Handphone
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A mobile phone. Brunei, Hawaii, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, South-Korea
- 2 A telephone receiver or handset. obsolete, rare
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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