tel

English Online Dictionary. What means tel‎? What does tel mean?

Translingual

Symbol

tel

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Telugu.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

tel (plural tels)

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

tel (plural tels)

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

Anagrams

• -let, ELT, ETL, LTE, TLE, elt, let

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɛ̞ːl]

Verb

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

1. to count

References

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

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تل (tel).

Noun

tel

1. thread
2. (music) chord, string

Derived terms

• tejzë

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tēl (“wire, string; thong; strand”). 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 (tʻel, “thread”), either as a direct borrowing or originating from the same Iranian source.

The sense 'telegram' is possibly a phono-semantic matching of Azerbaijani teleqram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tel]

Noun

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
6. tie

   qohumluq telləri ― kinship ties

Declension

References

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin tēlum, from tēla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɛl]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈtəl]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtel]

Noun

tel m (plural tels)

1. membrane
2. film, skin

   tel de ceba ― onionskin

Derived terms

• tel de la llengua

Further reading

• “tel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtéːɬ]

Etymology 1

Particle

tēl

1. however, nonetheless

Etymology 2

Noun

tēl inan

1. first-person plural possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) our liver; the human liver.
2. first-person plural possessive plural of ēlli; (they are) our livers.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Compare Ottoman Turkish تل (tel), Old Armenian թել (tʻel).

Noun

tel (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. wire

   baqır tel ― copper wire

2. (music) chord, string

Declension

References

• “tel”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

Deverbal from tellen.

Noun

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.^(WP) — Prayer beads are used in order to not lose count while reciting or chanting.

2. (time) second
3. a short moment

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tel

1. inflection of tellen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• Let, let

Fala

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese teer. Compare Portuguese ter and Galician ter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtel/
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: tel

Verb

tel

1. to have

Conjugation

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛl/

Adjective

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

1. such

   Synonyms: même, pareil, semblable

Derived terms

• comme tel
• en tant que tel
• rien de tel
• telle mère, telle fille
• tel père, tel fils
• tel et tel
• tel ou tel
• tel quel

Conjunction

tel

1. like, as

   Synonym: comme

2. such as

   Synonyms: comme, tel que

Usage notes

• Even in this usage, tel agrees in gender and number with the noun that follows, as in tel un oiseau (like a bird) or telles des feuilles (like leaves).

Pronoun

tel

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

Derived terms

• tellement

Further reading

• “tel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English tel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [te̞ɾɯ̟]

Noun

tel(テル) • (teru) 

1. telephone
2. telephone number

Verb

tel(テル)する • (teru suru) suru (stem tel(テル)し (teru shi), past tel(テル)した (teru shita))

1. (informal) to call (contact by telephone)

Conjugation

Old French

Etymology

From Latin tālis.

Adjective

tel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tele)

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

Declension

Related terms

• itel

Old Norse

Verb

tel

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

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• 𐴃𐴠𐴓𐴢 (tel) — Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Sanskrit तैल (taila).

Noun

tel (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴠𐴓𐴢)

1. oil

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تل (tel).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têl/

Noun

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

Declension

References

• 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

Tatar

Noun

tel

1. tongue; language

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tel/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish تل (tel). See it for more.

Noun

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

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of telefon.

Noun

tel

1. Abbreviation of telefon.

Declension

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Volapük

Numeral

tel

1. two

Derived terms

• telüm

West Frisian

Adverb

tel

1. (archaic) soon

Further reading

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