movie

English

Etymology

From moving (picture) +‎ -ie. Attested since at least 1912 (if not 1908)[1], originally American English.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmuːvi/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -uːvi

A movie

Noun

movie (plural movies)

(chiefly Canada, US) A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion.
(usually plural, chiefly Canada, US) A cinema.
Let's go to the movies.

Synonyms

(film): film, motion picture, motion-picture show; photoplay; picture, picture show; flick; moving picture, moving-picture show

Hyponyms

(film): feature, feature film, short, documentary, art film

Derived terms

Translations

motion picture

Afrikaans: fliek (af), rolprent (af)
Albanian: film (sq) m
Amharic: ፊልም (film), ተላዋሽ (tälawaš)
Arabic: فِيلْم‎ m (film), فِلْم‎ m (film), شَرِيط‎ m (šarīṭ)
Armenian: ֆիլմ (hy) (film), կինոնկար (hy) (kinonkar), կինո (hy) (kino)
Assamese: চলচ্চিত্ৰ (côlôccitrô)
Azerbaijani: film (az), kino (az), kinofilm
Bavarian: Fülm
Belarusian: фільм m (filʹm), кіно́ n (kinó), кінафі́льм m (kinafílʹm)
Bengali: মুভি (mubhi), মুভী (mubhī), ফিল্ম (philm), সিনেমা (sinema), চলচ্চিত্র (bn) (côlôccitrô)
Breton: film m
Bulgarian: филм (bg) m (film)
Burmese: ဇာတ်ကား (my) (jatka:), ဘိုင်စကုတ် (my) (bhuingca.kut), ရုပ်ရှင် (my) (ruphrang)
Catalan: pel·lícula (ca) f, film (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 電影, 电影 (din⁶ jing²)

Dungan: дянйин (di͡anjin)

Gan: 電影, 电影 (dien5 'in3)

Hakka: 電影, 电影 (thien-yáng)

Jin: 電影, 电影 (die3 ing2)

Mandarin: 電影 (zh), 电影 (zh) (diànyǐng), 影片 (zh) (yǐngpiàn)

Min Dong: 電影, 电影 (diêng-īng)

Min Nan: 電影 (zh-min-nan), 电影 (tiān-iáⁿ)

Wu: 電影, 电影 (di in)

Xiang: 電影戲, 电影戏 (dienn4 in3 xi4), 電影, 电影 (dienn4 in3)
Czech: film (cs) m
Danish: film (da) c
Dutch: film (nl) m
Elfdalian: film m
Erzya: эрянеявкс (erjanejavks), эрямарт (erjamart)
Esperanto: filmo
Estonian: film (et), kinofilm
Faroese: filmur m
Finnish: elokuva (fi)
French: film (fr) m, œuvre cinématographique (fr) f
Galician: filme m
Georgian: ფილმი (pilmi), კინოფილმი (ḳinopilmi), კინოსურათი (ḳinosurati), კინო (ḳino)
German: Film (de) m, Spielfilm (de) m
Greek: ταινία (el) f (tainía) (film, abbreviation of cinematographic film), έργο (el) n (érgo) (work, abbreviation of cinematographic work), φιλμ (el) n (film)
Greenlandic: filmi
Gujarati: ચિત્રપટ (citrapaṭ)
Haitian Creole: fim
Hausa: sinima
Hebrew: סֶרֶט‎ (he) m (séret')
Hindi: फ़िल्म (hi) (film), चलचित्र (hi) (calcitra), सिनेमा (hi) (sinemā)
Hungarian: film (hu), (dated) mozgókép
Icelandic: bíómynd (is) f, mynd (is) f, kvikmynd (is) f
Ido: filmo (io), cinematografuro (io)
Indonesian: film (id)
Irish: scannán m
Italian: film (it) m, pellicola (it) f
Japanese: 映画 (ja) (えいが, eiga)
Kannada: ಸಿನಮಾ (sinamā), ಓಡುತಿಟ್ಟ (kn) (ōḍutiṭṭa)
Kazakh: фильм (kk) (fïlʹm), кино (kk) (kïno)
Khmer: កុន (km) (kon), ភាពយន្ត (km) (phiəpyŭən), ហ្វីល (fiil)
Korean: 영화 (ko) (yeonghwa) (映畫)
Kyrgyz: фильм (ky) (filʹm), кино (ky) (kino), тасма (ky) (tasma)

Lao: ຟີມ (fīm), ຫນັງ (nang)
Latin: pictura cinematographica f
Latvian: filma f, kinofilma f
Lithuanian: filmas m, kinas (lt) m
Lombard: film m, pellícola f (obsolete)
Macedonian: филм m (film)
Malay: wayang, filem
Malayalam: ചലച്ചിത്രം (ml) (calaccitraṃ)
Marathi: चलचित्र (calcitra)
Mongolian: кино (mn) (kino), фильм (filʹm)
Nepali: चलचित्र (ne) (calacitra)
Northern Sami: filbma
Norwegian:
Bokmål: film (no) m

Nynorsk: film m
Oriya: ଚଳଚ୍ଚିତ୍ର (côḷôccitrô)
Pashto: پلم‎ m (pilm, pilëm), خوځنده انځور‎ m (xwëźënda anźor)
Persian: فیلم‎ (fa) (film), سینما‎ (fa) (sinemâ)
Polish: film (pl) m
Portuguese: filme (pt) m
Punjabi: ਫਿਲਮ (philm)
Romanian: film (ro) n
Romansch: film m
Russian: фильм (ru) m (filʹm), кинофи́льм (ru) m (kinofílʹm), кинокарти́на (ru) f (kinokartína), карти́на (ru) f (kartína)
Rusyn: фільм m (filʹm)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: филм m

Roman: film (sh) m
Skolt Sami: fiˊlmm
Slovak: film (sk) m
Slovene: film (sl) m
Sotho: fileme
Spanish: película (es) f, filme (es) m
Swahili: filamu (sw)
Swedish: film (sv) c
Tagalog: sine, pelikula
Tajik: кино (kino), филм (tg) (film), синамо (sinamo)
Tamil: திரைப்படம் (ta) (tiraippaṭam)
Tatar: фильм (fil’m), кино (kino)
Telugu: చలనచిత్రం (te) (calanacitraṃ)
Thai: ฟิล์ม (th) (fim), ภาพยนตร์ (th) (pâap-pá-yon), หนัง (th) (nǎng)
Tibetan: གློག་བརྙན (glog brnyan)
Tigrinya: ፊልም (film), ሲነማ (sinäma), ቺነማ (činäma)
Turkish: film (tr), yanka
Turkmen: kinofilm, film, kino
Ukrainian: фільм m (filʹm), кіно́ (uk) n (kinó), кінофі́льм m (kinofílʹm)
Urdu: فلم‎ (film), سنیما‎ (sinemā), چلچتر‎ m (calcitra)
Uyghur: فىلىم‎ (filim), كىنو‎ (kino)
Uzbek: kino (uz), film (uz), kinofilm (uz)
Vietnamese: phim (vi), điện ảnh (vi) (電影)
Volapük: biomagodem (collective), däsinotabioskop (cartoon)
Welsh: ffilm (cy) f
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
Yakut: киинэ (kiine)
Yiddish: פֿילם‎ m (film)
Yoruba: fiimu
Zhuang: denyingj

cinema — see cinema

References

“movie” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

Anagrams

Vimeo

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[1] “movie” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.