screenshot

See also: Screenshot

English

A screenshot.

Etymology

From screen +‎ shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskriːn.ʃɒt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

screenshot (plural screenshots)

1. (computing) An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.

   Synonyms: screencast, screen capture, screen dump, screengrab, screenie, screencap

   I grabbed a screenshot of my desktop.

Descendants

• → Dutch: screenshot
• → German: Screenshot
• → Italian: screenshot
• → Japanese: スクリーンショット (sukurīnshotto), スクショ (sukusho)
• → Korean: 스크린샷 (seukeurinsyat), 스샷 (seusyat)
• → Portuguese: screenshot
• → Russian: скриншо́т (skrinšót), скри́ншот (skrínšot)
• → Thai: สกรีนช็อต (sà-griin-chɔ́t)
• → Ukrainian: скріншот (skrinšot), скрін (skrin)

Translations

image of computer screen output

• Arabic: صورة الشاشة f (ṣūrat aš-šāša)

  Gulf Arabic: كبجر m (kabčar), كبچر m (kabčar), كپچر m (kapčar)

• Amharic: ቅጽበታዊ ገጽ እይታ (ḳəṣbätawi gäṣ ʾəyta)
• Catalan: captura de pantalla f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 截圖 / 截图 (zh) (jiétú)

• Czech: snímek obrazovky m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: schermafbeelding f, schermafdruk m, screenshot (nl) m
• Esperanto: ekrankopio, ekranprintaĵo
• Finnish: kuvakaappaus (fi), ruudunkaappaus, näyttökuva (fi)
• French: capture d’écran (fr) f
• Galician: captura de pantalla f
• German: Screenshot (de) m, Bildschirmfoto (de) n, Bildschirmabzug (de) m (obsolete), Hardcopy f (obsolete)
• Greek: στιγμιότυπο (el) n (stigmiótypo)
• Hungarian: képernyőkép, képernyőfotó, képernyőmentés
• Indonesian: cuplikan layar
• Italian: schermata (it) f, videata (it) f, screenshot (it) m
• Japanese: スクリーンショット (ja) (sukurīnshotto), スクショ (ja) (sukusho)
• Korean: 스크린샷 (seukeurinsyat), 스샷 (seusyat)
• Latvian: ekrānšāviņš m
• Malay: tangkap layar (ms)
• Maori: kapomata
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⵉⵎⵥ ⵏ ⵓⵎⵉⵥⴰⵕ (Imẓ n umiẓaṛ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjermbilde n, skjermdump m

  Nynorsk: skjermbilete n, skjermbilde n

• Polish: zrzut ekranu m
• Portuguese: captura de ecrã f (Portugal), captura de tela f (Brazil), screenshot (pt) m, print (pt) m
• Romanian: captură de ecran f
• Russian: скриншо́т (ru) m (skrinšót), скри́ншот (ru) m (skrínšot) , сни́мок экра́на m (snímok ekrána)
• Serbo-Croatian: snimak zaslona m, снимак заслона m
• Spanish: captura de pantalla f, pantallazo (es) m
• Swedish: skärmbild (sv) c, skärmdump (sv) c
• Thai: สกรีนช็อต (th) (sà-griin-chɔ́t), ภาพหน้าจอ (th) (pâap-nâa-jɔɔ)
• Tigrinya: ቅጽበታዊ ገጽ ትርኢት (ḳəṣbätawi gäṣ tərʾit), ቅጽበታዊ ምስሊ (ḳəṣbätawi məsli)
• Turkish: ekran görüntüsü, ekran yakalama görüntüsü
• Ukrainian: зня́ток m (znjátok)
• Vietnamese: ảnh chụp màn hình, hình chụp màn hình
• Welsh: sgrînlun m

See also

• bullshot

Verb

screenshot (third-person singular simple present screenshots, present participle screenshotting, simple past and past participle screenshotted or (less common) screenshot)

1. (computing, transitive) To take a screenshot of something.

   To help to improve the software, make sure to screenshot any bugs you find.

   • 2023 February 22, “Network News: Northern thwarts barcode cheats”, in RAIL, number 977, page 25:

     Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.

   • 2025 January 14, Allison Morrow, “In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia becomes one of the most reliable places on the internet”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     It was one of the funnier, somewhat surprising screw-ups we’d seen from Gemini, which like all publicly available artificial intelligence tools is prone to what the tech industry calls “hallucinations.” He screenshot the answer so that we could have a laugh about it, and then scrolled down to find the first non-sponsored, non-AI search result: an entry from one of the most reliable places on the internet, Wikipedia.

Translations

take a screenshot

• Arabic: صور الشاشة (ṣawwar aš-šāša)

  Gulf Arabic: كبجر (kabčar), كبچر (kabčar), كپچر (kapčar)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 截圖 / 截图 (zh) (jiétú)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: ekrankopii
• Finnish: ottaa kuvakaappaus
• German: ein Bildschirmfoto machen
• Hungarian: képernyőképet/képernyőfotót/képernyőmentést készít
• Maori: kapomata
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵎⵥ ⴰⵎⵉⵥⴰⵕ (Amẓ amiẓaṛ)
• Portuguese: (Portugal) capturar ecrã, (Portugal) tirar uma captura de ecrã, (Brazil) capturar tela, (Brazil) tirar uma captura de tela
• Russian: заскриншо́тить (ru) pf (zaskrinšótitʹ), отскриншо́тить (ru) pf (otskrinšótitʹ), заскри́нить (ru) pf (zaskrínitʹ), отскри́нить (ru) pf (otskrínitʹ), скриншо́тить (ru) impf (skrinšótitʹ), скри́нить (ru) impf (skrínitʹ), де́лать скриншо́т pf (délatʹ skrinšót), сде́лать скриншо́т impf (sdélatʹ skrinšót), де́лать сни́мок экра́на pf (délatʹ snímok ekrána), сде́лать сни́мок экра́на impf (sdélatʹ snímok ekrána)
• Spanish: capturar la pantalla, sacar un pantallazo, tomar un pantallazo
• Swedish: ta skärmbild, ta skärmdump
• Vietnamese: chụp màn hình

Further reading

• screenshot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English screenshot.

Noun

screenshot m

1. (computing) screenshot (image of computer screen output)

   Synonym: schermata

Further reading

• screenshot in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English screenshot.

Noun

screenshot m (plural screenshots)

1. (computing) screenshot (image of computer screen output)

   Synonyms: captura de ecrã, captura de tela, print, Print Screen

   • 2005, André Machado, Aroaldo Veneu, Fernando de Oliveira, Linux: comece aqui, Elsevier Brasil, →ISBN, page 15:

     Em Documentos Recentes, aparecem os arquivos recém-criados pelo usuário (para conferir, pressionei Print Screen no teclado, capturando a área de trabalho e transformando-a num screenshot no Gimp. Mas isso é assunto para mais adiante).

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English screenshot

Noun

screenshot m (plural screenshots)

1. screenshot

   Synonym: pantallazo

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.