טלפון

From English telephone and cognates in other languages.

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈtelefon/

טֶלֶפוֹן • (télefon) m (plural indefinite טֶלֶפוֹנִים‎, singular construct טֶלֶפוֹן־, plural construct טֶלֶפוֹנֵי־‎)

1. A phone, telephone.

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

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

• (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. However, Shimon Zilberman, The Up-to-Date English-Hebrew Hebrew-English Dictionary, Zilberman (1994), uses the segol: טֶלֶפוֹן.

• ט־ל־פ־ן‎ (T-l-p-n)

• טִלְפֵּן‎ (tilpen)