photography

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• Received-Pronunciation: /fəˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
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• Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/
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• Canada, dialectal: /fəˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ of the US
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• Australian: /fəˈtɔɡ.ɹə.fi/
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• New-Zealand: [fəˈtɔ̟ɡ.ɹə.fi]
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• rhymes with -ɒɡɹəfi
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bheh2- Proto-Indo-European *bhéh2os Proto-Hellenic *pháwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-) Proto-Indo-European *gerbh- Proto-Hellenic *grə́phō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) French photographiebor. English photography From French photographie. By surface analysis, photo- + -graphy, together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines", "drawing". From φῶς (phôs, “of light”), and γράφω (gráphō, “write, draw”).

124 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: fotografie — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Albanian: fotografia — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Arabic: تَصْوِير (taṣwīr) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Arabic: فُوتُوغْرَافِيَّا (futuḡrafiyyā) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Aragonese: fotografía — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Armenian: լուսանկարչություն (lusankarčʻutʻyun) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Asturian: fotografía — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Azerbaijani: fotoqrafiya — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Bambara: kɔtɛba — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Basque: argazkigintza — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Basque: argazkilaritza — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Belarusian: фатагра́фія (fatahráfija) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Bengali: ফটোগ্রাফি (phoṭōgraphi) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Bengali: ফটোগ্রাফী (phoṭōgraphi) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Breton: luc'hskeudennerezh — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Bulgarian: фотогра́фия (fotográfija) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Catalan: fotografia — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Chinese Mandarin: 攝影 /摄影 (shèyǐng) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Chuvash: фотографи (fot̬ografi) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Corsican: fotugrafia — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Czech: fotografie — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Danish: fotografi — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Dutch: fotografie — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Esperanto: fotarto — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Estonian: fotograafia — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Finnish: valokuvaus — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Finnish: valokuvaaminen — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• French: photographie — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• West-Frisian: fotografy — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• West-Frisian: fotografie — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Friulian: fotografie — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Galician: fotografía — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Georgian: ფოტოგრაფია (poṭograpia) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• German: Fotografie — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Bavarian German: Photographie — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Greek: φωτογραφία (fotografía) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Hebrew: צילום (tzilém) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Hindi: छायाचित्र (chāyācitra) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Hindi: फ़ोटोग्राफ़ी (foṭogrāfī) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Hindi: फोटोग्राफी (phoṭogrāphī) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Hungarian: fényképezés — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Hungarian: fényképészet — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Hungarian: fotográfia — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Icelandic: ljósmyndun — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Ido: fotografado — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Indonesian: fotografi — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Irish: grianghrafadóireacht — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Irish: fótagrafaíocht — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Italian: fotografia — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Japanese: 写真撮影 (shashin satsuei) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Japanese: 写真術 (shashinjutsu) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Japanese: 撮影 (satsuei) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Kannada: ಛಾಯಾಗ್ರಹಣ (chāyāgrahaṇa) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Kazakh: фотография (fotografiä) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Khmer: ឆាយាលេខន៍ — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Khmer: សិល្បៈថតរូប (səl thɑɑt ruup) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Korean: 사진술 (sajinsul) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Latin: photographia — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Latvian: fotogrāfija — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Lithuanian: fotografija — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Luxembourgish: Fotografie — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Macedonian: фотографија (fotografija) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Malay: fotografi — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Maltese: fotografija — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Māori: whakaahua — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Norwegian Bokmål: fotografi — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fotografi — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Occitan: fotografia — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Pennsylvania German: Pikder — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Persian: عکاسی ('akkâsi) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Polish: fotografia — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Portuguese: fotografia — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Romanian: fotografie — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Russian: фотогра́фия (fotográfija) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Samogitian: puortėgrapėjė — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Serbo-Croatian: фотогра̀фија — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Serbo-Croatian: fotogràfija — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Shor: соом (soom) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Slovak: fotografia — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Slovak: snímka — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Spanish: fotografía — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Swahili: upigaji picha — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Swedish: fotografi — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Tagalog: palanginagan — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Tamil: புகைப்படம் (pukaippaṭam) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Tamil: போட்டோகிராபி (pōṭṭōkirāpi) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Thai: การถ่ายภาพ (gaan-tàai-pâap) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Turkish: fotoğrafçılık — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Ukrainian: фотогра́фія (fotohráfija) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Urdu: عکاسی (akkāsī) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Urdu: عکس بندی (aks-bandī) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Urdu: تصویر کشی (tasvīr-kaśī) — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Vietnamese: nhiếp ảnh — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Volapük: fotograf — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Volapük: fotogaf — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Volapük: litamag — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Volapük: kölafotograf — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Walloon: fotografeye — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Welsh: ffotograffiaeth — art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces
• Catalan: fotografia — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Chinese Mandarin: 攝影 /摄影 (shèyǐng) — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Czech: fotografování — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Dutch: fotografie — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Finnish: valokuvaus — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Finnish: valokuvaaminen — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• French: photographie — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• West-Frisian: fotografy — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• West-Frisian: fotografie — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• German: Fotografie — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Greek: φωτογραφική (fotografikí) — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Hungarian: fotózás — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Khmer: ថតរូប (thɑɑt ruup) — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Maltese: fotografija — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Polish: fotografowanie — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Portuguese: fotografia — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Romanian: fotografia — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Russian: фотогра́фия (fotográfija) — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Serbo-Croatian: фотогра̀фија — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Serbo-Croatian: fotogràfija — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Spanish: fotografía — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Swahili: upigaji picha — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Swedish: fotografering — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Thai: การถ่ายภาพ (gaan-tàai-pâap) — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs
• Turkish: fotoğrafçılık — occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs