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هاتِف
telephone, phone /ˈhaːtif/
nounA1#308 most common
Also: phone, caller, one who calls out, unseen voice (classical sense)
Example sentences
هٰذا هاتِفي.
This is my phone.
أينَ هاتِفُكَ؟
Where is your phone?
نَسيتُ هاتِفي في البَيتِ هٰذا الصَّباح.
I forgot my phone at home this morning.
اِتَّصَلَ بي مُديري على الهاتِفِ قَبلَ المَوعِدِ بِساعة.
My manager called me on the phone an hour before the appointment.
أصبَحَتِ الهَواتِفُ الذَّكِيَّةُ جُزءاً لا يَتَجَزَّأُ مِن حَياتِنا اليَوميَّة.
Smartphones have become an inseparable part of our daily life.
في التُّراثِ العَرَبِيِّ القَديمِ، كانَ الهاتِفُ صَوتاً غامِضاً يُسمَعُ ولا يُرى صاحِبُه.
In old Arabic heritage, the hatif was a mysterious voice that was heard while its owner stayed unseen.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | هاتِفٌ | هَواتِفُ |
| Genitive | هاتِفٍ | هَواتِفَ |
| Accusative | هاتِفاً | هَواتِفَ |
| Vocative | يا هاتِفُ | يا هَواتِفُ |
Word family
هَتَفَto call out, shout, cheer
هُتافcheering, chanting, sloganهاتِفِيّtelephonic, by phoneهَواتِفtelephones (plural)
Etymology
هاتِف is the active participle of the verb هَتَفَ, meaning to call out or to shout. In classical Arabic it named an unseen caller, a voice heard without a visible speaker, and it carried supernatural overtones in old poetry and tales. Modern Arabic reused the word for the telephone, the device through which a distant voice calls. Its root ه-ت-ف is Semitic and has no Indo-European source.
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