Facebook

See also: facebook

English

Etymology

From facebook.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: ʹfās-bo͝ok, IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪs.bʊk/

• Audio (CA)

  (file)

Proper noun

Facebook

1. A social-networking website where users can find acquaintances or "friends", exchange messages, and post updates.

Translations

social-networking website

• Arabic: فَيْس بُوك‎ m (fays buk), فِيس بُوك‎ m (fīs buk), فَيْسْبُوك‎ m (faysbuk), فِيسْبُوك‎ m (fīsbuk), فَايْسْبُوك‎ m (faysbuk), فَايْسْبُوك‎ m (faysbūk)
• Armenian: Ֆեյսբուք (Feysbukʿ)
• Belarusian: Фэйсбук m (Féjsbuk, Fejsbúk)
• Bengali: ফেইসবুক (feisbuk), ফেসবুক (fesbuk)
• Bulgarian: Фейсбук m (Féjsbuk, Fejsbúk)
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴼⵉⵙⴱⵓⴽ (Fisbuk)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 面書, 面书 (min⁶ syu¹) (unofficial)

  Mandarin: 臉書, 脸书 (liǎnshū) (unofficial), 非死不可 (Fēisǐbùkě) (slang, means "must die"), 面簿 (miànbù) (Singapore, unofficial), 面子書, 面子书 (miànzishū) (Malaysia, unofficial), 臉譜網, 脸谱网 (liǎnpǔwǎng) (unofficial)

• Danish: Facebook, fjæsbogen (humorous, slang)
• Dinka: Peithbuk
• Dutch: Facebook (nl)
• Esperanto: fejsbuko, Vizaĝlibro
• Estonian: Facebook (et), näoraamat (slang), lõustaraamat (slang)
• Finnish: Facebook
• French: (internet slang) Fessebouc (fr) m, Facebook (fr) m
• Georgian: ფეისბუკი (peisbuḳi)
• German: Facebook (de) (no gender)
• Greek: φέισμπουκ (féismpouk)
• Hebrew: פייסבוק‎
• Hindi: फेसबुक (phesbuk), फ़ेसबुक (fesbuk)
• Hungarian: Facebook (hu)
• Icelandic: Facebook n, Fésbók f, Feisbók f, Feisbúkk n
• Japanese: フェイスブック (feisubukku)
• Javanese: ꦥ꦳ꦺꦱ꧀ꦧꦸꦏ꧀ (fésbuk)
• Khmer: ហ្វេសប៊ុក (feesbuk)
• Korean: 페이스북 (peiseubuk)

• Macedonian: Фејсбук m (Féjsbuk)
• Maori: Pukamata
• Mongolian: Фэйсбүүк (Fejsbüük), ᠹᠡᠢᠰᠪᠦᠦᠺ (feisbüüg)
• Navajo: naaltsoos biniiʼ
• Nepali: फेसबुक (phesbuk)
• Norwegian: facebook, fjesbok f
• Oriya: ଫେସ୍ବୁକ (fesbuk)
• Pashto: فېسبوک‎ (Fesbok/Pesbok)
• Persian: فیسبوک‎ (fa) (feysbuk)
• Polish: Facebook (pl) m
• Portuguese: Facebook m
• Russian: Фе́йсбук (ru) m (Féjsbuk), Фейсбу́к (ru) m (Fejsbúk), Фэ́йсбук (ru) m (Fɛ́jsbuk), Фэйсбу́к (ru) m (Fɛjsbúk)
• Serbo-Croatian: Фејсбук m, Facebook m, Fejsbuk m
• Sinhalese: ෆේස්බුක් (fēsbuk)
• Spanish: Facebook (es) m
• Swedish: Facebook
• Tagalog: Facebook, peysbuk (informal, slang)
• Tamil: ஃபெஸ்புக் (fespuk)
• Telugu: ఫేస్బుక్ (phēsbuk)
• Thai: เฟซบุ๊ก (fées-búk)
• Turkish: Facebook
• Ukrainian: Фейсбук m (Féjsbuk, Fejsbúk)
• Urdu: فیسبک‎ (feysbuk)
• Welsh: Facebook m, Gweplyfr m
• Yiddish: פֿייסבוק‎ (feysbuk)
• Zhuang: sawnaj

Noun

Facebook (plural Facebooks)

1. A personal web profile on the Facebook social-networking site.
   • 2015 March 27, “To the Well-Intentioned but Ignorant Parents of Teenagers.”[1], Kayla Nicole's Blog, at cutestpkever.wordpress.com:

     You might have a Facebook. So do I. And so does my mom and my grandma and all of her friends. But you know who doesn’t have a Facebook? Your kid’s friends.

Verb

Facebook (third-person singular simple present Facebooks, present participle Facebooking, simple past and past participle Facebooked)

1. (intransitive) To use the social-networking site Facebook.
2. (transitive) To send a message or leave a comment on Facebook.

   Facebook me the details later.

Derived terms

• facebooker
• Facebookland
• Facebooky
• facestalking
• Twitface

Related terms

• frape

Translations

use the social-networking site Facebook

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 用臉書, 用脸书 (yòng liǎnshū)

• Czech: facebookovat

• German: facebooken (de)
• Hungarian: facebookozik
• Macedonian: фејсбукира (fejsbukira)

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Facebook.

Proper noun

Facebook

1. Facebook

See also

• fjæsbogen (slang)
• like

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• Feesboek (eye dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feːsbuk/

• Audio

  (file)

Etymology

Borrowed from English Facebook.

Proper noun

Facebook ?

1. Facebook

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfei̯sbuːk/, [ˈfe̞i̯s̠buːk]

Proper noun

Facebook

1. Facebook

Declension

Inflection of Facebook (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Facebook	—
genitive		Facebookin	—
partitive		Facebookia	—
illative		Facebookiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Facebook	—
accusative	nom.	Facebook	—
	gen.	Facebookin
genitive		Facebookin	—
partitive		Facebookia	—
inessive		Facebookissa	—
elative		Facebookista	—
illative		Facebookiin	—
adessive		Facebookilla	—
ablative		Facebookilta	—
allative		Facebookille	—
essive		Facebookina	—
translative		Facebookiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Facebookitta	—
comitative		—	—

Synonyms

• febu (slang)
• fese (slang)
• lärväri (slang)
• naamakirja (informal)

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German

Etymology

From English Facebook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɪ̯s.bʊk/, /ˈfeːs-/

• Audio [ˈfe̞ɪ̯s.b̥ʊk]

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Face‧book

Proper noun

Facebook n (genitive Facebooks, no plural)

1. Facebook

Usage notes

• Facebook is not normally used with an article; when one is used, it is the neuter article (see citations).

Declension

Declension of Facebook (uncountable, proper noun)

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(das)	Facebook
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Facebooks
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Facebook
accusative	(ein)	(das)	Facebook

References

• Facebook in Duden online

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Polish

Etymology

From English Facebook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛj.zbuk/

Proper noun

Facebook m

1. Facebook

Declension

declension of Facebook

	singular
nominative	Facebook
genitive	Facebooku
dative	Facebookowi
accusative	Facebook
instrumental	Facebookiem
locative	Facebooku
vocative	Facebooku

Synonyms

• fejs

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fejzˈbu.ki/, /ˌfej.siˈbu.ki/, /fejzˈbuk/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfejzbuk/, [ˈfejzβuk]

Proper noun

Facebook m

1. Facebook (a social-networking website)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfejsbuk/, [ˈfe̞jzβ̞uk]

Proper noun

Facebook m

1. Facebook (a social-networking website)