tel

tel (plural tels)

1. Abbreviation of telephone number.
2. Abbreviation of telegraph.
3. Abbreviation of telegram.

tel (plural tels)

1. Alternative form of tell (“hill or mound”)

• -let, ELT, ETL, LTE, TLE, elt, let

From Dutch tellen, from Middle Dutch tellen, from Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

• IPA^(key): [tɛ̞ːl]

tel (present tel, present participle telende, past participle tellende)

1. to count

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تل‎ (tel), from Armenian թել (tʿel, “thread”).

tel

1. thread
2. (music) chord, string

• tejzë

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “թել”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

From Proto-Turkic *tēl (“wire, string; thong; strand”)[1]. Cognate with Karakhanid تِلیٖ‎ (tili, “thong”), Crimean Tatar and Turkish tel, Turkmen til, Kumyk and Nogai тел (tel), Chuvash тал (tal, “bundle”). Alternatively, related to Armenian թել (tʿel, “thread”)[2][3].

• IPA^(key): [tel]

tel (definite accusative teli, plural tellər)

1. strand of hair
2. string
3. wire
4. telegram

   tel vurmaq ― to send a telegram (to telegraph)

5. fringe; bang; forelock

• IPA^(key): /teːl/

tel

1. nonetheless

From Armenian թել (tʿel, “thread”).

tel

1. wire

   baqır tel ― copper wire

2. (music) chord, string

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “թել”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

tel m (plural tellen, diminutive telletje n)

1. count

   De gebedssnoeren worden gebruikt om de tel niet kwijt te raken bij het reciteren of chanten. — Prayer beads are used in order to not lose count while reciting or chanting.

2. (time) second
3. a short moment

tel

1. first-person singular present indicative of tellen
2. imperative of tellen

• Let, let

From Old French tel, from Latin tālis. Compare Spanish tal.

• IPA^(key): /tɛl/

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tel (feminine singular telle, masculine plural tels, feminine plural telles)

1. such

tel

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

• tellement

• “tel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin tālis.

tel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tele)

1. such a
   • circa 1050, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland (Oxford manuscript)

     Unques nuls hom tel chevaler ne vit

     Never has a man seen such a knight

• itel

tel

1. first-person singular present indicative of telja
2. second-person singular imperative of telja

From Sanskrit तैल (taila).

tel

1. oil

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تل‎ (tel), from Armenian թել (tʿel, “thread”).

• IPA^(key): /têl/

tȅl m (Cyrillic spelling те̏л)

1. (obsolete) thin wire

   Ne biju se tako pobinjice, već se biju od tela kandžijom

2. silver or golden thread or string for sewing or embroidering
   • 1906, Stevan Sremac, Zona Zamfirova:

     Pustila dugu kosu niz pleća i preko grudi, a niz dugu kosu pušta se tel, blešti i treperi tel među crnom bujnom kosom, pa mu izgleda Zona sjajna i svečana kao zavetna ikona.

• 1957, Škaljić Abdulah, Turcizmi u narodnom govoru, Sarajevo
• 1976, Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика, VI. књига, Ц-Ш (стотина), друго фототипско издање, Матица српска, Нови Сад, стр. 171

tel

1. tongue; language

• IPA^(key): /tɛl/

From Ottoman Turkish تل‎ (tel, “thread”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *tēl (“wire, string; thong; strand”)[1]. Cognate with Karakhanid تِلیٖ‎ (tili, “thong”), Crimean Tatar and Azerbaijani tel, Turkmen til, Kumyk and Nogai тел (tel), Chuvash тал (tal, “bundle”). Alternatively, related to Armenian թել (tʿel, “thread”)[2][3].

tel (definite accusative teli, plural teller)

1. wire
2. thread
3. string, chord

   tambur teli ― string of a tambur

4. telegram

   tel çekmek ― send a telegram

Abbreviation of telefon.

tel

1. Abbreviation of telefon.

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “թել”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

tel

1. two

• telüm

tel

1. (archaic) soon

• “tel (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011