German

Noun

Telefons

1. genitive singular of Telefon

Danish

Noun

telefons c

1. genitive singular indefinite of telefon

Latvian

Telefons (3)

Etymology

A borrowing, via other European languages, ultimately a from Borrowing from French téléphone, a word coined in the 1830s from two Ancient Greek elements, τῆλε ‎(têle, “afar”) and φωνή ‎(phōnḗ, “voice, sound”).

Noun

telefons m (1st declension)

1. telephone (electronic device that converts electrical impulses into sound)

   elektromagnētiskais telefons‎ ― electromagnetic telephone

   galvas telefons‎ ― headphone (lit. head telephone)

2. (usually singular) telephone (telecommunication via telephone)

   telefona sakari‎ ― telephone connections

   telefona vadi, stieples‎ ― telephone wires, cables

   rūpnīcas iekšējais telefons‎ ― the factory's internal telephone (= interphone)

   telefona tīkls‎ ― telephone network

   telefona abonents‎ ― telephone subscriber

   telefona centrāle‎ ― telephone exchange

   telefona saruna‎ ― telephone conversation

   mūsu šodienas dzīve bez telefona ir grūti pat iedomāties‎ ― it is difficult to even imagine our life today without the telephone

   no nama uz namu stiepjas elektriskās līnijas un telefona kabeļi‎ ― from house to house

3. telephone set, phone (electronic device used for communication between two people)

   telefona klausule‎ ― telephone receiver

   runāt, zvanīt pa telefonu‎ ― to talk, to call by phone

   atkal zvanīja telefons; Birgitai mājās esot, Arnolds pie aparāta izvairījās iet‎ ― again the telephone rang; Birgita being home, Arnolds avoided picking it up (lit. going to the telephone set)

   “Nikolajs smagi saslimis”, viņa teica; “mazliet pagaidi un piezvani otrreiz, es aiznesīšu telefonu otrā istabā pie viņa gultas” — “Nikolajs is very sick,” she said; “wait a little and call again, I will take the telephone into the other room to his bed”

4. telephone number

   telefona grāmatu, telefonu grāmatu‎ ― phone book (list of the telephone numbers of the subscribers of a telephone network)

   es pārrakstu telefonus Nākamgada kalendārā‎ ― I am copying the telephone (numbers) to next year's calendar

   Dinas tēvs metas istabā pie sava rakstāmgalda, pagrābj telefonu grāmata un trīcošiem pirkstiem šķir lapas‎ ― Dina's father threw himself into the room, (went) to his desk, grabbed the phone book and with trembling fingers separated its pages

Declension

Synonyms

• tālrunis

Derived terms

• mobilais telefons
• telefonēt
• telefonija
• telefonisks

Swedish

Noun

telefons

1. indefinite genitive singular of telefon