photo

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈfəʊtəʊ/, X-SAMPA: /f@Ut@U/
• (US) IPA: /ˈfoʊtoʊ/, X-SAMPA: /foUtoU/

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Etymology

Shortened form of photograph

Noun

photo (plural photos)

1. photograph

Translations

photograph

• Arabic: صورة (ar) (Suura) f
• Basque: argazki (eu)
• Bengali: ফটো (bn) (fôţo)
• Catalan: foto (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 照片 (cmn) (zhàopiàn), 相片 (cmn) (xiàngpiàn)

• Czech: fotka (cs) f
• Danish: foto (da), fotografi (da) n, billede (da) n
• Dutch: foto (nl)
• Esperanto: foto (eo)
• Finnish: valokuva (fi), (informally) foto (fi), kuva (fi)
• French: photo (fr) f
• German: Foto (de) n, Bild (de) n
• Greek: φωτογραφία (el) (fotografía) f
• Hebrew: תצלום (he) (tatslúm) m, תמונה (he) (tmuná) f
• Hindi: फ़ोटो (hi) (foṭo) m and f, तस्वीर (hi) (tasvīr) f, चित्र (hi)
• Hungarian: fotó (hu), fénykép (hu)

• Icelandic: mynd (is) f
• Italian: fotografia (it) f, foto (it) f
• Japanese: 写真 (ja) (しゃしん, shashin)
• Korean: 사진 (ko) (sajin) (寫真 (ko))
• Latvian: fotogrāfija (lv)
• Lithuanian: nuotrauka (lt) f
• Persian: عکس (fa) (aks)
• Polish: zdjęcie (pl), fotografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: foto (pt) f
• Romanian: fotografie f, poză f, foto n
• Russian: фото (ru) (fóto) n, фотография (ru) (fotográfija) f, снимок (ru) (snímok) m
• Spanish: foto (es) f, fotografía (es) f
• Turkish: fotoğraf (tr)
• Urdu: فوٹو (ur) (foṭo) m and f, تصویر (ur) (tasvīr) f
• Uyghur: رەسىم (ug) (resim)
• Volapük: fotografot (vo), (older term, obsolete) fotogafot (vo)

Verb

photo (third-person singular simple present photos, present participle photoing, simple past and past participle photoed)

1. To take a photograph.
   • [1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter [1]

     What fun to be photoed together,

     What luck for a break so opportune.

     Oh, what a lark

     To be posed in the park

     Underneath the adolescent crescent of the moon.

   • 1998, Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine [2]

     He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.

   • 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet [3]

     Always photoing exits. What are all these ways out but rehearsals for his own?

Translations

to take a photograph

• Dutch: fotograferen (nl)
• Esperanto: foti (eo)
• Finnish: valokuvata (fi), kuvata (fi)
• Hebrew: צילם (he) (tsilém)

• Hindi: तसवीर लेना (hi)
• Spanish: instantánea (es) f
• Volapük: fotografön (vo), (older term, obsolete) fotogafön (vo), (older term) litamagön (vo)

See also

• photo-
• photosensitive
• photosynthesis, photosynthesize
• photogenic
• photocell
• photo finish
• photo opportunity
• snapshot

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French

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Noun

photo f (plural photos)

1. photo