tel

Clipping of English Telugu or Telugu తెలుగు (telugu).

tel

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Telugu terms

tel (plural tels)

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

tel (plural tels)

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

• -let, ELT, ETL, LTE, TLE, elt, let

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

• IPA^(key): [tɛ̞ːl]

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

1. to count

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

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تل (tel).

tel

1. thread
2. (music) chord, string

• tejzë

• IPA^(key): [tel]

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From Proto-Turkic *tēl (“wire, string; thong; strand”).^[1] 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”),^[2][3] either as a direct borrowing or originating from the same Iranian source.

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

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

Clipping of telefon.

tel (definite accusative teli, plural tellər)

1. (Internet) telephone

Inherited from Late Latin tēlum, from tēla.

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

tel m (plural tels)

1. membrane
2. film, skin

   tel de ceba ― onionskin

• tel de la llengua

• “tel”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): [ˈtéːɬ]

tēl

1. however, nonetheless

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.

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

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

1. wire

   baqır tel ― copper wire

2. (music) chord, string

• “tel”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛl]

tel

1. second-person singular imperative of telit

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

Deverbal from tellen.

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tel

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

• Let, let

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

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

tel

1. to have

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 406

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

• IPA^(key): /tɛl/

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

1. 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.”)

tel

1. like, as

   Synonym: comme

   Il fond sur elle tel un oiseau de proie.

   He swoops down on her like a bird of prey.

2. 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.

• 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).

tel m

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

• tellement

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

Borrowed from Dutch tel (“count”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛl/ [ˈt̪ɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Syllabification: tel

tel (plural tel-tel)

1. (obsolete) count

   Synonym: bilangan

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛl/ [ˈt̪ɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Syllabification: tel

tel (plural tel-tel)

1. apocopic form of telepon

• “tel”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from English tel.

• IPA^(key): [te̞ɾɯ̟]

tel(テル) • (teru) 

1. telephone
2. telephone number

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)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tel.

tel

1. to accompany, join (other people in a group)

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “tel”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

From Latin tālis.

tel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tele)

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

     Unques nuls hom tel chevaler ne vit

     Never has a man seen such a knight

• itel

tel

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

• 𐴃𐴠𐴓𐴢 (tel) — Hanifi Rohingya script

From Sanskrit तैल (taila).

tel (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴠𐴓𐴢)

1. oil

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تل (tel).

• IPA^(key): /têl/

tȅl m inan (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
   • 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)

• 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

tel

1. tongue; language

• IPA^(key): /tel/

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

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

Abbreviation of telefon.

tel

1. abbreviation of telefon

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

Volapük cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tel     Ordinal : telid     Adverbial : telna

tel

1. 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.

• telüm

tel

1. (archaic) soon

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