selfie stick

English

A tourist using a selfie stick

Noun

selfie stick (plural selfie sticks)

1. (mobile telephony) An extendable monopod arm onto which a smartphone or camera can be mounted in order to take wide-angle photographs of oneself.
   • 2014 March 30, Benson Ang, “Selfie sticks are hot”, in The Sunday Times, Singapore, page L4:

     For example, photography shop Artworkfoto in Funan DigitaLife Mall sells about five selfie sticks every day.

   • 2014, Mikkel Svane, Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business, John Wiley & Sons (2014), →ISBN, pages 176-177, published 8 December:

     We snapped another selfie (one of the guys, Royston out of our newly acquired Singapore Zopim office, introduced the Exchange to the selfie stick, and that photo is now legendary.)

   • 2015 January, Yoo Jin Kwon, Kyoung-Nan Kwon, “Consuming the Objectified Self: The Quest for Authentic Self”, in Asian Social Science, page 310:

     The needs of selfie takers feed into new product development such as a selfie stick that allows the ul-jang angle, a mirrorless DSLR camera with a 180-degree tilting LCD window, a motion-detecting shutter, and a camera with wireless internet for transferring images.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:selfie stick.

Translations

extendable arm to hold a camera

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 自拍神器 (zi⁶ paak³ san⁴ hei³), 自拍棒 (zi⁶ paak³ paang⁵), 自拍利器 (zi⁶ paak³ lei⁶ hei³), 自拍棍 (zi⁶ paak³ gwan³), 自拍杆 (zi⁶ paak³ gon¹)

  Mandarin: 自拍神器 (zìpāi shénqì), 自拍棒 (zìpāibàng), 自拍利器 (zìpāi lìqì), 自拍棍 (zìpāigùn), 自拍杆 (zìpāigān)

• Danish: selfiestang c
• Dutch: selfiestick (nl) m, selfiestok (nl) m
• Finnish: selfiekeppi
• French: perche à selfie (fr)
• German: Selfie-Stange (de) f, Selfie-Stab (de) m, Selfiestick (de) m
• Hungarian: szelfibot (hu)
• Icelandic: sjálfustöng f
• Indonesian: tongsis (tongkat narsis), tongkat narsis
• Italian: asta per selfie
• Japanese: 自撮り棒 (じどりぼう, jidoribō)
• Kazakh: селфи таяқ (selfi taäq)
• Korean: 셀카봉 (selkabong)
• Portuguese: pau de selfie, bastão de selfie (pt)
• Russian: палка для селфи f (palka dlja selfi)
• Spanish: palo para autofoto, palo para selfies, palo selfie m
• Swedish: selfiepinne
• Thai: ไม้เซลฟี (máai-seel-fîi)
• Turkish: selfie çubuğu
• Vietnamese: gậy tự sướng, gậy tự chụp hình, gậy chụp ảnh tự sướng, gậy hỗ trợ tự chụp ảnh

Further reading

• selfie stick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia