Hebrew

Noun

טלפון • ‎(télefon) m ‎(plural indefinite טלפונים, singular construct טלפון־, plural construct טלפוני־)

1. A phone, telephone.

   שיחת טלפון ‎(sikhát-télefon): a phone call.

   מספר טלפון ‎(mispár-télefon): a phone number.

Usage notes

• (all senses): There is some disagreement about the appropriate niqqud (diacritics) to use for the /e/ sounds. The Hebrew Academy, in its examples of loanword niqqud, uses the tzeirei: טֵלֵפוֹן‎, as does Reuven Sivan and Edward A. Levenston, The New Bantam-Megiddo Hebrew & English Dictionary, Bantam Books (1975), ISBN 0-553-26387-0. However, Shimon Zilberman, The Up-to-Date English-Hebrew Hebrew-English Dictionary, Zilberman (1994), uses the segol: טֶלֶפוֹן.

Derived terms

• ט־ל־פ־ן ‎(T-l-p-n)

Related terms

• טִלְפֵּן ‎(tilpen)