English
Etymology
From smart + phone; first usage in the mid-1990s.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsmɑːtfəʊn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/
Noun
smartphone (plural smartphones)
- (mobile telephony) A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.
- Hypernym: mobile phone
- Hyponym: iPhone
Derived terms
Translations
electronic handheld device
- Afrikaans: slimfoon
- Arabic: هَاتِف ذَكِيّ (ar) m (hātif ḏakiyy), سِمَارْت فُون m (simārt fūn)
- Armenian: սմարթֆոն (smartʻfon)
- Bashkir: смартфон (smartfon)
- Belarusian: смартфо́н m (smartfón)
- Bengali: স্মার্টফোন (śãrṭophōn)
- Bulgarian: сма́ртфон m (smártfon)
- Catalan: telèfon intel·ligent
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 智能手機 / 智能手机 (zi3 nang4 sau2 gei1)
- Hokkien: 智慧型手機 / 智慧型手机 (tì-hūi-hêng chhiú-ki) (Taiwan)
- Mandarin: 智能手機 / 智能手机 (zh) (zhìnéng shǒujī) (mainland China), 智慧型手機 / 智慧型手机 (zh) (zhìhuìxíng shǒujī) (Taiwan)
- Cornish: fon konnyk m, klapkodh gonnyk f
- Czech: chytrý telefon m, smartphone (cs) m
- Danish: smartphone (da) c
- Dutch: smartphone (nl) m
- Esperanto: saĝtelefono, retpoŝtelefono, smartfono, poŝtelefono (eo)
- Estonian: nutitelefon
- Faroese: snildfon f
- Finnish: älypuhelin (fi)
- French: smartphone (fr) m, ordiphone (fr) m, supertéléphone m, téléphone intelligent (fr) m
- Galician: teléfono intelixente (gl) m
- Georgian: სმარტფონი (smarṭponi)
- German: Smartphone (de) n
- Greek: σμάρτφον (el) n (smártfon)
- Hebrew: סמארטפון (he) m (smártfon), טלפון חכם (he) m (télefon khakhám)
- Hindi: स्मार्टफ़ोन m (smārṭfon), स्मार्टफोन m (smārṭphon)
- Hungarian: okostelefon (hu), smartphone (hu)
- Icelandic: snjallsími (is) m
- Ido: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: telepon cerdas, telepon pintar
- Irish: fón cliste m
- Italian: smartphone (it) m, telefono intelligente m, telefonino intelligente m, cellulare intelligente m, superfonino m, supercellulare m
- Japanese: スマートフォン (ja) (sumātofon), スマートホン (ja) (sumātohon), スマホ (ja) (sumaho)
- Kazakh: смартфон (smartfon)
- Khmer: ស្មាតហ្វូន (smaatfoun)
- Korean: 스마트폰 (ko) (seumateupon)
- Kyrgyz: смартфон (smartfon)
- Lao: ສະມາດໂຟນ (sa māt fōn)
- Latvian: viedtālrunis m
- Lithuanian: išmanusis telefonas m
- Macedonian: паметен телефон m (pameten telefon), смартфон m (smartfon)
- Malay: telefon pintar (ms) (Malaysia), telefon bijak (ms) (Singapore)
- Manx: çhellvane aghtal m
- Maori: waea atamai
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: смартфон (smartfon), ухаалаг утас (uxaalag utas), ухаалаг гар утас (uxaalag gar utas)
- Nepali: स्मार्टफोन (smārṭphon)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: smarttelefon m
- Nynorsk: smarttelefon m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: تِلِفُنِ هوشْمَنْد (telefon-e hušmand), گوشیِ هوشْمَنْد (guši-ye hušmand), اِسْمارْت فون (esmârt fon), سِمارْت فون (semârt fon)
- Polish: smartfon (pl) m
- Portuguese: smartphone (pt) m
- Romanian: smartphone
- Russian: смартфо́н (ru) m (smartfón)
- Scottish Gaelic: fòn tapaidh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: паметни телефон m, смартфон m
- Roman: pametni telefon m, smartfon m
- Slovak: smartfón m, smartphone m, inteligentný telefón m, chytrý telefón m
- Slovene: pametni telefon m
- Spanish: teléfono inteligente m
- Swahili: simu janja
- Swedish: smarttelefon (sv) c, smart telefon (sv) c, smartphone (sv) c, smartmobil (sv) c, smart mobil c, pekmobil (sv) c
- Tamil: நுண்ணறி பேசி (nuṇṇaṟi pēci)
- Tatar: смартфон (smartfon)
- Thai: สมาร์ตโฟน (sà-máat-foon)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: akıllı telefon (tr)
- Ukrainian: смартфо́н (uk) m (smartfón)
- Urdu: اِسْمارْٹ فون m (ismārṭ fon), (please verify) ذَکی مَحْمُول m (zakī mahmūl)
- Uzbek: smartfon
- Vietnamese: điện thoại thông minh (電話聰明), điện thoại tinh khôn, phôn khôn (informal), smát-phôn
- Walloon: sûtifone (wa) m
- Welsh: ffôn clyfar (cy) m
- West Frisian: snoadfoan
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Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English smartphone.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsmɑrt.foːn/, [ˈsmɑɹt.foːn], [ˈsmɑɹt.foʊ̯n]
- Hyphenation: smart‧phone
Noun
smartphone m (plural smartphones)
- smartphone
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English smartphone.
Pronunciation
Noun
smartphone m (plural smartphones)
- smartphone
- Synonyms: ordiphone, supertéléphone, téléphone intelligent
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English smartphone.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzmart.fon/, /ˈzmart.fɔn/
- Rhymes: -artfon, -artfɔn
- Hyphenation: smàrt‧phone
Noun
smartphone m (invariable)
- (mobile telephony) smartphone
- Da quando hai uno smartphone? ― Since when have you had a smartphone?
Further reading
- smartphone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English smartphone.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /iz.maʁ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/ [iz.mah.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni], /iz.maʁt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/ [iz.maht͡ʃˈfõ.ni]
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /iz.maʁ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/ [iz.mah.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni], /iz.maʁt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/ [iz.maht͡ʃˈfõ.ni]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /iz.maɾ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/, /iz.maɾt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʒ.maʁ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/ [iʒ.maχ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni], /iʒ.maʁt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/ [iʒ.maχt͡ʃˈfõ.ni]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /iz.maɻt͡ʃˈfo.ne/, /iz.maɻ.t͡ʃiˈfo.ne/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌsmaɾˈtfo(w)n/, /ˌsmaɾˈtfɔ.nɨ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌsmaɾˈtfo(w)n/, /ˌsmaɾˈtfɔ.nɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌsmaɾˈtfown/, /ˌsmaɾˈtfɔ.nɨ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌsmaɾˈtfon/, /ˌsmaɾˈtfɔ.nɨ/
Noun
smartphone m (plural smartphones)
- smartphone (mobile phone with greater computing capacity)
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English smartphone.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /smaɾdˈfon/ [zmaɾð̞ˈfõn], /esmaɾdˈfon/ [ez.maɾð̞ˈfõn]
- Rhymes: -on
Noun
smartphone m (plural smartphones or smartphone)
- smartphone
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.