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Mobile phone

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English

Noun phrase

mobile phone (plural: mobile phones)

  1. Mobile communications system that uses a combination of radio wave transmission and conventional telephone switching to permit telephone communication to and from mobile users within a specified area.

Synonyms

  • mobile (note: word used in the UK and AUS)
  • cellphone, cell-phone , cellphone (note: word used in the US)
  • cellular mobile , cellular
  • wireless phone

Translations

  • Bulgarian: мобилен телефон m
  • Chinese: 移動電話 (yí dòng diàn huà); 手提电话 (shŏu tí diàn huà)
  • Dutch: mobiele telefoon , GSM, mobieltje
  • Esperanto: poŝtelefono (eo)
  • Finnish: matkapuhelin , kännykkä (Not the official word, but more widely used)
  • French: téléphone mobile , téléphone cellulaire , GSM (note: often used for mobile phones that are not technically GSM)
  • German: Handy, Mobiltelefon
  • Hebrew: פלפון
  • Indonesian: telepon selular , telepon genggam
  • Interlingua: telephono mobile
  • Italian: cellulare m, telefono cellulare m, telefono mobile m, telefonino m
  • Japanese: 携帯電話 (けいたいでんわ , keitai-denwa), 携帯 (けいたい , keitai)
  • Polish: telefon komórkowy m, komórka f (colloq.)
  • Portuguese: telefone móvel m, telefone celular m, celular m
  • Romanian: telefon mobil n, telefon celular n
  • Russian: мобильный телефон (ru) (mobil'nyj telefon) m, сотовый телефон (ru) (sotovyj telefon) m
  • Spanish: teléfono móvil
  • Swedish: mobiltelefon , mobil
  • Vietnamese: điện thoại di động



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