English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Abbreviation of electronic mail
Pronunciation[edit]
email (countable and uncountable, plural emails)
- (uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.
- He sent me his details via email.
- The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
- (countable) A message sent via an email system.
- He sent me an email last week to that effect.
- I am searching through my old emails.
- (uncountable) A quantity of email messages.
- I am searching through my old email.
- My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
- (informal) An e-mail address.
- What's your email?
- Don't send personal messages to my work email.
Translations[edit]
system
- Arabic: بَرِيد إِلِكْتْرُونِيّ m (barīd ʾiliktrūniyy), إِيمَيْل m (ʾīmayl)
- Armenian: էլեկտրոնային փստ (ēlektronayin pʿst), էլ. փոստ (ēl. pʿost)
- Belarusian: электро́нная по́шта f (eljektrónnaja póšta), iмэ́йл m (iméjl), мэйл m (mejl)
- Bengali: ইমেইল (ime'il), ই-মেইল (i-me'il)
- Bulgarian: имейл m (imejl)
- Burmese: အီးမေးလ် (i:mel:)
- Catalan: correu electrònic m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 電子郵件, 电子邮件 (din6 zi2 jau4 gin6⁻2), 電郵, 电邮 (din6 jau4)
- Mandarin: 電子郵件 (zh), 电子邮件 (zh) (diànzǐ yóujiàn), 電郵 (zh), 电邮 (zh) (diànyóu)
- Czech: e-mail (cs) m, email (cs) m
- Danish: e-mail (da) c, e-post c
- Dutch: mail (nl) m, e-mail (nl) m, email (nl) m
- Esperanto: retpoŝto
- Estonian: e-post
- Faroese: teldupostur m
- Finnish: sähköposti (fi)
- French: courrier électronique (fr) m, courriel (fr) m, email (fr) m
- Galician: correo electrónico m, correo m
- German: E-Mail (de) f
- Greek: ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο (el) n (ilektronikó tachydromeío), ηλ. ταχ. n (il. tach.)
- Hebrew: דואר אלקטרוני \ דֹּאַר אֶלֶקְטְרוֹנִי (he) m (dóar elektróni)
- Hindi: वि-पत्र m (vi-patra)
- Icelandic: tölvupóstur (is) m, netpóstur m, e-mail n
- Ido: e-posto (io)
- Irish: ríomhphost (ga) m
- Italian: posta elettronica (it) f, e-mail (it) f, mail (it) f
- Japanese: 電子メール (ja) (でんしメール, denshi mēru), Eメール (ī mēru), イーメール (īmēru), メール (ja) (mēru)
- Norman: e-mail m
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- Kannada: ಮಿಂಚೆ (kn) (miṃce)
- Khmer: អ៊ីមែល (km) (’ii-mɛɛl), អសន្យាណូសារ (’a’sɑnyaanou saa)
- Korean: 전자메일 (ko) (jeonjameil), 이메일 (ko) (imeil)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: ئی نامه (e-name), ئی پهیام (e-peyam)
- Lao: ອີແມລ ('ī mǣn)
- Lithuanian: el. paštas
- Macedonian: електро́нска по́шта f (elektrónska póšta), e-пошта f (e-pošta)
- Malay: surat elektronik, surel
- Mongolian: цахим шуудан (tsahim šuudan), и-мэйл (mn) (i-mejl)
- Norwegian: e-post (no) m, epost m
- Persian: پست الکترونیک (post-e elekteronik), ایمیل (fa) (imeyl), رایانامه (fa) (râyânâme)
- Polish: e-mail (pl) m, (colloquial) mejl (pl) m, poczta elektroniczna f
- Portuguese: e-mail (pt) m, correio eletrónico m (Portugal), correio eletrônico (pt) m (Brazil)
- Romanian: e-mail n, poștă electronică f, electronic curier m
- Russian: электро́нная по́чта (ru) f (elektrónnaja póčta), име́йл (ru) m (imɛ́jl), мейл (ru) m (mɛjl)
- Scottish Gaelic: post-dealain m
- Sinhalese: විද්යුත් තැපෑල (vidyut tæpǣla)
- Spanish: correo electrónico (es) m, correo (es) m
- Sundanese: ᮞᮥᮛᮦᮜᮦᮊ᮪ (surélék)
- Swedish: e-post (sv) c, e-mail (sv) c, mejl (sv) c
- Tagalog: dagisiking sulat, dagisulat, sulatroniko
- Ukrainian: електро́нна по́шта f (elektrónna póšta), iме́йл m (iméjl), мейл m (mejl)
- Urdu: ای میل f (ī mel)
- Venda: imeiḽi
- Vietnamese: thư điện tử (vi), thơ điện tử, điện thư
- Welsh: e-bost m
- Yiddish: בליצפּאָסט f (blitspost)
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message sent via email
- Arabic: إِيمَيْل m (ʾīmayl)
- Armenian: էլեկտրոնային նամակ (ēlektronayin namak)
- Belarusian: iмэ́йл m (iméjl), мэйл m (mejl)
- Bengali: ইমেইল (ime'il), ই-মেইল (i-me'il)
- Bulgarian: имейл m (imejl)
- Burmese: အီးမေးလ် (i:mel:)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 電子郵件, 电子邮件 (din6 zi2 jau4 gin6⁻2), 電郵, 电邮 (din6 jau4)
- Mandarin: 電子郵件 (zh), 电子邮件 (zh) (diànzǐ yóujiàn), 電郵 (zh), 电邮 (zh) (diànyóu)
- Min Nan: 電子郵件, 电子邮件 (tiān-chú iû-kiāⁿ), 電批, 电批 (tiān-phe, tiān-phoe)
- Czech: e-mail (cs) m
- Danish: e-mail (da), e-brev n
- Dutch: mail (nl) m, e-mail (nl) m, e-mailbericht n
- Esperanto: retmesaĝo, retletero
- Estonian: e-kiri
- Faroese: teldubræv n, teldupostur m
- Finnish: viesti (fi), sähköpostiviesti (fi), sähköposti (fi)
- French: courriel (fr) m, courriels (fr) m pl, courrier électronique (fr) m, (colloquial) email (fr) m, e-mail (fr) m
- Galician: correo electrónico m, correo m
- Georgian: ელექტრონული ფოსტა (elekṭronuli posṭa), იმეილი (imeili), ელ (el)
- German: E-Mail (de) f, Mail (de) f
- Greek: ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο (el) n (ilektronikó tachydromeío), ηλεκτρονικό μήνυμα n (ilektronikó mínyma)
- Hebrew: דוא"ל (he) m (do'al)
- Hindi: ई-मेल f (ī-mel), ईमेल f (īmel), ई-पत्र m (ī-patra)
- Hungarian: e-mail (hu)
- Icelandic: tölvubréf n, tölvupóstur (is) m
- Ido: e-posto (io)
- Irish: ríomhphost (ga) m
- Italian: messaggio di posta elettronica m, e-mail (it) f, mail (it) f
- Japanese: 電子メール (ja) (でんしメール, denshi mēru), Eメール (ī mēru), イーメール (īmēru), メール (ja) (mēru)
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- Norman: e-mail m
- Kannada: ಮಿಂಚೆ (kn) (miṃce)
- Khmer: អ៊ីមែល (km) (’ii-mɛɛl), អ-សារ (’a’-saa)
- Korean: 이메일 (ko) (imeil), 메일 (ko) (meil)
- Lao: ອີແມລ ('ī mǣn)
- Macedonian: електронска порака f (elektronska poraka), електронско писмо n (elektronsko pismo)
- Malay: e-mel (ms)
- Maori: karere ā-rorohiko
- Mongolian: и-мэйл (mn) (i-mejl)
- Norwegian: e-post (no) m, e-brev n
- Persian: ایمیل (fa) (imeyl)
- Polish: e-mail (pl) m, (colloquial) mejl (pl) m, mail (pl) m
- Portuguese: e-mail (pt) m, correio eletrónico m (Portugal), correio eletrônico (pt) m (Brazil)
- Romanian: e-mail n, e-mail mesaj n
- Russian: име́йл (ru) m (imɛ́jl), мейл (ru) m (mɛjl), сообще́ние (ru) n (soobščénije), письмо́ (ru) n (pisʹmó), электро́нное письмо́ (ru) n (elektrónnoje pisʹmó)
- Scottish Gaelic: post-dealain m
- Spanish: correo electrónico (es) m, correo (es) m
- Swedish: e-post (sv) c, mail (sv) n, mejl (sv) n, e-brev (sv) n, brev (sv) n
- Tamil: மின்னஞ்சல் (ta) (miṉṉañcal)
- Thai: อีเมล (eemayn), อีเมล์ (eemay)
- Turkish: e-posta (tr), e-mail (tr), elektronik posta (tr)
- Ukrainian: iме́йл m (iméjl), мейл m (mejl)
- Urdu: ای میل f (ī mel)
- Vietnamese: thư điện tử (vi), email (vi), thơ điện tử, điện thư
- Welsh: e-bost m
- Yiddish: בליצבריוו m (blitsbriv), בליצבריוול m (blitsbrivl)
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email (third-person singular simple present emails, present participle emailing, simple past and past participle emailed)
- (transitive) To send an email or emails to.
- She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
- (intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.
- Most teenagers spend twenty-six hours a day emailing and surfing the Web.
- (transitive, may take two objects) To send via email.
- I'll email you the link.
- He emailed the file out to everyone.
Translations[edit]
to send an email or emails to
intransitive: to send an email or emails
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
French émail (“enamel”)
Pronunciation[edit]
email (plural emails)
- (obsolete, circa 13th century) a raised or embossed image pressed into metal, such as a seal pressed into a foil and attached to a document
- A type of dark ink
Anagrams[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
email m
- enamel
- (informal) email (electronic communication)
Usage notes[edit]
Some institutions discourage this spelling of electronic communication in favor of e-mail.
Pronunciation[edit]
email n (uncountable)
- enamel
- (heraldry) tincture
Derived terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
email m (plural emails)
- (informal) email
Synonyms[edit]
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Anagrams[edit]
External links[edit]
Italian[edit]
email f (invariable) (Also: e-mail)
- email
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
English
email m (plural emails)
- email
- email address
