The word call means

As you process each input you tag it appropriately if it is a single action: “call insurance company and request copy of accident report” receives the @call tag. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Furthermore, what if my son had to call 911 from the house and was given a “call was lost” message? ❋ Unknown (2008)

The call went through to a ‘call center ‘in Pakistan.’ ❋ Unknown (2007)

All they would have to do is type into their Twitter client ‘@call @ianpaul’ and Jajah would connect us for a free, two-minute call using the voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The person you want to call must be following you on Twitter, and you both have to sign up for the @call beta. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Truphone Anywhere for Android delivers an all-in-one conversations hub that allows customers to take advantage of Truphone’s low international call rates, in addition to the cost of a local call*. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While @call simplifies and solves two current Twitter problems it fails to provide any context before the call. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The new @call program lets any of the hundreds, or in some cases thousands, of people you follow on Twitter to give you a call. ❋ Unknown (2009)

*lil boxz checked for phone call & please return call* ❋ Unknown (2008)

· allow also ‘dq’, ‘de’ call modes in InstantaneousBase. _call () · split termsHyperElasticity. py to base, TL and UL parts utilities for work with units of physical quantities: ❋ Softpedia Mac OS (2010)

a few moments, as I thought, he threw down his mimic plough, and ran to me, saying, ‘_High! ma! what makes you call so angry! ain’t I a good boy? don’t I always run to you soon as I hear you call_?’ ❋ Unknown (1859)

Republican Representative Michelle Bachmann issued a call last week for a «house call» and a big party out on the National Mall next week, saying, «we’re going to tell Congress what they can do with their health care bill. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In recognition of that expansion, the term call center has been replaced by, or at least is being used interchangeably with, the term contact center within the industry. ❋ Emily Yellin (2009)

The curtain call is definitely one of the more amazing parts of that play. ❋ Deliasherman (2010)

The Yankees ‘first baseman has been struggling at the plate this season but got a curtain call from the crowd of 33,466 after supplying Pettitte (13-6) with a 6-0 lead. ❋ Unknown (2000)

If you phone during business hours, the call is answered by Insight Ready Ltd. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am pleasantly surprised when my call is answered by a real live human being named Andrea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had a 14pt within range a couple weeks ago and he started to walk away so I grunted at him. and he ran off. about a week later same thing happened to my friend he grunted except this time the buck came running in. this call is a thumbs down from me ❋ JayCassell (2009)

«[It’s not my call].» — It’s not up to me to decide.
«In the end, [the call] is his alone.» — [It’s up] to him to decide. ❋ Dushkin (2007)

[Girl]: [im pregnant]
[Guy]: called it ❋ Mattmv (2006)

Dude 1: Alright [I’m gonna call it] now: [Darren’s] gone and gotten himself a shitty haircut.
Dude 2: OK then.
Darren: Hey guys, like [my new haircut]?
Dude 1: Fucking called it! ❋ Wookiee Jailbait (2016)

There’s [one beer] left [in the fridge], I’m calling it!
Yo mofo! Why you drinkin’ that beer? I [called it]! ❋ Dr. Sunshine (2009)

«[i don’t even] care about that job, i’m [more or less] calling it in, when i do [show up] for work» -disgruntled employee ❋ *fap* (2005)

Right, [I’m going to] call it, [that’s enough] [for me]. ❋ Ian Chode (2004)

[The Calling’s] [music] is just [incredible]! ❋ K O K O (2006)

Damn [y’all] still in the bathroom? [Guess] [imma] have to call it in. ❋ BBCU DOA (2019)

Tim: I didn’t study for [the test], [I’m scared]!
John: [inb4] F
Tim: I failed…
John: called it ❋ SFX (2014)

[You better hope] you [never] get «the call«…… ❋ Jason L. (2006)

называть, назвать, вызывать, вызов, призыв, требование, позывной

глагол ↓

существительное ↓

Словосочетания

the call of a trumpet — зов трубы  
call in to a radio station — позвонить на радиостанцию  
to call for / invite bids — приглашать к торгам, просить назначить цену  
to call smb. by name — звать кого-л. по имени  
to call / take a cab — взять такси  
to call for help — взывать о помощи  
to call down — позвать вниз, пригласить сойти вниз  
to call up — звать снизу  
to call about smth. — звонить насчёт чего-л., по поводу чего-л.  
to call (in) a doctor — вызвать врача  
to call out the firemen — вызвать пожарных  
to call as witness — вызывать в качестве свидетеля  

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Фразовые глаголы

call away — отзывать
call back — звать обратно, брать назад
call down — навлекать, оспаривать, делать выговор, порицать, отводить
call forth — вызывать, требовать, вызывать к жизни
call in — вызывать, приглашать, изымать из обращения, наведаться, потребовать назад
call off — отменять, прекращать, отзывать, откладывать, переносить, отвлекать
call on — призывать, взывать, навещать, апеллировать, наведаться, звонить по телефону
call out — вызывать, кричать, выкрикивать, вызывать на дуэль, призывать к забастовке
call over — делать перекличку
call round — заходить, навещать, посещать
call up — вызывать, позвонить, созваниваться, призывать, подзывать, перекликаться

Возможные однокоренные слова

caller  — звонящий по телефону, свежий, звонящий по телефону, гость, посетитель
calling  — призвание, профессия, занятие, звонящий
callous  — черствый, бездушный, бессердечный, огрублять, огрубляться
miscall  — обзывать бранными словами, неверно называть
recall  — отзыв, память, отозвание, воспоминание, вспоминать, напоминать, отзывать
called  — называемый, именуемый
callable  — могущий быть выкупленным, подлежащий выкупу
callant  — парень

Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: call
he/she/it: calls
ing ф. (present participle): calling
2-я ф. (past tense): called
3-я ф. (past participle): called

noun
ед. ч.(singular): call
мн. ч.(plural): calls

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English callen, from Old English ceallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal(o)s-, *glōs-, *golH-so- (“voice, cry”).

Cognate with Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”), Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”), obsolete German kallen (“to call”), Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”), Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”), Danish kalde (“to call, name”), Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”), Welsh galw (“to call, demand”), Polish głos (“voice”), Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”), Russian голос (golos, “voice”), Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôl, IPA^(key): /kɔːl/, [kʰoɫ],
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔl/, [kʰɔɫ]
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /kɑl/, [kʰɑɫ]
• Homophone: coll (with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔːl

Noun[edit]

call (countable and uncountable, plural calls)

1. A telephone conversation; a phone call.

   I received several phone calls today.

   I received several calls today.

2. An instance of calling someone on the telephone.

   I made a call to Jim, but he didn’t answer.

3. A short visit, usually for social purposes.

   I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.

   • 1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, pages 13–14:

     He […] ſeldom waits, / Dependent on the baker’s punctual call, / To hear his creaking panniers at the door, / Angry and ſad and his laſt cruſt conſumed.

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 149:

     Podson stayed till after five, though he handsomely apologized for outstaying a call. «The fact is, I never think of the time, when I get talking to a really intelligent woman…’

4. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

   The ship made a call at Southampton.

5. A cry or shout.

   He heard a call from the other side of the room.

6. A decision or judgement.

   That was a good call.

7. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

   That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.

8. A beckoning or summoning.

   I had to yield to the call of the wild.

   • 1711 October 8 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele [et al.], “THURSDAY, September 27, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 181; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 440:

     Dependance is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity, than any other motive whatsoever.

   • 1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXIII, in Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay), editor, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume V, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, →OCLC, page 117:

     But they had hoped that, when peace had been restored, when no call of duty required him [William III of England] to cross the sea, he would generally, during the summer and autumn, reside in his fair palaces and parks on the banks of the Thames, […]

   • 2007, Latina, volume 11, page 101:

     We actually have a call tomorrow, which is a Sunday, right after my bridal shower. I have to make enchiladas for 10 people!

9. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.

   The Prime Minister has the call.

   I give the call to the Manager of Opposition Business.

10. (finance) Short for call option.
11. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
12. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
13. (uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.

    • 1978, Alan E. Nourse, The Practice‎^[1], Harper & Row, →ISBN:

      page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call.”
      page 56: “ […] I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”

    • 2007, William D. Bailey, You Will Never Run out of Jesus, CrossHouse Publishing,, →ISBN:

      page 29: I took general-surgery call at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medical call, which was gladly given away by the older staff members: […] . You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medical call.

      page 206: My first night of primary medical call was greeted about midnight with a very ill 30-year-old lady who had a temperature of 103 degrees.

    • 2008, Jamal M. Bullocks [et al.], Plastic Surgery Emergencies: Principles and Techniques, Thieme, →ISBN, page ix:

      We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgery call at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.

    • 2009, Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, page 171:

      The columns in the second rectangle show fewer hours, but part of that is due to the fact that there’s a division between a work call and a show call.

14. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
15. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

    There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.

17. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
18. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
19. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
20. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
21. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
22. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
23. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
24. (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

    • 2015 March 3, Lyda Longa, “Internet hookups mean fewer prostitutes on Daytona’s streets, police say”, in The Daytona Beach News-Journal‎^[2], Daytona Beach, Fla.:

      «They have a little network of women that watch out for each other,» Morford said. That means that if one prostitute doesn’t come back after going out on a call – whether it’s an Internet prostitute or a streetwalker – and the other women can’t get hold of her, they get scared, close up shop and won’t work, Morford said.

25. (law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.

    • 2020 October 28, Master K.E. Jolley, “Korlyakov v. Riesz, 2020 ONSC 6622”, in CanLII‎^[3], retrieved 19 June 2021:

      The work was done by two lawyers, one a 1983 call and the other a 2010 call.

26. (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.

    There’s no call for that kind of bad language!

    • 1865, William Stott Banks, Wakefield Words (page 11)

      CALL 2 need for. «There worn’t noa call for nowt o’t’soart.»

Hyponyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• → Armenian: քոլ (kʿol)
• → Georgian: ქოლი (koli)

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or call’d)

1. To use one’s voice.
   1. (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.

      That person is hurt; call for help!
   2. (intransitive) To cry or shout.
      • 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “How the Alphabet was Made”, in Just So Stories: For Little Children, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 169:

        For far—oh, very far behind, / So far she cannot call to him, / Comes Tegumai alone to find / The daughter that was all to him!

   3. (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.

      to call the roll of a military company

      • 1714, J[ohn] Gay, “Saturday; or, The Flights”, in The Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: […] R. Burleigh […], →OCLC, lines 47–50, page 56:

        Not ballad-ſinger plac’d above the croud, / Sings with a note ſo ſhrilling ſweet and loud, / Nor pariſh clerk who calls the pſalm ſo clear, / Like Bowzybeus ſooths th’ attentive ear.

   4. (transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone.

      Why don’t you call me in the morning?

      Why don’t you call tomorrow?

   5. (transitive) To declare in advance.

      The captains call the coin toss.

   6. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.

      • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 376, column 2:

        Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning: / And if thou canſt awake by foure o’th’clock, / I prythee call me: Sleepe hath ceiz’d me wholly.

   7. To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.

      After the third massive failure, John called the whole initiative.

   8. (transitive, jazz) To request that one’s band play (a particular tune).
      • 1997, Saxophone Journal

        They called I Got Rhythm, and turned to me again for a solo, and I said what?

      • 2002, Ken Vail, Duke’s Diary

        Jeff Castleman and Rufus Jones were in position when they went out, and he immediately called Satin Doll.

      • 2015, Clyde E. B. Bernhardt, I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 98:

        I thought he forgot all about it, but late in the set he called St. Louis Blues.

2. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
   1. To pay a (social) visit (often used with «on», «round», or «at»; used by salespeople with «again» to invite customers to come again).

      We could always call on a friend.

      The engineer called round whilst you were away.

      • a. 1700, William Temple, “Of Health and Long-life”, in Miscellanea. The Third Part. […], London: […] Jonathan Swift, […] Benjamin Tooke, […], published 1701, →OCLC, page 127:

        […] He ordered Her to call at His Houſe once a Week, which She did for ſome Time; after which He heard no more of Her.

      • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:

        The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.

   2. To stop at a station or port.

      This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington.

      Our cruise ship called at Bristol Harbour.

   3. To come to pass; to afflict.
3. To name, identify or describe.
   1. (ditransitive) To name or refer to.

      Why don’t we dispense with the formalities. Please call me Al.

      • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, →OL:

        I don’t know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there’ll be trouble. It’s bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that ’cause I’m paid for it. What I won’t stand is to have them togs called a livery.

      • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:

        But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three–what therapists call «bargaining». A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.

   2. (in passive) Of a person, to have as one’s name; of a thing, to have as its name.

      I’m called John.

      A very tall building is called a skyscraper.

      • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

        The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.

   3. (transitive) To predict.

      He called twelve of the last three recessions.

   4. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.

      They call the distance ten miles.

      That’s enough work. Let’s call it a day and go home.

      • 1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy:

        The whole army is called 700,000 men

   5. (transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.

      • 1997, Joanni Nelson Horchler, Robin Rice Morris, The SIDS Survival Guide: Information and Comfort for Grieving Family and Friends and Professionals who Seek to Help Them, page 33:

        “Let’s call it. Time of death, 08:45.” The respiratory therapist stopped bagging. The doctor stopped CPR. There was no heartbeat on the monitor. Michael was dead.

        • 2012, Marcy O. Diehl, Medical Transcription: Techniques and Procedures (Seventh Edition), page 127:

          EXAMPLES: Time of death was called at 16:34(Incorrect). Time of death was called at 1634 p.m.(Incorrect). Time of death was called at 1634 hours(Correct). NOTE: Military (or 24-hour) time is not used with a.m, p.m, or o’clock. It is frequently used to state birth and death times, as well as time of day in autopsy protocols. It is customary to write the word hours after the figures.

      • 2015, Tracey Cleantis, The Next Happy: Let Go of the Life You Planned and Find a New Way Forward‎^[4]:

        If you are staring your dream in the face and seeing that it is time to quit, I urge you to call the time of death right now. You can sit here with this book in your hand and do it, or climb to a mountaintop and shout it, or write it on a message in a bottle and throw it out to sea. However you do it, do it. I can guarantee that there is life on the other side of the impossible. And naming the time of death is an important process in moving on, letting go, and getting to the other side.

   6. (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.

      I call bullshit.

      She called foul on their scheme.

      • 2008, PC Magazine‎^[5]:

        Having been around the block a few times, I immediately called «shenanigans” on it, but even so, I was taken aback.

   7. (obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.

      • c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 22, column 2:

        This ſpeech calls him Spaniard, being nothing but / A large inventory of his own commendations.

4. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
   1. (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
   2. (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
   3. (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.

      I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options: call (match her $1600 bet), reraise or fold.

   4. (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one’s play this way.)

      I’ll call your 300, and raise to 600!

   5. (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

      My partner called two spades.

5. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.

   He felt called to help the old man.

6. (transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, “The Gateway, and Some Who Passed”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 29:

     Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

   The basis for his conclusion was called into doubt

7. (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.

   I call the comfy chair!

   • 1998, “The Trouble with Trillions”, in The Simpsons‎^[6], season 9:

     Mr. Burns: Any of these islands would make a fine new country. / Homer: I call president! / Mr. Burns: Vice president! / Smithers: [groans]

8. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
9. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
10. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

    A recursive function is one that calls itself.

11. (Yorkshire) To scold.
    • 1865, William Stott Banks, Wakefield Words (page 11)

      CALL 1 scold»

12. (sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.

    The goal was called offside.

13. (cue sports) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.

    Every shot must be called.

Usage notes[edit]

• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb call had the form callest, and had calledst for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form calleth was used.

Synonyms[edit]

• (cry or shout): holler, yell; see also Thesaurus:shout
• (contact by telephone): drop a line, ring, get on the horn, give someone a ring, give someone a bell; see also Thesaurus:telephone
• (rouse from sleep): wake up; see also Thesaurus:awaken
• (name or refer to): designate, dub, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
• (predict): augur, foretell; see also Thesaurus:predict
• (cue sports): name, nominate; see also Thesaurus:specify

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʎ/

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin callis (“alley, narrow street, passageway”). Compare Spanish calle (“street”).

Noun[edit]

call m (plural calls)

1. passageway

[edit]

• encallar

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin callum.

Noun[edit]

call m (uncountable)

1. corn

Derived terms[edit]

• call de la mà
• callera

Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from Hebrew קָהָל‎ (qahál, “assembly, synagogue”).

Noun[edit]

call m (plural calls)

1. Jewish quarter

   Synonym: jueria

Further reading[edit]

• “call” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “call”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “call” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chinese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English call.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

call

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) radio call; phone call (Classifier: 個／个 c)
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) summoning of people

Verb[edit]

call

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to call (with mobile phones, pagers, beepers, etc.)
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to summon people

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Irish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

• cál

Noun[edit]

call m (genitive singular call)

1. call, need
2. claim, right

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

• gan chall (“needlessly”)

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kal̪ˠ/

Noun[edit]

call m (genitive singular caill)

1. Ulster form of coll (“hazel”)

Declension[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
call	chall	gcall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “call”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “call” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “call” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /kʰaul̪ˠ/

Noun[edit]

call m (genitive singular calla, plural callaidhean)

1. verbal noun of caill
2. loss
3. waste

Derived terms[edit]

• call cumhachd

Mutation[edit]

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
call	chall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Welsh[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /kaɬ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ka(ː)ɬ/
• Rhymes: -aɬ

Adjective[edit]

call (feminine singular call, plural call, equative called, comparative callach, superlative callaf)

1. wise, sensible, rational

   Synonyms: doeth, deallus

Derived terms[edit]

• callineb (“wisdom, rationality”)
• callio (“to become wise, to wise up”)
• hanner call (“half-witted”)

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
call	gall	nghall	chall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “call”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies