selfie
English
Etymology
From self + -ie. Attested since 2002, originally Australian English.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɛlfi/
Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛlfi
Noun
selfie (plural selfies)
- (informal, mobile telephony) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
- 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" [1], ABC Online Forum selfie photo:
- Um, drunk at a mates[sic] 21st, I tripped ofer[sic] and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.
- 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." [2], Flickr:
- Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. […] No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.
- 2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 148:
- That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie.
- 2012 December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie” [3], the picture show, National Public Radio
- 2013 December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘Selfie-Gate’”, On the Media, National Public Radio:
- Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.
- 2017, Lord Stag, “Say Cheese”, in Lily's Driftwood Bay:
- I shall take this photograph myself. This must be what they call a selfie.
- take a selfie
- 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" [1], ABC Online Forum selfie photo:
Usage notes
Usage is very varied, including photos of oneself that are not taken by oneself (not self-portraits), as in “Could you take a selfie of me?” (compare autobiography, which may be written by a ghostwriter), or not only of oneself, as in “This is a selfie of me and my sister.” Many terms for recently popular photo genres have been coined by analogy by suffixing -ie, as in shelfie, or by blending, as in nelfie.[1] A self-portrait of multiple people is sometimes called an ussie, groupie, or selvesie.
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants
- → Arabic: سِلْفِي (silfī)
- → Gulf Arabic: سلفي (silfi, salfi)
- → Armenian: սելֆի (selfi)
- → Assamese: চেল্ফি (selphi)
- → Azerbaijani: selfi
- → Belarusian: сэ́лфі (sélfi)
- → Czech: selfíčko
- → Danish: selfie
- → Dutch: selfie
- → Finnish: selfie
- → French: selfie
- → Georgian: სელფი (selpi)
- → German: Selfie
- → Greek: σέλφι (sélfi)
- → Hebrew: סֶלְפִי (sélfi)
- → Hungarian: szelfi, selfie
- → Irish: féinín (calque)
- → Italian: selfie
- → Japanese: セルフィー (serufi)
- → Hebrew: סֶלְפִי (sélfi)
- → Korean: 셀피 (selpi)
- → Latvian: selfijs
- → Lithuanian: selfis
- → Norwegian Bokmål: selfie
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: selfie
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: sjølvi (calque)
- → Papiamentu: selfie
- → Persian: سلفی (selfi)
- → Polish: selfie
- → Portuguese: selfie, sélfie
- → Romanian: selfie
- → Russian: се́лфи (sɛ́lfi)
- → Scottish Gaelic: fèineag (calque)
- → Serbo-Croatian: selfie
- → Slovak: selfie
- → Slovak: svojka (calque)
- → Spanish: selfie, selfi
- → Swedish: selfie
- → Thai: เซลฟี (seel-fîi)
- → Turkish: selfie, özçekim
- → Ukrainian: се́лфі (sélfi)
Translations
photographic self-portrait
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Verb
selfie (third-person singular simple present selfies, present participle selfying, simple past and past participle selfied)
- (intransitive, informal, mobile telephony) To take a selfie.
Translations
to take a selfie
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References
- ^ What Makes a Selfie a Selfie?, Gretchen McCulloch, Slate, April 1 2014
Further reading
- Selfie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:Selfies on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Noun
selfie
Declension
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | selfie | selfien | selfier selfies |
selfierne |
| genitive | selfies | selfiens | selfiers selfiess |
selfiernes |
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
selfie m (plural selfies, diminutive selfietje n)
- selfie
- Synonym: otofoto
Derived terms
- stemfie
- zelfje
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈselfi/, [ˈs̠e̞lfi]
- Rhymes: -elfi
Noun
selfie
Declension
| Inflection of selfie (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | selfie | selfiet | |
| genitive | selfien | selfieiden selfieitten | |
| partitive | selfietä | selfieitä | |
| illative | selfieen | selfieihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | selfie | selfiet | |
| accusative | nom. | selfie | selfiet |
| gen. | selfien | ||
| genitive | selfien | selfieiden selfieitten | |
| partitive | selfietä | selfieitä | |
| inessive | selfiessä | selfieissä | |
| elative | selfiestä | selfieistä | |
| illative | selfieen | selfieihin | |
| adessive | selfiellä | selfieillä | |
| ablative | selfieltä | selfieiltä | |
| allative | selfielle | selfieille | |
| essive | selfienä | selfieinä | |
| translative | selfieksi | selfieiksi | |
| abessive | selfiettä | selfieittä | |
| instructive | — | selfiein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “selfie”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛl.fi/
Audio: (file)
Noun
selfie m or f (plural selfies)
- selfie
- Synonyms: autophoto, égoportrait
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English selfie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛl.fi/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛlfi
- Syllabification: sel‧fie
Noun
selfie n (indeclinable)
- (informal, mobile telephony, photography) selfie
- Synonyms: selfiaczek, selfiak, selficzek, selfik, samojebka, samolubka, sweet focia
Derived terms
nouns
- selfiak
- selfik
Related terms
nouns
- selfiaczek
- selficzek
Further reading
- selfie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- selfie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English selfie.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsɛw.fi/ [ˈsɛʊ̯.fi]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsɛl.fi/ [ˈsɛɫ.fi]
Noun
selfie f or (Brazil, less common) m (plural selfies)
- (proscribed) selfie (photographic self-portrait)
References
- ^ “selfie”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- ^ “selfie”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Etymology 1
Unadapted borrowing from English selfie.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈselfi/ [ˈsel.fi]
- Rhymes: -elfi
Noun
selfie m or (less common) f (plural selfies)
- selfie
- Synonym: autofoto
- 2022, Bad Bunny, “Tití Me Preguntó”, in Un Verano Sin Ti:
- Vamo' a tirarno' un selfie, say "cheese", ey
- Let’s take a selfie, say “cheese”, hey
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈselfje/ [ˈsel.fje]
- Rhymes: -elfje
- Syllabification: sel‧fie
Verb
selfie
- inflection of selfiar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative