Photo in Different Languages
Discover 'Photo' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
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Afrikaans foto | ||
Albanian foto | ||
Amharic ፎቶ | ||
Arabic صورة فوتوغرافية | ||
Armenian լուսանկար | ||
Assamese ফটো | ||
Aymara jamuqa | ||
Azerbaijani şəkil | ||
Bambara foto | ||
Basque argazkia | ||
Belarusian фота | ||
Bengali ফটো | ||
Bhojpuri तस्वीर | ||
Bosnian fotografija | ||
Bulgarian снимка | ||
Catalan foto | ||
Cebuano litrato | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 照片 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 照片 | ||
Corsican foto | ||
Croatian fotografija | ||
Czech fotografie | ||
Danish foto | ||
Dhivehi ފޮޓޯ | ||
Dogri फोटू | ||
Dutch foto | ||
English photo | ||
Esperanto foto | ||
Estonian foto | ||
Ewe foto | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) larawan | ||
Finnish kuva | ||
French photo | ||
Frisian foto | ||
Galician foto | ||
Georgian ფოტო | ||
German foto | ||
Greek φωτογραφία | ||
Guarani ta'ãnga | ||
Gujarati ફોટો | ||
Haitian Creole foto | ||
Hausa hoto | ||
Hawaiian kiʻi paʻi | ||
Hebrew תמונה | ||
Hindi तस्वीर | ||
Hmong duab | ||
Hungarian fénykép | ||
Icelandic ljósmynd | ||
Igbo foto | ||
Ilocano ladawan | ||
Indonesian foto | ||
Irish grianghraf | ||
Italian foto | ||
Japanese 写真 | ||
Javanese foto | ||
Kannada ಫೋಟೋ | ||
Kazakh фотосурет | ||
Khmer រូបថត | ||
Kinyarwanda ifoto | ||
Konkani फोटो | ||
Korean 사진 | ||
Krio snap | ||
Kurdish wêne | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) وێنە | ||
Kyrgyz сүрөт | ||
Lao ຮູບຖ່າຍ | ||
Latin photo | ||
Latvian foto | ||
Lingala foto | ||
Lithuanian nuotrauka | ||
Luganda ekifaananyi | ||
Luxembourgish foto | ||
Macedonian фотографија | ||
Maithili छबी | ||
Malagasy sary | ||
Malay gambar | ||
Malayalam ഫോട്ടോ | ||
Maltese ritratt | ||
Maori whakaahua | ||
Marathi छायाचित्र | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯝꯃꯤ | ||
Mizo thlalak | ||
Mongolian зураг | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဓာတ်ပုံ | ||
Nepali फोटो | ||
Norwegian bilde | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chithunzi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଫଟୋ | ||
Oromo suuraa | ||
Pashto انځور | ||
Persian عکس | ||
Polish zdjęcie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) foto | ||
Punjabi ਤਸਵੀਰ | ||
Quechua foto | ||
Romanian fotografie | ||
Russian фото | ||
Samoan ata | ||
Sanskrit चित्रं | ||
Scots Gaelic dealbh | ||
Sepedi senepe | ||
Serbian фотографија | ||
Sesotho foto | ||
Shona mufananidzo | ||
Sindhi تصوير | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඡායා රූප | ||
Slovak foto | ||
Slovenian fotografija | ||
Somali sawir | ||
Spanish foto | ||
Sundanese poto | ||
Swahili picha | ||
Swedish foto | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) larawan | ||
Tajik акс | ||
Tamil புகைப்படம் | ||
Tatar фото | ||
Telugu ఫోటో | ||
Thai รูปถ่าย | ||
Tigrinya ፎቶ | ||
Tsonga xifaniso | ||
Turkish fotoğraf | ||
Turkmen surat | ||
Twi (Akan) mfoni | ||
Ukrainian фото | ||
Urdu تصویر | ||
Uyghur سۈرەت | ||
Uzbek fotosurat | ||
Vietnamese hình chụp | ||
Welsh llun | ||
Xhosa ifoto | ||
Yiddish פאָטאָ | ||
Yoruba aworan | ||
Zulu isithombe |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "foto" can also refer to a photographer's darkroom. |
| Albanian | Foto can also mean to take a picture or snapshot in Albanian. |
| Amharic | The word "ፎቶ" is borrowed from English and is also used in the sense of "light" or "picture". |
| Arabic | The word "صورة فوتوغرافية" is derived from Greek "φῶς" (phōs) and "ἔγραφον" (gráphō) and implies "drawing with light". |
| Armenian | It also refers to the photograph itself, rather than just the process of taking it. |
| Azerbaijani | The Azeri word "Şəkil" for "photo" is also used for "form, appearance, figure, image, shape, picture, and painting". |
| Basque | The word "argazkia" also means "light" or "image" in Basque. |
| Belarusian | The word 'фота' is derived from the Greek word 'φῶς' meaning 'light'. |
| Bengali | ফটো (photo) শব্দটি এসেছে গ্রিক শব্দ ফটোস (photos) থেকে, যার অর্থ 'আলো'। |
| Bosnian | The word "fotografija" in Bosnian comes from the Greek words "φῶς" (light) and "γράφω" (to write), and also shares a common etymology with the English word "photography" |
| Bulgarian | Снимка derives from the Russian word "снимок" and means both a photograph and a fingerprint. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "foto" derives from the Greek "phos" (light) and the Latin "graphē" (writing), meaning "writing with light." |
| Cebuano | Litrato can also mean 'photo', but in a more formal or old-fashioned way. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 照片, 'photo' in Chinese, originally meant 'drawing with light'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "照片" is borrowed from Japanese, which in turn borrowed the word "photograph" from English. |
| Corsican | 'Foto' in Corsican is derived from the Greek word 'phōs,' meaning 'light' or 'brightness.' |
| Croatian | It derives from Ancient Greek "φῶς" (phōs), meaning "light”, and "γράφειν" (graphein), meaning "to draw". |
| Czech | The Czech word "fotografie" comes from the Greek words "φως" (phōs, "light") and "γραφή" (graphē, "writing"). |
| Danish | In Danish, "foto" can also refer to a specific still image in a film or video sequence. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "foto" originates from the Greek word "phōs," meaning "light." |
| Esperanto | "Foto" is an abbreviation for "fotografia" (photography). |
| Estonian | In Estonian, "foto" is related to the English word "photography" and is also used more broadly to mean "picture" or "film still." |
| Finnish | "Kuva" also means "image" or "picture" in Finnish |
| French | "Photo" comes from Greek "φῶς," (phōs) "light," and is also the root for the words "photon" and "photography." |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "foto" is derived from the Greek word "phōs," meaning "light." |
| Galician | "Foto" también significa "persona que luce muy bien en una foto" en el registro coloquial. |
| Georgian | The word "ფოტო" (photo) in Georgian is derived from the Greek word "φως" (phos), meaning "light". |
| German | In German, "Foto" is a short form of "Fotografie", derived from the Greek "phos" (light) and "graphein" (to write). |
| Greek | The Greek word "φωτογραφία" (photo) derives from "φως" (light) and "γράφειν" (to write), thus meaning 'writing with light'. |
| Gujarati | In Gujarati, "ફોટો" (photo) can also mean "a picture of a person" or "a photograph". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "foto" is also colloquially used as a noun meaning "photograph" or "picture". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, hoto refers to a "picture" more generally but is often interpreted as a "photo" by association with the English word. |
| Hawaiian | In the Hawaiian language, 'kiʻi paʻi' originally meant 'stamped picture', as a result of the printing press being used in the 19th century. |
| Hebrew | The word "תמונה" in Hebrew also means "picture" or "image". |
| Hindi | The Hindi word तस्वीर (tasveer) originated from the Persian language and literally means 'picture' or 'image'. |
| Hmong | "Duab" also refers to the soul or spirit, and is used to express a person's image, likeness, or representation. |
| Hungarian | "Fénykép" literally means "light picture" and is cognate with "photo" in other European languages. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "ljósmynd" literally translates to "light painting" and can also mean "movie theater" or "film projector". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "foto" can also mean "photogenic" in English. |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, "foto" can also mean "to capture an image" or "to take a picture". |
| Irish | The word "grianghraf" is a compound of the words "grian" (sun) and "ghraf" (drawing). |
| Italian | "Foto" in Italian comes from the Greek word "φωτός" (phōtos), meaning "light". |
| Japanese | "写真" means 'photo,' with "写" meaning 'copy,' and '真' referring to 'truth': "true copy." |
| Javanese | "Foto" also refers to a Javanese dance performed with umbrellas. |
| Kannada | The word "ಫೋಟೋ" in Kannada derives from the Greek word "φῶς" (phôs), meaning "light". |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "фотосурет" derives from the Latin word "foto" and the Turkish word "suret", meaning "to draw". |
| Khmer | The word "រូបថត" in Khmer is derived from the Sanskrit word "rūpaṃ" (form, shape) and the Khmer word "thot" (to draw). |
| Korean | The word '사진', pronounced 'sajin', was coined around 1907 by combining '사 (sa)', the Sino-Korean word for 'light or rays', and '진 (jin), the native Korean word for 'picture or writing.' |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, the word "wêne" can also refer to the act of seeing or observing. |
| Kyrgyz | "Сүрөт" comes from the Persian word "surat" which also means "figure" or "face". |
| Latin | "Photo" derives from Greek "phos" (light) and refers to light's ability to create images. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "foto" is derived from the Greek word "phōs" which means "light". |
| Lithuanian | The word "nuotrauka" is derived from the Lithuanian word "nuotraukti," meaning "to draw or to take a picture." |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "Foto" can also mean "portrait" or "image". |
| Macedonian | The word "фотографија" derives from Greek's "photos", for light, and "graphein", to write or draw. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "sary" not only means "photo" but also "image" or "picture". |
| Malay | The word 'gambar' is cognate to the Indonesian word 'gambar', which means 'image' or 'picture'. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, 'ഫോട്ടോ' can also refer to the process of taking a photograph or the resulting image itself. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "ritratt" is derived from the Italian word "ritratto", which means "portrait". |
| Maori | Whakaahua is a loanword from English, although the original word "ahua" refers to a reflection or shadow. |
| Marathi | छायाचित्र' is derived from the Sanskrit words 'छाया' (shadow) and 'चित्र' (picture), meaning 'a picture made by a shadow', and can also refer to a 'silhouette' or 'shadow play'. |
| Mongolian | The word "зураг" can also mean "image", "picture", or "painting". |
| Nepali | The word "फोटो" is derived from the Greek word "φῶς" (phôs), meaning "light", and is related to the English word "photogenic". |
| Norwegian | "Bilde" is also an archaic form of the word for "statue" and comes from the Old Norse word "bil" meaning "picture, image, statue". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Chitunzi, meaning 'picture' in Nyanja, derives from the verb 'kuchitira', meaning 'to make a copy'. |
| Pashto | The word "انځور" can also mean "image" or "picture" in Pashto. |
| Persian | "عکس" (photo) comes from the Arabic word "عكس" ('aks), meaning "reflection" or "image." |
| Polish | The Polish word "zdjęcie" (photo) comes from the verb "zdjąć" (to remove, to take off), as a photo is a "taken off" image of something. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Foto" in Portuguese is derived from the Greek "phōs," meaning "light" or "brightness." |
| Punjabi | The word "ਤਸਵੀਰ" is derived from the Persian word "tasvir", meaning "image, picture, or painting". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "fotografie" is a cognate of the French "photographie" and ultimately derived from the Greek word "phōs" meaning "light" and "graphe" meaning "writing". |
| Russian | "Фото" is an abbreviation of the Greek "φωτογραφία". "Φωτο" means "light" while "γραφία" means "writing". |
| Samoan | In Samoan, 'ata' also means 'shadow, reflection, picture'. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word dealbh is related to the Irish word delb "image, picture" which is cognate with Welsh delw "image, idol, statue, figure, form". |
| Serbian | The word "фотографија" in Serbian is derived from the Greek words "φως" (light) and "γραφειν" (writing), meaning "writing with light." |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, "foto" is a shortened version of "fotomoli", which means "picture of light" in Greek. |
| Shona | The word 'mufananidzo' is also figuratively used to refer to an example or illustration. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi word "تصوير" also means "drawing", "sketch", or "painting". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The term 'ඡායා රූප' is also used in a broader sense to refer to any kind of image or depiction. |
| Slovak | The word "foto" in Slovak can also mean a passport photo or a photograph in general, not just a digital one. |
| Slovenian | The word 'fotografija' (photo) in Slovenian is derived from the Greek words 'phos' (light) and 'graphein' (to write), and also means 'the act of taking pictures' or 'the art of taking pictures'. |
| Somali | The word "sawir" also translates to "image" or "picture" in Somali. |
| Spanish | The word "foto" ("photo") in Spanish is derived from the Greek word "phōs" ("light"). |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "poto" can also refer to a "photo album" or an "image on a screen". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word 'picha' is a loanword from Portuguese 'picha' ('piece'), 'pintura' ('painting'), or perhaps Dutch 'prent' ('print'). |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "Foto" can also refer to a "footprint". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Larawan" also means "image" or "painting" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | Слово «акс» в таджикском языке происходит от персидского «акас», что означает «отражение». |
| Tamil | The word 'புகைப்படம்' literally means 'smoke picture' in Tamil, highlighting the historical connection between photography and early techniques using smoke. |
| Telugu | The word "photo" is derived from the Greek word "φῶς" (phôs), meaning "light". It can also refer to a type of camera that uses light to capture images. |
| Thai | The Thai word "รูปถ่าย" literally means "form light," suggesting its luminous nature. |
| Turkish | The word "Fotoğraf" is derived from the Greek words "φως" (phos) meaning "light" and "γραφειν" (graphein) meaning "to write," referring to the process of using light to create an image. |
| Ukrainian | The word "фото" in Ukrainian comes from the Greek word "φῶς" (phos), meaning "light". |
| Urdu | In Urdu, "تصویر" can also refer to a "portrait" or "image" not necessarily captured by a camera. |
| Uzbek | The word "fotosurat" is derived from Greek and can also mean "light writing" or "painting with light". |
| Vietnamese | "Hình chụp" (photo) is a compound noun combining "hình" (shape) and "chụp" (to take), referring to the act of capturing an image and the resulting image itself. |
| Welsh | 'Llún' is rooted in the Middle English word 'loune,' which meant a hidden or quiet spot, or a place of seclusion. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, the word "ifoto" not only means "photo" but also holds significant cultural importance, referring to both a tangible object and a powerful tool for preserving and sharing memories. |
| Yiddish | פאָטאָ is also the Yiddish word for a large potato. |
| Yoruba | The word 'aworan' also means 'image' or 'picture' in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "isithombe" also means "picture" or "image". |
| English | "Photo" is short for "photograph" and is derived from the Greek words "phos" (light) and "graphein" (to write/draw). |