telefons

See also: Telefons, telèfons, and telefòns

Danish

Noun

telefons c

1. indefinite genitive singular of telefon

Latvian

Telefons (3)

Etymology

A borrowing, via other European languages, ultimately a 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

Declension of telefons (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	telefons	telefoni
accusative (akuzatīvs)	telefonu	telefonus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	telefona	telefonu
dative (datīvs)	telefonam	telefoniem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	telefonu	telefoniem
locative (lokatīvs)	telefonā	telefonos
vocative (vokatīvs)	telefon	telefoni

Synonyms

• tālrunis

Derived terms

• mobilais telefons
• telefonēt
• telefonija
• telefonisks

Swedish

Noun

telefons

1. indefinite genitive singular of telefon