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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈməʊ.baɪl/
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• US: /ˈmoʊ.bəl/
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• US: /ˈmoʊ.bil/
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• US: /ˈmoʊ.baɪl/
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• /ˈmoʊ.bil/ sculpture always
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• homophone: Mobile
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• Canada: /ˈmoʊ.baɪl/
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• Australian: /ˈməʉ.bɑel/
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• New-Zealand: [ˈmɐʉ.bɑe̯l]
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• India, North: /moˈbɑjl/
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• India, North: [moː.bäːɪ̯l]
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• India, South: /mɵˈbəjl/
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• India, South: [mö.bɐɪ̯l]
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• India, South: /ˈmo.bəjl/
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• India, South: [moː.bɐɪ̯l]
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• US: mōbēlʹ
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• US: mōʹbēl
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• US: /moʊˈbiːl/
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• US: /ˈmoʊbiːl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /məʊˈbiːl/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -iːl
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• CMU ARPABET: M OW1 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”). The video-gaming sense was coined by Richard Bartle to describe NPCs or creatures capable of moving "under their own power" in the 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon. Bartle retracted an earlier claim of his that it was from the kinetic sculpture sense of mobile (for the "unpredictable but limited" motion of the hanging ornaments).

From the name of (Mobile Bay, from the name of) the Mobile tribe, perhaps from the name of a Native town somewhere in what is now central Alabama, various spelled Mabila or Maubila.

104 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُنْتَقِل (muntaqil) — capable of being moved
• Arabic: مُتَنَقِّل (mutanaqqil) — capable of being moved
• Armenian: շարժական (šaržakan) — capable of being moved
• Armenian: շարժուն (šaržun) — capable of being moved
• Azerbaijani: səyyar — capable of being moved
• Azerbaijani: mobil — capable of being moved
• Bashkir: мобиль (mobilʹ) — capable of being moved
• Bulgarian: подвижен (podvižen) — capable of being moved
• Bulgarian: мобилен (mobilen) — capable of being moved
• Catalan: mòbil — capable of being moved
• Chinese Mandarin: 可动的 — capable of being moved
• Czech: mobilní — capable of being moved
• Czech: pohyblivý — capable of being moved
• Dutch: beweeglijk — capable of being moved
• Dutch: mobiel — capable of being moved
• Esperanto: movebla — capable of being moved
• Finnish: liikkuva — capable of being moved
• French: mobile — capable of being moved
• Galician: móbil — capable of being moved
• Georgian: მოძრავი (moʒravi) — capable of being moved
• Georgian: გადატანადი (gadaṭanadi) — capable of being moved
• Georgian: მობილური (mobiluri) — capable of being moved
• German: beweglich — capable of being moved
• German: mobil — capable of being moved
• Greek: κινητός (kinitós) — capable of being moved
• Ancient Greek: κινητικός (kinētikós) — capable of being moved
• Hebrew: נַיָּד — capable of being moved
• Hindi: गतिमान (gatimān) — capable of being moved
• Hindi: गतिशील (gatiśīl) — capable of being moved
• Hungarian: mozgatható — capable of being moved
• Hungarian: mozgó — capable of being moved
• Hungarian: mobil — capable of being moved
• Hungarian: mobilis — capable of being moved
• Hungarian: hordozható — capable of being moved
• Hungarian: szállítható — capable of being moved
• Hungarian: kiemelhető — capable of being moved
• Interlingua: mobile — capable of being moved
• Italian: mobile — capable of being moved
• Jamaican Creole: muobail — capable of being moved
• Japanese: 可動 (kadou) — capable of being moved
• Kazakh: қозғалғыш (qozğalğyş) — capable of being moved
• Latin: mōbilis — capable of being moved
• Latvian: mobils — capable of being moved
• Lithuanian: mobilus — capable of being moved
• Malay: mudah alih — capable of being moved
• Malay: mudalih — capable of being moved
• Norwegian: bevegelig — capable of being moved
• Norwegian: mobil — capable of being moved
• Persian: سیار — capable of being moved
• Polish: przenośny — capable of being moved
• Polish: mobilny — capable of being moved
• Polish: ruchomy — capable of being moved
• Portuguese: móvel — capable of being moved
• Portuguese: movediço — capable of being moved
• Romanian: mobil — capable of being moved
• Russian: моби́льный (mobílʹnyj) — capable of being moved
• Russian: подвижной (podvižnoj) — capable of being moved
• Russian: передвижно́й (peredvižnój) — capable of being moved
• Sanskrit: जङ्गम (jaṅgama) — capable of being moved
• Slovak: mobilný — capable of being moved
• Spanish: móvil — capable of being moved
• Spanish: movible — capable of being moved
• Swedish: flyttbar — capable of being moved
• Swedish: mobil — capable of being moved
• Swedish: rörlig — capable of being moved
• Tagalog: gala — capable of being moved
• Turkish: taşınabilir — capable of being moved
• Volapük: golovik — capable of being moved
• Volapük: vabovik — capable of being moved
• Yiddish: מאָביל (mobil) — capable of being moved
• Finnish: matkapuhelin- — pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones
• Finnish: mobiili — pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones
• Georgian: მობილური (mobiluri) — pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones
• Hungarian: mobil- — pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones
• Portuguese: móvel (/ˈmɔ.vew/) — pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones
• Finnish: nopealiikkeinen — characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity
• Hungarian: mozgékony — characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity
• Hungarian: könnyen/hígan folyó — characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity
• Hungarian: hígfolyós — characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity
• Hungarian: önthető — characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity
• Hungarian: fluid — characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity
• Finnish: ailahteleva — easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction — see also excitable, fickle
• Hungarian: változékony — easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction — see also excitable, fickle
• Hungarian: változó — easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction — see also excitable, fickle
• Hungarian: élénk — easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction — see also excitable, fickle
• Hungarian: gyorsan reagáló — easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction — see also excitable, fickle
• Finnish: liikuntakykyinen — biology: capable of spontaneous movement
• Catalan: mòbil — decoration
• Chinese Mandarin: 机动 (jīdòng) — decoration
• Esperanto: mobilo — decoration
• Finnish: mobile — decoration
• French: mobile — decoration
• German: Mobile — decoration
• Greek: μόμπιλ (mómpil) — decoration
• Greek: κρεμαστό διακοσμητικό (kremastó diakosmitikó) — decoration
• Japanese: モビール (mobīru) — decoration
• Korean: 모빌 (mobil) — decoration
• Māori: kaui — decoration
• Norwegian: uro — decoration
• Spanish: móvil — decoration
• Swedish: mobil — decoration
• Turkish: dekorasyon — decoration
• Welsh: symudyn — decoration
• Finnish: mobiili internet — internet accessed via mobile devices