bokeh

Etymology


From, the nominalized form of.

The terminal -h, absent in the romanization boke, is a pronunciation guide so that it is not pronounced as as it would be under standard English orthography. Contrast and, which have undergone sound changes.

The term has been used since at least 1996, with the spelling bokeh introduced by editor Mike Johnston in the March–April 1997 issue of Photo Techniques magazine, Johnston writing “it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable”.

Noun

 * 1)  A subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens.

Translations

 * Arabic: بوكيه
 * Armenian: բոկե
 * Bulgarian: боке
 * Catalan: bokeh
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 散景
 * Czech:
 * Danish: bokeh
 * Dutch: bokeh
 * Esperanto: bokeo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: boke
 * German: Bokeh
 * Hebrew: בוקה
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: bokeh
 * Italian: bokeh
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 보케
 * Limburgish: bokeh
 * Luxembourgish: bokeh
 * Malayalam: ബൊക്കെ
 * Marathi: बोके
 * Norwegian: bokeh
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: bokeh
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: бокеx
 * Slovak: bokeh
 * Slovene: bokeh
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: bokeh
 * Tamil: போக்கா
 * Turkish: bokeh
 * Ukrainian: боке
 * Vietnamese: bokeh

Etymology
From, via.

Noun

 * 1)   the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light

Etymology
From, from , the nominalized form of.

Noun

 * , a subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens.