telefoon

From Dutch telefoon, from French téléphone.

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɪə̯.ləˈfʊə̯n/, /ˌtɛ.ləˈfʊə̯n/

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telefoon (plural telefone or telefoons)

1. telephone

   Synonym: foon

• selfoon
• slimfoon

• telefoonhokkie

Borrowed from French téléphone, equivalent to: tele- +‎ -foon.

• IPA^(key): /teː.ləˈfoːn/

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• Hyphenation: te‧le‧foon
• Rhymes: -oːn

telefoon m (plural telefoons or telefonen, diminutive telefoontje n)

1. telephone (device)
2. telephone call

The plural telefonen is proscribed but common since the invention of the telephone in the late 19th century.

• Afrikaans: telefoon
• → Aukan: telefon
• → Caribbean Hindustani: telfon
• → Caribbean Javanese: tilpon, setilpon, setilpun, stilpon, stilpun
• → Indonesian: telepon, telefon
• → Saramaccan: telefoon
• → Sranan Tongo: teilefown
• → West Frisian: telefoan