# тел
## Avar
### Etymology

Compare Old Armenian թել (tʻel).

### Noun

тел • (tel)
* wire
* telegram

## Bashkir
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *til (“tongue; language”).
Cognate with Tatar тел (tel), Kazakh тіл (tıl), Kyrgyz тил (til), Uzbek til, Turkish dil (“tongue, language”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tɪ̞l]
* Hyphenation: тел (one syllable)

### Noun

тел • (tel)
* language
    Башҡорт теле.Başqort tele.The Bashkir language.
    Әлеге көндә копт теле тик сиркәү теле булараҡ ҡына һаҡланған.Əlege köndə kopt tele tik sirkəw tele bularaq qına haqlanğan.By these days, the Coptic language has been preserved as an ecclesiastical language only.
* tongue
** (Can we date this quote?), Bible, Philippians 2:11:...һәр тел Ғайса Мәсихте Раббы тип таныһын....hər tel Ğaysa Məsixte Rabbı tip tanıhın....let every tongue acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Lord.

#### Declension
## Bulgarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تل.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tɛɫ]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

тел • (tel) m or f (relational adjective те́лен)
* wire (used in purely mechanical applications of metal thread)
** (singular only) wire
    връ́звам с тел ― vrǎ́zvam s tel ― tie with wire
    бодли́ва тел ― bodlíva tel ― barbed wire
** (masculine only) a piece of wire
    свъ́рзвам те́лове ― svǎ́rzvam télove ― connect wires

#### Usage notes

* Feminine declension and gender is rare.

#### See also

* жи́ца (žíca)

### References

* “тел”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
* “тел”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

## Ossetian
### Etymology

Compare Old Armenian թել (tʻel).

### Noun

тел • (tel)
* wire
    сындзджын тел – barbed wire
* telegram
    тел раттын – send a telegram

## Russian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tʲeɫ]

### Noun

тел • (tel) n inan pl
* genitive plural of те́ло (télo)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تل.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /têl/

### Noun

те̏л m (Latin spelling tȅl)
* (obsolete) thin wire
    Не бију се тако побињице, већ се бију од тела канџијом
* silver or golden thread or string for sewing or embroidering
** 1906, Stevan Sremac, Zona Zamfirova:Пустила дугу косу низ плећа и преко груди, а низ дугу косу пушта се тел, блешти и трепери тел међу црном бујном косом, па му изгледа Зона сјајна и свечана као заветна икона.(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
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *til (“tongue; language”).
Cognate with Bashkir тел (tel), Kazakh тіл (tıl), Kyrgyz тил (til), Uzbek til, Turkish dil (“tongue, language”).

### Noun

тел • (tel)
* language
* tongue

#### Declension
## Western Mari

Seasons of the year :
| Previous: | шӹжӹ (šÿžÿ) |
| Next: | шошым (šošym) |

### Etymology

From Proto-Mari [Term?], from Proto-Uralic *tälwä. Cognates include Eastern Mari теле (teĺe).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtel/
* Rhymes: -el
* Hyphenation: тел

### Noun

тел • (tel)
* winter

#### Declension
### References

* Savatkova, A. A. (2008) “тел”, in Slovarʹ gornomarijskovo jazyka [Hill Mari language dictionary] (in Russian), Yoshkar-Ola: Mari publisher, →ISBN
* K. I. Belyaev & P. P. Romashkin (1944) Русско-Марийский Словарь [Russian-Mari Dictionary] (overall work in Russian), Kozmodemyansk: Маргосиздатын Кырык-Мары Филиал, page 99