Etymology
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From French photographie. By surface analysis, photo- + -graphy, together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines", "drawing". From φωτός (phōtós, “of light”, genitive), and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”).
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photography (usually uncountable, plural photographies)
- The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
go on a photography course
- The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.
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art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
- Afrikaans: fotografie (af)
- Albanian: fotografia ?
- Arabic: تَصْوِير m (taṣwīr), فُوتُوغْرَافِيَّا f (futuḡrafiyyā)
- Aragonese: fotografía f
- Armenian: լուսանկարչություն (hy) (lusankarčʻutʻyun)
- Asturian: fotografía (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: fotoqrafiya (az)
- Bambara: kɔtɛba
- Basque: argazkigintza, argazkilaritza
- Bavarian: Photographie ?
- Belarusian: фатагра́фія (fatahráfija)
- Bengali: ফটোগ্রাফি (bn) (phoṭōgraphi), ফটোগ্রাফী (bn) (phoṭōgraphi)
- Breton: luc'hskeudennerezh ?
- Bulgarian: фотогра́фия (bg) f (fotográfija)
- Catalan: fotografia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 攝影／摄影 (zh) (shèyǐng)
- Chuvash: фотографи (fot̬ografi)
- Corsican: fotugrafia f
- Czech: fotografie (cs) f
- Danish: fotografi (da) n
- Dutch: fotografie (nl) f
- Esperanto: fotarto
- Estonian: fotograafia
- Finnish: valokuvaus (fi), valokuvaaminen (fi)
- French: photographie (fr) f
- Friulian: fotografie ?
- Galician: fotografía (gl) f
- Georgian: ფოტოგრაფია (poṭograpia)
- German: Fotografie (de) f
- Greek: φωτογραφία (el) f (fotografía)
- Hebrew: צילום m (tzilém)
- Hindi: छायाचित्र (hi) ? (chāyācitra), फ़ोटोग्राफ़ी f (foṭogrāfī), फोटोग्राफी (hi) m (phoṭogrāphī)
- Hungarian: fényképezés (hu)
- Icelandic: ljósmyndun f
- Ido: fotografado (io)
- Indonesian: fotografi (id)
- Irish: grianghrafadóireacht f, fótagrafaíocht f
- Italian: fotografia (it) f
- Japanese: 写真撮影 (shashin satsuei), 写真術 (shashinjutsu), 撮影 (ja) (さつえい, satsuei)
- Kannada: ಛಾಯಾಗ್ರಹಣ (chāyāgrahaṇa)
- Kazakh: фотография (fotografiä)
- Khmer: ឆាយាលេខន៍ (cʰaayaa leek), សិល្បៈថតរូប (səl tʰɑɑt ruup)
- Korean: 사진술 (ko) (sajinsul)
- Latin: photographia f
- Latvian: fotogrāfija f
- Lithuanian: fotografija f
- Luxembourgish: Fotografie f
- Macedonian: фотографија f (fotografija)
- Malay: fotografi (ms)
- Maltese: fotografija f
- Maori: whakaahua
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fotografi (no) m
- Nynorsk: fotografi m
- Pennsylvania German: Pikder n
- Persian: عکاسی (fa) ('akkâsi)
- Polish: fotografia (pl) f
- Portuguese: fotografia (pt) f
- Romanian: fotografie (ro) f
- Russian: фотогра́фия (ru) f (fotográfija)
- Samogitian: puortėgrapėjė f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фотогра̀фија f
- Roman: fotogràfija (sh) f
- Shor: соом (soom)
- Slovak: fotografia f, snímka f
- Spanish: fotografía (es) f
- Swahili: upigaji picha
- Swedish: fotografi (sv) c
- Tagalog: palanginagan
- Tamil: புகைப்படம் (ta) (pukaippaṭam)
- Thai: การถ่ายภาพ (gaan-tàai-pâap)
- Turkish: fotoğrafçılık (tr)
- Ukrainian: фотогра́фія f (fotohráfija)
- Urdu: عکاسی (akkāsī), عکس بندی (aks-bandī), تصویر کشی (tasvīr-kaśī)
- Vietnamese: nhiếp ảnh (vi)
- Volapük: fotograf (vo), (older term, obsolete) fotogaf, (older term) litamag, (color) kölafotograf
- Walloon: fotografeye (wa) f
- Welsh: ffotograffiaeth (cy) f
- West Frisian: fotografy c, fotografie c
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occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
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