Filip

Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Filip (definite accusative Filipi, plural Filiplər)

  1. a transliteration of the English male given name Philip

Catalan

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Filip m

  1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɪlɪp]

Proper noun

Filip m anim

  1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
  2. a male surname

Declension

Further reading

  • Filip”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Danish

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Filip

  1. (biblical) Philip
  2. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Faroese

Proper noun

Filip m

  1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Usage notes

  • son of Filip: Filipsson
  • daughter of Filip: Filipsdóttir

Declension

singular
indefinite
nominative Filip
accusative Filip
dative Filipi
genitive Filips

German

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

Filip

  1. a male given name of rare usage, variant of Philipp

Middle English

Proper noun

Filip

  1. Philip
    • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:
      And herfore grete men of kunnynge and other also drowen myche to him, and comownede ofte with him. And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir [] Maister Ion Aston taughte and wroot acordingli and ful bisili, where and whanne and to whom he myghte, and he vsid it himsilf, I gesse, right perfyghtli vnto his lyues eende. Also [Filip of Repintoun] whilis he was a chanoun of Leycetre, Nycol Herforde, dane Geffrey of Pikeringe, monke of Biland and a maistir dyuynyte, and Ioon Purueye, and manye other whiche weren holden rightwise men and prudent, taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto.
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Norwegian

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Filip

  1. (biblical) Philip
  2. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.lip/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ilip
  • Syllabification: Fi‧lip
  • Homophone: filip

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Φίλιππος (Phílippos).

Proper noun

Filip m pers (female equivalent Filipa or Filipina)

  1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
  2. a male surname
Declension

Proper noun

Filip f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Proper noun

Filip f

  1. genitive plural of Filipa

Further reading

  • Filip in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Filip”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Filip m anim (Cyrillic spelling Филип)

  1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Declension

Declension of Filip
singular plural
nominative Filip -
genitive Filipa -
dative Filipu -
accusative Filipa -
vocative Filipe -
locative Filipu -
instrumental Filipom -

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfiʎip]

Proper noun

Filip m pers

  1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
  2. a male surname transferred from the given name

Declension

Declension of Filip
(pattern chlap)
singularplural
nominativeFilipFilipovia
genitiveFilipaFilipov
dativeFilipoviFilipom
accusativeFilipaFilipov
locativeFilipoviFilipoch
instrumentalFilipomFilipmi

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Filip”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ancient Greek origin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1581 as Philip.

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Interjection

Filip

  1. The letter "F" in the Swedish spelling alphabet; not to be confused with "P" (due to the alternative spelling Philip)

Proper noun

Filip c (genitive Filips)

  1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

References

  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
  • [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 23 675 males with the given name Filip (compared to 14 688 named Philip) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.