English Explanatory Dictionary

handphone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A mobile phone.
  2. A telephone receiver or handset.

Word forms

handphone handphones hand phone hand-phone

Etymology

From hand + phone. For the sense of mobile phone, compare with Chinese 手機 /手机 (shǒujī, literally “hand machine”) and Korean 손전화 (sonjeonhwa, literally “hand telephone”).

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