documentary

English

Etymology

From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɒk.jəˈmɛn.tɹi/, /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/
• IPA^(key): /ˌdɑ.kjəˈmɛn.tɚ.ɹi/, /ˌdɑ.kjʊˈmɛn.tɚ.ɹi/

Adjective

documentary (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or based on documents.
2. Which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
3. (of a film, book etc) Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.

Translations

of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something

• Belarusian: дакумента́льны (dakumjentálʹny)
• Bulgarian: документа́лен (dokumentálen)
• Catalan: documental (ca)
• Dutch: documentair (nl)
• Finnish: dokumentaarinen
• French: documentaire (fr)
• Icelandic: heimilda-
• Polish: dokumentalny, dokumentarny
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: documental (pt)
• Romanian: documentar (ro) m
• Russian: документа́льный (ru) (dokumentálʹnyj)
• Spanish: documental (es), documentario
• Swedish: dokumentarisk (sv)
• Thai: สารคดี (sǎa-rá-ká-dii)
• Ukrainian: документа́льний (dokumentálʹnyj)
• Volapük: dokümik (vo)

presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter

• Armenian: վավերագրական (hy) (vaveragrakan)
• Czech: dokumentární (cs)
• Finnish: dokumentaarinen
• Hebrew: תיעודי (ti'udy)
• Italian: documentario (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: documental (pt)
• Spanish: documental (es) m
• Swedish: dokumentär (sv)
• Thai: สารคดี (sǎa-rá-ká-dii)

Noun

documentary (plural documentaries)

1. A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

Translations

programme or publication of fact

• Afrikaans: dokumentêr, dokkie
• Armenian: վավերագրական կինոնկար (hy) (vaveragrakan kinonkar)
• Catalan: documental (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 纪录片 (zh) (jìlù piàn)

• Czech: dokument (cs) m
• Dutch: documentaire (nl) m, docu m
• Estonian: dokumentaalfilm, tõsielufilm, dokk (colloquial)
• Finnish: dokumentaari (fi), dokumenttielokuva (fi), dokumentti (fi)
• French: documentaire (fr) m
• German: Dokumentation (de) f, Doku (de) f
• Irish: clár faisnéise m, scannán faisnéise m (film)
• Malay: dokumentari
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: motuhenga, pakipūmeka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dokumentar (no) m

  Nynorsk: dokumentar m

• Occitan: documentari m
• Portuguese: documentário (pt) m
• Spanish: documental (es) m
• Swedish: dokumentärfilm (sv) c, dokumentär (sv) c
• Thai: สารคดี (sǎa-rá-ká-dii)
• Turkish: belgesel (tr)

documentary film

• Arabic: فِيلْم وَثَائِقِيّ m (film waṯāʾiqiyy)
• Armenian: վավերագրական կինոնկար (hy) (vaveragrakan kinonkar)
• Azerbaijani: sənədli film
• Belarusian: дакумента́льны фільм m (dakumjentálʹny filʹm)
• Bulgarian: документа́лен филм m (dokumentálen film)
• Catalan: documental (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紀錄片／纪录片 (zh), 纪录片 (zh) (jìlùpiàn), 記錄片／记录片 (zh), 记录片 (zh) (jìlùpiàn)

• Czech: dokumentární film m
• Danish: dokumentarfilm c
• Dutch: documentaire (nl)
• Esperanto: dokumentfilmo
• Estonian: dokumentaalfilm
• Finnish: dokumentti (fi), dokumenttielokuva (fi)
• French: documentaire (fr) m
• Georgian: დოკუმენტური ფილმი (doḳumenṭuri pilmi)
• German: Dokumentation (de) f, Dokumentarfilm (de) m
• Hebrew: צִלוּמֵי תְעוּדָה
• Hindi: वृत्तचित्र (vŕttacitra)
• Hungarian: dokumentumfilm (hu)
• Icelandic: heimildamynd f
• Indonesian: film dokumenter (id)
• Italian: documentario (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ドキュメンタリー (dokyumentarī)
• Korean: 다큐멘터리 (ko) (dakyumenteori)
• Latvian: dokumentālā filma f
• Lithuanian: dokumentinis kinas m
• Macedonian: документарен филм m (dokumentaren film)
• Mongolian: баримтат кино (barimtat kino)
• Norwegian: dokumentar (no) m
• Persian: مستند (fa) (mostanad), فیلم مستند (fa) (film mostanad)
• Polish: film dokumentalny (pl) m, dokument (pl) m
• Portuguese: documentário (pt) m
• Romanian: documentar (ro) n
• Russian: документа́льный фильм (ru) m (dokumentálʹnyj filʹm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: документарни филм m

  Roman: dokumentarni film m

• Slovak: dokumentárny film m
• Slovene: dokumentarni film m
• Spanish: documental (es) m
• Swedish: dokumentär (sv) c, dokumentärfilm (sv) c
• Thai: สารคดี (săan-ká-dee), ภาพยนตร์สารคดี (pâap-pá-yon-sǎa-rá-ká-dii)
• Turkish: belgesel (tr)
• Ukrainian: документа́льний фільм m (dokumentálʹnyj filʹm)
• Vietnamese: phim tài liệu

Antonyms

• fiction

Derived terms

terms derived from documentary (noun)

• fuckumentary
• mockumentary
• schlockumentary

• shockumentary
• stalkumentary

Related terms

• docudrama

Anagrams

• countrymade