iPhone

English

iPhone 15 and 15 Pro models (front)

iPhone 15 and 15 Pro models (back)

Etymology

From i- +‎ phone. Many Apple products have an i- prefix in their names.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪˌfoʊ̯n/
• Homophone: eyephone

Noun

iPhone (plural iPhones)

1. (trademark) A smartphone of a series produced by Apple, which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device.

   Synonym: (humorous) Jesus phone

   Hypernym: smartphone

   • 2012, “Best iPhone 5 concept photos”, in CNet:

     This concept puts the curve back on the iPhone 5 with a silhouette that's reminiscent of a banana phone.

   • 2023 September 19, Yessenia Funes, quoting Robert D. Bullard, “The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity”, in Scientific American‎^[2]:

     “This is before everyone had [geographic information system] mapping, before iPads, iPhones, laptops, Google,” he says. “This is doing research way back with a hammer and a chisel.”

2. (by extension) Any knockoff or similar high-end smartphone; through trademark genericization.

Coordinate terms

• iPad
• iPod
• iMac
• iDevice

Derived terms

• iPhoner

Translations

device

• Arabic: آيْفُون m (ʔāyfūn)

  Hijazi Arabic: آيفون m (ʔāyfōn)

• Armenian: այֆոն (ayfon)
• Belarusian: айфо́н m (ajfón)
• Bengali: আইফোন (aiphōn)
• Burmese: အိုင်ဖုန်း (uinghpun:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘋果手機 / 苹果手机 (zh) (Píngguǒ shǒujī), 愛瘋 / 爱疯 (zh) (àifēng) (slang)

• Czech: iPhone m
• Danish: iPhone c
• Dutch: iPhone (nl) c
• Faroese: iPhone m
• Finnish: iPhone
• French: iPhone (fr) m
• Georgian: აიფონი (aiponi)
• German: iPhone (de) n
• Hawaiian: iPona
• Hebrew: אייפון (he) m (ayfon)
• Hindi: आइफ़ोन m (āifon), आईफ़ोन m (āīfon)
• Italian: melafonino (it) m, iPhone (it) m
• Japanese: アイフォン (Aifon) (transliteration), アイホン (Aihon), アイフォーン (Aifōn) (rare)
• Kannada: ಐಫೋನ್ (aiphōn‌)
• Korean: 아이폰 (ko) (Aipon) (transliteration)
• Lao: ໄອໂຟນ (ʼai fōn)
• Lithuanian: aifònas m
• Malayalam: ഐഫോൺ (aiphōṇ)
• Marathi: आयफोन (āyphon)
• Navajo: biłńjoobałí ntsékeesígíí
• Nepali: आइफोन (āiphon)
• Pashto: آيفون m (āyfōn)
• Persian: آی‌فون (ây-fôn)
• Polish: iPhone (pl) m
• Portuguese: iPhone m
• Punjabi: ਆਈਫ਼ੋਨ (āīfon)
• Russian: айфо́н (ru) m (ajfón)
• Spanish: iPhone m
• Tagalog: iPhone
• Tamil: ஐபோன் (aipōṉ)
• Telugu: ఐఫోన్ (aiphōn)
• Thai: ไอโฟน (ai-foon)
• Turkish: iPhone
• Ukrainian: айфо́н m (ajfón)

See also

• iOS
• BlackBerry

Further reading

• iPhone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pinhoe, hopein

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English iPhone.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aai¹ fung¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: aai¹ fung¹
    • Yale: āai fūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aai¹ fung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ai¹ fung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːi̯⁵⁵ fʊŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

iPhone

1. iPhone (the Apple iPhone)
2. iPhone (a smartphone)

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English iPhone.

Noun

iPhone c (singular definite iPhonen, plural indefinite iPhones)

1. iPhone

Declension

Declension of iPhone

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	iPhone	iPhonen	iPhones	iPhonesene
genitive	iPhones	iPhonens	iPhones'	iPhonesenes

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English iPhone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aj.fɔn/, /i.fɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

iPhone m (plural iPhones)

1. iPhone (the Apple iPhone)
2. iPhone (any smartphone)

   Synonyms: smartphone, ordiphone

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ̯foːn/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

iPhone n (proper noun, strong, genitive iPhones)

1. iPhone

Hungarian

Etymology

From English iPhone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaːjfoːn]
• Rhymes: -oːn

Noun

iPhone (plural iPhone-ok)

1. (trademark) iPhone (a smartphone of a series produced by Apple)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	iPhone	iPhone-ok
accusative	iPhone-t	iPhone-okat
dative	iPhone-nak	iPhone-oknak
instrumental	iPhone-nal	iPhone-okkal
causal-final	iPhone-ért	iPhone-okért
translative	iPhone-ná	iPhone-okká
terminative	iPhone-ig	iPhone-okig
essive-formal	iPhone-ként	iPhone-okként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	iPhone-ban	iPhone-okban
superessive	iPhone-on	iPhone-okon
adessive	iPhone-nál	iPhone-oknál
illative	iPhone-ba	iPhone-okba
sublative	iPhone-ra	iPhone-okra
allative	iPhone-hoz	iPhone-okhoz
elative	iPhone-ból	iPhone-okból
delative	iPhone-ról	iPhone-okról
ablative	iPhone-tól	iPhone-októl
non-attributive possessive - singular	iPhone-é	iPhone-oké
non-attributive possessive - plural	iPhone-éi	iPhone-okéi

Possessive forms of iPhone
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	iPhone-om	iPhone-jaim
2nd person sing.	iPhone-od	iPhone-jaid
3rd person sing.	iPhone-ja	iPhone-jai
1st person plural	iPhone-unk	iPhone-jaink
2nd person plural	iPhone-otok	iPhone-jaitok
3rd person plural	iPhone-juk	iPhone-jaik

Polish

iPhone'y

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English iPhone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj.fɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ajfɔn
• Syllabification: i‧Phone

Noun

iPhone m animal

1. iPhone (smartphone of a series produced by Apple Inc., which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device)

Declension

Declension of iPhone

	singular	plural
nominative	iPhone	iPhone'y
genitive	iPhone'a	iPhone'ów
dative	iPhone'owi	iPhone'om
accusative	iPhone'a	iPhone'y
instrumental	iPhone'em	iPhone'ami
locative	iPhonie	iPhone'ach
vocative	iPhonie	iPhone'y

Further reading

• iPhone in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

iPhone m (plural iPhones)

1. iPhone (smartphone produced by Apple Inc.)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English iPhone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aiˈfon/ [ai̯ˈfõn]
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

iPhone m (plural iPhones)

1. iPhone