smartphone

See also: Smartphone and smart phone

English

Etymology

From smart +‎ phone; first usage in the mid-1990s.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɑːtfəʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

smartphone (plural smartphones)

1. (mobile telephony) A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.

   Hypernym: mobile phone

   Hyponym: iPhone

Derived terms

• flip smartphone
• modular smartphone
• smartphone zombie

Translations

electronic handheld device

Afrikaans: slimfoon Arabic: هَاتِف ذَكِيّ (ar) m (hātif ḏakiyy), سِمَارْت فُون m (simārt fūn) Armenian: սմարթֆոն (smartʻfon) Bashkir: смартфон (smartfon) Belarusian: смартфо́н m (smartfón) Bengali: স্মার্টফোন (śãrṭophōn) Bulgarian: сма́ртфон m (smártfon) Catalan: telèfon intel·ligent Chinese: Cantonese: 智能手機 / 智能手机 (zi3 nang4 sau2 gei1) Hokkien: 智慧型手機 / 智慧型手机 (tì-hūi-hêng chhiú-ki) (Taiwan) Mandarin: 智能手機 / 智能手机 (zh) (zhìnéng shǒujī) (mainland China), 智慧型手機 / 智慧型手机 (zh) (zhìhuìxíng shǒujī) (Taiwan) Cornish: fon konnyk m, klapkodh gonnyk f Czech: chytrý telefon m, smartphone (cs) m Danish: smartphone (da) c Dutch: smartphone (nl) m Esperanto: saĝtelefono, retpoŝtelefono, smartfono, poŝtelefono (eo) Estonian: nutitelefon Faroese: snildfon f Finnish: älypuhelin (fi) French: smartphone (fr) m, ordiphone (fr) m, supertéléphone m, téléphone intelligent (fr) m Galician: teléfono intelixente (gl) m Georgian: სმარტფონი (smarṭponi) German: Smartphone (de) n Greek: σμάρτφον (el) n (smártfon) Hebrew: סמארטפון (he) m (smártfon), טלפון חכם (he) m (télefon khakhám) Hindi: स्मार्टफ़ोन m (smārṭfon), स्मार्टफोन m (smārṭphon) Hungarian: okostelefon (hu), smartphone (hu) Icelandic: snjallsími (is) m Ido: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: telepon cerdas, telepon pintar Irish: fón cliste m Italian: smartphone (it) m, telefono intelligente m, telefonino intelligente m, cellulare intelligente m, superfonino m, supercellulare m Japanese: スマートフォン (ja) (sumātofon), スマートホン (ja) (sumātohon), スマホ (ja) (sumaho) K'iche': smartphone, smartpon, smartfon Kazakh: смартфон (smartfon) Khmer: ស្មាតហ្វូន (smaatfoun) Korean: 스마트폰 (ko) (seumateupon) Kyrgyz: смартфон (smartfon) Lao: ສະມາດໂຟນ (sa māt fōn) Latvian: viedtālrunis m Lithuanian: išmanusis telefonas m Macedonian: паметен телефон m (pameten telefon), смартфон m (smartfon) Malay: telefon pintar (ms) (Malaysia), telefon bijak (ms) (Singapore) Manx: çhellvane aghtal m Maori: waea atamai Mongolian: Cyrillic: смартфон (smartfon), ухаалаг утас (uxaalag utas), ухаалаг гар утас (uxaalag gar utas) Nepali: स्मार्टफोन (smārṭphon) Norwegian: Bokmål: smarttelefon m Nynorsk: smarttelefon m Persian: Iranian Persian: تِلِفُنِ هوشْمَنْد (telefon-e hušmand), گوشیِ هوشْمَنْد (guši-ye hušmand), اِسْمارْت فون (esmârt fon), سِمارْت فون (semârt fon) Polish: smartfon (pl) m Portuguese: smartphone (pt) m Romanian: smartphone Russian: смартфо́н (ru) m (smartfón) Scottish Gaelic: fòn tapaidh m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: паметни телефон m, смартфон m Roman: pametni telefon m, smartfon m Slovak: smartfón m, smartphone m, inteligentný telefón m, chytrý telefón m Slovene: pametni telefon m Spanish: teléfono inteligente m Swahili: simu janja Swedish: smarttelefon (sv) c, smart telefon (sv) c, smartphone (sv) c, smartmobil (sv) c, smart mobil c, pekmobil (sv) c Tamil: நுண்ணறி பேசி (nuṇṇaṟi pēci) Tatar: смартфон (smartfon) Thai: สมาร์ตโฟน (sà-máat-foon) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: akıllı telefon (tr) Ukrainian: смартфо́н (uk) m (smartfón) Urdu: اِسْمارْٹ فون m (ismārṭ fon), (please verify) ذَکی مَحْمُول m (zakī mahmūl) Uzbek: smartfon Vietnamese: điện thoại thông minh (電話聰明), điện thoại tinh khôn, phôn khôn (informal), smát-phôn Walloon: sûtifone (wa) m Welsh: ffôn clyfar (cy) m West Frisian: snoadfoan

Further reading

• smartphone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Smartphones on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English smartphone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɑrt.foːn/, [ˈsmɑɹt.foːn], [ˈsmɑɹt.foʊ̯n]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: smart‧phone

Noun

smartphone m (plural smartphones)

1. smartphone

Related terms

• smombie

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

smartphone

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from English smartphone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smaʁt.fɔn/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

smartphone m (plural smartphones)

1. smartphone

   Synonyms: ordiphone, supertéléphone, téléphone intelligent

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

smartphone

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English smartphone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzmart.fon/, /ˈzmart.fɔn/
• Rhymes: -artfon, -artfɔn
• Hyphenation: smàrt‧phone

Noun

smartphone m (invariable)

1. (mobile telephony) smartphone

   Da quando hai uno smartphone? ― Since when have you had a smartphone?

Further reading

• smartphone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English smartphone.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iz.maʁ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/ [iz.mah.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni], /iz.maʁt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/ [iz.maht͡ʃˈfõ.ni]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iz.maʁ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/ [iz.mah.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni], /iz.maʁt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/ [iz.maht͡ʃˈfõ.ni]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /iz.maɾ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/, /iz.maɾt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʒ.maʁ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/ [iʒ.maχ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni], /iʒ.maʁt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/ [iʒ.maχt͡ʃˈfõ.ni]
  • (Porto Alegre) IPA^(key): /iz.maɻt͡ʃˈfo.ne/, /iz.maɻ.t͡ʃiˈfo.ne/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaɾˈtfo(w)n/, /ˌsmaɾˈtfɔ.nɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaɾˈtfo(w)n/, /ˌsmaɾˈtfɔ.nɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaɾˈtfown/, /ˌsmaɾˈtfɔ.nɨ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaɾˈtfon/, /ˌsmaɾˈtfɔ.nɨ/

Noun

smartphone m (plural smartphones)

1. smartphone (mobile phone with greater computing capacity)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English smartphone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smaɾdˈfon/ [zmaɾð̞ˈfõn], /esmaɾdˈfon/ [ez.maɾð̞ˈfõn]
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

smartphone m (plural smartphones or smartphone)

1. smartphone

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.