Filip

See also: filip

Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Filip (definite accusative Filipi, plural Filiplər)

  1. a transliteration of the English male given name Philip

Catalan

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Filip m

  1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɪlɪp]
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

Filip m anim

  1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
  2. a male surname

Declension

Further reading

  • “Filip”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Danish

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Filip

  1. (biblical) Philip
  2. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Faroese

Proper noun

Filip m

  1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Usage notes

Matronymics

  • Filip's son: Filipsson
  • Filip's daughter: Filipsdóttir

Declension

singular
indefinite
nominative Filip
accusative Filip
dative Filipi
genitive Filips

German

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Filip

  1. a male given name of rare usage, variant of Philipp

Middle English

Proper noun

Filip

  1. Philip
    • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:
      And herfore grete men of kunnynge and other also drowen myche to him, and comownede ofte with him. And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir […] Maister Ion Aston taughte and wroot acordingli and ful bisili, where and whanne and to whom he myghte, and he vsid it himsilf, I gesse, right perfyghtli vnto his lyues eende. Also [Filip of Repintoun] whilis he was a chanoun of Leycetre, Nycol Herforde, dane Geffrey of Pikeringe, monke of Biland and a maistir dyuynyte, and Ioon Purueye, and manye other whiche weren holden rightwise men and prudent, taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Norwegian

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Filip

  1. (biblical) Philip
  2. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Polish

Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Φίλιππος (Phílippos).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈfi.lip/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ilip
    • Syllabification: Fi‧lip
    • Homophone: filip

    Proper noun

    Filip m pers (female equivalent Filipa or Filipina)

    1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
    2. a male surname

    Declension

    Declension of Filip
    singular plural
    nominative Filip Filipowie, Filipy1
    genitive Filipa Filipów
    dative Filipowi Filipom
    accusative Filipa Filipów
    instrumental Filipem Filipami
    locative Filipie Filipach
    vocative Filipie Filipowie

    1Deprecative.

    Proper noun

    Filip f (indeclinable)

    1. a female surname

    Further reading

    • “Filip”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[1] (in Polish)
    • “Filip”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2025–2030

    Serbo-Croatian

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φῐ́λῐππος (Phĭ́lĭppos).

    Proper noun

    Filip m anim (Cyrillic spelling Филип)

    1. a male given name from Greek, equivalent to English Philip

    Declension

    Declension of Filip
    singular plural
    nominative Filip -
    genitive Filipa -
    dative Filipu -
    accusative Filipa -
    vocative Filipe -
    locative Filipu -
    instrumental Filipom -

    Slovak

    Etymology

      From Ancient Greek Φίλιππος (Phílippos).[1]

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /filip/, [ˈfilip]
      • Hyphenation: Fi‧lip
      • Rhymes: -ip

      Proper noun

      Filip m pers (diminutive Filipko or Fiľko)

      1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
      2. a male surname transferred from the given name

      Declension

      Declension of Filip
      (pattern chlap)
      singularplural
      nominativeFilipFilipovia
      genitiveFilipaFilipov
      dativeFilipoviFilipom
      accusativeFilipaFilipov
      locativeFilipoviFilipoch
      instrumentalFilipomFilipmi

      Derived terms

      References

      1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016), “filip”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 163

      Further reading

      • “Filip”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

      Swedish

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

      Ancient Greek origin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1581 as Philip.

      Pronunciation

      • Audio:(file)

      Interjection

      Filip

      1. The letter "F" in the Swedish spelling alphabet; not to be confused with "P" (due to the alternative spelling Philip)

      Proper noun

      Filip c (genitive Filips)

      1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

      References

      • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
      • [2] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 23 675 males with the given name Filip (compared to 14 688 named Philip) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.