TV

See also: tv, .tv, and tv.

Translingual

Symbol

TV

(metrology) Symbol for the teravolt, an SI unit of electromotive force equal to 10¹² volts.
The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Tuvalu.

English

Etymology

Abbreviation.

Pronunciation

enPR: tē'vē', IPA^(key): /ˈtiːˈviː/
(Southern American English) IPA^(key): /ˈti.vi/

Noun

TV (countable and uncountable, plural TVs)

(colloquial, initialism, abbreviation, chiefly US) television
I saw an ad for that on TV.
(initialism, abbreviation, chiefly US) transvestite
(physiology) Initialism of tidal volume.
Initialism of tax value.

Derived terms

TV evangelism
TV evangelist
TV land

Translations

abbreviation for television

Assamese: টিভি (tibhi)
Belarusian: ТБ n (TB)
Burmese: တီဗီ (tibi)
Catalan: TV (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 電視 (zh), 电视 (zh) (diànshì)
Danish: tv (da) n
Dutch: tv (nl) f, teevee f
Finnish: TV (fi)
French: télé (fr) f
German: TV (de) n
Hebrew: טלוויזיה‎ (he) f (televizia)
Hindi: टीवी m (ṭīvī)
Ido: TV (io)
Interlingua: TV
Italian: TV (it) f, tivù f
Japanese: テレビ (ja) (terebi), テレビジョン (ja) (terebijon)
Korean: 텔레비 (tellebi), 티브이 (ko) (tibeu-i), 티비 (tibi), 텔레비전 (ko) (tellebijeon), 티뷔 (tibwi)

Latvian: TV
Norwegian: TV, teve
Portuguese: TV f, tevê (pt) f
Russian: ТВ (ru) n (TV)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ТВ

Roman: TV
Sinhalese: ටීවී (ṭīvī)
Spanish: tele (es), tv (es) f
Swedish: tv (sv), teve (sv)
Tagalog: TV
Telugu: టీ.వీ. (ṭī.vī.)
Thai: ทีวี (th) (tii-wii)
Turkish: TV (tr)
Ukrainian: ТБ n (TB)
Vietnamese: truyền hình (vi) (傳形), TV (vi)
Walloon: tévé (wa) f
White Hmong: this vis
Yup'ik: tiiviiq

abbreviation for transvestite

Dutch: travo m
Finnish: transu (fi)

German: Transe (de) f
Swedish: T (sv)

Descendants

Thai: ทีวี (tii-wii)

Anagrams

VT, Vt., v.t., vt, vt.

Finnish

Etymology

televisio (“television”)

Noun

TV

TV (abbreviation for television)

Declension

Declension of TV (type filee)

	singular	plural
nominative	TV	TV:t
genitive	TV:n	TV:iden TV:itten
partitive	TV:tä	TV:itä
accusative	TV TV:n	TV:t
inessive	TV:ssä	TV:issä
elative	TV:stä	TV:istä
illative	TV:hen TV:seen	TV:ihin TV:isiin
adessive	TV:llä	TV:illä
ablative	TV:ltä	TV:iltä
allative	TV:lle	TV:ille
essive	TV:nä	TV:inä
translative	TV:ksi	TV:iksi
instructive	–	TV:in
abessive	TV:ttä	TV:ittä
comitative	–	TV:ineen

French

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

TV f (plural TV)

(Canada and Belgium, informal) television

Synonyms

télé

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tiˈvu/, [t̪iˈvu]
Rhymes: -u

Noun

TV f (invariable)

(informal) television
Synonyms: televisione, tivù

Japanese

Noun

TV (katakana テレビ, rōmaji terebi)

Abbreviation of テレビ (“TV”).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

tv

Etymology

Abbreviation of televisjon.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈteːˈʋeː/
(Standard Eastern) IPA^(key): [ˈtêːˈʋěː]

Noun

TV m (definite singular TV-en, indefinite plural TV-ar, definite plural TV-ane)

TV (television set)
television (program broadcasting)
Dei likar ikkje å sjå på TV.
They don't like to watch television.

References

“TV” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

tv

Noun

TV f (plural TVs)

Initialism of televisão; TV

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

TV m (Cyrillic spelling ТВ)

TV

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from English TV.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ti˧˧ vi˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tɪj˧˧ vɪj˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tɪj˧˧ vɪj˧˧] ~ [tɪj˧˧ jɪj˧˧]
Phonetic: ti vi

Noun

(classifier chiếc) TV

Initialism of ti-vi.

Synonyms

vô tuyến truyền hình [無線傳形]
truyền hình (VN)

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