selfie

Etymology
From. Attested since 2002, originally Australian English.

Noun



 * 1)  A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
 * 2) * 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches", 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.
 * 1) * 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos.", Flickr:
 * Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.
 * 1) * 2012 December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie”, the picture show, National Public Radio
 * 2) * 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.
 * 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.

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, 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 , as in , or by blending, as in. A self-portrait of multiple people is sometimes called an, , or.

Translations

 * Arabic: سِلْفِي, سِيلْفِي, صُورَة ذَاتِيَّة
 * Gulf Arabic: سلفي
 * Armenian: սելֆի
 * Assamese: চেল্ফি
 * Azerbaijani: selfi, özçəkim
 * Belarusian: сэ́лфі
 * Bulgarian: се́лфи
 * Catalan: autofoto
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 自拍
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: selfie, selvportræt
 * Dutch:, otofoto
 * Esperanto: memfoto
 * Finnish:, , meitsie
 * French: ; : ,
 * Galician: autofoto
 * Georgian: სელფი, თვითფოტო
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: sjálfsmynd
 * Indonesian:, foto narsisis
 * Irish: féinphic, féinín
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 自分撮り, ,
 * Korean: 셀피, 셀프카메라, 셀카
 * Latvian: fotopašportrets, pašfoto, pašbilde, selfijs
 * Lithuanian: asmenukė, selfis
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: swagambar, ,
 * Maori: matatahi, kiriāhua
 * Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⴰⵡⵍⴰⴼⵎⴰⵏⵜ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: selfie, sjølvi
 * Papiamentu: slfer, selfie
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: selfie
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fèineag
 * Serbo-Croatian: sebić, samić, samoslik, selfie
 * Slovak: selfie, svojka
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, egobild,
 * Thai: เซลฟี
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: се́лфі
 * Vietnamese:, ảnh tự sướng, hình tự sướng, ảnh tự chụp, hình tự chụp, seo-phi
 * Welsh: hunlun

Verb

 * 1)  To take a selfie.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Gulf Arabic: خذا سلفي, صور سلفي
 * Georgian: სელფის იღებს, თვითფოტოს იღებს
 * Greek: βγάζω σέλφι
 * Hebrew: עָשָׂה סֶלְפִי
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: berswafoto
 * Malay: berswafoto
 * Moroccan Amazigh: ⵙⵙⵡⵍⴼ ⵉⵎⴰⵏ
 * Russian: делать селфи,
 * Spanish: selfiar
 * Thai: เซลฟี

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 * 1)   photographic self-portrait

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