selfie

English

Etymology

From self +‎ -ie.

Astronaut Aki Hoshide taking a selfie during a spacewalk.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlfi/

Noun

selfie (plural selfies)

1. (slang) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
   • 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" [1], ABC Online Forum [selfie photo]:

     Um, drunk at a mates^[sic] 21st, I tripped ofer^[sic] and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.

   • 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." [2], Flickr:

     Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. […] No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.

   • 2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books (2005), ISBN 9781581807660, page 148:

     That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie.

   • 2012 December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie” [3], the picture show, National Public Radio
   • 2013 December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘Selfie-Gate’”, On the Media, National Public Radio:

     Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.

Translations

a photograph taken by the person photographed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自拍 (zh)

• Dutch: selfie m, zelfje n
• Finnish: selfie, teinipeili, meitsie
• German: Selfie (de) n
• Hungarian: szelfi

• Papiamentu: slfer, selfie
• Polish: samojebka f
• Russian: селфи (ru) n (sélfi)
• Swedish: selfie (sv), egobild, självis
• Vietnamese: ảnh tự sướng, hình tự sướng
• Turkish: özçekmiş

Hypernyms

• self-portrait

External links

• Selfie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•  Category:Selfies on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Category:Selfies

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Finnish

Noun

selfie

1. selfie

Declension

Declension of selfie (Kotus type 3/valtio)

		singular	plural
nominative		selfie	selfiet
accusative	zero?	selfie	selfiet
	normal	selfien
genitive		selfien	selfieiden selfieitten
partitive		selfietä	selfieitä
inessive		selfiessä	selfieissä
elative		selfiestä	selfieistä
illative		selfieen	selfieihin
adessive		selfiellä	selfieillä
ablative		selfieltä	selfieiltä
allative		selfielle	selfieille
essive		selfienä	selfieinä
translative		selfieksi	selfieiksi
instructive		—	selfiein
abessive		selfiettä	selfieittä
comitative		—	selfieineen

Synonyms

• teinipeili
• meitsie

Hypernyms

• omakuva