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EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin), from Proto-Germanic *filminją (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), 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.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /fɪlm/, [fɪɫm]
    • (file)
    • Rhymes: -ɪlm
  • (North East England, Ireland) IPA(key): [ˈfɪlm̩], [ˈfɪləm]

NounEdit

film (countable and uncountable, plural films)

  1. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
    a clear plastic film for wrapping food
  2. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
  3. (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[1], volume 5, number 1, MDPI, DOI:10.3390/rel5010219, 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.
  4. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.

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TranslationsEdit

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VerbEdit

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

  1. (transitive, intransitive) 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.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
  3. (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

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AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film (plural films)

  1. film

AlbanianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

NounEdit

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

  1. film
  2. movie

DeclensionEdit

AzerbaijaniEdit

Other scripts
Cyrillic филм
Perso-Arabic فیلم

EtymologyEdit

Ultimately from English film.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmlər)

  1. film, movie
    sənədli filmdocumentary film
    bədii filmfeature film
    film çəkməkto shoot a movie
    film çəkilişifilm set, movie-making
    film nümayişifilm screening
    Synonym: kino

DeclensionEdit

    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

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English film.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film m (plural films)

  1. film (a movie)
    Synonym: pel·lícula

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Further readingEdit

Crimean TatarEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English film.

NounEdit

film

  1. film (clarification of this definition is needed)

DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

CzechEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film m inan

  1. (photography) film
  2. movie, film, motion picture

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • film in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • film in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

DanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film c (singular definite filmen, plural indefinite film)

  1. a movie, a film, motion picture
  2. film; a thin layer
  3. plural indefinite of film

InflectionEdit

Derived termsEdit

DutchEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English film.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film m (plural films, diminutive filmpje n)

  1. A film, thin layer or membrane; especially the physical medium film.
  2. A film production, movie
  3. (uncountable) The movie sector, cinema.

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Caribbean Hindustani: felam
  • Caribbean Javanese: film

EstonianEdit

EtymologyEdit

German Film.

NounEdit

film (genitive filmi, partitive filmi)

  1. film (motion picture)
  2. photographic film

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English film.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film m (plural films)

  1. movie, film

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

Further readingEdit

GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

film

  1. singular imperative of filmen

HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English film.[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film (countable and uncountable, plural filmek)

  1. (photography) film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
  2. 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)
  3. film, cinematic art, cinema, cinematography (the art of making films and movies)

DeclensionEdit

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 termsEdit

Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further readingEdit

  • film in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

IndonesianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From earlier pilem, from Dutch film, from English film.

PronunciationEdit

  • (standard) IPA(key): [ˈfɪlm]
  • (Betawi) IPA(key): /ˈfɪl(ə)m/, /ˈpeləm/

NounEdit

film (first-person possessive filmku, second-person possessive filmmu, third-person possessive filmnya)

  1. film,
    1. a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
    2. (photography) a medium used to capture images in a camera.
    3. a movie, a motion picture, a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion.

Alternative formsEdit

  • filem (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

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Further readingEdit

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English film.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈfilm/
  • Rhymes: -ilm
  • Syllabification: fìlm

NounEdit

film m (invariable)

  1. film, movie
    Synonym: pellicola
    Guardi dei film?Do you watch movies?

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • film in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English film.

NounEdit

film m (plural films)

  1. (Jersey) movie, film

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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NounEdit

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

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

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

VerbEdit

film

  1. imperative of filme

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
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NounEdit

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

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

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

PolishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English film.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film m inan (diminutive filmik)

  1. film, movie, motion picture
  2. film (medium used to capture images in a camera)

DeclensionEdit

Related termsEdit

adjectives
adverb
nouns
verbs

Further readingEdit

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

PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

film m (plural filmes)

  1. Superseded spelling of filme.

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film n (plural filme)

  1. movie, film

DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

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).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film m (genitive singular film, plural filmichean)

  1. film, movie

MutationEdit

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

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English film.

NounEdit

fȉlm m (Cyrillic spelling фи̏лм)

  1. film (photography)
  2. film (motion picture)

DeclensionEdit

SlovakEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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

  1. photographic film
  2. movie, motion picture

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • film in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English film.

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

film m (plural films)

  1. Alternative spelling of filme (film, motion picture)

Further readingEdit

SwedishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film c

  1. film; a thin layer
  2. film; medium used to capture images in a camera
  3. a movie

DeclensionEdit

Declension of film 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative film filmen filmer filmerna
Genitive films filmens filmers filmernas

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ReferencesEdit

TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmler)

  1. a medium used to capture images in a camera
  2. a movie
  3. a thin layer

DeclensionEdit

Inflection
Nominative film
Definite accusative filmi
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 termsEdit

  1. " streç film" — Light, transparent plastic film used as a wrapping for food etc. —"clingfilm", Saran Wrap (US)

UzbekEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Russian фильм (filʹm), from English film.

NounEdit

film (plural filmlar)

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

DeclensionEdit

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