טלפון

Hebrew

Etymology

Internationalism, from English telephone and cognates in other languages.

Pronunciation

Noun

טֵלֵפוֹן • (télefon) m (plural indefinite טֵלֵפוֹנִים, singular construct טֵלֵפוֹן־, plural construct טֵלֵפוֹנֵי־)

  1. (countable, telephony) telephone, phone
    Synonym: (obsolete) שָׂח רָחוֹק (sákh-rakhók)
    שיחת טלפון (sikhát-télefon): a phone call.
    מספר טלפון (mispár-télefon): a phone number.

Usage notes

There are differences in usage of niqqud (diacritics) for /e/ in modern loanwords.

  • Sources using tzere (טֵלֵפוֹן):
    • The Hebrew Academy [1]
    • Reuven Sivan and Edward A. Levenston, The New Bantam-Megiddo Hebrew & English Dictionary, Bantam Books (1975), →ISBN
  • Sources using segol (טֶלֶפוֹן):
    • Shimon Zilberman, The Up-to-Date English-Hebrew Hebrew-English Dictionary (1994)
    • The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary (1998)
    • Arie Comey and Naomi Tsur, NTC's Hebrew and English Dictionary (2000)
    • Edna Lauden, Liora Weinbach, and Miriam Shani, Multi Dictionary: Bilingual learners' dictionary (2006)

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  • “טלפון” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Further reading

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