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هاتِفِيّ
telephonic /haːtiˈfijj/
adjectiveA2#1243 most common
Also: phone (attributive), by telephone
Example sentences
هذِهِ مُكالَمة هاتِفِيّة.
This is a phone call.
أَجرَيتُ مُكالَمة هاتِفِيّة مَعَ صَديقي.
I made a phone call with my friend.
يُقَدِّمُ البَنكُ خِدمة هاتِفِيّة عَلى مَدارِ السّاعة.
The bank offers a phone service around the clock.
أَجرَتِ الصَّحَفِيّةُ مُقابَلة هاتِفِيّة مَعَ الوَزير.
The journalist conducted a phone interview with the minister.
اِعتَمَدَ التَّحقيقُ عَلى تَسجيلاتٍ هاتِفِيّة مَشبوهة.
The investigation relied on suspicious phone recordings.
أَثارَ التَّنَصُّتُ الهاتِفِيُّ غَيرُ القانونِيِّ جَدَلاً واسِعاً حَولَ حِمايةِ الخُصوصِيّة.
Illegal phone tapping raised wide controversy over the protection of privacy.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | هاتِفِيٌّ | هاتِفِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | هاتِفِيٍّ | هاتِفِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | هاتِفِيًّا | هاتِفِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | يا هاتِفِيُّ | يا هاتِفِيُّونَ |
Word family
Etymology
هاتفي is a relative adjective built from هاتف, the standard Arabic word for telephone. هاتف is the active participle of the verb هتف, to shout or call out, so it first meant a caller or an unseen voice. When Arabic needed a term for the telephone, it drew on this sense of a voice that calls. The suffix ـيّ then turns the noun into an adjective, much as English uses -ic.
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