cinéma

Clipping of cinématographe.

• IPA^(key): /si.ne.ma/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Homophone: cinémas
• Hyphenation: ci‧né‧ma

cinéma m (plural cinémas)

1. cinema, filmmaking (the art of making films and movies)

   Synonym: cinématographie

   salle de cinéma ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   cinéma d’auteur ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Le cinéma est un langage universel. ― Cinema is a universal language.

2. cinema (the film and movie industry)
3. cinema (films or movies as a group)
4. cinema (movie theatre)

   Synonyms: (clipping, informal) ciné, (informal) cinoche

   Je suis allé au cinéma samedi dernier. ― I went to the movies last Saturday.

5. (informal, derogatory) playacting, drama, fuss

   Arrête ton cinéma ! ― Cut it out! / Stop your acting!

• télécinéma

• → Arabic: سِينَمَا (sīnamā)
• → English: cinema
  • → Bengali: সিনেমা (śinema)
  • → Gujarati: સિનેમા (sinemā)
  • → Hindi: सिनेमा (sinemā)
  • → Kannada: ಸಿನಮಾ (sinamā)
  • → Lao: ຊິເນມາ (si nē mā)
  • → Malayalam: സിനിമ (sinima)
  • → Punjabi: ਸਿਨਮਾ (sinmā)
  • → Sinhalese: සිනමාහල (sinamāhala)
  • → Tamil: சினிமா (ciṉimā)
  • → Telugu: సినిమా (sinimā), సైన్మ (sainma), సీన్మ (sīnma) — Telangana
  • → Urdu: سِنیما (sinemā)
  • → Welsh: sinema
  • → Yoruba: sinimá
• → Greek: σινεμά (sinemá)
• Haitian Creole: sinema
• → Italian: cinema
• → Japanese: シネマ (shinema)
• → Ottoman Turkish: سینه‌ما (sinema)
  • Turkish: sinema
• → Persian: سینما (sinamâ)
• → Romanian: cinema
• → Sicilian: cìnima

• “cinéma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.