English [edit]
Four photographs in an
album
Etymology [edit]
photo- + -graph
Pronunciation [edit]
photograph (plural photographs)
- A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
- 2012 March 1, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:
- Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from photograph (noun)
Translations [edit]
picture
- American Sign Language: 1@NearCheek-1@NearCheek X@NearCheek-X@NearCheek
- Arabic: صورة (ar) (Suura) f, صورة شمسية (ar) (Suura shamsiyya)) f
- Egyptian Arabic: صورة (Suura(t)) f
- Asturian: fotografía (ast) f, foto (ast) f
- Bengali: ফটোগ্রাফ (bn) (fôţograf), ফটো (bn) (fôţo)
- Catalan: fotografia (ca) f, foto (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 照片 (cmn) (zhàopiàn), 相片 (cmn) (xiàngpiàn)
- Czech: fotografie (cs) f
- Dutch: foto (nl) f
- Esperanto: foto (eo)
- Faroese: ljósmynd (fo) f
- Finnish: valokuva (fi)
- French: photographie (fr) f, photo (fr) f
- Galician: fotografía (gl) f, foto (gl) f
- German: Fotografie (de) f, Fotographie (de) f, Foto (de) n, Lichtbild (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
- Hungarian: fotó (hu), fénykép (hu)
- Icelandic: ljósmynd (is) f
- Ido: fotografuro (io)
- Italian: fotografia (it) f
- Japanese: 写真 (ja) (しゃしん, shashin)
- Korean: 사진 (ko) (sajin) (寫真 (ko))
- Latvian: fotogrāfija (lv) f
- Lithuanian: fotografija (lt) f
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- Navajo: eʼelyaaígíí
- Occitan: fotografia (oc) f, fotò (oc)
- Persian: عکس (fa) (aks)
- Polish: zdjęcie (pl) n
- Portuguese: fotografia (pt) f, foto (pt) f, retrato (pt) m
- Romanian: fotografie (ro) f, poză (ro) f
- Russian: фотография (ru) (fotográfija) f , фото (ru) (fóto) n (indeclinable), фотокарточка (ru) (fotokártočka) f , снимок (ru) (snímok) m
- Scottish Gaelic: dealbh (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сли̏ка (sh) f, фотогра̀фија (sh) f
- Roman: slȉka (sh) f, fotogràfija (sh) f
- Sicilian: fotugrafìa (scn) f
- Slovak: fotografia (sk) f, fotka (sk) f
- Slovene: fotografija (sl) f
- Spanish: fotografía (es) f, foto (es) f
- Swedish: fotografi (sv) n, foto (sv) n, kort (sv) n
- Thai: รูป (th) (rôop), รูปภาพ (th) (rôop-pâap), ภาพถ่าย (th) (pâap-tàai)
- Tok Pisin: poto (tpi), piksa (tpi)
- Turkish: fotoğraf (tr)
- Ukrainian: фотографія (uk) (fotohráfija) f
- Urdu: فوٹو (ur) (foṭo) m and f, تصویر (ur) (tasvīr) f
- Vietnamese: tấm hình (vi), hình (vi), bức ảnh (vi), ảnh (vi)
- Volapük: fotografot (vo), (older term, obsolete) fotogafot (vo)
- Welsh: llun (cy) m, ffotograff (cy) m
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photograph (third-person singular simple present photographs, present participle photographing, simple past and past participle photographed)
- (transitive) To take a photograph of.
- (intransitive) To take photographs.
- (intransitive) To appear in a photograph.
- She photographs well. The camera loves her.
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