Film in Different Languages
Discover 'Film' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Film
Afrikaans film | ||
Albanian film | ||
Amharic ፊልም | ||
Arabic فيلم | ||
Armenian կինոնկար | ||
Assamese চলচ্চিত্ৰ | ||
Aymara pilikula | ||
Azerbaijani film | ||
Bambara filimu | ||
Basque filma | ||
Belarusian фільм | ||
Bengali ফিল্ম | ||
Bhojpuri फिलिम | ||
Bosnian film | ||
Bulgarian филм | ||
Catalan pel·lícula | ||
Cebuano pelikula | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 电影 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 電影 | ||
Corsican film | ||
Croatian film | ||
Czech film | ||
Danish film | ||
Dhivehi ފިލްމު | ||
Dogri फिल्म | ||
Dutch film | ||
English film | ||
Esperanto filmo | ||
Estonian film | ||
Ewe sinii | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pelikula | ||
Finnish elokuva | ||
French film | ||
Frisian film | ||
Galician película | ||
Georgian ფილმი | ||
German film | ||
Greek ταινία | ||
Guarani ta'angaryrýi | ||
Gujarati ફિલ્મ | ||
Haitian Creole fim | ||
Hausa fim | ||
Hawaiian kiʻi ʻoniʻoni | ||
Hebrew סרט צילום | ||
Hindi फ़िल्म | ||
Hmong zaj duab xis | ||
Hungarian film | ||
Icelandic kvikmynd | ||
Igbo ihe nkiri | ||
Ilocano pelikula | ||
Indonesian film | ||
Irish scannán | ||
Italian film | ||
Japanese 映画 | ||
Javanese film | ||
Kannada ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ | ||
Kazakh фильм | ||
Khmer ខ្សែភាពយន្ត | ||
Kinyarwanda firime | ||
Konkani चित्रपट | ||
Korean 필름 | ||
Krio fim | ||
Kurdish fîlm | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) فلیم | ||
Kyrgyz фильм | ||
Lao ຮູບເງົາ | ||
Latin amet | ||
Latvian filma | ||
Lingala filme | ||
Lithuanian filmas | ||
Luganda akazannyo | ||
Luxembourgish film | ||
Macedonian филм | ||
Maithili फिलिम | ||
Malagasy horonan-tsary | ||
Malay filem | ||
Malayalam ഫിലിം | ||
Maltese film | ||
Maori kiriata | ||
Marathi चित्रपट | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯐꯤꯂꯝ | ||
Mizo film | ||
Mongolian кино | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရုပ်ရှင် | ||
Nepali फिल्म | ||
Norwegian film | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kanema | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଚଳଚ୍ଚିତ୍ର | ||
Oromo fiilmii | ||
Pashto فلم | ||
Persian فیلم | ||
Polish film | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) filme | ||
Punjabi ਫਿਲਮ | ||
Quechua pelicula | ||
Romanian film | ||
Russian фильм | ||
Samoan ata tifaga | ||
Sanskrit चलचित्रं | ||
Scots Gaelic film | ||
Sepedi filimi | ||
Serbian филм | ||
Sesotho filimi | ||
Shona firimu | ||
Sindhi فلم | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) චිත්රපටය | ||
Slovak film | ||
Slovenian film | ||
Somali filim | ||
Spanish película | ||
Sundanese pilem | ||
Swahili filamu | ||
Swedish filma | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pelikula | ||
Tajik филм | ||
Tamil படம் | ||
Tatar фильм | ||
Telugu చిత్రం | ||
Thai ฟิล์ม | ||
Tigrinya ፊልሚ | ||
Tsonga filimi | ||
Turkish film | ||
Turkmen film | ||
Twi (Akan) sini | ||
Ukrainian фільм | ||
Urdu فلم | ||
Uyghur film | ||
Uzbek film | ||
Vietnamese phim ảnh | ||
Welsh ffilm | ||
Xhosa ifilimu | ||
Yiddish פילם | ||
Yoruba fiimu | ||
Zulu ifilimu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "film" can also refer to a thin layer, membrane, or pellicle. |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "film" also means "a layer of a thin substance covering a surface; a membrane" |
| Amharic | The Amharic word 'ፊልም' ('film') originates from the English word 'film,' indicating that it is a foreign term. However, it is also used in Amharic to refer to 'paper,' likely due to the similar thin and transparent nature of both materials. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "فيلم" (film) is derived from the Greek word "philos" meaning "friend" and can also refer to a close companion or confidant in Arabic. |
| Armenian | The word "կինոնկար" is derived from the Greek words "κίνησις" (motion) and "γράφειν" (to write). |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "film" can also refer to a layer or covering, such as the film on the surface of milk. |
| Basque | In Basque, the word filma is also used informally as a synonym of "película", but its literal meaning is "a layer, a thin layer or sheet". |
| Belarusian | "Фільм" is also sometimes used to mean "photographic plate" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | The word "ফিল্ম" can also mean "layer" or "membrane" in Bengali, as in "চোখের ফিল্ম" (the film of the eye). |
| Bosnian | "Film" also means "membrane" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "филм" also means "thin layer" or "membrane" in Bulgarian |
| Catalan | The word "pel·lícula" also means "membrane" or "thin layer" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | The word "pelikula" also refers to a thin layer or skin, such as the pellicle covering a seed |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 電影 (dianying) also refers to "moving pictures" or "motion pictures" in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 電影 is also a Japanese word meaning "movie theater". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "film" also means "thin layer of soil, silt, or dust". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "film" also means "membrane" or "layer" in English. |
| Czech | The Czech word "film" is borrowed from the German word "Film", which in turn comes from the English word "film". |
| Danish | The Danish word "film" can also refer to a thin layer of liquid or to a membrane covering a seed or egg. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, the word "film" can also refer to the thin, clear layer that forms on the surface of a liquid. |
| Esperanto | The word "filmo" can also mean "movie" or "cinema" in Esperanto. |
| Estonian | The word "film" in Estonian can also refer to a thin layer of something, such as a film of oil on water. |
| Finnish | "Elokuva" is the Finnish word for "film", and it is formed from the roots "elo" (life) and "kuva" (picture), which means "moving pictures". |
| French | In French, the word "film" can also refer to the thin, transparent sheet used to cover a wound or protect a surface. |
| Frisian | Frisian film, meaning "thin skin", is related to English "film" in its sense of a "thin layer". |
| Galician | In Galician, "película" can also mean "skin" or "membrane". |
| Georgian | ფილმი comes from the Greek word φιλμ meaning "thin skin" and is related to the Latin word pellicula meaning "skin" or "hide." |
| German | In German, "Film" means "film" but also "membrane" because it stems from Middle High German "velm" ("membrane"), which in turn is derived from Latin "pellicula" ("thin skin"). |
| Greek | The word "ταινία" derives from the Ancient Greek "ταινία," meaning "ribbon" or "band," referring to the celluloid strip used in early filmmaking. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ફિલ્મ" can also refer to a layer or coating of a substance, such as oil or paint, and to the act of making such a coating. |
| Haitian Creole | Fim can refer to a membrane, a thin layer, or a sheet of material |
| Hausa | In Hausa, fim means "film" but is also used colloquially to refer to "movies" in general, including television shows and videos. |
| Hawaiian | The term 'kiʻi ʻoniʻoni' literally translates to 'moving pictures' or 'shadow pictures' in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | "סרט צילום" is the Hebrew word for "film" - originally "a strip of ribbon"," which is its original meaning in both English and Hebrew. |
| Hindi | 'फ़िल्म' is also used to refer to the thin layer of skin that forms over a wound while healing. |
| Hmong | "Zaj duab xis" is a loanword from the Thai language: "zaj" means "to write" while "duab" means "picture". |
| Hungarian | The word "film" comes from the Latin word "filum", meaning "thread". |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word 'kvikmynd' literally translates to 'quick picture' and originally referred to silent movies. |
| Igbo | "Ihe Nkiri" is the Igbo word for a play performed by masked figures |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, the word "film" can also refer to a thin layer covering a surface, such as a layer of dust or a layer of paint. |
| Irish | From the Irish word for "mirror", "scannán" originally meant a "reflection" or "image" before coming to mean "film". |
| Italian | "Film" comes from the Latin "filum" (thread), and also refers to thin coatings, especially those used to coat lenses in sunglasses and camera lenses. |
| Japanese | "映画" literally means "electric shadow", referring to the visual projection of light. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "film" also refers to a thin transparent layer, such as a membrane on the surface of a liquid or the covering of a seed. |
| Kannada | "ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ" also refers to "cinema" or "motion picture", capturing the dynamic aspect of moving images. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "фильм" originally meant "a piece of paper bearing images or writing," from the Russian word "фильм". |
| Korean | "필름" can also refer to the feeling of nervousness, such as "심장 필름이 나다" (my heart pounding with nerves). |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, "fîlm" derives from Farsi and refers to both "film" and "elephant" (from the thick skin of an elephant). |
| Kyrgyz | The word "фильм" in Kyrgyz can also mean "cinema" or "movie theater." |
| Lao | The word "ຮູບເງົາ" in Lao comes from Sanskrit "rūpa", meaning "form" or "shape", and "chāyā", meaning "shadow" or "image". The compound "rūpa chāyā" means "a form of a shadow" and refers to the moving images on the screen. |
| Latin | In Latin, "amet" is a misspelling of "amictus," meaning "cloak," which was used in medieval times to protect books and became associated with the concept of films. |
| Latvian | The word "filma" also means "membrane" or "sheet" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The word filmas is derived from the Germanic word |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Film" originates from the French word "film" and also means "skin" or "membrane". |
| Macedonian | The word "филм" in Macedonian means "film", which comes from the Greek word "φίλμ" meaning "thin skin". |
| Malagasy | In the context of cinema, "horonan-tsary" can also refer to a film screening or a cinema hall. |
| Malay | The Malay word "filem" comes from the Dutch word "film", both referring to the strips of celluloid from which motion pictures are made. |
| Malayalam | The word ഫിലിം comes from the English word 'film', which originally meant 'a thin membrane' or 'a thin layer'. In Malayalam, it is also used to refer to the material used in photography and cinematography. |
| Maltese | The word "film" in Maltese is also used to refer to a thin layer or covering, such as the skin on a fruit. |
| Maori | Kiriata, meaning both 'film' and 'settlement' in Maori, illustrates the intertwining of storytelling and community. |
| Marathi | The word "चित्रपट" in Marathi comes from the Sanskrit words "चित्र" (image) and "पट" (cloth), meaning a "painted cloth". |
| Mongolian | In Mongolian, the word "кино" can refer to a cinema or the art of film, similar to its meaning in Russian. |
| Nepali | The word "फिल्म" derives from the Hindustani word "filēm," which is derived from the English word "film". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "film" (film) can also refer to a thin layer of a substance or a transparent sheet material |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In the Tumbuka language, "kanema" means "to see" or "to watch". |
| Pashto | In Pashto, the word “فلم” can also refer to a thin layer of something like a cobweb or skin. |
| Persian | The word "فیلم" (film) in Persian also means "elephant" and is derived from the Sanskrit word "pilu" meaning "a large animal". |
| Polish | The Polish word "film" can also refer to a thin layer or coating, like a protective film on a surface. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "filme" can also mean "skin" or "membrane", derived from the Latin word "filum" meaning "thread". |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਫਿਲਮ" also has an alternative meaning of "thin layer". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "film" can also mean "membrane" or "veil", and is derived from the Latin word "filum" meaning "thread". |
| Russian | The Russian word 'фильм' is derived from the Greek word 'filma' which means 'membrane', and is related to the English word 'film' which has a similar meaning. |
| Samoan | Ata tifaga derives from ‘ata’ (day) and ‘tifaga’ (to watch) and originally referred to the daytime movie screenings at the old Samoa Theatre in the 1950s and 1960s. |
| Scots Gaelic | Film can also mean membrane or lining in Scots Gaelic, derived from the Latin word 'filum' meaning thread. |
| Serbian | The word "филм" in Serbian can also refer to a photographic negative or a cinematic projection |
| Sesotho | Filimi can also mean "the skin of a person" or "a piece of cloth used to cover something" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | "Firimu" also means "cinema" or "movie theatre" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word "فلم" can also refer to the thin, transparent membrane that covers the eye in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "චිත්රපටය" can also refer to a canvas or screen on which images are displayed. |
| Slovak | Slovak word "film" also means "membrane" and "skin". |
| Slovenian | The word film is borrowed from English with an extended meaning in Slovenian to also include 'membrane' or 'thin skin'. |
| Somali | "Filim" in Somali also means "nightmare". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "película" derives from the Latin phrase "pellis culata" (skin from the back), due to its resemblance to animal skin. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "pilem" can also refer to a type of fabric or a layer or covering. |
| Swahili | The word "filamu" in Swahili also means "thread" or "string". |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "filma" also means "to film" and "to make a film." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "pelikula" is a blend of "pelicula" (Spanish for "film") and "kula" (Tagalog for "shadow"). |
| Tajik | In Tajik, "филм" (film) is also used to refer to a "movie" or a "motion picture." |
| Tamil | "படம்" also means "picture" and "photo" in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "చిత్రం" can also mean "painting," "picture" or "wonder," reflecting the diverse artistic and visual aspects of cinema. |
| Thai | The Thai word "ฟิล์ม" is borrowed from the English word "film", which originally referred to a thin layer or skin. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "film" originates from the French word "film", meaning "a thin layer of a substance". |
| Ukrainian | The word "фільм" can also refer to a protective layer on a liquid or a thin sheet of material. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "فلم" can also refer to a layer or coating on a surface, such as the thin membrane that forms on top of milk or yogurt. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "film" can also mean a thin layer or membrane covering something. |
| Vietnamese | "Phim ảnh" also means "movies" in Vietnamese." |
| Welsh | In Welsh, the word "ffilm" also refers to a membrane or layer covering something. |
| Xhosa | 'Ifilimu' is the plural form and 'ifilimu elinye' is the singular meaning a single film. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "פילם" can also refer to a layer, membrane, or skin. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "fiimu" was also used to describe the physical material of the film itself. |
| Zulu | The word 'ifilimu' derives from 'filimu', meaning 'to skin' or 'to peel', capturing the motion picture essence. |
| English | "Film" can also refer to a thin layer or coating on a surface, such as a film of oil or a film of dust. |