photography

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ (Received Pronunciation)
• IPA^(key): /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/ (General American, Atlantic Canada)

  • Audio (California):

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• IPA^(key): /fəˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ (Canada, dialects of the US)
• IPA^(key): /fəˈtɔɡ.ɹə.fi/ (Australia)
• IPA^(key): [fəˈtɔ̟ɡ.ɹə.fi] (New Zealand)
• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
• Hyphenation: pho‧to‧gra‧phy

Noun

photography (usually uncountable, plural photographies)

1. The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.

   go on a photography course

2. The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.

Derived terms

• aerial photography
• aerophotography
• antiphotography
• astrophotography
• chromophotography
• chronophotography
• cinemaphotography
• cinephotography
• color photography
• digital photography
• director of photography
• electrophotography
• fan camera photography
• femto-photography
• femtophotography
• flash photography
• foodtography
• glamour photography
• Kirlian photography
• lithophotography
• Lomography
• macrophotography
• metaphotography
• microphotography
• multiphotography
• mycography
• orthophotography
• phoneography
• photographist
• principal photography
• psychic photography
• pyrophotography
• radiophotography
• rephotography
• reprography
• scanography
• schlieren photography
• spectrophotography
• spirit photography
• stereophotography
• telephotography
• thoughtography
• tri-camera photography
• ultramicrophotography

Related terms

• phonography
• photographer
• photographic

Translations

art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces

• Afrikaans: fotografie (af)
• Albanian: fotografia ?
• Arabic: تَصْوِير m (taṣwīr), فُوتُوغْرَافِيَّا f (futuḡrafiyyā)
• Aragonese: fotografía f
• Armenian: լուսանկարչություն (hy) (lusankarčʻutʻyun)
• Asturian: fotografía (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: fotoqrafiya (az)
• Bambara: kɔtɛba
• Basque: argazkigintza, argazkilaritza
• Belarusian: фатагра́фія (fatahráfija)
• Bengali: ফটোগ্রাফি (bn) (phoṭōgraphi), ফটোগ্রাফী (bn) (phoṭōgraphi)
• Breton: luc'hskeudennerezh ?
• Bulgarian: фотогра́фия (bg) f (fotográfija)
• Catalan: fotografia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 攝影 / 摄影 (zh) (shèyǐng)

• Chuvash: фотографи (fot̬ografi)
• Corsican: fotugrafia f
• Czech: fotografie (cs) f
• Danish: fotografi (da) n
• Dutch: fotografie (nl) f
• Esperanto: fotarto
• Estonian: fotograafia
• Finnish: valokuvaus (fi), valokuvaaminen (fi)
• French: photographie (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: fotografy c, fotografie c

• Friulian: fotografie ?
• Galician: fotografía (gl) f
• Georgian: ფოტოგრაფია (poṭograpia)
• German: Fotografie (de) f

  Bavarian: Photographie ?

• Greek: φωτογραφία (el) f (fotografía)
• Hebrew: צילום m (tzilém)
• Hindi: छायाचित्र (hi) ? (chāyācitra), फ़ोटोग्राफ़ी f (foṭogrāfī), फोटोग्राफी (hi) m (phoṭogrāphī)
• Hungarian: fényképezés (hu), fényképészet (hu), fotográfia (hu)
• Icelandic: ljósmyndun f
• Ido: fotografado (io)
• Indonesian: fotografi (id)
• Irish: grianghrafadóireacht f, fótagrafaíocht f
• Italian: fotografia (it) f
• Japanese: 写真撮影 (shashin satsuei), 写真術 (shashinjutsu), 撮影 (ja) (さつえい, satsuei)
• Kannada: ಛಾಯಾಗ್ರಹಣ (chāyāgrahaṇa)
• Kazakh: фотография (fotografıya)
• Khmer: ឆាយាលេខន៍ (cʰaayaa leek), សិល្បៈថតរូប (səl tʰɑɑt ruup)
• Korean: 사진술 (ko) (sajinsul)
• Latin: photographia f
• Latvian: fotogrāfija f
• Lithuanian: fotografija f
• Luxembourgish: Fotografie f
• Macedonian: фотографија (mk) f (fotografija)
• Malay: fotografi (ms)
• Maltese: fotografija f
• Māori: whakaahua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fotografi (no) m

  Nynorsk: fotografi m

• Occitan: fotografia (oc) f
• Pennsylvania German: Pikder n
• Persian: عکاسی (fa) ('akkâsi)
• Polish: fotografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: fotografia (pt) f
• Romanian: fotografie (ro) f
• Russian: фотогра́фия (ru) f (fotográfija)
• Samogitian: puortėgrapėjė f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фотогра̀фија f

  Latin: fotogràfija (sh) f

• Shor: соом (soom)
• Slovak: fotografia f, snímka f
• Southern Altai: фотография (fotografiya)
• Spanish: fotografía (es) f
• Swahili: upigaji picha
• Swedish: fotografi (sv) c
• Tagalog: palanginagan
• Tamil: புகைப்படம் (ta) (pukaippaṭam), போட்டோகிராபி (pōṭṭōkirāpi)
• Thai: การถ่ายภาพ (gaan-tàai-pâap)
• Turkish: fotoğrafçılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: фотогра́фія f (fotohráfija)
• Urdu: عکاسی (akkāsī), عکس بندی (aks-bandī), تصویر کشی (tasvīr-kaśī)
• Vietnamese: nhiếp ảnh (vi)
• Volapük: fotograf (vo), (older term, obsolete) fotogaf, (older term) litamag, (color) kölafotograf
• Walloon: fotografeye (wa) f
• Welsh: ffotograffiaeth (cy) f

occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs

• Catalan: fotografia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 攝影 / 摄影 (zh) (shèyǐng)

• Czech: fotografování n
• Dutch: fotografie (nl) f
• Finnish: valokuvaus (fi), valokuvaaminen (fi)
• French: photographie (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: fotografy c, fotografie c

• German: Fotografie (de) f
• Greek: φωτογραφική (el) f (fotografikí)
• Hungarian: fotózás (hu)
• Khmer: ថតរូប (tʰɑɑt ruup)
• Maltese: fotografija f
• Polish: fotografowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: fotografia (pt) f
• Romanian: fotografia (ro) f
• Russian: фотогра́фия (ru) f (fotográfija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фотогра̀фија f

  Latin: fotogràfija (sh) f

• Southern Altai: фотография (fotografiya)
• Spanish: fotografía (es) f
• Swahili: upigaji picha
• Swedish: fotografering (sv) c
• Thai: การถ่ายภาพ (gaan-tàai-pâap)
• Turkish: fotoğrafçılık (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} fotografia (it) f
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} fotografia f
• Zazaki: ^{(please verify)} fotografantoğiye (diq) f

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