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 (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.

Derived terms

TV evangelism
TV evangelist
TV land

Translations

abbreviation for television

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), 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
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
Yup'ik: tiiviiq

abbreviation for transvestite

Dutch: travo m
Finnish: transu (fi)

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

Anagrams

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

Finnish

Etymology

televisio (“television”)

Abbreviation

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

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

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˧˧ vʲɪj˧˧]
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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