smartphone

smartphone

See also: Smartphone and smart phone

English

Samsung smartphones (frontside)

Samsung smartphones (backside)

Etymology

smart +‎ phone, first usage in the mid-1990s

Pronunciation

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

Noun

smartphone (plural smartphones)

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

   Hypernym: mobile phone

   Hyponym: iPhone

Translations

electronic handheld device

Afrikaans: slimfoon Arabic: هَاتِف ذَكِيّ‎ (ar) m (hātif ḏakiyy), سِمَارْت فُون‎ m (simārt fūn) Armenian: սմարթֆոն (smartʿfon) Bashkir: смартфон (smartfon) Belarusian: смартфо́н m (smartfón) Bengali: স্মার্টফোন (smarṭôphon) Bulgarian: сма́ртфон m (smártfon) Catalan: telèfon intel·ligent, intel·lifon Chinese: Cantonese: 智能手機, 智能手机 (zi3 nang4 sau2 gei1) 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) Min Nan: 智慧型手機 (tì-hūi-hêng chhiú-ki) 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, nutifon, taibutelefon 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 Japanese: スマートフォン (ja) (sumātofon), スマートホン (sumātohon), スマホ (ja) (sumaho) Kazakh: смартфон (smartfon) Khmer: ស្មាតហ្វូន (smaatfoun) Korean: 스마트폰 (ko) (seumateupon), 스마폰 (seumapon) Kyrgyz: смартфон (smartfon) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latvian: viedtālrunis m Lithuanian: išmanusis telefonas m Malay: telefon pintar (ms) (Malaysia), telefon bijak (ms) (Singapore) Manx: çhellvane aghtal m Maori: waea atamai Mongolian: смартфон (smartfon), ухаалаг утас (uxaalag utas), ухаалаг гар утас (uxaalag gar utas) Nepali: स्मार्टफोन (smārṭphon) Norwegian: Bokmål: smarttelefon m Nynorsk: smarttelefon m Persian: تلفن هوشمند‎ (telefon-e hušmand), سمارت فون‎ (semârt fown), اسمارت فون‎ (esmârt fown) 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 Ukrainian: смартфо́н (uk) m (smartfón) Urdu: سمارٹ فون‎ m (smārṭ fon), ذکی محمول‎ (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
• Smartphones on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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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

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English smartphone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smaʁt.fɔn/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

Noun

smartphone m (plural smartphones)

1. smartphone

   Synonyms: ordiphone, supertéléphone, téléphone intelligent

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Italian

Quattro smartphone — Four smartphones

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English smartphone.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaʁt͡ʃˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaht͡ʃˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaʁ.t͡ʃiˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmah.t͡ʃiˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaʁt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/ [ˌsmaht͡ʃˈfõ.ni], /ˌsmaʁ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/ [ˌsmah.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaʁt͡ʃˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaht͡ʃˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaʁ.t͡ʃiˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmah.t͡ʃiˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaʁt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/ [ˌsmaht͡ʃˈfõ.ni], /ˌsmaʁ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/ [ˌsmah.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaɾt͡ʃˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaɾt͡ʃˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaɾ.t͡ʃiˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaɾ.t͡ʃiˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaɾt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/, /ˌsmaɾ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaʁt͡ʃˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaχt͡ʃˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaʁ.t͡ʃiˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaχ.t͡ʃiˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaʁt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/ [ˌsmaχt͡ʃˈfõ.ni], /ˌsmaʁ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/ [ˌsmaχ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaɻt͡ʃˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaɻt͡ʃˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaɻt͡ʃˈfo.ne/

 

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

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

Noun

smartphone m (plural smartphones)

1. smartphone (mobile phone with greater computing capacity)

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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.