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English
Logo of YouTube
Etymology
Website name, from you + tube (North American colloquial term for "television"), implying that users ("you") may submit their own television ("tube") content.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
YouTube
A video-sharing website.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
a video-sharing website
Arabic: يُوتِيُوب m ( yūtiyūb )
Armenian: Յություբ ( Yutʿyub )
Bengali: ইউটিউব ( iuṭiub )
Burmese: ယူကျု ( yu-kyu. )
Chinese:
Mandarin: YouTube (zh) , 優兔 / 优兔 ( yōutù ) ( slang, neologism ) , 油管 (zh) ( yóuguǎn ) ( slang, neologism )
Esperanto: Jutubo
Estonian: YouTube
Finnish: YouTube
French: YouTube (fr) m
Georgian: იუთუბი ( iutubi )
German: YouTube n
Greek: γιουτιούμπ ( gioutioúmp )
Hebrew: יוּטְיוּבּ m ( yutyub )
Hindi: यूट्यूब ( yūṭyūb )
Hungarian: YouTube (hu)
Japanese: ユーチューブ ( Yūchūbu ) , ようつべ ( Yōtsube ) ( slang )
Korean: 유튜브 (ko) ( Yutyubeu )
Macedonian: Ју́туб m ( Jútub ) , Ју́тјуб m ( Jútjub )
Maori: tiriata
Persian: یوتیوب ( yutyub )
Polish: YouTube (pl) m
Portuguese: YouTube m
Russian: юту́б m ( jutúb ) , ютью́б m ( jutʹjúb ) , ютю́б (ru) m ( jutjúb ) , юта́б m ( jutáb ) ( colloquial ) , тытруба́ f ( tytrubá ) ( colloquial )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Јутуб m , Јућјуб m ( slang )
Roman: Youtube m ( formally ) , Jùtȗb m , Jùćjȗb m ( slang )
Spanish: YouTube
Swedish: Youtube n
Thai: ยูทูบ ( yuu-túup )
Turkish: YouTube , yutup ( slang )
Ukrainian: ютуб ( jutub )
Urdu: یوٹیوب ( yūṭyūb )
See also
Noun
YouTube (plural YouTubes )
( neologism ) Any website that allows users to upload content , particularly YouTube itself.
2007 , Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank, Academic librarianship by design :None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content, [ …]
2008 , Bradley L. Jones, Web 2.0 Heroes :There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.
( neologism , informal ) A small video that can be viewed online , particularly one hosted on YouTube .
2007 , Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded :Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet, [ …]
2009 March, Valerie McQueen, “Bring me the Horizon”, in Revolver :Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?
( uncountable ) Collectively, the users of YouTube; especially the content creator 's viewers .
Hi, how's it going YouTube ! Sorry I wasn't able to upload a video last week!
Translations
any website that allows users to upload content
Verb
YouTube (third-person singular simple present YouTubes , present participle YouTubing , simple past and past participle YouTubed )
( neologism , transitive ) To upload a video of something to YouTube .
2007 February 5, “Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry”, in Guardian Unlimited :The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed .
( neologism , transitive ) To search for and view on YouTube .
2015 April 21, Bob Jones , “Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle :Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer.
2017 July 20, Sammy Guevara, Impact Wrestling :If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.
Quotations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English YouTube .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ju.tyb/ , /ju.tjub/ , /ju.tub/
Audio (Switzerland) (file )
Proper noun
YouTube m
YouTube
Derived terms
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English YouTube .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈjuːt(j)uːp/ ( standard )
IPA (key ) : /ˈjuːt(j)uːb/ ( some southern speakers, chiefly Switzerland )
Proper noun
YouTube n (proper noun , strong , genitive YouTubes or YouTube )
YouTube
Declension
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
YouTube
YouTube ( a video-sharing website )
Declension
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English YouTube .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
YouTube m inan
YouTube ( video-sharing website )
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
YouTube in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Proper noun
YouTube m
YouTube ( a video-sharing website )
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English YouTube .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : ( everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay ) /ʝuˈtub/ , /ʝuˈtuf/
IPA (key ) : ( Argentina and Uruguay ) /juˈtub/ , /juˈtuf/
Proper noun
YouTube m
YouTube ( a video-sharing website )
Derived terms