screenshot

See also: Screenshot

English

A screenshot.

Etymology

screen +‎ shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskriːn.ʃɒt/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

screenshot (plural screenshots)

1. (computing) An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.

   Synonyms: screencast, screen capture, screen dump, screengrab, screenie, screencap

   I grabbed a screenshot of my desktop.

Translations

image of computer screen output

• Amharic: ቅጽበታዊ ገጽ እይታ (ḳəṣbätawi gäṣ ʾəyta)
• Catalan: captura de pantalla f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 截圖 (zh), 截图 (zh) (jiétú)

• Czech: snímek obrazovky m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: schermafbeelding f, schermafdruk m, screenshot (nl) m
• Esperanto: ekrankopio, ekranprintaĵo
• Finnish: kuvakaappaus (fi), ruudunkaappaus, näyttökuva (fi)
• French: capture d'écran (fr) f
• Galician: captura de pantalla f
• German: Screenshot (de) m, Bildschirmfoto (de) n, Bildschirmabzug (de) m (obsolete), Hardcopy f (obsolete)
• Greek: στιγμιότυπο (el) n (stigmiótypo)
• Hungarian: képernyőkép
• Indonesian: cuplikan layar
• Italian: schermata (it) f, videata (it) f, screenshot (it) m
• Japanese: スクリーンショット (sukurīnshotto), スクショ (sukusho)
• Malay: tangkap layar (ms)
• Maori: kapomata
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⵉⵎⵥ ⵏ ⵓⵎⵉⵥⴰⵕ (Imẓ n umiẓaṛ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjermbilde n, skjermdump m

  Nynorsk: skjermbilete n, skjermbilde n

• Polish: zrzut ekranu m
• Portuguese: captura de ecrã f (Portugal), captura de tela f (Brazil), screenshot (pt) m, print (pt) m
• Romanian: captură de ecran f
• Russian: скриншо́т (ru) m (skrinšót), скри́ншот (ru) m (skrínšot) , сни́мок экра́на m (snímok ekrána)
• Serbo-Croatian: snimak zaslona m, снимак заслона m
• Spanish: captura de pantalla f, pantallazo m
• Swedish: skärmbild (sv) c, skärmdump (sv) c
• Tigrinya: ቅጽበታዊ ገጽ ትርኢት (ḳəṣbätawi gäṣ tərʾit), ቅጽበታዊ ምስሊ (ḳəṣbätawi məsli)
• Turkish: ekran görüntüsü, ekran yakalama görüntüsü
• Vietnamese: ảnh chụp màn hình, hình chụp màn hình
• Welsh: sgrînlun m

See also

• bullshot

Verb

screenshot (third-person singular simple present screenshots, present participle screenshotting, simple past and past participle screenshotted)

1. (computing, transitive) To take a screenshot of something.

   To help to improve the software, make sure to screenshot any bugs you find.

Translations

take a screenshot

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 截圖 (zh), 截图 (zh) (jiétú)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: ekrankopii
• Finnish: ottaa kuvakaappaus
• German: ein Bildschirmfoto machen
• Maori: kapomata
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵎⵥ ⴰⵎⵉⵥⴰⵕ (Amẓ amiẓaṛ)
• Portuguese: (Portugal) capturar ecrã, (Portugal) tirar uma captura de ecrã, (Brazil) capturar tela, (Brazil) tirar uma captura de tela
• Russian: заскриншо́тить (ru) pf (zaskrinšótitʹ), отскриншо́тить (ru) pf (otskrinšótitʹ), заскри́нить (ru) pf (zaskrínitʹ), отскри́нить (ru) pf (otskrínitʹ), скриншо́тить (ru) impf (skrinšótitʹ), скри́нить (ru) impf (skrínitʹ), де́лать скриншо́т pf (délatʹ skrinšót), сде́лать скриншо́т impf (sdélatʹ skrinšót), де́лать сни́мок экра́на pf (délatʹ snímok ekrána), сде́лать сни́мок экра́на impf (sdélatʹ snímok ekrána)
• Swedish: ta skärmbild, ta skärmdump
• Vietnamese: chụp màn hình

Further reading

• screenshot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English screenshot.

Noun

screenshot m

1. (computing) screenshot (image of computer screen output)

   Synonym: schermata

Further reading

• screenshot in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English screenshot.

Noun

screenshot m (plural screenshots)

1. (computing) screenshot (image of computer screen output)

   Synonyms: captura de ecrã, captura de tela, print, Print Screen

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:screenshot.