SMS

See also: sms, SMs, šms, and sms'

English

Alternative forms

• S.M.S., S. M. S.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛs ɛm ˈɛs/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛs

Etymology 1

Abbreviation

Noun

SMS (countable and uncountable, plural SMSes)

1. (uncountable, telecommunications) Initialism of short message service: a system enabling cell phones to send or receive text messages .
   1. (countable) A text message sent using this system.

      Synonym: text

2. (numismatics) Initialism of special mint set.
3. Initialism of salesman sample.
4. (psychology) Initialism of short man syndrome.
5. (neurology) Initialism of stiff man syndrome.

   Synonym: SPS

6. Abbreviation of safety management system: a system designed to identify and manage occupational safety and health risks.

Translations

a text message sent on a cell phone

• Afrikaans: SMS (af)
• Arabic: رِسَالَة f (risāla), رِسَالَة إِس إِم إِس f (risālat ʔes ʔem ʔes)

  Hijazi Arabic: رِسالة m (risāla)

  Morocco: ميساج (mīsāž)

• Bulgarian: съобщение (bg) n (sǎobštenie), есемес m (esemes)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 短信 (zh) (duǎnxìn), SMS (zh) (es-em-es)

• Czech: esemeska (cs) f, textovka f
• Dutch: sms (nl) m, sms-bericht (nl) n
• Finnish: tekstiviesti (fi)
• French: SMS (fr) m, texto (fr) m
• Georgian: მოკლე ტექსტური შეტყობინება (moḳle ṭeksṭuri šeṭq̇obineba), SMS შეტყობინება (SMS šeṭq̇obineba), ეს-ემ-ესი (es-em-esi)
• German: SMS (de) f or n, SMS-Nachricht f, Textnachricht (de) f
• Greek: μήνυμα (el) n (mínyma)
• Hebrew: סמס (he)
• Japanese: 伝言 (ja) (でんごん, dengon), エス・エム・エス (esu-emu-esu), ＳＭＳ (esu-emu-esu)
• Latvian: īsziņa f
• Persian: اس ام اس (es-em-es), مسج (mesej), پیامک (fa) (payâmak)
• Polish: SMS (pl) m, esemes (pl) m
• Portuguese: mensagem de texto f, SMS (pt) m
• Russian: SMS (ru) m, эс-эм-э́с m (es-em-és), (colloquial) эсэмэ́ска (ru) f (esɛmɛ́ska), сообще́ние (ru) n (soobščénije), (slang) ме́сседж (ru) m (méssedž) , СМС (ru) m (SMS)
• Swahili: ujumbe mfupi (sw)
• Swedish: sms (sv)
• Turkish: SMS (tr), mesaj (tr), kısa mesaj

Verb

SMS (third-person singular simple present SMSes, present participle SMSing, simple past and past participle SMSed)

1. To send a message on a cell phone.

   I SMSed him and asked why he was late.

   I can't talk to her: she is too busy SMSing her friends.

Synonyms

cell phone message

• text

 

Translations

to send a message on a cell phone

• Afrikaans: SMS (af)
• Dutch: sms'en (nl)
• Finnish: lähettää tekstiviesti
• Georgian: შეტყობინების გაგზავნა (šeṭq̇obinebis gagzavna), დამესიჯება (damesiǯeba) (colloquial)
• Hebrew: סימס (he) (simés)
• Polish: esemesować (pl) impf, SMS-ować (pl) impf, tekstować impf

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of textspeak

Proper noun

SMS

1. (video games) Initialism of Sega Master System.

Etymology 2

From German SMS.

Noun

SMS (uncountable)

1. (military, nautical, initialism) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff – literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German;

   Coordinate terms: HM, HMS, HBMS, HSMS, HSwMS, HDMS, HDaMS, HNLMS, HNMS, HNoMS

   Coordinate terms: SM, Zr.Ms., Hr.Ms.

   1. A ship prefix for a ship in the navy of the Empire of Germany (usually for the period leading to WWI and WWI)

      Synonym: HIGMS

Anagrams

• MSS, MSS., MSs, Mss, Mss., SSM, mss, mss.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

SMS

1. Misspelling of sms.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.sɛ.mɛs/ ~ /e.se.mɛs/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

SMS m (plural SMS)

1. SMS, text, text message

   Synonym: (France) texto

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛsʔɛmˈʔɛs/ (official standard)

• Audio:

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛsɛˈmɛs/, /-se-/, /-zɛ-/, /-ze-/ (common speech, for Etymology 1)

Etymology 1

Noun

SMS f or n (strong or mixed, genitive SMS, plural SMS or SMSen or SMSe)

1. SMS (text message)

Usage notes

• The noun is almost exclusively feminine in northern Germany, central Germany, and Luxembourg. The neuter gender is predominant in the southern half of the language area, but the feminine is also heard.
• The unchanged plural SMS is generally used with the neuter gender. The form SMSe is rarer.
• With the feminine, the marked form SMSen is often needed to express the plural, but the unchanged form can be used when the plural is evident from the grammatical construction or the context.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• S. M. S.

Noun

SMS

1. (nautical, military) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff (His Majesty's Ship)

Usage notes

Used for naval ships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Second Reich of Imperial Germany, for the Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine and Kaiserliche Marine, respectively.

Descendants

• English: SMS

Hungarian

Etymology

Initialism of Short Message Service.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛʃɛmɛʃ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Noun

SMS (plural SMS-ek)

1. SMS, text message (a service for sending text messages on a cellular telephone system)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	SMS	SMS-ek
accusative	SMS-t	SMS-eket
dative	SMS-nek	SMS-eknek
instrumental	SMS-sel	SMS-ekkel
causal-final	SMS-ért	SMS-ekért
translative	SMS-sé	SMS-ekké
terminative	SMS-ig	SMS-ekig
essive-formal	SMS-ként	SMS-ekként
essive-modal	SMS-ül	SMS-ekül
inessive	SMS-ben	SMS-ekben
superessive	SMS-en	SMS-eken
adessive	SMS-nél	SMS-eknél
illative	SMS-be	SMS-ekbe
sublative	SMS-re	SMS-ekre
allative	SMS-hez	SMS-ekhez
elative	SMS-ből	SMS-ekből
delative	SMS-ről	SMS-ekről
ablative	SMS-től	SMS-ektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	SMS-é	SMS-eké
non-attributive possessive - plural	SMS-éi	SMS-ekéi

Possessive forms of SMS
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	SMS-em	SMS-eim
2nd person sing.	SMS-ed	SMS-eid
3rd person sing.	SMS-e	SMS-ei
1st person plural	SMS-ünk	SMS-eink
2nd person plural	SMS-etek	SMS-eitek
3rd person plural	SMS-ük	SMS-eik

Derived terms

• SMS-ezik

 

Italian

Noun

SMS m

1. SMS (text message)

Japanese

Noun

SMS(エスエムエス) • (esu-emu-esu) 

1. SMS

Synonyms

• 伝言(でんごん) (dengon)

Polish

SMS

Alternative forms

• sms

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English SMS.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ɛmˈɛs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Syllabification: S‧M‧S

Noun

SMS m animal or m inan (related adjective SMS-owy)

1. (countable) SMS, text message (brief electronic message sent between mobile phones)

   Synonyms: es, esek, esemes, eska

2. (uncountable, telecommunications) short message service (system for transmitting text messages on mobile phones)

Declension

Declension of SMS

	singular	plural
nominative	SMS	SMS-y
genitive	SMS-a/SMS-u	SMS-ów
dative	SMS-owi	SMS-om
accusative	SMS-a/SMS	SMS-y
instrumental	SMS-em	SMS-ami
locative	SMS-ie	SMS-ach
vocative	SMS-ie	SMS-y

Derived terms

verbs

• SMS-ować impf

 

Further reading

• SMS in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• SMS in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English SMS.

Noun

SMS m or f (invariable)

1. SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)

   Synonyms: mensagem de texto, (Brazil) torpedo

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English SMS.

Noun

SMS n (plural SMS-uri)

1. SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)

Declension

	singular			plural
	+ indefinite article	+ definite article		+ indefinite article	+ definite article
nominative/accusative	(un) SMS	SMS-ul		(niște) SMS-uri	SMS-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) SMS	SMS-ului		(unor) SMS-uri	SMS-urilor
vocative	SMS-ule			SMS-urilor

Synonyms

• mesaj SMS, mesaj scurt

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌese ˌeme ˈese/ [ˌe.se ˌe.me ˈe.se]

Noun

SMS m (plural SMS)

1. (telecommunications) SMS

Further reading

• “SMS”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28