tel

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tel"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Telugu or Telugu తెలుగు (telugu).

Symbol

tel

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Telugu terms

English

Etymology 1

Noun

tel (plural tels)

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

Translations

abbreviation of telephone number

Finnish: puh. (fi) Georgian: ტელ (ṭel) Indonesian: telp. Japanese: tel (ja) (teru), 電番 (denban) Lao: ໂທ (thō) Mongolian: утас (mn) (utas) (no abbreviation used) Russian: телефо́н (ru) m (telefón) (no abbreviation is used)

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]

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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