YouTube

See also: Youtube

English

Logo of YouTube

Etymology

Website name, from a compound of you +‎ tube (“North American colloquial term for television”), implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːtjuːb/, /ˈjuːtʃuːb/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjutub/
• (GenAus, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈjʉːtʃʉːb/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Homophone: U-tube

Proper noun

YouTube

1. A video-sharing website.

   Alternative form: (abbreviation) YT

Derived terms

• BookTube
• booktuber
• Jewtube
• virtual YouTuber, VTuber
• YouPube
• YouTube bait
• YouTube poop, YTP
• YouTuber
• YouTubian
• YouTubular

 

Translations

a video-sharing website

• Arabic: يُوتِيُوب m (yūtiyūb)
• Armenian: Յություբ (Yutʻyub)
• Bengali: ইউটিউব (bn) (iuṭiub)
• Burmese: ယူကျု (yu-kyu.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: YouTube (zh), 優兔／优兔 (yōutù) (slang, neologism), 油管 (zh) (yóuguǎn) (slang, neologism)

• Dutch: YouTube (nl) n
• Esperanto: Jutubo
• Estonian: YouTube
• Finnish: YouTube
• French: YouTube (fr) m
• Georgian: იუთუბი (iutubi)
• German: YouTube n
• Greek: γιουτιούμπ (gioutioúmp)
• Hebrew: יוּטְיוּבּ m (yutyub)
• Hindi: यूट्यूब (yūṭyūb)
• Hungarian: YouTube (hu)
• Japanese: ユーチューブ (Yūchūbu), ようつべ (Yōtsube) (slang)
• Korean: 유튜브 (ko) (Yutyubeu)
• Macedonian: Ју́туб m (Jútub), Ју́тјуб m (Jútjub)
• Maori: tiriata
• Persian: یوتیوب (yutyub)
• Polish: YouTube (pl) m
• Portuguese: YouTube m
• Russian: юту́б m (jutúb), ютью́б m (jutʹjúb) , ютю́б (ru) m (jutjúb), юта́б m (jutáb) (colloquial), тытруба́ f (tytrubá) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Јутуб m, Јућјуб m (slang)

  Roman: Youtube m (formally), Jùtȗb m, Jùćjȗb m (slang)

• Spanish: YouTube
• Swedish: Youtube n
• Tamil: வலைஒளி (valai’oḷi)
• Thai: ยูทูบ (yuu-túup)
• Turkish: YouTube, yutup (slang)
• Ukrainian: ютуб (jutub)
• Urdu: یوٹیوب (yūṭyūb)

Noun

YouTube (plural YouTubes)

1. (neologism) Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly YouTube itself.
   • 2007, Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank, Academic librarianship by design:

     None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content, […]

   • 2008, Bradley L. Jones, Web 2.0 Heroes:

     There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.

2. (neologism, informal) A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on YouTube.
   • 2007, Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded:

     Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet, […]

   • 2009 March, Valerie McQueen, “Bring me the Horizon”, in Revolver:

     Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?

3. (uncountable) Collectively, the users of YouTube; especially the content creator's viewers.

   Hi, how's it going YouTube! Sorry I wasn't able to upload a video last week!

Translations

any website that allows users to upload content

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 在線視頻網站／在线视频网站 (zàixiàn shìpín wǎngzhàn)

• Finnish: YouTube, tube (fi) (slang)
• French: Youtube m

Verb

YouTube (third-person singular simple present YouTubes, present participle YouTubing, simple past and past participle YouTubed)

1. (transitive) To upload a video of something to YouTube.
   • 2007 February 5, “Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry”, in Guardian Unlimited‎^[1]:

     The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTube.
2. (transitive) To search for and view on YouTube.
   • 2015 April 21, Bob Jones, “Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle‎^[2]:

     Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer.

   • 2017 July 20, Sammy Guevara, Impact Wrestling:

     If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTube.
3. (intransitive) To upload or watch videos on YouTube.
   • 2023 March 24, Adam Leventhal, “Ben Foster’s move to Wrexham: How a business and football deal was done”, in The Athletic‎^[3]:

     He had discussed joining Atlanta United in MLS and following his retirement, there was an outside chance that Hugo Lloris’ current injury at Tottenham Hotspur would create an opening there. Other offers came and went, but it was YouTubing and podcasting that filled [Ben] Foster’s time, not football, albeit with the door to a comeback left slightly ajar.

Translations

to upload a video of something to YouTube

• Dutch: youtuben (nl)
• German: youtuben (de)

to search for and view on YouTube

• Dutch: youtuben (nl)
• German: youtuben (de)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju.tyb/, /ju.tjub/, /ju.tub/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Switzerland):

  (file)

Proper noun

YouTube m

1. YouTube

Derived terms

• youtubeur

German

Alternative forms

• Youtube

Etymology

Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːt(j)uːp/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːt(j)uːb/ (some southern speakers, chiefly Switzerland)

Proper noun

YouTube n (proper noun, strong, genitive YouTubes or YouTube)

1. YouTube

Declension

Declension of YouTube [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	YouTube
genitive	eines	des	YouTubes, YouTube
dative	einem	dem	YouTube
accusative	ein	das	YouTube

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjutuːb], [ˈjucuːb]
• Hyphenation: You‧Tube
• Rhymes: -uːb

Proper noun

YouTube

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	YouTube	—
accusative	YouTube-ot	—
dative	YouTube-nak	—
instrumental	YouTube-bal	—
causal-final	YouTube-ért	—
translative	YouTube-bá	—
terminative	YouTube-ig	—
essive-formal	YouTube-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	YouTube-ban	—
superessive	YouTube-on	—
adessive	YouTube-nál	—
illative	YouTube-ba	—
sublative	YouTube-ra	—
allative	YouTube-hoz	—
elative	YouTube-ból	—
delative	YouTube-ról	—
ablative	YouTube-tól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	YouTube-é	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	YouTube-éi	—

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈju.tup/, /ˈjut.jup/
• Rhymes: -utup, -utjup
• Syllabification: You‧Tube

Proper noun

YouTube m inan

1. YouTube (video-sharing website)

Declension

Declension of YouTube

	singular
nominative	YouTube
genitive	YouTube'a
dative	YouTube'owi
accusative	YouTube
instrumental	YouTube'em
locative	YouTubie
vocative	YouTube

Derived terms

verbs

• wyyoutubować pf
• youtubować impf

 

Related terms

nouns

• youtuber
• youtuberka

 

Further reading

• YouTube in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iwˈtub/ [iʊ̯ˈtub], /iwˈtu.bi/ [iʊ̯ˈtu.bi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iwˈtub/ [iʊ̯ˈtub], /iwˈtu.bi/ [iʊ̯ˈtu.bi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /iwˈtub/ [iʊ̯ˈtub], /iwˈtu.be/ [iʊ̯ˈtu.be]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iwˈtub/ [iwˈtuβ], /iwˈtu.bɨ/ [iwˈtu.βɨ]

Proper noun

YouTube m

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝuˈtub/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uβ̞], /ʝuˈtuf/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uf]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝuˈtub/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uβ̞], /ʝuˈtuf/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uf]
• IPA^(key): (Argentina and Uruguay) /juˈtub/ [juˈt̪uβ̞], /juˈtuf/ [juˈt̪uf]

• Rhymes: -ub, -uf

Proper noun

YouTube m

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Derived terms

• YouTuber
• youtubero