizor), зурагт (mn) (zuragt)
Navajo: níłchʼi naalkidí
Norman: télévîsion f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fjernsyn (no) n, TV m, fjernsynsapparat n

Nynorsk: fjernsyn n, TV m, fjernsynsapparat m
Occitan: television (oc) f
Ojibwe: mazinaatesijigan
Persian:
Dari: تَلوِیزِیُون (fa) (talwīziyūn)

Iranian Persian: تِلِویزیون (fa) (televizyon)
Polish: telewizor (pl) m
Portuguese: televisor (pt) m, televisão (pt) f, aparelho televisor m
Romanian: televizor (ro) n
Russian: телеви́зор (ru) m (televízor), те́лик (ru) m (télik) (colloquial), телевизио́нный приёмник m (televiziónnyj prijómnik)
Sami:
Kildin Sami: телевизэр (t’el’evizer)
Scots: televeesion, telly
Scottish Gaelic: telebhisean m, cian-dhealbh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: телѐвӣзор m

Roman: telèvīzor (sh) m
Sicilian: tilivisuri m, tivvù f
Slovak: televizor m
Slovene: televizor m, televizijski sprejemnik m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: telewizor m
Sotho: telebishene
Spanish: televisor (es) m, televisión (es) f, tele (es) f
Swahili: runinga (sw), televisheni (sw)
Swedish: television (sv), TV (sv) c, TV-apparat (sv) c
Tagalog: telebisor
Tajik: телевизор (tg) (televizor)
Tamil: தொலைக்காட்சிப் பெட்டி (tolaikkāṭcip peṭṭi)
Tatar: телевизор (telewizor)
Thai: โทรทัศน์ (th) (too-rá-tát), เครื่องรับโทรทัศน์
Turkish: televizyon (tr), televizyon alıcısı (tr)
Turkmen:
Cyrillic: телевизор

Latin: telewizor
Ukrainian: телеві́зор m (televízor)
Urdu: ٹیلی وِیژَن (ṭelī vīźan), دُور نُمائی f (dūr numāī)
Uyghur: تېلېۋىزور́ (tëlëwizoŕ)
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: телевизор (uz) (televizor)

Latin: televizor (uz)
Vietnamese: máy thu hình (vi), TV (vi), ti-vi
Volapük: televidöm
Welsh: teledu (cy) m, set deledu m
Yiddish: טעלעוויזאָר m (televizor)
Yoruba: tẹlifíṣọ̀n, ẹ̀rọ amóhùnmáwòrán, tẹ́lì
Yup'ik: tiiviiq

program broadcasting

Albanian: televizion (sq)
Arabic: تِلْفَاز (ar) m (tilfāz), تِلِفِزْيُون (ar) m (tilifizyūn)
Armenian: հեռուստատեսություն (hy) (heṙustatesutʻyun)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܪܵܣܚܸܙܘܵܐ m (prasḳizwa)
Basque: telebista
Bavarian: Fernsehn n
Bulgarian: телеви́зия (bg) f (televízija)
Catalan: televisió (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 電視／电视 (din⁶ si⁶)

Mandarin: 電視／电视 (zh) (diànshì)
Cornish: pellwolok f, televisyon m
Corsican: televisione f
Czech: televize (cs) f
Danish: tv (da) n
Dutch: televisie (nl) m
Esperanto: televido
Faroese: sjónvarp n
Finnish: televisio (fi)
French: télévision (fr) f
Galician: televisión (gl) f, tele (gl) f
Georgian: ტელევიზია (ṭelevizia)
German: Fernsehen (de) n
Greek: τηλεόραση (el) f (tileórasi)
Guaraní: terevi
Hebrew: טלוויזיה \ טֶלֶוִיזְיָה (he) f (televízya)
Icelandic: sjónvarp (is) n
Interlingua: television
Irish: teilifís (ga) f
Italian: televisione (it) f
Japanese: テレビジョン (ja) (terebijon)
Korean: 텔레비전 (ko) (tellebijeon)
Latin: tēlevīsiō f
Macedonian: телевизија f (televizija)
Malay: televisyen (ms)
Maltese: televiżiv
Manx: çhellveeish f
Navajo: níłchʼi naalkidí
Norman: télévîsion f, télévisiaon f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fjernsyn (no) n, TV m

Nynorsk: fjernsyn n, TV m
Occitan: television (oc) f
Persian:
Dari: تَلوِیزِیُون (fa) (talwīziyūn)

Iranian Persian: تِلِویزیون (fa) (televizyon)
Polish: telewizja (pl) f
Portuguese: televisão (pt) f
Romanian: televiziune (ro) f
Russian: телеви́дение (ru) n (televídenije)
Scots: televeesion, telly
Scottish Gaelic: telebhisean m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: телеви́зија f

Roman: televízija (sh) f
Sicilian: tilivisiuni f
Slovak: televízia f
Spanish: televisión (es) f, tele (es) f
Swahili: televisheni (sw)
Swedish: television (sv)
Tagalog: telebisyon
Thai: โทรทัศน์ (th) (too-rá-tát)
Ukrainian: телеба́чення (telebáčennja)
Urdu: دُور نُمائی f (dūr numāī), ٹیلی وِیژَن m (ṭelī vīźan)
Vietnamese: truyền hình (vi) (傳形), TV (vi), ti-vi, vô tuyến truyền hình (無線傳形), phát hình
Welsh: teledu (cy) m

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Translations to be checked

Ido: ^{(please verify)} televiziono (io)
Maori: ^{(please verify)} reo tātaki, ^{(please verify)} pouaka whakaata

Verb edit

television (third-person singular simple present televisions, present participle televisioning, simple past and past participle televisioned)