Telephone

Noun

 * 1) An electronic device used for two-way talking with other people (often shortened to phone).

Synonyms

 * blower
 * phone
 * Ameche
 * dog and bone
 * See also Thesaurus:phone

Related terms

 * landline
 * mobile telephone
 * public telephone
 * telephone book
 * telephone box
 * telephone call
 * telephone conference
 * telephony

Verb

 * 1) To contact someone by dialing his or her telephone number; to make someone's telephone ring using one's own telephone.

Synonyms

 * call
 * drop a line
 * phone
 * ring
 * See also Thesaurus:telephone

Adjectives for Telephone
limitless; effective; clattering; mute,

Verbs for Telephone
acquire—; communicate by—; confirm by—; disconnect—; drone into—; inform by—; install—; necessitate—; remove—; repair—; scurry to—; sever—; —assists; —awakens; —clamors; —distracts; —diverts; —eases; —enables; —facilitates; —jangles; —lightens; —persists; —shrills.

Thesaurus
blower, buzz, call, call box, call up, carbon telephone, coin telephone, desk telephone, dial, dial telephone, extension, give a ring, handset, hang up, hold the phone, horn, listen in, make a call, mouthpiece, pay station, phone, public telephone, push-button telephone, radiotelephone, receiver, ring, ring off, ring up, telephone booth, telephone engineering, telephone extension, telephone mechanics, telephone receiver, telephonics, telephony, transmitter, wall telephone, wireless telephone

Etymology
From téléphone: from  τῆλε: + φωνή:

Noun

 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: telefono
 * Belarusian: тэлефон
 * Bengali: টেলিফোন
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: တယ်လီဖုန်း
 * Catalan: telèfon
 * Cebuano: telepono
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: (din6waa6)
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Min Nan:
 * Wu: (diwu)
 * Comox:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: telefon
 * Georgian: ტელეფონი
 * German:, Telephon, Fernsprecher
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guaraní: pumbyry
 * Gujarati: દૂરબોલ (durbol)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, टेलीफ़ोन, फ़ोन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Inuktitut:
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ទូរស័ព្ទ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: telefon
 * Sorani: ته‌ليفون


 * Lao:
 * Latin: telephonum, telephonium
 * Macedonian:
 * Malagasy: telefàonina
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: telefon, telefown
 * Manx: çhellvane
 * Maori: waea, whoounu
 * Marathi: टेलीफोन (ṭelīphona)
 * Mongolian: харилцуур утас, телефон
 * Nahuatl: mekatlanonotski
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: telefòn
 * Papiamentu: telefón
 * Persian:, دورواژ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਟੈਲੀਫ਼ੋਨ (ṭailīfōna)
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: telefon
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: दूरभाषं
 * Scottish Gaelic: fòn, cian-fhuaim
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: телефон
 * Roman: telefon
 * Shona: runhare
 * Sinhalese: බණුව
 * Slovak: telefón
 * Slovene: telefon
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: telepono, telépono
 * Telugu: దూరవాణి
 * Thai: โทรศัพท์
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: телефон
 * Urdu: ٹیلیفون, ہاتف
 * Vietnamese:, dây nói
 * Volapük: telefonöm, telefonaparat
 * Walloon: telefone
 * Welsh: teliffon
 * West Frisian: tillefoan, telefoan
 * Yiddish: טעלעפאן

Verb

 * Arabic: ( li-)
 * Bosnian: telefonirati, nazvati na telefon
 * Breton:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 打電話, 打电话
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: soittaa (puhelimella)
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: τηλεφωνώ,
 * Hindi: फ़ोन करना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 電話をかける
 * Korean: 전화를 걸다
 * Macedonian:, ѕвони
 * Maltese: ċempel


 * Persian: دورواژیدن, تلفن کردن
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romansch: telefonar
 * Russian: звонить, позвонить (по телефону po telefónu), телефонировать  /
 * Scottish Gaelic: fòn
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: телефонирати,  телефон
 * Roman: telefonirati, nazvati na
 * Slovak: telefonovať, zatelefonovať, volať, zavolať
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: piga simu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tumawag
 * Thai: โทร, ต่อโทรศัพท์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: дзвонити, телефонувати
 * Vietnamese: gọi điện thoại, gọi điện, kêu điện thoại
 * Volapük: telefonön
 * Yiddish: טעלעפֿאנירן