documentary

documentary

English

Etymology

From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/, /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tə.ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌdɑk.jəˈmɛn.tə.ɹi/, /ˌdɑk.jəˈmɛn.tɹi/

Adjective

documentary (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or based on documents.
2. Which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
3. (of a film, book etc) Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.

Derived terms

• documentary hypothesis

Translations

of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something

Belarusian: дакумента́льны (dakumjentálʹny) Bulgarian: документа́лен (dokumentálen) Catalan: documental (ca) Dutch: documentair (nl) Finnish: dokumentaarinen French: documentaire (fr) Icelandic: heimilda- Indonesian: dokumenter (id) Polish: dokumentalny (pl), dokumentarny Portuguese: documental (pt) Romanian: documentar (ro) m Russian: документа́льный (ru) (dokumentálʹnyj) Spanish: documental (es), documentario Swedish: dokumentarisk (sv) Thai: สารคดี (th) (sǎa-rá-ká-dii) Ukrainian: документа́льний (dokumentálʹnyj) Volapük: dokümik (vo)

presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter

Armenian: վավերագրական (hy) (vaveragrakan) Azerbaijani: sənədli (az) Czech: dokumentární (cs) Finnish: dokumentaarinen Hebrew: תיעודי‎ (ti'udy) Italian: documentario (it) m Portuguese: documental (pt) Spanish: documental (es) m Swedish: dokumentär (sv) Thai: สารคดี (th) (sǎa-rá-ká-dii)

Noun

documentary (plural documentaries)

1. A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

Antonyms

• fiction

Derived terms

terms derived from documentary (noun)

• documercial
• drama documentary
• fuckumentary
• mockumentary
• schlockumentary
• shockumentary
• stalkumentary

 

Related terms

• docudrama

Translations

programme or publication of fact

Afrikaans: dokumentêr, dokkie Armenian: վավերագրական կինոնկար (hy) (vaveragrakan kinonkar) Catalan: documental (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 紀錄片／纪录片 (zh) (jìlùpiàn) Czech: dokument (cs) m Dutch: documentaire (nl) m, docu m Estonian: dokumentaalfilm, tõsielufilm, dokk (colloquial) Finnish: dokumentaari (fi), dokumenttielokuva (fi), dokumentti (fi) French: documentaire (fr) m German: Dokumentation (de) f, Doku (de) f Irish: clár faisnéise m, scannán faisnéise m (film) Malay: dokumentari Maori: motuhenga, pakipūmeka Norwegian: Bokmål: dokumentar (no) m, dokumentarprogram n Nynorsk: dokumentar m, dokumentarprogram n Occitan: documentari (oc) m Portuguese: documentário (pt) m Spanish: documental (es) m Swedish: dokumentärfilm (sv) c, dokumentär (sv) c Tagalog: dokumentaryo Thai: สารคดี (th) (sǎa-rá-ká-dii) Turkish: belgesel (tr)

documentary film

Albanian: film dokumentar m Arabic: فِلْم وَثَائِقِيّ‎ m (film waṯāʾiqiyy) Armenian: վավերագրական կինոնկար (hy) (vaveragrakan kinonkar) Azerbaijani: sənədli film Belarusian: дакумента́льны фільм m (dakumjentálʹny filʹm) Bengali: প্রামাণ্য চলচ্চিত্র (pramaṇẏ côlôccit‌ôrô) Bulgarian: документа́лен филм m (dokumentálen film) Catalan: documental (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 紀錄片／纪录片 (zh) (jìlùpiàn), 記錄片／记录片 (zh) (jìlùpiàn) Czech: dokumentární film m Danish: dokumentarfilm c Dutch: documentaire (nl) Esperanto: dokumentfilmo Estonian: dokumentaalfilm Finnish: dokumentti (fi), dokumenttielokuva (fi), dokkari (fi) French: documentaire (fr) m, film documentaire m Georgian: დოკუმენტური ფილმი (doḳumenṭuri pilmi) German: Dokumentation (de) f, Dokumentarfilm (de) m Greek: ντοκιμαντέρ (el) n (dokimantér) Hebrew: צִלוּמֵי תְעוּדָה‎ m Hindi: वृत्तचित्र m (vŕttacitra) Hungarian: dokumentumfilm (hu) Icelandic: heimildamynd f Indonesian: film dokumenter (id) Italian: documentario (it) m Japanese: ドキュメンタリー (dokyumentarī), 記録映画 (きろくえいが, kiroku eiga) Kazakh: деректі фильм (derektı film) Khmer: ភាពយន្តឯកសារ (phiəpyŭən ʼaekaʼsaa) Korean: 다큐멘터리 (ko) (dakyumenteori), 기록영화(記錄映畫) (ko) (girogyeonghwa) Kyrgyz: документ кино (dokument kino) Lao: ຟິມເອກະສານ (lo) (fim ʼē ka sān) Latvian: dokumentālā filma f Lithuanian: dokumentinis kinas m Macedonian: документа́рен филм m (dokumentáren film) Malay: filem dokumentari Mongolian: Cyrillic: баримтат кино (barimtat kino) Norwegian: Bokmål: dokumentar (no) m, dokumentarfilm m Nynorsk: dokumentar m, dokumentarfilm m Persian: مستند‎ (fa) (mostanad), فیلم مستند‎ (fa) (film-e mostanad) Polish: film dokumentalny (pl) m, dokument (pl) m Portuguese: documentário (pt) m Romanian: documentar (ro) n, film documentar n Russian: документа́льный фильм (ru) m (dokumentálʹnyj filʹm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: документарни филм m Roman: dokumentarni film m Slovak: dokumentárny film m Slovene: dokumentarni film m Spanish: documental (es) m Swedish: dokumentär (sv) c, dokumentärfilm (sv) c Tagalog: dokumentaryo Tajik: филми мустанад (filmi mustanad) Thai: สารคดี (th) (sǎa-rá-ká-dii), ภาพยนตร์สารคดี (pâap-pá-yon-sǎa-rá-ká-dii) Turkish: belgesel (tr), belgesel film (tr) Ukrainian: документа́льний фільм m (dokumentálʹnyj filʹm) Uyghur: ھۆججەتلىك فىلىم‎ (höjjetlik filim) Uzbek: hujjatli film Vietnamese: phim tài liệu

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