iPhone

From i- +‎ phone. Many Apple products have an i- prefix in their names.

• Audio (US):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪˌfoʊ̯n/
• Homophone: eyephone

iPhone (plural iPhones)

1. (trademark) A smartphone of a series produced by Apple, which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device.

   Synonym: (humorous) Jesus phone

   Hypernym: smartphone

   His mom bought him an IPhone for his 11th birthday.

   • 2012, “Best iPhone 5 concept photos”, in CNet:

     This concept puts the curve back on the iPhone 5 with a silhouette that's reminiscent of a banana phone.

   • 2020 July 9, Jacob Krol, “Here’s how to get the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 public beta”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 31 March 2023:

     Apple is rolling out the public beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on Thursday. We have a full (and lengthy) preview guide on both operating systems here, and now we’re breaking down how to get the public beta on your iPhone or iPad.

   • 2023 September 19, Yessenia Funes, quoting Robert D. Bullard, “The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity”, in Scientific American‎^[3], archived from the original on 20 December 2023:

     “This is before everyone had [geographic information system] mapping, before iPads, iPhones, laptops, Google,” he says. “This is doing research way back with a hammer and a chisel.”

2. (by extension) Any knockoff or similar high-end smartphone; through trademark genericization.

• iPad
• iPod
• iMac
• iDevice

• iPhone moment
• iPhoneography
• iPhoner

• iOS
• BlackBerry

• iPhone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Pinhoe, hopein

Borrowed from English iPhone.

iPhone

1. iPhone (the Apple iPhone)
2. iPhone (a smartphone)

Borrowed from English iPhone.

iPhone c (singular definite iPhonen, plural indefinite iPhones)^[1]

1. iPhone

Borrowed from English iPhone.

• IPA^(key): /aj.fɔn/, /i.fɔn/

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iPhone m (plural iPhones)

1. iPhone (the Apple iPhone)
2. iPhone (any smartphone)

   Synonyms: smartphone, ordiphone

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ̯foːn/

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iPhone n (proper noun, strong, genitive iPhones)

1. iPhone

Unadapted borrowing from English iPhone.

• IPA^(key): [ˈaːjfoːn]
• Rhymes: -oːn

iPhone (plural iPhone-ok)

1. (trademark) iPhone (a smartphone of a series produced by Apple)

Unadapted borrowing from English iPhone. Genericized trademark.

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iPhone m (invariable)

1. iPhone

Unadapted borrowing from English iPhone.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj.fɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ajfɔn
• Syllabification: i‧Phone

iPhone m animal

1. iPhone (smartphone of a series produced by Apple Inc., which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device)

• “iPhone”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

iPhone m (plural iPhones)

1. iPhone (smartphone produced by Apple Inc.)

Unadapted borrowing from English iPhone.

• IPA^(key): /aiˈfon/ [ai̯ˈfõn]
• Rhymes: -on

iPhone m (plural iPhones)

1. iPhone
   • 2015 October 28, “Google tiene 3,8 millones de GB de nuestras fotos”, in CNN en Español‎^[5]:

     Necesitarías cuando menos 238,080 iPhones S6 con 16 gigabytes de memoria para guardarlas.

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