YouTube

See also: youtube

English

Alternative forms

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːtjuːb/, /ˈjuːtʃuːb/
• IPA^(key): /ˈjutub/
• IPA^(key): /ˈjʉːtʃʉːb/

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.
   • 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?

Translations

any website that allows users to upload content

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 在線視頻網站／在线视频网站 (zàixiàn shìpín wǎngzhàn), ^{(please verify)} 在线视频网站 (zàixiàn shìpín wǎngzhàn)

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• Finnish: YouTube, tube (fi) (slang)
• French: Youtube m

Proper noun

YouTube

1. A video-sharing website.

Derived terms

• YouTube bait
• YouTuber
• YouTubular

Translations

a video-sharing website

• Arabic: يُوتْيُوب m (yūtyūb)
• Armenian: Յություբ (Yutʻyub)
• Bengali: ইউটিউব (iuṭiub)
• Burmese: ယူကျု (yu-kyu.)
• Chinese:

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• Estonian: YouTube
• Finnish: YouTube
• French: YouTube (fr) m
• Georgian: იუთუბი (iutubi)
• German: YouTube n
• Greek: γιουτιούμπ (gioutioúmp)
• Hebrew: יוּטְיוּבּ m (yutyub)
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• Hindi: यूट्यूब (yūṭyūb)
• Hungarian: YouTube
• Japanese: ユーチューブ (yūchūbu), ようつべ (yōtube) (slang)
• Korean: 유튜브 (yutyubeu)
• Maori: tiriata
• Persian: یوتیوب (yutyub)
• Polish: YouTube m
• Portuguese: YouTube m
• Russian: юту́б m (jutúb), ютью́б m (jutʹjúb)
• Spanish: YouTube
• Thai: ยูทูบ (yuu-túup)
• Turkish: YouTube
• Urdu: یوٹیوب (yūṭyūb)

Verb

1. (neologism, transitive) To upload a video of something to YouTube.
2. (neologism, transitive) To search for and view on YouTube.
   • 2015 April 21, Bob Jones, “Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle‎^[1]:

     Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer.

   • 2017 Sammy Guevara Impact Wrestling July 20

     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.

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German

Alternative forms

• Youtube

Etymology

Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːtjuːp/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːtjuːb/ (some southern speakers, chiefly Switzerland)

Proper noun

YouTube n (genitive YouTube or YouTubes, no plural)

1. YouTube

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjutuːb], [ˈjucuːb]
• Hyphenation: You‧Tube

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	—

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juˈtub/, /juˈtubi/

Proper noun

YouTube m

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English YouTube.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ʝuˈtub/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uβ̞]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝuˈtub/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uβ̞]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃuˈtub/ [ʃuˈt̪uβ̞]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒuˈtub/ [ʒuˈt̪uβ̞]

Proper noun

YouTube m

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Derived terms

• YouTuber
• youtubero