YouTube

See also: Youtube

English

Logo of YouTube

Etymology

Website name, from 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/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈjʉːtʃʉːb/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: U-tube

Proper noun

YouTube

1. A video-sharing website.

Synonyms

• YT (abbreviation)

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 (iuṭiub)
• Burmese: ယူကျု (yu-kyu.)
• Chinese:

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

• 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)

See also

• Adpocalypse
• reply girl

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. (neologism, 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.

2. (neologism, 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.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTube.

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): /juˈtub/, /juˈtu.bi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /juˈtub/, /juˈtu.bi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /juˈtub/, /juˈtu.be/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /juˈtub/ [juˈtuβ], /juˈtu.bɨ/ [juˈtu.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