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

a 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)

• Dutch: Facebook
• Esperanto: fejsbuko, Vizaĝlibro
• Estonian: Facebook (et), näoraamat (slang), lõustaraamat (slang)
• Finnish: Facebook, naamakirja, (slang) lärväri, (slang) fese
• French: (internet slang) Fessebouc (fr) m, Facebook (fr) m
• Georgian: ფეისბუკი ‎(peisbuḳi)
• German: Facebook (de) (no gender)
• Greek: φειςμπυκ ‎(feismpyk)
• Hebrew: פייסבוק
• Hindi: फेसबुक ‎(phesbuk), फ़ेसबुक ‎(fesbuk)
• Hungarian: Facebook

• Icelandic: Facebook n, Fésbók f, Feisbók f, Feisbúkk n
• Japanese: フェイスブック ‎(feisubukku)
• Khmer: ហ្វេសប៊ុក ‎(fees buk)
• Korean: 페이스북 ‎(peiseubuk)
• Macedonian: Фејсбук m ‎(Féjsbuk)
• Maori: pukamata
• Mongolian: Фэйсбүүк ‎(Fejsbüük)
• Navajo: naaltsoos biniiʼ
• Nepali: फेसबुक ‎(phesbuk)
• Norwegian: facebook, fjesbok f
• 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
• Thai: เฟซบุ๊ก ‎(fées-búk)
• Turkish: Facebook
• Ukrainian: Фейсбук m ‎(Féjsbuk, Fejsbúk)
• Urdu: فیس بک ‎(feys buk)
• Yiddish: פֿייסבוק ‎(feysbuk)

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.

Translations

to use the social-networking site Facebook

• Czech: facebookovat
• Hungarian: facebookozik

• Macedonian: фејсбукира ‎(fejsbukira)

Derived terms

• facebooker
• Facebookland
• Facebooky

Related terms

• frape

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German

Etymology

From English Facebook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeːs.bʊk/, [ˈfeːs.b̥ʊk]

• Audio

  (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): /ˈfɛjzbuk/

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)