# tel
## Translingual
### Symbol

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

## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

tel (plural tels)
* Abbreviation of telephone number.
* Abbreviation of telegraph.
* Abbreviation of telegram.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

tel (plural tels)
* 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: [tɛ̞ːl]
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

tel (present tel, present participle telende, past participle tellende)
* 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
* thread
* (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: [tel]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tel (definite accusative teli, plural tellər)
* strand of hair
* string
* wire
* telegram
    tel vurmaq ― to send a telegram (to telegraph)
* fringe; bang; forelock
* tie
    qohumluq telləri ― kinship ties

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tēl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “թել”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin tēlum, from tēla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈtɛl]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈtəl]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtel]

### Noun

tel m (plural tels)
* membrane
* 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: [ˈtéːɬ]

### Etymology 1
#### Particle

tēl
* however, nonetheless

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

tēl inan
* first-person plural possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) our liver; the human liver.
* 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])
* wire
    baqır tel ― copper wire
* (music) chord, string

#### Declension
### References

* “tel”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛl]

### Verb

tel
* second-person singular imperative of telit

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛl

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from tellen.

#### Noun

tel m (plural tellen, diminutive telletje n)
* count
    De gebedssnoeren worden gebruikt om de tel niet kwijt te raken bij het reciteren of chanten. — Prayer beads are used in order to not lose count while reciting or chanting.
* (time) second
* a short moment

##### Derived terms

* op zijn tellen passen

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tel
* inflection of tellen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* Let, let

## Fala
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtel/
* Rhymes: -el
* Syllabification: tel

### Verb

tel
* to have

#### Conjugation
### References

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

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛl/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

tel (feminine telle, masculine plural tels, feminine plural telles)
* such
    Synonyms: même, pareil, semblable
    Être, ou ne pas être : telle est la question.To be, or not to be, that is the question.(literally, “ […] such is the question.”)

#### 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
* like, as
    Synonym: comme
    Il fond sur elle tel un oiseau de proie.He swoops down on her like a bird of prey.
* such as
    Synonyms: comme, tel que
    Ottawa compte aussi de charmantes tables, tel le Fraser Café.Ottawa is also home to some enchanting restaurants, such as the Fraser Café.

#### 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
* 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: [te̞ɾɯ̟]

### Noun

tel(テル) • (teru)
* telephone
* 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))
* (informal) to call (contact by telephone)

#### Conjugation

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") :
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | telし | テルし | teru shi |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | telし | テルし | teru shi |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | telする | テルする | teru suru |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | telする | テルする | teru suru |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | telすれ | テルすれ | teru sure |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | telせよ¹ telしろ² | テルせよ¹ テルしろ² | teru seyo¹ teru shiro² |
| Key constructions ||||
| Passive | telされる | テルされる | teru sareru |
| Causative | telさせる telさす | テルさせる テルさす | teru saseru teru sasu |
| Potential | telできる | テルできる | teru dekiru |
| Volitional | telしよう | テルしよう | teru shiyō |
| Negative | telしない | テルしない | teru shinai |
| Negative continuative | telせず | テルせず | teru sezu |
| Formal | telします | テルします | teru shimasu |
| Perfective | telした | テルした | teru shita |
| Conjunctive | telして | テルして | teru shite |
| Hypothetical conditional | telすれば | テルすれば | teru sureba |
| ¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative ||||

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin tālis.

### Adjective

tel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tele)
* such a
** circa 1050, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland (Oxford manuscript)
    Unques nuls hom tel chevaler ne vitNever has a man seen such a knight

#### Related terms

* itel

## Old Norse
### Verb

tel
* first-person singular present indicative of telja
* second-person singular imperative of telja

## Rohingya
### Alternative forms

* 𐴃𐴠𐴓𐴢 (tel) — Hanifi Rohingya script

### Etymology

From Sanskrit तैल (taila).

### Noun

tel (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴠𐴓𐴢)
* oil

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تل (tel).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /têl/

### Noun

tȅl m (Cyrillic spelling те̏л)
* (obsolete) thin wire
    Ne biju se tako pobinjice, već se biju od tela kandžijom
* silver or golden thread or string for sewing or embroidering
** 1906, Stevan Sremac, Zona Zamfirova:Pustila dugu kosu niz pleća i preko grudi, a niz dugu kosu pušta se tel, blešti i treperi tel među crnom bujnom kosom, pa mu izgleda Zona sjajna i svečana kao zavetna ikona.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### 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
* tongue; language

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tel/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

tel (definite accusative teli, plural teller)
* wire
* thread
* string, chord
    tambur teli ― string of a tambur
* telegram
    tel çekmek ― send a telegram

##### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
tel
teller
definite accusative
teli
telleri
dative
tele
tellere
locative
telde
tellerde
ablative
telden
tellerden
genitive
telin
tellerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
telim
tellerim
2nd singular
telin
tellerin
3rd singular
teli
telleri
1st plural
telimiz
tellerimiz
2nd plural
teliniz
telleriniz
3rd plural
telleri
telleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
telimi
tellerimi
2nd singular
telini
tellerini
3rd singular
telini
tellerini
1st plural
telimizi
tellerimizi
2nd plural
telinizi
tellerinizi
3rd plural
tellerini
tellerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
telime
tellerime
2nd singular
teline
tellerine
3rd singular
teline
tellerine
1st plural
telimize
tellerimize
2nd plural
telinize
tellerinize
3rd plural
tellerine
tellerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
telimde
tellerimde
2nd singular
telinde
tellerinde
3rd singular
telinde
tellerinde
1st plural
telimizde
tellerimizde
2nd plural
telinizde
tellerinizde
3rd plural
tellerinde
tellerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
telimden
tellerimden
2nd singular
telinden
tellerinden
3rd singular
telinden
tellerinden
1st plural
telimizden
tellerimizden
2nd plural
telinizden
tellerinizden
3rd plural
tellerinden
tellerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
telimin
tellerimin
2nd singular
telinin
tellerinin
3rd singular
telinin
tellerinin
1st plural
telimizin
tellerimizin
2nd plural
telinizin
tellerinizin
3rd plural
tellerinin
tellerinin :

##### Derived terms

* ağ teli
* bam teli
* elektrik teli
* gelin teli
* her sakaldan bir tel çekseler köseye sakal olur
* kas teli
* müzik teli
* piyano teli
* saç teli
* ses teli
* tel şehriye
* telli
* telsiz

### Etymology 2

Abbreviation of telefon.

#### Noun

tel
* Abbreviation of telefon.

##### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
tel
teller
definite accusative
teli
telleri
dative
tele
tellere
locative
telde
tellerde
ablative
telden
tellerden
genitive
telin
tellerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
telim
tellerim
2nd singular
telin
tellerin
3rd singular
teli
telleri
1st plural
telimiz
tellerimiz
2nd plural
teliniz
telleriniz
3rd plural
telleri
telleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
telimi
tellerimi
2nd singular
telini
tellerini
3rd singular
telini
tellerini
1st plural
telimizi
tellerimizi
2nd plural
telinizi
tellerinizi
3rd plural
tellerini
tellerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
telime
tellerime
2nd singular
teline
tellerine
3rd singular
teline
tellerine
1st plural
telimize
tellerimize
2nd plural
telinize
tellerinize
3rd plural
tellerine
tellerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
telimde
tellerimde
2nd singular
telinde
tellerinde
3rd singular
telinde
tellerinde
1st plural
telimizde
tellerimizde
2nd plural
telinizde
tellerinizde
3rd plural
tellerinde
tellerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
telimden
tellerimden
2nd singular
telinden
tellerinden
3rd singular
telinden
tellerinden
1st plural
telimizden
tellerimizden
2nd plural
telinizden
tellerinizden
3rd plural
tellerinden
tellerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
telimin
tellerimin
2nd singular
telinin
tellerinin
3rd singular
telinin
tellerinin
1st plural
telimizin
tellerimizin
2nd plural
telinizin
tellerinizin
3rd plural
tellerinin
tellerinin :

### References

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

## Volapük
### Numeral

tel
* two
** 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 19:Hifeilan at dalabom jevodis tel e kunis deg.This farmer owns two horses and ten cows.

#### Derived terms

* telüm

## West Frisian
### Adverb

tel
* (archaic) soon

#### Further reading

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