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English

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film

Wikipedia

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.

Proto-Germanic *felma-

Proto-Germanic *filmīn-

Old English filmen

Middle English filme

English film

From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, scab”), Russian плева́ (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɪlm/, [fɪɫm]
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
(Scotland, Northumbria, Ireland, Northern Ontario) IPA^(key): [ˈfɪlm̩], [ˈfɪləm]
(MLE, l-vocalization) IPA^(key): /fɪu̯m/
(South Asia) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪl(ɪ)m/
Rhymes: -ɪlm
Hyphenation: film

Noun

film (countable and uncountable, plural films)

A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
a clear plastic film for wrapping food
- 1712 (date written), Alexander Pope, “Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil’s Pollio.”, in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton, H. Lintot, J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, and S. Draper, published 1751, →OCLC, page 40, lines 39–40:
  He from thick films ſhall purge the viſual ray, / And on the ſightleſs eye-ball pour the day: […]
(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
(countable) The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
(uncountable) A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
- 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions‎^[3], volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:
  Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
A professionally made movie of a substantial narrative work, around 1 to 3 hours long; a feature film; a cinematic movie.
A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
  Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.

Synonyms

(motion picture): movie

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Amharic: ፊልም (film)
→ Asturian: filme
→ Bengali: ফিল্ম (philmo)
→ Bulgarian: филм (film)
→ Burmese: ဖလင် (hpa.lang)
→ Catalan: film
→ Chinese: 菲林 (fēilín)
→ Crimean Tatar: film
→ Czech: film
→ Danish: film
→ Dutch: film
- → Caribbean Hindustani: felam
- → Caribbean Javanese: film
- → Indonesian: film
- → Javanese: film, filem
→ French: film
- → Albanian: film
- → Arabic: فِيلْم (fīlm), فِلْم (film)
- → Khmer: ហ្វីល (fiil)
- → Lingala: filme
- → Persian: فیلم (film)
- → Romanian: film
- → Turkish: film
- → Vietnamese: phim
→ Galician: filme
→ German: Film
- → Estonian: film
- → Silesian: film
→ Greek: φιλμ (film)
→ Haitian Creole: fim
→ Hebrew: פִילְם (film)
→ Hindi: फ़िल्म (film)
→ Hungarian: film
→ Italian: film
→ Japanese: フィルム (firumu)
→ Korean: 필름 (pilleum)
→ Lao: ຟີມ (fīm)
→ Latvian: filma
→ Lithuanian: filmas
→ Macedonian: филм (film)
→ Malay: filem
→ Malayalam: ഫിലിം (philiṁ)
→ Marathi: फिल्म (philma)
→ Norman: film
→ Pashto: پلم (pilm)
→ Polish: film
- → Kashubian: film
→ Portuguese: filme
→ Punjabi: ਫ਼ਿਲਮ (filam)
→ Russian: фильм (filʹm), фи́льма (fílʹma) — obsolete, feminine, фильмъ (filʹm) — pre-1918 spelling
- → Armenian: ֆիլմ (film)
- → Azerbaijani: film
- → Belarusian: фільм (filʹm)
- → Georgian: ფილმი (pilmi)
- → Kazakh:
  Arabic script: فيلم (fıylm)
  Cyrillic script: фильм (fıylʹm)
- → Kyrgyz: фильм (film)
- → Mongolian:
  Cyrillic script: фильм (filʹm)
  Mongolian script: ᠹᠢᠯᠢᠮ (filim)
- → Ukrainian: фільм (filʹm)
- → Uyghur: فىلىم (filim)
- → Uzbek: film
→ Scottish Gaelic: film
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: фи̏лм
- Latin script: fȉlm
→ Sinhalese: ෆිල්ම් (film)
→ Slovak: film
→ Spanish: filme
→ Swahili: filamu
→ Tigrinya: ፊልም (film)
→ Thai: ฟิล์ม (fim)
→ Urdu: فلم (film)
→ Welsh: ffilm
→ Yiddish: פֿילם (film)

Translations

thin layer

Arabic: غِطَايَة f (ḡiṭāya)
Egyptian Arabic: غشاوة m (ḡašāwa)
Armenian: թաղանթ (hy) (tʻaġantʻ)
Belarusian: плёнка (pljónka)
Bulgarian: слой (bg) m (sloj)
Catalan: pel·lícula (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 薄膜 (zh) (bómó)
Danish: film (da) c
Dutch: laagje (nl) n, film (nl) m or f
Estonian: kile (plastic), kelme (organic, fascia, membrane), kirme (super thin layer of stuff on something), kõld (rare, chorion's membrane)
Finnish: kalvo (fi)
French: pellicule (fr) f
Georgian: აფსკი (apsḳi), თხელი ფენა (txeli pena)
German: Film (de) m
Greek: υμένιο n (yménio), μεμβράνη (el) f (memvráni)
Hebrew: קְרוּם (he) m (qrúm)
Hindi: झिल्ली (hi) f (jhillī)
Hungarian: hártya (hu)
Icelandic: skán f
Irish: scannán m
Italian: film (it) m, pellicola (it) f
Japanese: 膜 (ja) (まく, maku)
Malay: selaput
Marathi: पटल n (paṭal)
Middle English: filme
Norwegian:
Bokmål: film (no) m

Nynorsk: film m
Old English: filmen m
Persian: توژ (tuž)
Polish: warstwa (pl) f
Portuguese: película (pt) f, filme (pt) (of plastic)
Russian: плёнка (ru) f (pljónka)
Scottish Gaelic: sgàile f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ко̏жица f, о̀пна f, па̏тина f, пре̏влака f

Latin: kȍžica (sh), òpna (sh) f, pȁtina (sh) f, prȅvlaka (sh) f
Slovak: film (sk)
Spanish: película (es) f, film (es) m
Swedish: film (sv) c, hinna (sv) c
Tagalog: panginag
Thai: ฟิล์ม (th) (fim)
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: زار (zar)
Ukrainian: плі́вка (uk) f (plívka)
Vietnamese: màng mỏng, màng (vi)

photographic film

Afrikaans: fliek (af), film (af)
Arabic: فِلْم m (film)
Egyptian Arabic: فيلم m (felm)
Armenian: ժապավեն (hy) (žapaven)
Belarusian: плёнка f (pljónka)
Bulgarian: филм (bg) m (film), ле́нта (bg) f (lénta)
Catalan: pel·lícula (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 菲林 (fei¹ lam^4-2)

Mandarin: 膠卷 / 胶卷 (zh) (jiāojuǎn), 膠帶 / 胶带 (zh) (jiāodài), 片子 (zh) (piānzi) (film reel), 膠片 / 胶片 (zh) (jiāopiàn)
Czech: film (cs) m
Danish: film (da) c
Dutch: film (nl) m
Estonian: film (et)
Finnish: filmi (fi)
French: pellicule (fr) f
Georgian: ფოტოფირი (poṭopiri), კინოფირი (ḳinopiri)
German: Film (de) m
Greek: φιλμ (el) n (film)
Hebrew: סֶרֶט (he) m (séret), פילם m (film)
Hindi: फ़िल्म (hi) f (film), पिक्चर (hi) (pikcar), मूवी f (mūvī), सिनेमा (hi) (sinemā), चलचित्र (hi) (calcitra), चित्रपट (hi) m (citrapaṭ)
Hungarian: film (hu)
Ido: filmo (io)
Irish: scannán m
Italian: film (it) m, pellicola (it) f
Japanese: フィルム (ja) (firumu)
Javanese: filem
Khmer: ហ្វីល (fiil), ហ្វ៊ីល (fiil)
Korean: 필름 (ko) (pilleum)
Malay: filem (ms)
Māori: kiriata
Marathi: फिल्म f (philma)
Mongolian: хальс (mn) (xalʹs)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: film (no) m

Nynorsk: film m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: فیلْم (film)
Polish: film (pl) m, klisza (pl) f
Portuguese: filme (pt) m, película (pt) f
Russian: плёнка (ru) f (pljónka), фотоплёнка (ru) f (fotopljónka) (photo film), киноплёнка (ru) f (kinopljónka) (cinefilm)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фи̏лм m

Latin: fȉlm (sh) m
Slovak: film (sk) m
Sotho: fileme
Spanish: película (es) f, film (es) m, filme (es) m
Swedish: film (sv) c
Thai: ฟิล์ม (th) (fim)
Turkish: film (tr), yanka
Turkmen: pleýonka
Ukrainian: плі́вка (uk) f (plívka), кіноплі́вка f (kinoplívka)
Uzbek: plyonka (uz)
Welsh: ffilm (cy) f

motion picture — see movie

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Gujarati: ^{(please verify)} ચિત્રપટ (citrapaṭ), ^{(please verify)} ચિત્રપટ પટ્ટી (citrapaṭ paṭṭī) (photographic film)
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} filmas m, ^{(please verify)} kinas (lt) m

Verb

film (third-person singular simple present films, present participle filming, simple past and past participle filmed)

(ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.

I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead.
- 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, pages 49–50:
  It was truly one of the most horrific filming experiences of my career there, contrasting neatly with some of the best of my career - filming in various off-limits storerooms at LTM's Acton Depot.
(ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
(transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 146:
  It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
- 2012, Nathan Archer, Valhalla:
  Her legs folded under her, and her eyes filmed over.

Derived terms

Translations

to record a motion picture

Armenian: նկարահանել (hy) (nkarahanel)
Asturian: filmar, grabar
Bulgarian: заснемам филм (zasnemam film)
Catalan: filmar (ca), enregistrar (ca)
Danish: filme (da)
Dutch: filmen (nl)
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: filmata (fi), elokuvata
French: filmer (fr), tourner (fr)
Galician: filmar (gl), rodar
German: filmen (de), drehen (de)
Greek: κινηματογραφώ (el) (kinimatografó)
Gujarati: ચિત્રપટ પટ્ટી પળ ચિત્રપટ ઉતારવું (citrapaṭ paṭṭī paḷ citrapaṭ utārvũ)
Hebrew: הִסְרִיט (hisrít)
Hindi: फ़िल्माना (filmānā)
Hungarian: filmez (hu)
Ido: filmregistrar
Irish: scannánaigh
Italian: girare (it), filmare (it)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: filmuoti
Norman: filmer (Jersey)
Occitan: filmar (oc)
Polish: filmować (pl) impf, sfilmować pf
Portuguese: filmar (pt)
Russian: снима́ть (ru) impf (snimátʹ), снять (ru) impf (snjatʹ)
Slovak: filmovať, natáčať
Spanish: filmar (es), rodar (es), cinematografiar (es)
Swedish: filma (sv)
Thai: ถ่ายภาพยนตร์
Turkish: film çekmek (tr)
Vietnamese: ghi hình, quay phim (vi)
Welsh: ffilmio (cy)

Anagrams

MILF, milf

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch film, from English film, or borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fəlm/
Audio: (file)

Noun

film (plural films)

film

Albanian

English Wikipedia has an article on:

film

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

Noun

film m (plural filma, definite filmi, definite plural filmat)

film
movie

Declension

Declension of **film**
	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	film	filmi	filma	filmat
accusative	film	filmin	filma	filmat
dative	filmi	filmit	filmave	filmave
ablative	filmi	filmit	filmash	filmave

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic		филм
Arabic		فیلم

Etymology

Ultimately from English film.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [film]
Audio (Baku): (file)

Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmlər)

film, movie
Synonym: kino

sənədli film ― documentary film

bədii film ― feature film

cizgi film ― animated cartoon

film çəkmək ― to shoot a movie

film çəkilişi ― film set, movie-making

film nümayişi ― film screening

Declension

Declension of *film*
	singular	plural
nominative	film	filmlər
definite accusative	filmi	filmləri
dative	filmə	filmlərə
locative	filmdə	filmlərdə
ablative	filmdən	filmlərdən
definite genitive	filmin	filmlərin

Possessive forms of *film*
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	filmim	filmlərim
sənin (“your”)	filmin	filmlərin
onun (“his/her/its”)	filmi	filmləri
bizim (“our”)	filmimiz	filmlərimiz
sizin (“your”)	filminiz	filmləriniz
onların (“their”)	filmi or filmləri	filmləri

	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	filmimi	filmlərimi
sənin (“your”)	filmini	filmlərini
onun (“his/her/its”)	filmini	filmlərini
bizim (“our”)	filmimizi	filmlərimizi
sizin (“your”)	filminizi	filmlərinizi
onların (“their”)	filmini or filmlərini	filmlərini

	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	filmimə	filmlərimə
sənin (“your”)	filminə	filmlərinə
onun (“his/her/its”)	filminə	filmlərinə
bizim (“our”)	filmimizə	filmlərimizə
sizin (“your”)	filminizə	filmlərinizə
onların (“their”)	filminə or filmlərinə	filmlərinə

	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	filmimdə	filmlərimdə
sənin (“your”)	filmində	filmlərində
onun (“his/her/its”)	filmində	filmlərində
bizim (“our”)	filmimizdə	filmlərimizdə
sizin (“your”)	filminizdə	filmlərinizdə
onların (“their”)	filmində or filmlərində	filmlərində

	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	filmimdən	filmlərimdən
sənin (“your”)	filmindən	filmlərindən
onun (“his/her/its”)	filmindən	filmlərindən
bizim (“our”)	filmimizdən	filmlərimizdən
sizin (“your”)	filminizdən	filmlərinizdən
onların (“their”)	filmindən or filmlərindən	filmlərindən

	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	filmimin	filmlərimin
sənin (“your”)	filminin	filmlərinin
onun (“his/her/its”)	filminin	filmlərinin
bizim (“our”)	filmimizin	filmlərimizin
sizin (“your”)	filminizin	filmlərinizin
onların (“their”)	filminin or filmlərinin	filmlərinin

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈfilm]

Noun

film m (plural films)

film (a movie)
Synonym: pel·lícula

Related terms

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film

film (clarification of this definition is needed)

Declension

Declension of *film*
nominative	film
genitive	filmniñ
dative	filmge
accusative	filmni
locative	filmde
ablative	filmden

References

Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[5], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

film

Wikipedia ^cs

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈfɪlm]
Audio: (file)

Noun

film m inan

(photography) film
movie, film, motion picture

Declension

Declension of film (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	film	filmy
genitive	filmu	filmů
dative	filmu	filmům
accusative	film	filmy
vocative	filme	filmy
locative	filmu	filmech
instrumental	filmem	filmy

Derived terms

References

^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015), “film”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /film/, [ˈfilm]
Rhymes: -ilm

Noun

film c (singular definite filmen, plural indefinite film)

Inflection

Declension of *film*
common gender	singular		plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	film	filmen	film	filmene
genitive	films	filmens	films	filmenes

Derived terms

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

film

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɪlm/, /ˈfɪləm/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: film
Rhymes: -ɪlm, -ɪləm

Noun

film m (plural films, diminutive filmpje n)

a film, thin layer or membrane; especially the physical medium film
a film production, movie
(uncountable) the movie sector, cinema

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Caribbean Hindustani: felam
→ Caribbean Javanese: film
→ Indonesian: film
→ Javanese: film, filem

Estonian

Etymology

German Film.

Noun

film (genitive filmi, partitive filmi)

film (motion picture)
photographic film

Declension

Declension of film (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		film	filmid
accusative	nom.	film
accusative	gen.	filmi
genitive		filmi	filmide
partitive		filmi	filme filmisid
illative		filmi filmisse	filmidesse filmesse
inessive		filmis	filmides filmes
elative		filmist	filmidest filmest
allative		filmile	filmidele filmele
adessive		filmil	filmidel filmel
ablative		filmilt	filmidelt filmelt
translative		filmiks	filmideks filmeks
terminative		filmini	filmideni
essive		filmina	filmidena
abessive		filmita	filmideta
comitative		filmiga	filmidega

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /film/
Audio; “un film”: (file)
Audio (France (Agen)): (file)
Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file)
Audio (France (Paris)): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)

Noun

film m (plural films)

movie, film

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Albanian: film
→ Arabic: فِيلْم (fīlm), فِلْم (film)
→ Khmer: ហ្វីល (fiil)
→ Lingala: filme
→ Persian: فیلم (film)
→ Romanian: film
→ Turkish: film
→ Vietnamese: phim

German

Pronunciation

Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)

Verb

film

singular imperative of filmen

Hungarian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English film.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈfilm]
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: film
Rhymes: -ilm

Noun

film (countable and uncountable, plural filmek)

(photography) film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
film, movie, motion picture, picture (a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion)
film, cinematic art, cinema, cinematography (the art of making films and movies)

Declension

Inflection (stem in *-e-*, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	film	filmek
accusative	filmet	filmeket
dative	filmnek	filmeknek
instrumental	filmmel	filmekkel
causal-final	filmért	filmekért
translative	filmmé	filmekké
terminative	filmig	filmekig
essive-formal	filmként	filmekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	filmben	filmekben
superessive	filmen	filmeken
adessive	filmnél	filmeknél
illative	filmbe	filmekbe
sublative	filmre	filmekre
allative	filmhez	filmekhez
elative	filmből	filmekből
delative	filmről	filmekről
ablative	filmtől	filmektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	filmé	filmeké
non-attributive possessive – plural	filméi	filmekéi

Possessive forms of *film*
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	filmem	filmjeim
2nd person sing.	filmed	filmjeid
3rd person sing.	filmje	filmjei
1st person plural	filmünk	filmjeink
2nd person plural	filmetek	filmjeitek
3rd person plural	filmjük	filmjeik

Derived terms

Compound words with this term at the beginning

Compound words with this term at the end

References

^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

Indonesian

Alternative forms

filem
pilem (uncommon)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch film.

Pronunciation

(Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈfiləm/ [ˈfi.ləm]
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -iləm

Noun

film (plural film-film)

film (a thin layer of some substance)
film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
film (a movie or motion picture)

Derived terms

Italian

Alternative forms

filme

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English film.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfilm/
Rhymes: -ilm
Hyphenation: fìlm

Noun

film m (invariable)

film, movie
Synonym: pellicola

Guardi dei film? ― Do you watch movies?

Derived terms

Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch film.

Noun

film

film

Kashubian

Kashubian Wikipedia has an article on:

film

Wikipedia ^csb

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.

Proto-Germanic *felma-

Proto-Germanic *filmīn-

Old English filmen

Middle English filme

English filmbor.

Polish filmbor.

Kashubian film

Borrowed from Polish film.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfilm/
Rhymes: -ilm
Syllabification: film

Noun

film m inan (related adjective filmòwi)

movie, film, motion picture
- 2022, Karolëna Serkòwskô-Secechòwskô, “Kaszëbsczi filmówcë”, in Pomerania‎^[6], number 12, Gdańsk: Zrzeszenie Kaszubsko-Pomorskie:
  Czej jô ò tim ùczuł, mësla ò stwòrzenim taczégò filmù zaczãła w głowie dozdrzelewac.
  When I heard about it, the idea of creating such a film began to grow in my mind.

Derived terms

verbs

filmòwac impf

Ludian

Etymology

From Russian фильм (filʹm), English film.

Noun

film

movie, film

Declension

Declension of film (type 1a/tila, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	film	filmad
genitive	filman	filmoiden
partitive	filmad	filmoid
essive	filman	filmoin
instructive	—	filmoin
inessive	filmas	filmoiš
elative	filmaspiä	filmoišpiä
illative	filmah	filmoihe
adessive	filmal	filmoil
ablative	filmalpiä	filmoilpiä
allative	filmale	filmoile
abessive	filmata	filmoita
prolative	filmači	filmoiči
translative	filmaks	filmoikš
additive	filmahpiä	filmoihepiä
^) the accusative* corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)

References

M. Pahomov (2022), “film”, in Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎^[8], Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 40

Naga Pidgin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.

Proto-Germanic *felma-

Proto-Germanic *filmīn-

Old English filmen

Middle English filme

English filmbor.

Naga Pidgin film

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film

film, movie (motion picture)

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film m (plural films)

(Jersey) movie, film

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

film

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From English film

Noun

film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmer, definite plural filmene)

a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
a film (thin material, layer or coating)
a film, movie (cinematic production)

Derived terms

Related terms

filme

Verb

film

imperative of filme

References

“film” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

film

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmar, definite plural filmane)

a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
a film (thin material, layer or coating)
a film, movie (cinematic production)

Derived terms

References

“film” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

film

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.

Proto-Germanic *felma-

Proto-Germanic *filmīn-

Old English filmen

Middle English filme

English filmbor.

Polish film

Borrowed from English film.^[1]^[2]^[3] First attested in the 19th century.^[4]^[5]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfilm/
Audio 1: (file)
Audio 2: (file)
Rhymes: -ilm
Syllabification: film

Noun

film m inan (diminutive filmik, related adjective filmowy)

film, movie, motion picture (series of pictures creating the illusion of motion)
film (art of creating such a series of pictures)
Synonyms: dziesiąta muza, kino
film (material on which such a series of pictures are recorded)
(photography) film, photographic film
Synonyms: błona, klisza, taśma filmowa
(engineering, sciences) film (thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity)

Declension

Declension of film

	singular	plural
nominative	film	filmy
genitive	filmu	filmów
dative	filmowi	filmom
accusative	film	filmy
instrumental	filmem	filmami
locative	filmie	filmach
vocative	filmie	filmy

Derived terms

adverbs

jak na zwolnionym filmie

nouns

verbs

filmować impf, sfilmować pf

verbs

film urwał się pf, film urywa się impf
zdjąć film z półki pf

Related terms

adjectives

adverbs

filmowo

nouns

Descendants

→ Kashubian: film

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), film is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 44 times in news, 31 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 15 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 103 times, making it the 602nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[6]

References

^ Dubisz, Stanisław, editor (2003), “film”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal Dictionary of the Polish Language]‎^[1] (in Polish), volumes 1–4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, →OCLC
^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “film”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “film”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
^ J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “film”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 742
^ film in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “film”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎^[2] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 117

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.

Proto-Germanic *felma-

Proto-Germanic *filmīn-

Old English filmen

Middle English filme

English filmubor.

Portuguese film

Unadapted borrowing from English film.

Noun

film m (plural filmes)

(dated or rare) alternative form of filme

Romanian

Alternative forms

филм (film) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from French film or German Film, from English film.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfilm/
Audio (female voice): (file)
Rhymes: -ilm
Hyphenation: film

Noun

film n (plural filme)

movie, film

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	film	filmul	filme	filmele
genitive-dative	film	filmului	filme	filmelor
vocative	filmule		filmelor

References

Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From English film, from Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminją (“thin skin, membrane”), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfilim/

Noun

film m (genitive singular film, plural filmichean)

film, movie

Mutation

Mutation of *film*
radical	lenition
film	fhilm

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

fȉlm m inan (Cyrillic spelling фи̏лм)

film (photography)
film (motion picture)

Declension

Declension of *film*
	singular	plural
nominative	film	filmovi
genitive	filma	filmova
dative	filmu	filmovima
accusative	film	filmove
vocative	filme	filmovi
locative	filmu	filmovima
instrumental	filmom	filmovima

Silesian

Silesian Wikipedia has an article on:

film

Wikipedia ^szl

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.

Proto-Germanic *felma-

Proto-Germanic *filmīn-

Old English filmen

Middle English filme

English filmbor.

German Filmbor.

Silesian film

Borrowed from German Film.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfilm/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ilm
Syllabification: film

Noun

film m inan

film, movie, motion picture
(photography) film, photographic film

Declension

Declension of *film*
	singular	plural
nominative	film	filmy
genitive	filmu	filmōw
dative	filmowi	filmōm
accusative	film	filmy
instrumental	filmym	filmami/filmōma
locative	filmu	filmach
vocative	filmu	filmy

Related terms

adjectives

adverbs

nouns

verbs

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /film/, [ˈfilm]
Rhymes: -ilm

Noun

film m inan (genitive singular filmu, nominative plural filmy, genitive plural filmov, declension pattern of dub)

photographic film
movie, motion picture

Declension

Declension of *film*
(pattern *dub*)
	singular	plural
nominative	film	filmy
genitive	filmu	filmov
dative	filmu	filmom
accusative	film	filmy
locative	filme	filmoch
instrumental	filmom	filmami

Derived terms

References

^ Králik, Ľubor (2016), “film”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfilm/ [ˈfilm]
Rhymes: -ilm
Syllabification: film

Noun

film m (plural films)

alternative spelling of filme (film, motion picture)

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

film

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

film c

film; a thin layer
film; medium used to capture images in a camera
a movie

Declension

Declension of **film**
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	film	films
singular	definite	filmen	filmens
plural	indefinite	filmer	filmers
plural	definite	filmerna	filmernas

Related terms

References

“film”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Turkish

Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:

film

Wikipedia ^tr

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, ultimately from English film.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fil(i)m/

Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmler)

a medium used to capture images in a camera
a movie
a thin layer

Declension

Declension of film

	singular	plural
nominative	film	filmler
definite accusative	filmi	filmleri
dative	filme	filmlere
locative	filmde	filmlerde
ablative	filmden	filmlerden
genitive	filmin	filmlerin

Possessive forms
nominative
	singular	plural
1st singular	filmim	filmlerim
2nd singular	filmin	filmlerin
3rd singular	filmi	filmleri
1st plural	filmimiz	filmlerimiz
2nd plural	filminiz	filmleriniz
3rd plural	filmleri	filmleri
definite accusative
	singular	plural
1st singular	filmimi	filmlerimi
2nd singular	filmini	filmlerini
3rd singular	filmini	filmlerini
1st plural	filmimizi	filmlerimizi
2nd plural	filminizi	filmlerinizi
3rd plural	filmlerini	filmlerini
dative
	singular	plural
1st singular	filmime	filmlerime
2nd singular	filmine	filmlerine
3rd singular	filmine	filmlerine
1st plural	filmimize	filmlerimize
2nd plural	filminize	filmlerinize
3rd plural	filmlerine	filmlerine
locative
	singular	plural
1st singular	filmimde	filmlerimde
2nd singular	filminde	filmlerinde
3rd singular	filminde	filmlerinde
1st plural	filmimizde	filmlerimizde
2nd plural	filminizde	filmlerinizde
3rd plural	filmlerinde	filmlerinde
ablative
	singular	plural
1st singular	filmimden	filmlerimden
2nd singular	filminden	filmlerinden
3rd singular	filminden	filmlerinden
1st plural	filmimizden	filmlerimizden
2nd plural	filminizden	filmlerinizden
3rd plural	filmlerinden	filmlerinden
genitive
	singular	plural
1st singular	filmimin	filmlerimin
2nd singular	filminin	filmlerinin
3rd singular	filminin	filmlerinin
1st plural	filmimizin	filmlerimizin
2nd plural	filminizin	filmlerinizin
3rd plural	filmlerinin	filmlerinin

Derived terms

film çekmek (“to film”)
filmci (“filmer”)
filmcilik (“film-making”)
filmleştirilmek (“to be filmed”)
filmleştirmek (“to film”)
filmografi (“filmography”)
filmoloji (“filmology”)

Uzbek

Uzbek Wikipedia has an article on:

film

Wikipedia ^uz

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian фильм (filʹm), from English film.

Noun

film (plural filmlar)

film, movie, motion picture
Synonyms: kino, kinofilm, kartina

Declension

Declension of *film*
	singular	plural
nominative	film	filmlar
genitive	filmning	filmlarning
dative	filmga	filmlarga
definite accusative	filmni	filmlarni
locative	filmda	filmlarda
ablative	filmdan	filmlardan
similative	filmdek	filmlardek

Possessive forms of *film*
1^st person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	filmim	filmlarim
genitive	filmimning	filmlarimning
dative	filmimga	filmlarimga
definite accusative	filmimni	filmlarimni
locative	filmimda	filmlarimda
ablative	filmimdan	filmlarimdan
similative	filmimdek	filmlarimdek

2^nd person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	filming	filmlaring
genitive	filmingning	filmlaringning
dative	filmingga	filmlaringga
definite accusative	filmingni	filmlaringni
locative	filmingda	filmlaringda
ablative	filmingdan	filmlaringdan
similative	filmingdek	filmlaringdek

3^rd person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	filmi	filmlari
genitive	filmining	filmlarining
dative	filmiga	filmlariga
definite accusative	filmini	filmlarini
locative	filmida	filmlarida
ablative	filmidan	filmlaridan
similative	filmidek	filmlaridek

1^st person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	filmimiz	filmlarimiz
genitive	filmimizning	filmlarimizning
dative	filmimizga	filmlarimizga
definite accusative	filmimizni	filmlarimizni
locative	filmimizda	filmlarimizda
ablative	filmimizdan	filmlarimizdan
similative	filmimizdek	filmlarimizdek

2^nd person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	filmingiz	filmlaringiz
genitive	filmingizning	filmlaringizning
dative	filmingizga	filmlaringizga
definite accusative	filmingizni	filmlaringizni
locative	filmingizda	filmlaringizda
ablative	filmingizdan	filmlaringizdan
similative	filmingizdek	filmlaringizdek

3^rd person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	filmi	filmlari
genitive	filmining	filmlarining
dative	filmiga	filmlariga
definite accusative	filmini	filmlarini
locative	filmida	filmlarida
ablative	filmidan	filmlaridan
similative	filmidek	filmlaridek

Related terms

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from English film

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɪlm/

Noun

film c (plural films, diminutive filmke or filmje)

film, movie, motion picture

English

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Afrikaans

Etymology

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Noun

Albanian

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Azerbaijani

Etymology

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Noun

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Catalan

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

Further reading

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Noun

Declension

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Czech

Etymology

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Noun

Declension

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References

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

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Noun

Inflection

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Dutch

Etymology

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Noun

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Estonian

Etymology

Noun

Declension

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French

Etymology

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Noun

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German

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Verb

Hungarian

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Noun

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