English - Descendants

• Japanese: フィル

English - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪlm/
• Rhymes: -ɪlm
• (North East England) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪləm/

English - Etymology

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 *pélno-mo (“membrane”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel(w)-, *plē(w)-, *péln- (“skin, hide”). 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 plevá 'membrane', 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.

English - Noun

film (plural films)

1. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

   a clear plastic film for wrapping food

   • Alexander Pope

     He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.

2. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
3. A motion picture.
4. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
   • Shakespeare

     Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.

Synonyms

• (motion picture): movie

Derived terms

• filmic
• filmmaker
• filmmaking
• filmography
• filmology
• filmy
• on film

Translations

English - Verb

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

1. To record a motion picture on photographic film

   "A Hollywood studio was filming on-location in NYC."

2. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

   • It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

Translations

English - Anagrams

• MILF

Azeri - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [film]

Azeri - Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmlər)

1. film

Declension

Crimean Tatar - Etymology

English film.

Crimean Tatar - Noun

film

1. film

Declension

Crimean Tatar - References

• V. A. Mirjejev, S. M. Usejinov (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian–Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

Czech - Noun

film

Danish - Pronunciation

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

Danish - Noun

film

Dutch - Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlm

Dutch - Noun

film

Estonian - Noun

film (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. movie

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• filmindus
• filmilint
• värvifilm

French - Etymology

Borrowing from English film.

French - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/

French - Noun

film

French - External Links

• “film” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfilm/
• Hyphenation: film

Hungarian - Noun

film (plural filmek)

1. film

Declension

Derived terms

• filmez

(Compound words):

• akciófilm
• dokumentumfilm
• filmfesztivál
• filmgyártás
• filmkritika
• filmpremier
• filmszínész
• filmsztár
• játékfilm

Indonesian - Noun

film

1. film

Italian - Noun

film

Italian - See Also

• cinema

Norman - Etymology

Borrowing from English film.

Norman - Noun

film

Norwegian Bokmål - Noun

film

Norwegian Nynorsk - Noun

film

Polish - Etymology

From English film

Polish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fʲilm]

Polish - Noun

film

Polish - External Links

• “film” in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian - Etymology

From French film.

Romanian - Noun

film n

Serbo-Croatian - Etymology

From English film.

Serbo-Croatian - Noun

fȉlm

Slovak - Noun

film

Swedish - Noun

film

Swedish - References

• film in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Turkish - Etymology

From French film.

Turkish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [film] or colloquially IPA^(key): [filim]

Turkish - Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmler)

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

Declension

Rhyme